Results!

Guess who won the month 2 weigh-in?!

Yep! It was me! Hooray!!

It was kind of the perfect storm - at least for me. We have a weigh-in each month for the 3 months of the competition. Last month, I went on a little trip to visit Janae and flew back to Utah the day before the weigh-in. I did what most (cool and normal) people do on vacation and ate a lot of really good food and drank a lot of really good drinks (exclusively Mountain Dew) and probably didn't eat one vegetable the whole 5 days I was gone.

It's okay though. I didn't want to win the 1st weigh-in. The top 5 'Biggest Losers' get prizes - good prizes. However, if you are in the top 5 for the 1st weigh-in, you can't win a prize in the 2nd weigh-in...and the prizes are better in the 2nd weigh-in. So, I ate what I wanted for 5 days, flew back to Utah, drank a lot of water and swung through the McDonald's drive-thru on the way to work. I don't mess around with weigh-ins - that I don't want to win.

I am well aware that any time I fly, I retain water (real-life cankles - sorry if that's TMI). It's just part of who I am and I have accepted it and just make sure I take long pants for the first couple of days of vacation until things get back to normal. I was sure this would work in my favor, but I didn't know just how much. When I stepped on the scale, I was a little sad that I had gained a pound from the first weigh-in. I didn't plan to gain weight, I just didn't want to place. It was a little embarrassing because I was the only person in the whole competition to gain weight. I had worked hard during the month and for sure lost weight pre-vacation but wasn't too happy that I was up a pound at weigh-in time. At least it was just a pound.

The weigh-in was on a Monday and I would like the record to show that by Thursday - 4 little days later, I lost 12 lbs. No joke. Yep, 12 pounds in 4 days. That's some serious water retention. I'm like a freaking camel. Seriously.

Anyhoo, I'm not saying how many pounds I lost by the 2nd weigh-in because then people will be able to figure how much I weigh. (Not quite ready to divulge that information just yet - or maybe ever). But I lost 6.5% of my body weight which is pretty exciting. I'm happy with my progress and hope to lose 12 to 15 more pounds this month, but we'll see. I haven't been too careful for the past 2 days so I have to get back on track.

Everyone in this competition better get used to seeing my name at the top of the winner's list!