I felt like I was having a really bad day yesterday afternoon, because I was really wired after getting home from 3 90 minute classes at school, first time back this semester. So I was sort of eating everything in sight. Fortunately, there wasn’t much available to eat. My biggest digression from healthy eating was the big piece of chocolate cake at the Abingdon Community Center dinner. So my weight this a.m. was only up a pound, which wasn’t really bad at all. And I’m having a great day today, so I should be back to losing again by tomorrow.
I realized, after the fact, that I’d reached my first prize-worthy weight at 195 and the prize for that is a brownie tower (to split with Dad) from the bakery. I didn’t get down there to get it yesterday, because I knew I’d have dessert at the Abingdon C.C. dinner. Then I had to make the decision as to whether I can still have a prize if I hit a prize-worthy weight, then am not that weight any more when I finally get around to getting it. My decision was that as long as I’m not more than a pound higher, it is okay to still have it. So I need to get down to the bakery today and pick up that brownie tower for tonight. It will be better to have it earlier in the week like this than to wait until closer to the Monday weigh-in!
This was the most pounds I had to lose between prizes. Most of them are more like 3 or 4 pounds, and this one was 5 pounds. But early on, I wanted to have to work harder to get to it. And they are not all food prizes – some are shopping things and really big ones are events.
That’s cool to do prizes for incentives.
And I do allow food prizes, because let’s face it. I’m most motivated by food! Sad, but true. Clothes, too, but they cost more.
I’m intrigued… what is a brownie tower?
It is from the Blackbird Bakery and it is a brownie, topped with chocolate mousse, topped with another brownie, topped with more chocolate mousse, and then they add fresh strawberries and (sometimes) blackberries around the top. It is definitely enough for two people!