Well this has been a most interesting week - it certainly did not go quite the way I had originally planned, but then again, what ever does?!
Last weeks small gain after getting so close to clearing 200 really motivated me to get my butt into gear. I was determined to get under that number in approximately one year from my original start. So I started the tracking week with a vengeance! I tracked absolutely everything that I ate - I never went over my daily points into my activity points or the extra weekly points - and I went to the gym Tuesday and Thursday mornings...and even still danced Wednesday night! I was kicking butt and taking names...and even convinced a friend to go to the gym with me!
But, then the weekend hit and I let myself loosen up a bit. I didn't track like I should have, and perhaps enjoyed myself a little more than maybe I should have. I'm sure that I did not go over all of my daily/weekly/activity points, but I didn't quite make the super smartest choices. But, as I said last week...those are choices that I made and I don't regret them and I won't beat myself up about them.
Well, I was feeling a little guilty by Sunday...especially since I got in very little activity over the weekend. Sunday evening began to roll around and I started feeling not great. I had a friend in visiting for the weekend and she was leaving the next morning, I was exhausted from work I had to do during the day, so we decided to go out with a mutual friend. I wasn't really feeling anything on the menu...I was feeling a little nauseous and nothing sounded very appealing. I ended up getting a very "homestyle" type of dinner, which was just okay, and started to realize throughout dinner that I was freezing and neither of my friends were. We went home and I was so tired I could have happily gone to bed at 7:30, but I made myself stay up a little later. I tossed and turned all night and when I woke on Monday I quickly realized that there was no way I was going to work! I called off, said a quick prayer that it wasn't the awful flu that everyone was getting, and went back to bed. When I woke again, I figured it was like 11ish....it was 1pm. I managed to move myself to the couch and didn't leave it for the rest of the day. I wasn't the slightest bit hungry, my whole body ached, and I kept toggling between cold and hot. My temp wasn't too bad - it got up to about 101.3...and spent a good portion of the day there...but, considering, it wasn't too horrendous. I made myself drink as much water as my stomach would allow, and I made myself eat some noodles for dinner (the only thing I ate all day). I slept a lot - then finally took some Excedrin for the headache I had acquired.
Frankly, I could kick myself for not thinking to take it earlier. Almost immediately I could feel my body temperature drop...within half an hour it had already dropped to 100.2! I finally was able to fall asleep for the night and woke up feeling like a new person! Well, maybe not completely new...I wasn't back to 100%, but I felt amazingly better. I said a quick thanks that it wasn't the nasty flu, and went on with my day. Since I had to move my WW meetings back to Mondays, and since Monday was my couch-day, I didn't get to weigh in. I debated on whether to go today or not - I tried talking myself into and out of it all day. "You'll be late because of class" - "that's okay, at least you'll have gone" - "yeah, but you didn't do great this weekend" - "but you did do great the rest of the week...and you hardly ate anything yesterday!" Ultimately, I decided to go because I knew that I needed to. I was late, as was predicted, but I felt good about the decision to go...especially after I stepped on the scale.
Now, before I get to the big reveal of my weird week, I would like to point out something - especially to those of you who may go to Weight Watchers, or any other type of weight loss/weigh in program. I, as a rule, wear as little as decently possible when I weigh in. That generally consists of a pair of pajama shorts and a tank top that I wear under my "normal" clothes. I usually undress in the bathroom at the center, leave my clothes on my chair, go weigh in, then get redressed. This isn't really typical behavior for most people weighing in...at least at my center...and the one I go to at home. Well, since I was late today, I had to strip right at the scale. The ladies often comment on my "weigh-in outfit"...in a positive manner. Today, though, after she got my official weight registered, she asked me to stay on the scale and to pick up my jeans and sweater to see what the difference was. I weighed an extra 2.6 pounds holding my clothes!! You'd better believe I'm going to keep up my routine!! If I'm gonna get weighed every week, I want that scale to reflect what I weigh not what my clothes weigh!
Well, after my weird week (and before I picked up my clothes), here's what the scale said:
Initial weight: 257.2
Week 53: -3.6!!!
Total weight loss: -59.0
Current weight: 198.2
YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Back to the Grind
So I got back to work this past week.
The week was a little difficult - we had very limited places to eat during the day and pulling 12 hour days made it hard to get to the store to do any real shopping other than basic necessities. Seriously, my fridge still only has milk, eggs, bread, yogurt, and a few fruits and veggies in it! Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get out and fill her up so that Mother Hubbards cupboards won't be so bare!
The other piece that made it hard was that not only did the 12 hour days also make it hard to get in some exercise, but since the students weren't actually here for most of the week, the gym had very limited hours...when it was even open. Now, don't get me wrong, I could have made a bigger effort to do things outside of the gym, but I didn't and I can't go back and change that now.
One of the things that has been an important, albeit difficult, lesson to learn (and one on which I'm still learning) is not beating yourself up over choices you've made in the past. Sometimes when I weigh in and the scale doesn't really go in my favor I sit and think of all the choices I could have made better that week. The "where did I go wrong?" almost always comes out (unless it's an expected gain). You think about every single day and what you ate and what exercise you did...or didn't do. "I know I could have worked out a little longer on that day." "I shouldn't have eaten that one cookie." Oooohhhh if the world were built on shoulda, coulda, wouldas. The fact is: I didn't and I did. And I just have to learn to live with the decisions I make, let them go after I've made them, and move on and do better next time.
Now, don't get this post wrong...I didn't have THAT bad of a week, but sometimes I need a reminder to quit beating myself up. Sometimes we ALL need to quit beating ourselves up. Stop it, people! Play nice!
Initial weight: 257.2
Week 52: +1.2 (Officially 1 year! Woohoo!)
Total weight loss: -55.4
Current weight: 201.8
The week was a little difficult - we had very limited places to eat during the day and pulling 12 hour days made it hard to get to the store to do any real shopping other than basic necessities. Seriously, my fridge still only has milk, eggs, bread, yogurt, and a few fruits and veggies in it! Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get out and fill her up so that Mother Hubbards cupboards won't be so bare!
The other piece that made it hard was that not only did the 12 hour days also make it hard to get in some exercise, but since the students weren't actually here for most of the week, the gym had very limited hours...when it was even open. Now, don't get me wrong, I could have made a bigger effort to do things outside of the gym, but I didn't and I can't go back and change that now.
One of the things that has been an important, albeit difficult, lesson to learn (and one on which I'm still learning) is not beating yourself up over choices you've made in the past. Sometimes when I weigh in and the scale doesn't really go in my favor I sit and think of all the choices I could have made better that week. The "where did I go wrong?" almost always comes out (unless it's an expected gain). You think about every single day and what you ate and what exercise you did...or didn't do. "I know I could have worked out a little longer on that day." "I shouldn't have eaten that one cookie." Oooohhhh if the world were built on shoulda, coulda, wouldas. The fact is: I didn't and I did. And I just have to learn to live with the decisions I make, let them go after I've made them, and move on and do better next time.
Now, don't get this post wrong...I didn't have THAT bad of a week, but sometimes I need a reminder to quit beating myself up. Sometimes we ALL need to quit beating ourselves up. Stop it, people! Play nice!
Initial weight: 257.2
Week 52: +1.2 (Officially 1 year! Woohoo!)
Total weight loss: -55.4
Current weight: 201.8
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
A Year in Review
I know that it's totally cliché and that everyone does year reviews at the end of December/beginning of January, but this is also marking my one year Journey anniversary - so we're doing it anyway!
January 9th is my official anniversary - that fateful day that I went for my first weigh-in/meeting. I didn't start my blog until the week after, but I made the courageous decision to start this journey that day. I've mentioned before that I've done Weight Watchers half a dozen times, but this is the first time that I've lasted this long. The first time that I've been this successful. The first time that I invited the world into my journey.
Not to make this post about tooting my own horn, but (toot toot...) I have accomplished some awesome things in the last twelve months. For starters, I've kept up with my "diet" AND this blog for twelve whole months! I've lost over 50 pounds (that's about one pound each week). I've lost a lot of inches: 11 from my waist, 8 from my hips, 2 from my arms, 8 from my bust, and 6 from my thighs! I can not only run longer than a block, but I can run several miles with very few walking breaks in between. I actually like exercising!! I get restless just sitting around.
It's New Years Day and instead of sleeping in since I stayed up past my normal bedtime (oh yeah...I also go to bed before midnight now pretty much every night), I got up and went to weigh in. There were a total of five people at the meeting today, not including the leader/receptionist. Now, the next few weeks start the "busy season" for Weight Watchers - getting all the new "January Joiners". All those people who make New Years resolutions to lose weight...and you could say that I'm one of them, though as I said in my first post I didn't make a New Years resolution - I made a LIFETIME resolution...and I'm glad to say that I've kept it for a year, so far!
Initial weight: 257.2
Week 50: Christmas Day - no weigh-in
Week 51: -0.4
Total weight loss: -56.6
Current weight: 200.6
Any loss over not one, but TWO holidays is a major success in my book!! Consider the Holidays CONQUERED!!
January 9th is my official anniversary - that fateful day that I went for my first weigh-in/meeting. I didn't start my blog until the week after, but I made the courageous decision to start this journey that day. I've mentioned before that I've done Weight Watchers half a dozen times, but this is the first time that I've lasted this long. The first time that I've been this successful. The first time that I invited the world into my journey.
Not to make this post about tooting my own horn, but (toot toot...) I have accomplished some awesome things in the last twelve months. For starters, I've kept up with my "diet" AND this blog for twelve whole months! I've lost over 50 pounds (that's about one pound each week). I've lost a lot of inches: 11 from my waist, 8 from my hips, 2 from my arms, 8 from my bust, and 6 from my thighs! I can not only run longer than a block, but I can run several miles with very few walking breaks in between. I actually like exercising!! I get restless just sitting around.
It's New Years Day and instead of sleeping in since I stayed up past my normal bedtime (oh yeah...I also go to bed before midnight now pretty much every night), I got up and went to weigh in. There were a total of five people at the meeting today, not including the leader/receptionist. Now, the next few weeks start the "busy season" for Weight Watchers - getting all the new "January Joiners". All those people who make New Years resolutions to lose weight...and you could say that I'm one of them, though as I said in my first post I didn't make a New Years resolution - I made a LIFETIME resolution...and I'm glad to say that I've kept it for a year, so far!
Initial weight: 257.2
Week 50: Christmas Day - no weigh-in
Week 51: -0.4
Total weight loss: -56.6
Current weight: 200.6
Any loss over not one, but TWO holidays is a major success in my book!! Consider the Holidays CONQUERED!!
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