WOW!!!! The magical key to weight loss is......

....eating as much as you want, not giving a crap about what you eat and chugging down sugary sodas all day!!

No in all seriousness, I am STUMPED here. I'm not complaining - since last Wednesday, I've lost 2.4 pounds.

But how I've lost those pounds is beyond me. I went to stay at my in-laws this weekend. They always have a house full of bad, horrible, no-good-for-you treats that taste OH so yummy. Over the weekend just at the house, I ate cookies, Lindt truffles, twizzlers, trail mix, chocolate muffins, a CRAPLOAD of skittles and I did a lot of this eating late at night while we sat around talking or playing games.

In addition to all of that lovely stuff, we ate out. A LOT. We ate ice cream, italian food, we went to a japanese hibachi place, Zaxby's (which I was DETERMINED to eat seeing as how we don't have Zaxby's here nor did we have it in IL). When we weren't eating out, we weren't scrimping at my in-laws house either. Big, thick, fatty, deliciously juicy steak with corn on the cob, baked potato, salad and I think there was probably something else in there one night, burgers and macaroni salad the next night, bacon eggs biscuits and toast for breakfast. I drank Pepsis and Sprites and I didn't get the diet versions either.

I know. All of this talk about what I ate is clogging my arteries even more.

Then we got back home. I kept drinking sugary Sprites. Yesterday I ate fast food TWICE. Granted, I had a hectic day, but I should have made better choices.

Today I went to the gym for the first time in 9 days. Well I shouldn't say I went to the gym because I didn't. I worked out. I did level 2 of Jillian Michaels' 30 day shred dvd and then I went to the track and ran 3 miles and pushed myself as hard and as fast as I could go. Then I went to the gym to weigh myself.

I kicked off my shoes. I stepped on the scale and pinched my eyes shut really tightly. I gave it a second and squinted my eyes open a little to see a number that was 2.4 pounds less than what it was when I last checked.

Dumbfounded, I stepped off the scale, pressed the "zero" button and got back on. Same results.

Totally confused I thought the scale must have been wrong even though it's the same scale I use every time I go to the gym.

So I went and got on the other scale. It reconfirmed what the other scale said, except .5lb more, but it consistently weighs me at .5lb more, so it was right.

So I left the gym a happy camper. I don't think I deserved a weight loss of 2.4 pounds. I didn't do ANYTHING to better my health or my body for about a week. Yet I somehow lost weight after filling my body with junk, grease and sugar. While I won't make a habit of it, I'll take it and will stop questioning it. Now I just need to keep those 2.4lb off.