So, today is my one week anniversary on SparkPeople. I'm pretty delighted. Even in the midst of exams, my motivation is still high, I registered a nice loss this week, and never once went into deprivation mode. This is not to say that it's been perfect. I didn't do any of my strength training, didn't work out nearly as much as I would have liked, and had a less than ideal eating day yesterday. Still, my journey is very much about mental health (healthy inside->healthy outside, at least as far as I'm concerned) and I refuse to beat myself up. This was definitely a positive beginning, so I'll just take note of the areas where I'd like to improve and go right on celebrating the successes.

As for yesterday's food situation. . . it was actually a low calorie day, but there was precious little food in my food. I was in a pretty dire bare cupboards situation. I mean, if the apocalypse came and I'd needed to survive off of what was in the house, it would have been a while before I started eyeing the cat. There were plenty of calorie sources, but it was all random rice and cans of green curry and tomato paste. Not a scrap of fresh produce and not much of anything else to compose an actual meal. Anyway, I guess my non-scale victory was that I didn't freak out, just quietly accepted that I'd had better days. And went grocery shopping. :)