Last Week's Failure and Successes of My Weight Loss Journey

Well last week was quite a struggle for me. It was my first week, since I began changing my life style. I must say that it was challenging, but bearable since I did not change all my habits at once. I first added exercise to my daily routine.
I exercised 3 days of the week. I am aiming at an hour a day, 5 days of the week, but ended up doing half an hour on 2 days then one and a half on the other. I did it while I watched the taped copy of the "The Doctors Show" I get many heath tips from them too. I did an hour and half on Thursday, but not all at once. I did 45 minutes on the elliptical machine then took a break and then did another 45 minutes.
I did not change much of my eating habits, but took a smaller plate size so I did eat less, but I did not measure not weigh the food, just made my plate smaller. I also eat fruits like apples, bananas and pears in between my meals.
Finding the time to exercise was hard because not only am I a full time mom and wife but I also run my 0nline stores and it requires lots of research and reading which is time consuming but I enjoy it too, but doesn't help that I am sitting most of the times and many times tempted to eat. I did go overboard a few times, but I got back up and tried to do better the next meal and it helped that I was not too hard on myself; I took it with grace.
The good news , I weighed in today and DRUM ROOOLLLLLLL......... I lost 3 pounds! I am down to 224 now :) Yippee! I believe we should consider little changes at a time because that way, it is less humiliating and try not to focus on it so hard. Give yourself some grace, when you cheat, it is not the end of the world. GET UP AND GO AGAIN! KEEP ON KEEPING ON!