8lbs and Weekends are rough!

I stepped on the scale today and I've lost 8 lbs! YEAH!! But anyone who has ever dieted know that you can always put up big numbers the first week. It's the weeks following. But it is exciting.
So this weekend was rough. I have a really hard time with them because I never stick to my eating schedule. I eat everyday at 8, 11, 2, 5, 8. I should probably eat earlier like 6, 9, 12, 3, 6, 9 or something. I just have a really hard time getting up every morning now that I don't work at a warehouse and I can be to work later. So yesterday Nichole and I ate really decent. Started out with breakfast at 11, which wasn't good at all. I didn't exercise and well I was just really lazy in fact Nichole and I took a 2 1/2 hour nap in the middle of the day. Most the time I don't like to nor does Nichole, but we haven't been to bed before 12:00 - 12:30 everynight because I am finishing school and she is working. So it was great to get a good nap in, BUT we didn't get to sleep before 1:30 BAD!! I found this article about the importance of sleep and weight loss: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041206210355.htm
Nichole and I also saw this really cool study reported on by 60 minutes about sleep. It's two parts, but if you get a minute watch it. It's pretty interesting!
Part 1
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4181992n?source=search_video
Part 2
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4181994n?source=search_video

Today we had a family event to go to and afterwards we had a pot luck dinner. It was hosted by my Sister-in-law and Brother-in-law because it was for their little girl, Gracie, who was just born. Nichole and I had a piece of string cheese today on the way to their house and then we didn't eat lunch until about noon, and eat I did. I had moderate portions of good food, salad, ham, potatoes and some jello parfait, but I have to tell you the reason I hate Christmas is because of all the homemade candy! My Sis-in-law has this thing about cooking, and during Christmas it is anything, but today was about the treats, and I'm not talking about some homemade microwave fudge, I'm talking she made this cheesecake that she cut in to squares and swirled chocolate and put pecans on them, but then when she put them on the plate she drenched them in caramel!! WHAT?!? Yeah, heaven, plain heaven, and then she had these caramel dipped, white chocolate dipped pretzels, not the little pretzels, these were like stalks of celery pretzels, they actually remind me of the ridculously oversized pencils that your friends would get when they went on vacation when they were kids, you know the ones from like California, or New York that you were always jealous of because you didn't go anywhere for summer vacation when you were a kid, type pretzels. I thought I was going to die of a sugar overload. Really. And then my mother-in-law or maybe it was her mother made some caramel covered popcorn that is irresistable. I probably should have resisted though, but no going back now. Tomorrow is a new day and I need to start and not faulter this weekend. So we'll see how it goes tomorrow.