Today I stayed home and tried to clean house for awhile. I always seem to do fine cleaning the parts of the house that are not disorganized to begin with, but I haven't been able to get to the 3 bedrooms, which are all totally disgusting to the point where you can't even walk through them. I did get the laundry room all cleaned and organized today, so that was good.

I went to group power early today and ran on the treadmill for 25 minutes first. It is amazing how much my endurance has decreased in just 6 or 7 weeks. Then we did the new group power (a group weightlifting class), which kicked my butt as usual. I am really sore tonight. I had leftover taco salad for lunch today and a steak for supper with sauteed mushrooms and zuchini. It was really good, and I think I am past the carb cravings I had for the first 36 hours of the diet. Last night I had a really bad headache that I'm pretty sure was related to sugar cravings. For this week, I am just going to try to let my body adjust to the new foods, and then next week I am going to try to cut back my portion sizes and decrease the amount of cheese I'm eating (that is my favorite part of this diet!!!).

I found this great website called Weight Loss Wars, and I'm really excited to try it out, if I can find some people to play with me. The idea is to have an online weight loss competition between yourself and whomever you invite to join with you. You can do it in teams, as individuals, or however you want . The nice part about it is that nobody else can see your weight, it just shows a graph of everyone's weight loss without numbers. You can also choose how much you want each person to pay to join - nothing, or as much as you want. Then you can use that money as prize money for the "Biggest Loser" at the end. You can also make the competition as long as you want, start and end whenever, etc. The nice thing is that since it's online, the players can be anywhere in the world and don't all have to be in the same town. I think it would be really motivating, but I'm thinking about possibly starting it in January after the holidays when everybody is thinking about losing weight, and making it 3 or 4 months long. That is if I can find people to join with me. Anyway, I had better get to bed, I have to work in the morning.