I've lost a 5 year old!

I had this significant goal in my head, that I wanted to lose my eldest son in weight and then take a picture next to him....

That happened this week.  I'm down 2.8 lbs this week, which is incredible seeing the amount of junk food I've been presented in the past 5 days.  Then again, maybe not so incredible given the amount of junk food I've refused.  I was offered papa murphy's pizza Friday, Hot dogs/cup cake/beer Saturday, Pizza sunday, Pizza Monday, Pizza, Pie and Angel food, cake and chocolate nut clusters last night.  Since Pizza is my kryptonite, this was all especially hard for me.  BUT I did not turn it all down, which I feel makes me stronger.
With each of these decisions, I really try to think about if this is something I really want, can control myself with and am ok eating.  I chose some Pizza Monday for Oliver's birthday.  Before I take that bite of a trigger food, like pizza I have to think through it, because if I didn't, I could very easily just mindlessly eat through a large quantity of pizza.  I look up the calories, I calculate how much I want to spend, and I try to stick to that.  If I'm still hungry after, I chug some water, eat some veggies or fruit and move on.

I'm not always perfect though.  After my son's birthday party on Saturday, I'm exhausted, and hungry, I decided I was going to eat a cupcake.  One little cupcake sounds good, right?  So I did.  After that cupcake, without thinking, I just grabbed a second cupcake...and I ate it.  2 cupcakes is not the end of the world.  The fact that I didn't even think about what I was doing until after was the scary part. From there I made good decisions.  I looked up the calories, 290 each, 580 total.  I wrote it down in my fitness pal, and I moved on.  There's no point in dwelling in mistakes and making it worse.  Just recognize what happened, write it down, move on.  And it's not really even bad to eat two cupcakes once in a while.  Where I get upset is that I can just shove food in my mouth and not even think about it.

Along with my two cupcake splurge, my portion of pizza and a slice of angel food cake, I also made lots of great choices this week like turkey-veggie meatloaf, apricots galore, strawberries, cucumbers, salads, rotisserie chicken, greek yogurt and seven days of exercises, and it shows.

Down 2.8 lbs, and 46.6 lbs total this week.  Here's my new favorite picture of me standing next to my 44 lb - 5 year old right before his Star Wars birthday party.  I've lost his 44 lbs, plus two (heck, plus that Emperor Palpatine lego figure).  Sometimes It's hard to "see" how much I've lost, but seeing myself standing next to him makes me realize it's pretty significant.