Proudest Moment (Ashley)

So Daddy has sole possession of bragging rights for the next two weeks. But we still have a while to go, and as we embark on the next two weeks, I figured I would start a new thread for response.

In the past two weeks, what was your proudest moment regarding this competition? Was it making a healthy eating choice when you were faced with temptation, or was it getting your butt out of bed early in the morning to go exercise?

For me, it was when we had pizza from Papa Murphy's one evening. Even though we got thin crust so it was already better for you than it normally would have been, I stopped myself at eating two pieces and instead of having more, I made myself a salad instead.

This is significant in two ways for me. Pizza is the ultimate comfort food for me, and I have rarely, RARELY, if EVER, been able to only eat two pieces. Even when I wasn't too overweight, pizza was just one of those foods that I always permitted myself to indulge in because, well--it's pizza! So by actually being able to limit myself at two pieces is a pretty big deal for me.

The other reason it's significant is because I was able to eat a healthy alternative (salad) instead of the other 2 slices. In the past, I've never really liked salad, but I'm beginning to think it was simply because I didn't know how to make one. I'd always eat it with just the lettuce, cheese, and dressing, but now I'm sprucing it up--mushrooms, tomatoes, bell peppers, almonds, avocado, egg--and finding I'm actually looking forward to eating it now.

So that was my proudest moment of the past 2 weeks--eating only 2 pieces of pizza with a salad instead of indulging in 4 pieces.

What has been your proudest moment of the last 2 weeks?