End of Week 6

What a week.  I am so sorry that I am writing week 6 blog at almost the end of week 7.  One it has been one crazy week!  It is prom craziness at work, and two the blog has been down I guess.  So here we are...Monday's weigh in was not a good one.  I don't know why I am so all over the board.  This week I only lost 1.2 pounds for a total lost of 19.4 pounds.  I know that is great but I was not happy at all.  I know I could do so much better.  I also thought it was going to be another good week because I thought I did so good, so it was a little disappointing to not do so good.  After weigh in I was looking at my food log and I think the reason that I did not do to tell is that I did not eat all of the calories that we are supposed to.  We are supposed to eat 1600 calories and our dietitians told me I should be right at that number.  I know it is no excuse but this week was so crazy I really didn't eat.  Most of my days I only had 1100 calories!  So I know that was a big part.


Well...I have had my first injury of the competition.  This week I have been fighting a pulled calf muscle.  It started to feel a little bad last week but by the weekend I did not think anything about it.  Then Tuesday morning workout I could hardly walk or ran by the end of the workout.  My calf was a solid ROCK!  By the time I got home from workouts, showered, and was getting ready for work I could not even walk!  If I tried to walk it was a shooting pain right up my leg.  You all know me I am stubborn and I was not going to give up.  It was not any better Wednesday morning for workouts.  I could somewhat walk but they would not let me workout.  I got sent to the pool to do a workout there.  The great thing was that this week was our pool workout on Thursday, so I did get 2 pretty good workouts in this week.  Tina made me go to the doctor to find out what was going on.  I could not get into my doctor so one of our sponsor Dr.'s that I know checked it out for me.  He said that I was going to be okay but just needed to take it easy for a couple days and gave me some medication to help me out a little bit.  Today was the first day that I had been on it all day long and it did not hurt at all.  That makes me feel so great!  So Tuesday he said I could start working back into workouts!  That's good because I don't like being on the sidelines.

So I did do some other crazy stuff this week.  Some of you might now but I cut off 12" off my hair.  Yep...It is all gone...Here is the before picture.

I have not taken an after picture yet.  I will do that tomorrow and post it.  Don't worry...I donated it all to locks of love!

Next I would love to show you some beautiful flowers that I got this week from Grandma and Grandpa Sands.  I was so surprised when I got to work and I had this large basket of flowers on my desk.  So thank you so much!  I love them and it means so much to me to know how proud you are of me!

Last...I had Andrew take a picture of me so you could see the changes (Mel stop reading the blog if you don't want to see the changes) I forgot to take one the first week we started so I am going to use the last picture that I had taken of me which was Christmas (sorry honey to cut you out). The new picture was taken last Friday at the end of 5 weeks.  Also wanted to tell you that the shirt I have on in the new picture didn't fit 6 weeks ago :) ( I also Photoshopped these pictures together so you can see them side by side)

Andrew said that he was sad that I was losing some assets on the backside that me married me for and he does not know about this :)  I just laughed...Got to love him!  Well that is all until Monday.