~Weigh-in day! WOOHOO!!!~

I decided (with the RawFu folks!) that Tuesdays should be weigh-in day, cuz "The Biggest Loser" is starting again in September, & will be on on Tuesdays (the theme this season is Families!!) so today, I weighed in...are ya ready for this??? I'm FINALLY UNDER what I got down to when I first discovered raw (& did the Raw Food Boot Camp for 45 days & lost 42 pounds)!!! For some reason that it really impacting me!! Some part of me was thinking I NEEDED something so rigidly structured to actually succeed at this, but now I've proven to myself I DON'T, & it gives me a lot of strength & determination to press on!!!
Ok, Drumroll, please....
~Highest weight: 398 lbs
~Started transitioning back towards 100% raw June 19th, 2008:386 lbs (12 down)
~Back to 100% raw, July 3rd: 375 lbs (23 down)
~Started Raw Fu 100% for 100 days challenge August 1st: 366 (32 down)
~First Tuesday weigh in August 5th: 355 lbs!!! (43 down from my highest weight!)
~Next Tuesday weigh-in goal: 345! (Or less!!!)
Hannah did an amazing "Biggest Loser" type of challenge for me this morning...if she'd done it BEFORE my weigh-in, I don't know that I woulda passed! Lol!
But I was so excited, it got her all excited for me, & she wrote a little note, pretended to find it in the mailbox from my secret Raw Fu pal, & then brought in two plates I had to choose between...
...the prize being, if I chose the right plate, all my food for today would be COOKED for me! (She meant UNcooked, of course! Haha!)
So here's what I had to choose between:


Green drink, coconut oil (notice the heart shape? Cuz it's good for the heart, & cuz she loves me!) & incredible yummy macadamia nut butter (that I'm 99.9% sure is raw, waiting to find out!), or THESE horrible temptations I USED to eat! GULP! & that HEALTH FOOD STORE BRAND of pop has 43 grams of sugar!!! (Oh, but it's organic CANE sugar! AND Caramel, which has been proven to be carcinogenic!!! No more wasting $ on THAT! Which leaves more $ for produce!)

Yes, OF COURSE I chose the HEALTHY plate (but I had to water down the drink a little, though! GAK!) & my prize has already begun, she brought me a cantalope, & is going to add to the smoothie I have in the fridge soon!
I ALMOST gave in to temptation & drank some of the pop yesterday, but she wouldn't let me! & I'd been given the chocolate bars & forgotten I had them & the cookies stuffed in a bag thrown in a corner of my room!
Oh, yea, the bonus challenge was I had to open the chocolate bars, smell 'em, break 'em up, & throw 'em in the garbage without one nibble!!! & I did it!!! That won me an extra bead for the necklace she's going to make me, I earn a bead with each weigh-in (if the scale's down, of course!) & by the time I reach my goal, I'll have enough for a pretty necklace~
(she began that when I began RawFoodBootCamp, & just started again today...cuz she sees now I REALLY AM doing this!!!)
Off to go get some dishes done, then FINALLY check out my upstairs neighbour's treadmill she gave me access to MONTHS ago that I've barely tried!!!
Then, outside for some sunshine!
I hope you're having a really wonderful day, like I am!
Victory comes with consistant perseverance!!!
C'mon, you KNOW RAW works!
Don't give up, K?
I'm rootin' for ya!!!