A New Beginning

Today started off like any other ordinary "weekend" type day. I woke up this morning around 8:00 thinking about what all I needed to accomplish today. Sunlight was streaking through the bedroom curtains telling me it was another crisp and beautiful winter day - no rain today. My 10 yo daughter was still in bed and the dogs were begging to go outside. We have 2 dogs, a collie and a peek-a-poo. DH let the dogs out and I did my normal morning ritual of running downstairs to weigh myself before the day begins. Well, I stepped onto the scale rather nonchalantly thinking not much would have changed, maybe a lb increase as I felt like I was retaining water. When I looked down I could hardly beleive my eyes, I had lost 5.5 lbs from the day before. My first thought was this is a mistake so I weighed again. Same. OK, I called in DH to weigh, about the same as his usual. I then took the battery out of the scale, waited the obligatory 10 sec., put it back in and reset the scale. I re-weighed. Still the same. DH re-weighed on my adament request, same. What? Could this be true? Well after weighing myself a total of 10 times I finally allowed myself to believe it, I literally lost 5.5 lbs overnight for a total now of 12 lbs down!! Holy Cow! I never expected because my WL has been averaging 2 lbs a week since day 1 so this was an unexpected loss but I am absolutely delighted. Really makes me glad I didn't allow myself to get discouraged by what I perceived as an initially slow weight loss. Actually, I think it's a blessing b/c in the past I would lose 8 lbs the first week and then 3, 2, 1 and sometimes none the weeks after and get so discouraged thinking I was doing something wrong and then I would fall off the wagon. These recent results just remind me that there is no way of knowing how much or how fast you will lose and that the important thing is that I just stay consistent. Have a great day everyone and stick to it!