ME! I AM!!
Goal #1 (Goal post ) reached and surpassed, baby! Wooooo! And not only did I lose the 10 pounds, I threw in a few extra for good measure. 12.6 to be exact. I got to change to my next goal weight on the Weight Watchers site and even lost a daily point!
It's funny. I don't really notice where I've lost the 12.6 pounds. Blessing and a curse I guess. That's how it is when I gain weight as well. It just sort of evenly piles on. I guess that's how it is coming off too. As long as it's coming off, it can come off wherever it likes!
So, after work, I'm heading out to reward myself before coming back home to puppy pandemonium. What a great day!
Showing posts with label weigh in day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weigh in day. Show all posts
Monday, May 24, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Weigh in day! SUCCESS!
Down another 2.2 pounds this week! That makes a total of 9.6 pretty darn painless pounds over the past month. Very motivating, very motivating indeed.
This week will be interesting as we're eating out as a family to celebrate some really good news and I'm going out for dinner and cocktails with a friend on Wednesday. I do plan on getting back to my Couch to 5K runs this week though, so hopefully it will all even out.
I'm soooooooooo close to Goal #1 and the eyebrow wax that comes with it! YAY!!
This week will be interesting as we're eating out as a family to celebrate some really good news and I'm going out for dinner and cocktails with a friend on Wednesday. I do plan on getting back to my Couch to 5K runs this week though, so hopefully it will all even out.
I'm soooooooooo close to Goal #1 and the eyebrow wax that comes with it! YAY!!
Monday, May 10, 2010
WHOA! Huh?
I lost this week! .8 pounds to be exact! Huh??!!!
To be 100% honest, I didn't track a single point from Wednesday afternoon on. Life was just too busy with the craziness of the rummage sale and eating at my parents' house most of the meals. There were donuts consumed, fancy coffee drinks swigged, Chinese food ordered and eaten.
And I still lost!
My theory? I need to eat my activity points. At least. I've been trying not to - thinking it would help me lose weight faster. And knowing that if I stopped losing, it would likely be due to needing to up my fuel intake. This has proven it to me. I wasn't eating enough. I could sort of feel it too - I was really lethargic and FELT hungry pretty much all day long for the previous week and a half (pre-rummage sale madness). But, since I don't have a great track record with proper eating, I didn't know if it was part of me adjusting to just eating LESS or if I wasn't eating enough.
So, YAAAAAAAAAAAY! I don't need to feel hungry and can still lose! This has just totally jazzed me back up for the week.
(Although talk to me after tomorrow's run and you may not hear the same enthusiasm!)
To be 100% honest, I didn't track a single point from Wednesday afternoon on. Life was just too busy with the craziness of the rummage sale and eating at my parents' house most of the meals. There were donuts consumed, fancy coffee drinks swigged, Chinese food ordered and eaten.
And I still lost!
My theory? I need to eat my activity points. At least. I've been trying not to - thinking it would help me lose weight faster. And knowing that if I stopped losing, it would likely be due to needing to up my fuel intake. This has proven it to me. I wasn't eating enough. I could sort of feel it too - I was really lethargic and FELT hungry pretty much all day long for the previous week and a half (pre-rummage sale madness). But, since I don't have a great track record with proper eating, I didn't know if it was part of me adjusting to just eating LESS or if I wasn't eating enough.
So, YAAAAAAAAAAAY! I don't need to feel hungry and can still lose! This has just totally jazzed me back up for the week.
(Although talk to me after tomorrow's run and you may not hear the same enthusiasm!)
Monday, May 3, 2010
Weigh in Day!
Duhn duhn duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun........ *that's the ominous soundtrack music*
Yep, I was up a little today. .6 pounds. I'll own it. And for good measure, I'll add that the blueberry martini, fondue, dessert and evening out with my husband feeling all fancy was 100000000% worth it.
I refuse to get all worked up over .6 pounds. Please. I could probably cut my hair and lose more than that. (But I won't as that's goal reward #3, right?!) And I really believe that the slower you lose the weight, the surer you can be about it being gone for good. I've got time.
The plan is to just get back to working on my habit goals for this week and let my body even out from all the celebrating. Might be easier said than done with the craziness this week looks like it will bring (doctor's appointments for the kiddo and a massive garage sale over the weekend). Why of why can't I be one of those people who drops 400 pounds at the mere mention of stress? Instead I'm one of those people who tells stress to shut up by feeding it cookies. Tastier, but not healthier.
I promise I'm here this week....I'm deciding which recipes to put up next and I want to make them great ones. Keep checking back or go up to the top of the screen and click "follow". That way you can just pop onto your blogger dashboard and know if I have anything new. I promise not to write 87 posts about the garage sale.
Yep, I was up a little today. .6 pounds. I'll own it. And for good measure, I'll add that the blueberry martini, fondue, dessert and evening out with my husband feeling all fancy was 100000000% worth it.
I refuse to get all worked up over .6 pounds. Please. I could probably cut my hair and lose more than that. (But I won't as that's goal reward #3, right?!) And I really believe that the slower you lose the weight, the surer you can be about it being gone for good. I've got time.
The plan is to just get back to working on my habit goals for this week and let my body even out from all the celebrating. Might be easier said than done with the craziness this week looks like it will bring (doctor's appointments for the kiddo and a massive garage sale over the weekend). Why of why can't I be one of those people who drops 400 pounds at the mere mention of stress? Instead I'm one of those people who tells stress to shut up by feeding it cookies. Tastier, but not healthier.
I promise I'm here this week....I'm deciding which recipes to put up next and I want to make them great ones. Keep checking back or go up to the top of the screen and click "follow". That way you can just pop onto your blogger dashboard and know if I have anything new. I promise not to write 87 posts about the garage sale.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Another reason to LOVE Mondays...
Weigh in day. And yes, I CHOSE that day. You know, because Monday's aren't enough fun all on their own, right?
Monday weigh ins weren't totally my first choice but it's what day it was when I registered for Weight Watchers online, so why not. I mean, do I magically get thinner by Wednesday? No, not really. Although the past two weeks I HAVE weighed less on Wednesday than any other day. It sort of bugged me this morning, but after some reflecting, I think I know why.
First of all, I'm happy to report that I was down another 2.4 pounds this week. That's a total of 7.2 for the past two weeks. Totally not shabby. Of course, I'm greedy. I probably haven't mentioned that yet, have I? I'll sucker you in with all the delightful sides of me and then lay that little fact down for you. I'll be honest and say that I had a twinge of disappointment this morning when the scale wasn't as low as I pictured it would be. I mean, I didn't eat a single homemade chocolate chip cookie yesterday. Homemade. By my Dad who makes AMAZING chocolate chip cookies. And I didn't eat one. Or any raw dough which is even more delicious than the cookie. I feel like somewhere in the rules of how, why and when you lose weight, that feat should count for an automatic 10 pound loss. If not more.
The twinge passed pretty quickly though. 2.4 pounds in a WEEK. 7.2 in TWO weeks. Heck, that's even better than some folks do on The Biggest Loser, right? And I'm just lil' ol' me doing it on my own.
There have been some adjustments I've decided to make though as we go into week three. I love eating out. It's HARD to eat out and figure out points, but we've done OK so far. The plan is for one eating out night a week. The past two weeks, that day has been Saturday. I think that's too close to my weigh in day. Not because I'm trying to get some artificially low number on the scale, but because it's just an abundance of calories (and the sodium and fat that comes with those eating out calories!) in too short of a window for them to properly even out before weighing in. Plus, I can 2.5 points worth of sodium-rich microwave popcorn last night. I have enough real weigh to get rid of - I don't need the scale registering Orville Redinbacker's popcorn induced water weight as well!
Eating out day is henceforth declared to be Wednesday. (cue the old timey trumpet fanfare!)
On a final note, I know from other folks that in general, Monday is a less desireable weigh in day so that people can work off the weekend binge calories. I guess what I'm doing is similar with moving the eating out calories, but I have found that knowing Monday is my weigh in day keeps me from going too nuts over the weekend. It's good motivation to cast an editing eye on my food choices.
Just ask those poor homemade cookies sitting in my parents' freezer waiting for their chance to be eaten.
Monday weigh ins weren't totally my first choice but it's what day it was when I registered for Weight Watchers online, so why not. I mean, do I magically get thinner by Wednesday? No, not really. Although the past two weeks I HAVE weighed less on Wednesday than any other day. It sort of bugged me this morning, but after some reflecting, I think I know why.
First of all, I'm happy to report that I was down another 2.4 pounds this week. That's a total of 7.2 for the past two weeks. Totally not shabby. Of course, I'm greedy. I probably haven't mentioned that yet, have I? I'll sucker you in with all the delightful sides of me and then lay that little fact down for you. I'll be honest and say that I had a twinge of disappointment this morning when the scale wasn't as low as I pictured it would be. I mean, I didn't eat a single homemade chocolate chip cookie yesterday. Homemade. By my Dad who makes AMAZING chocolate chip cookies. And I didn't eat one. Or any raw dough which is even more delicious than the cookie. I feel like somewhere in the rules of how, why and when you lose weight, that feat should count for an automatic 10 pound loss. If not more.
The twinge passed pretty quickly though. 2.4 pounds in a WEEK. 7.2 in TWO weeks. Heck, that's even better than some folks do on The Biggest Loser, right? And I'm just lil' ol' me doing it on my own.
There have been some adjustments I've decided to make though as we go into week three. I love eating out. It's HARD to eat out and figure out points, but we've done OK so far. The plan is for one eating out night a week. The past two weeks, that day has been Saturday. I think that's too close to my weigh in day. Not because I'm trying to get some artificially low number on the scale, but because it's just an abundance of calories (and the sodium and fat that comes with those eating out calories!) in too short of a window for them to properly even out before weighing in. Plus, I can 2.5 points worth of sodium-rich microwave popcorn last night. I have enough real weigh to get rid of - I don't need the scale registering Orville Redinbacker's popcorn induced water weight as well!
Eating out day is henceforth declared to be Wednesday. (cue the old timey trumpet fanfare!)
On a final note, I know from other folks that in general, Monday is a less desireable weigh in day so that people can work off the weekend binge calories. I guess what I'm doing is similar with moving the eating out calories, but I have found that knowing Monday is my weigh in day keeps me from going too nuts over the weekend. It's good motivation to cast an editing eye on my food choices.
Just ask those poor homemade cookies sitting in my parents' freezer waiting for their chance to be eaten.
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