The Cardboard Box Diet: Week 5

This was a good week. I'm enjoying the last of my time off. I officially go back to work next Thursday but will be spending time there all next week (to get used to getting up EARLY again. Hold me.)

• Weigh-in: 15lbs to go - 10lbs lost! I weighed on Sunday maybe(can't remember) and noticed a 3lb drop. The another pound went this afternoon. I'm at a new low for me!

• Exercise/Physical Activity completed: Exercise on Monday and Wednesday. Missed Tuesday due to storms. Planning to go today. Also worked (slaved) in my classroom for a total of 5hrs on Monday/Tuesday - lots of physical stuff so I'm calling it exercise.

• Average Sleep per night: about 8-9 hours - I had one night that was short and a few nights with a bed-hogging 9 year old - so those weren't quality sleep nights.  But one night I got 10 hours and yesterday I took an almost-2 hour nap! :)

• Splurge/Guilty Pleasure: I'm enjoying dinner daily and sometimes lunch too. Mostly because I'm trying to make the juice in the freezer LAST until pay-day. I'm allowing myself little splurges too - as long as I control the portions. I'll have to clamp down on that when I go back to school because I tend to eat my stress.

This was a dinner. Lactose free chocolate milk, pineapple-orange-grapefruit juice, apple,
and granola-peanut butter-raisin  dip. I gave the pizza to the kids. I was scared of it making me sick.

• Success story: I gave in and went to the bags in the closet - and came up with 5 pairs of shorts that fit! I'm over the moon. I was so worried that they would be too snug and I'd have nothing to wear.  Also at school on Tuesday, a teacher friend I don't see often commented on my weight loss!!! *happy dance*

• Recipe(s): Today I'm sharing a portion control tip. The kids were itching for brownies on Monday night. I decided to cater to that - but I made the brownies in a muffin pan. 1 standard box made 12 generous "cupcakes" but I could have made them smaller (and made more) pretty easily.  I also could have used my mini-muffin pan (if I could have found it.)  This worked well. The brownies would have been super easy to stick in a baggie in the freezer - I might have to do that in the future.

• Photo: I'm leaving you with a silly picture of my girls. They had their bathing suits on and were goofing around in my classroom on Monday. (We went straight from school to the POOL. Awesome.)