WEEK 2 -- DAY 13 -- HOPE IT'S LUCKY 13

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Almost two weeks in and feeling great. Again, still feeling fat and don't feel like I've lost any weight this week but know I must have lost something since I've been eating so much less than I usually do.  Once thing is for sure......my blood sugar levels have to be lower as my candy consumption is almost non-existant.

I'm about to join something called Diet Bet.  It's an interesting concept.  You join a group and pledge an amount of money (in my case $50) and you pledge to lose 4% of your body weight in a month.  The reason I joined is twofold -- I like the idea of being in a weight loss competition and this challenge is being hosted by my two favorite reality TV personalities -- Jeff and Jordan from Big Brother.  Big Brother is my all time guilty pleasure and these are my absolute favorite ever houseguests from this show.  The challenge starts on January 15th but you have to weigh yourself two days before the challenge begins and today is the weigh-in day.  This kind of messes me up as I'm not due to weigh myself until Tuesday for my own challenge.  However, I have two scales in my house and they both give different numbers.  One is like a doctor's scale and the other is a digital scale.  For the Diet Bet challenge, you have to weigh yourself on a digital scale so the number I get on there today will be different from the number I would get if I got on my doctor's scale on the same day.  I'm going to be doing this in the next hour and I will edit this post with the weight. EDIT: Just weighed myself on the digital scale and my weight was 231.6.  YIKES!!!  This scale had better be off by a "few" pounds otherwise I'm more than I was when I started almost two weeks ago.  I did have clothes on and that represented 1 pound.  Oh well, I will know on Tuesday what my weight loss is and can't get crazy until then. So this means, for the Diet Bet challenge, I have to lose 9.3 lbs. which is 4% of 231.6, in order to partake of the prize pool which is now at $17,400. The other fun thing about this challenge is that if you're successful, you get to share in the prize pool which is divided up amongst everyone who has achieved the goal of a 4% weight loss.  So far, that pool has $9250 in the pot. (This was the pot as I typed this).  It keeps going up as you can see in my EDIT above. Apparently you can still sign up and partake in the pot as long as you lose 4% of your weight on the same date that those of us who weighed in on 1/13 do.  They end up having less time to achieve their goal.

As far as eating today goes, I've already had an almond croissant for breakfast.  Just had a handful of Cheezits.  Going for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for dinner.  How healthy. lol  Tomorrow's another movie day to see Lincoln.  Trying to get all those Oscar movies seen before the big day.  Until tomorrow......