today is a very different day at FR. today is the day we don't have to wake up before the sun does! how wonderful. my body was ready to wake up by 8, however, and i set off downstairs to breakfast. i saw everyone getting ready to leave and realized that my first week went by so quickly. i wonder if summer at home is passing at the same pace. i miss you all a lot and i can't wait to see you when i get back.
before i went to breakfast, i ran into the weigh-in room and weighed in. ready?
my first week, bloating and all, i now weigh: 186.1. which means i lost about 5 pounds in the first week.
i can only hope my results will continue.
breakfast was a whole grain waffle with a citrus sauce and a little bit of scrambled egg and turkey sausage. after that, shanelle, annie, and i went to the movies to see horrible bosses. i got a venti unsweetened iced green tea. there is nothing like that in the heat! and i'm sorry, i know it has caffeine. but i am so over that.
on sundays we get packed a sack lunch that we pick up in the morning. the sack lunch had roasted red pepper hummus, 3 pita triangles, a few carrots, a few cucumbers, string cheese, and an apple. it didn't feel like much but it definitely was fine to hold us over until dinner. in the meantime, we met a lot of new comers that had already arrived. among the newcomers is a girl named natasha. she's 21 from montreal, and she's so sweet. we all love her! we asked if she could room with me and since everyone at FR is so accommodating, natasha is now my roommate (for the next 2 weeks).
we all went to dinner together to enjoy spaghetti squash, chicken, tomato sauce and snap peas. it was wonderful. for dessert we had key lime pie... which isn't really pie at all. it's actually pudding on a grape nut base but i mean, whatever, we take what we can get. after dinner there was a quick orientation where we go around and say our names. it was in the new building which was just opened today!
afterwards, my friend kateri, who lives in west africa, and i decided we would play tennis this week. so that's definitely something i get to add to my daily schedule of exercise! i think she wants to play everyday. another friend, kathy, has been crocheting. i told her how i fell in love with knitting this past year but couldn't pick up crocheting as easily. she went to joanne fabrics today and picked up a crochet hook and some yarn for me. can you believe that?! is that the nicest thing you've ever heard, or what? so after orientation we sat in the lobby of the new building and she taught me how to crochet. i picked it up pretty quickly and i think i should be all right enough to suffice by the time she leaves on saturday.
i am so touched by the people i've met here. stephanie, a woman who i really connected with last week (she was a one-weeker), was wearing a shirt from her personal training studio she owns that says "steph's gym". i told her how much i loved the shirt, and i may (or may not) have jokingly said that she should take it off and hand it over... well, later that night, there it was. sitting at the front desk waiting for me. between kathy and stephanie, i've gotten really lucky here. everyone is generous and helpful and just so much more than i expected.
tomorrow is the beginning of week 2. i'm nervous, but excited. week 1 passed quicker than i thought. i hope this one goes even faster than that.
p.s. it reaches about 105 here during the day, my camelback is a wonderful thing, and i'm not sore enough that i can't walk, but i'm sore enough to feel it.
oh, and guess who gets to see her favorite massage therapist again soon? ;)
with love, goodnight.
You're doing so well in so many ways! What more can I say? Congratulations on completing your first week!
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