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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
2:09 pm	Week 1 (Again) and Well Begun (Again) So OWAT (One Week AT a Time) has successfully got me through the first week. Starting Weight: 190.8 - 6 January 2009 Goal Weight: 145.0 Last week's weight: 190.8 Current Weight: 188.0 Loss/Gain: - 2.8 Total Loss since I recommitted: 2.8 pounds Weight to Goal: 43 pounds Aside from one memorable day this week I've not quite actually eaten all my points each day (usually off by only 1 or 2) which is probably all to the good since with the new "improved" WW system I'll lose a point every time I drop below an even 10, so being below 190 I've already lost one point. I also started back on my pushups program yesterday morning. I've been sick on top of having purposely taken a week off around the New Year's party, so two weeks of not doing any pushups back to 86 yesterday... OUCH! Actually I was interested in where the soreness ended up, not in my biceps or triceps, not in my shoulders, but in my awesome pectoral muscles.... not quite sure I"ve ever noticed I was using those in my pushups, but I also started doing situps and maybe that added a bit of stress to some overlooked muscles. Once I get the pushup and situp program going well for me again, I'll probably have to start more exercise. I'd really like to get out walking again like I regularly was a few years ago. It'd be nice to finish the Challenge Walk a little less exhausted (although historically not any faster!) Guess that's it for now, more next week when I hope to continue the Onward and Downward trend!! Current Mood: accomplished (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
2:14 pm	Here we go again So I worked very hard to lose all that weight and I did a great job. At the time I was worried about how quickly I was losing and whether I was actually learning to live that way for a lifetime. Here I am a couple of years later and the answer is clearly no I can't. Now there's good in with the bad. I weighed in today at 190.8 pounds. Not so good for someone who weighed 140 a couple of years ago, but I still kept off my original 10 percent weight loss (well if you count the fact that nowadays I'm weighing in with jeans and shoes on where in the past I was weighing in with light sweats and no shoes.) I've made a couple of New Year's Resolutions regarding Weight Watchers this year. First of all I'm gonna play the Alcoholics Anonymous game and go for "one week at a time". I wrote down my weight goal and picked the healthy weight loss goal of 1 pound a week. Using that, I"ve marked up my palm pilot each 5 weeks with a note to myself that I should have lost 5 more pounds. I also had them reset my starting weight so that I'll be starting from a zero weight loss today and will hopefully move down from there. Last requirement for myself is that I"m not allowed to drink any Coke Zero or caffeinated products until I've downed at least 32 ounces of water in a day. I can handle that and it should slow down my massive Coke habit that I had managed to cut back on a few years ago. I'm also gonna commit myself to reporting in here on either Tuesdays or Wednesdays for my own purposes in hopes of keeping myself on track. I plan to reread my entire weight loss journal for motivation and to remind me that I can do this. Wish me luck, World! PS: I'm only allowed 6 icons with my free account and apparently I threw away my 190 and counting icon a long time ago, so I"m gonna use the 210 one until I make it down to 180!! (well iunless I find a copy of the icon on my old computer and take the trouble to upload. Current Mood: hopeful (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
6:26 am	One way to lose 5 pounds quickly! Missed my weigh in yesterday as I started throwing up around 2 AM Tuesday morning and kept it up until around 11 AM. Fever, chills, achiness, assorted other dire symptoms meant that I spent the entire day in bed except when I'd drag myself to the bathroom desperately clutching my bucket in case I didn't make it that far. Kat got home around 3 and made me some soup. Managed about 6 spoonfuls and was too tired to eat the rest, so total consumption for the day... less than 1 point (6 spoonfuls of soup) and less than 2 16 oz bottles of water. OUtput for the day.. more than I want to think about. The scale today shows 135 pounds (that's homescale not WW weight) while Monday it was showing between 139 and 140 pounds. At least I got something out of the ordeal! Current Mood: exhausted (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
5:07 pm	Updates from me So it's been a long long time. I've been having a tough time on maintenance. Not failing at it you understand, but hanging around at the very top of my possible weight and not having the wiggle room that I'd rather have. It's a lot of things. Part of it after the long hard work to get here is the DESPERATE desire to just be a normal person. to eat like a normal person, and to me that means to eat a whole bag of valentine hearts with Neva if I feel like it. Problem is eating a whole bag of valentine hearts with Neva 2 or 3 times in the last month is probably not a good idea. For me OR Neva. I also was doing just a little too much of the "well I won't count points today, but I"ll be careful" Obviously if I"m not counting points at the moment I'm not being all that careful. But last week I had a wake up call. I stepped on the home scale which had been going up a little tiny bit at a time and realized that if I weighed in at my Weight Watchers meeting I would have to pay as I would weigh more than 142 (the max I can weigh.. 2 pounds over my goal - without paying for the meeting) This is okay of course because I only have to weigh in once a month. Once I've weighed in under 142, I can skip it, but I've been trying to weigh in weekly anyway (unless the line is very long) just to keep myself from going over. And the line has been VERY long the last few weeks so I've been slacking since I haven't been weighing in. So last week I rededicated myself. I dropped my points down by 4 and while I haven't been perfect, I"ve been a lot more diligent! Went ahead and weighed in this week, knowing that I would probably have to pay as I was still pretty high and was pleasantly surprised to weigh in at 141.8 pounds. Not great I know, but at least I'm still within my Lifetime goal. I'm sticking with the program for the next few weeks until I'm back down to at least 135 though, I need that extra space in my system before I dare to add more points back in again. I'm also SERIOUSLY working at getting out moving more again. I've been averaging about 6000 steps a day instead of 10K and while I was proud to get up to that back when I was first recording my steps, it's way low for the person I'm trying to become. I've been upping the walking and this will also increase as springtime gets going. I know that a little bit of the weight is the way I dress this winter, two tops, jeans, a belt, etc as opposed to shorts, and a tshirt, but some of the weight is me just packing it on and I'm NOT going to let this win. I'm a "Results Not Typical" and proud of it damnit! Anyway, a friend on WW.com pointed out an article in USA Today from last summer that had some interesting things to say about the Results Not Typical folk but the thing that resonated the most went like this.... "Another large study from Brown University found that the "safety zone" for weight maintenance is about 5 pounds. That is, if dieters regain 5 pounds, they need to put on the brakes immediately by following a better eating and exercise plan." Let's hope that catching it at THREE pounds (okay technically 5 since I was hanging around 138) will mean that I'm still in the zone. Wish me luck as I rededicate. Current Mood: determined (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
11:20 am	Another pile of weeks with nothing from me. That's all to the good actually but it'd be more helpful for ME if I'd post my trials and tribulations so that I can go back and read them later and use the info for future hard times. Anyway, yes, what's up in the world of Greykell Weightwatchering? I made a conscious decision not to really count points closely or pay much attention during the Christmas through New Year's time and my weight went up a couple of pounds more than I wanted, but not into any kind of a scary place. I was left on the first weigh in after New Year's however with a hard decision.... to go ahead and weigh in and KNOW I was over my 142 pounds that meant I had to pay for the meeting. Or to wait for one week and hopefully be under that limit again so that I don't have to pay. (A reminder for those who are following the story with intense interest but don't know how WW works.. when you reach LIfetime, you no longer have to pay for meetings as long as you weigh in once a calendar month under no more than 2 pounds above your goal weight... so 142 for me. Once you've paid once for the month.. or weighed in under the goal once for the month, you're good for the rest of the month. You can weigh in later in the month weighing over and you don't have to pay. Or you can choose not to weigh in cause you just don't want to. I choose to weigh in for the accountability. Turned out to be moot though... I got to the first meeting after New Year's (the same one that Bfud and I joined last year) and discovered a line out the door of folks with New Year's Resolutions. After about a three second scolding to myself I just walked past the line, waved at the receptionists.. showed them my lifetime card and skipped the weigh in with malice aforethought. Swore to weigh in the next week NO MATTER WHAT. Which I did and showed in right back where I had been back at Thanksgving time... 137.8 pounds, 3 and a half pounds down from where I"d weighed in after Christmas... ROCK! I've maintained somewhere in that vicinity this week despite general hysteria and chaotic life. I've been doing a modified point counting. Trying my best to write stuff down, but not writing down every single little Bite. Lick and Taste like I have in the past. We'll see how it goes, but I'd love to turn this system into an automatic normal human way of eating which lets me just eat when I'm hungry and eat proper amounts without writing down every blamed thing all the time. Still too nervous to do that full time yet. Give me a couple of years at this weight and then we'll talk. This weekend is the family ski trip to Timberline resort. I'll be skiing with 70 some less pounds than I did last year, it'll be interesting to see if that makes a difference in the sense of balance and how much more it hurts to hit the ground when I wipe out. I have a LOT less padding on the ground hitting parts these days. Anyway, I'm off to weight watchers.. I'll try and report back as to what my weight was today sometime sooner than February. Current Mood: accomplished (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
2:19 pm	I ROCK at Maintenance So, all the news that's fit to print about the last month of my WeightWatching! First of all, congratulate me if you didn'ty know, but I hit Lifetime on 28 November. I weighed in well below the 142 pounds that I needed to be at to hit Lifetime. 138.6 pounds! I had a terrific celebration. I showed up early with a bouquet of flowers for the receptionists to share and a single yellow rose in a vase for Kathy, my leader. I also brought Kathy a pack of diet hot chocolate (mint flavoured) only half a point a cup and she's mentioned that she likes mint chocolate. I had three balloons, one said thanks to Kathy, one said thanks to Bfud (cause I'd have never started WW without him) and one basically just said "I'm a star!" I took that one home with me again! *grin* I also brought kazoos for everyone at the meeting. They all had my name on them and "Lifetime". At the end of the meeting I encouraged everyone to toot the kazoo's for me. It was a glorious celebration. I had some pictures taken with Kathy and today I brought in my scrapbook page for Kathy's scrapbook of losers. It was gratifying as people looked at my photos from last year and basically said that they couldn't imagine me looking like that. (Since so many of my friends are still having trouble imagining me looking like THIS, it's nice to know it goes the other way too.) So... weight.... In the last four weeks, eating 28 points a day (cause I felt uncertain on the 30) I lost 2/10 of a pound, gained 2/10 of a pound and stayed exactly at my weight twice. So I've effectively weighed 138.6 for the last month, and all that while eating pretty much anything I wanted. I keep feeling like I"m out of control, but the meaning of out of control has changed massively for me from what it was a year or more ago. I can do this. Hopefully, I'll still be excited about it all a year from now. In other news, I bought a dress for an anesthesia party the other day. Size 6.. no wait that was SIZE 6!! or maybe SIZE 6!!!!!. I saw the dress in the window and liked it but when I went in to ask they said that they only had one in size 6 and one in size 4 left. I was disappointed but figured why not try on the 6 and see how much farther I had to go? Answer, nowhere whatsoever. It fit beautifully! Very nice NSV. I don't think I've ever worn a size 6 in my entire life (probably not in fact considering how size creep works *grin*) Well enough for now. I'll try to be better about updating, but it's hard when the update is "didn't lose, didn't gain, maintaining...." each week. Current Mood: cheerful (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
2:54 pm	Maintenance Update So here I am on week 4 of maintenance and YEP I lost again. I'm now down to 137.6. Not a HUGE loss, but a loss all the same. My leader has instructed me to up my points by FOUR a day!!! Yikes! As of today I'm eating 30 points a day.. that's four more than I was eating when I first started trying to lose weight at 210 pounds. The good thing about this lifestyle change thing is that it seems like an ENORMOUS amount of food. Today I had my regular breakfast and lunch and when faced with the fact that I would then have 24 points remaining for dinner, I decided to splurge. My nephew had sold me some of that band candy (nope not the stuff that makes you all childish on Buffy more's the pity) and I worked out that I could eat 8 of the meltaway mints for 5.5 points. I decided "why not" I'll tell you why not. Because that's an ENORMOUS amount of candy. I ended up having two of them for 1.5 points. Maybe I'll have another snack later on when I'm hungry again. Or drink more milk (something I'm bad about) WOW... THIRTY points a day. Cheers.... Current Mood: flabbergasted (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
12:38 pm	So far I'm either very good or very bad at maintenance 3 weeks in to maintenance and my leader is turning into a Jewish mother.... EAT EAT EAT!!! When I hit goal, they gave me only 2 points back (rather than the four I had heard I was supposed to get) and when I questioned them (explaining that I was regularly eating 7 - 14 points more than I was supposed to and still lost to goal, they said... "trust us.. just add in two." So I added in 2 points, ate over my points by about 14 points that week and lost a pound. So they gave me 2 MORE points. This time since I already knew that I'd been eating over my points I was completely callous, I stopped counting the extra points I ate when I got to 15, so I suspect it was more than 20... I gained two tenths of a pound. They said "perfect maintenance! Stay at 24 points a day." I said... "but but but... I ate more than 24 points a day." They said,'Trust us." So I stuck with 24 points a day... and I ate over my points by 15.... and I lost another pound. They said, "Hmmm, okay I guess you can eat two more points a week...." So I moved up to 26 points a day (I want to point out that I *started* at 26 points a day in order to lose weight!!!). So far this week I've eaten my 26 points a day AND all but 5 of my flex points with 2 more full days to go. Hopefully I'll stay within my points, but the homescale says that I've lost ANOTHER pound (in fact this morning it said I'd lost TWO!). Maybe I have a tumor. Maybe it's just weird water stuff and by Tuesday weigh in I'll be back to my "regular" weight. Either way, I'm not sure I've got maintenance down quite yet. 3 more weigh ins until LIFETIME!! Cheers. Onward and Stay-the-Courseward. Current Mood: confused (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
1:33 pm	New Icon!! So yep.... I hit goal last Tuesday. I would have come home dancing and announced it everywhere, but since I totally didn't expect it I didn't have the new GOAL icon designed. My good friend shadowcaptain took care of that problem for me. So here I am at goal. Gosh, I'm not sure what to do now. They handed me back 2 more points a day (which were GREATLY appreciated since I've been eating over my points for the last few weeks) and said, GO FORTH, stay at goal weight. I got a new book about maintaining which was chock full of advice that mostly repeated in different wording "keep coming to WW" No worries there since I know from reading ww.com that the people that keep the weight off are the ones who keep going. The ones who drift away seem to come back with all the weight back saying "whoops!" So here are my stats for last week: Starting Weight: 210.2 - 3 January 2006 Goal Weight: 140.0 Last week's weight: 140.4 Current Weight: 139.6 Loss/Gain: - 0.8 Total Loss since I began this journey: 70.6 pounds Hit Goal on 17 October 2006 (41 weeks to lose 70 pounds) So heer are the current plans: 1. 6 weeks of maintenance. Learning how many points a week I'm really supposed to eat so that I stay around this weight 2. After the 6 weeks, lose 3 more pounds on purpose to give me wiggle room for lifetime maintenance.. I want to stick at approximately 137 for the rest of my life if possible. 3. Find the photos of my tattoo Harvey from when he was new and make the appointment to have him retouched up. 4. Stop laughing at my kitty T-Sod, who is carrying a feather wand toy back and forth all over the house and being chased by Whimsy and get on with this list 5. Plan some sort of Lifetime celebration for my meeting... what should I do? Flowers? Balloons? A sincere thank you note? 6. After hitting Lifetime, invest in the complete Star Trek the Original Series (my chosen reward for hitting lifetime) 7. IMPORTANT: get myself off to Izolda and get a back rub and advice about my lower back.. I'd really like to work out again. I haven't done tai chi or yoga since the Challenge Walk because my back hurts so frikking much. 8. Buy some more skinny clothes.. THRIFT STORE RUN!!! 9. Create scrap book page for Kathy's, my leader, success book Lots to do and I have to see how my weigh in goes today. Onward and Downward... whoops I mean Onward and StaytheCourseward PS The battery for my pedometer finally gave up the ghost and I NEED a new one. I know I have one so I've been holding off going shopping for it but I'm up to 4 days now without being able to find my battery and I'm thinking it's time to just go buy the sucker!! Current Mood: accomplished (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
2:05 am	Almost There! Dang I so totally mean to post in this and then as often occurs I simply forget all about LJ. Then I find out that momentous happenings are occurring in my friend's pages and I figure I'd better get back on and as long as I'm here, I might as well update! So I had a big loss last week. Not quite sure that I deserved it but it was interesting stepping on the scale each day and I had no idea whether I would "accidentally" make goal when I wasn't quite prepared for it. Not quite is the answer. I weighed in at half a pound from goal. 2/10 from 70 pounds lost. WOW! Starting Weight: 210.2 - 3 January 2006 Goal Weight: 140.0 Last week's weight: 144.6 Current Weight: 140.4 Loss/Gain: - 3.2 Total Loss since I began this journey: 69.8 pounds Weight to Goal: 0.4 pounds Now what do YOU do when you're really close to goal? Well if your name is Greykell, apparently you eat anything and everything in some sort of hilarious "sub" conscious desire to saboutage yourself. I've not done too badly this week, but I'm certainly not hitting goal at this next weigh in. I think this is probably to the good. When I DO hit goal I want it to be solidly. I want to know I'm there. My tendency is to lose or gain 2 or 3 pounds at a time, so I'd much rather hit goal at about a pound down rather than right on the money. Either way though I figure I'm probably there sometime in the next week or so... then will start the entertaining and even more boring to read about Maintenance journey. Tomorrow, I reset my flex points for the week. At the moment I'm over by about 6 (the most I've ever gone over my points when I wasn't in Disneyworld or London or something). My goal for this week is to be really seriously on program and see how the losses go. I'll really try to report in sometime closer to tomorrow's weigh in about how much I need to go for. Then I'll have to plan for my REST OF MY LIFE. AIEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Guess I need to start designing my new icon! Oh and PS: This message was brought to you by arms that have a purring kitten who is FASCINATED by the cursor on the computer balanced on them. T-Sod is happily impeding my typing skills and causing innumerable deletes to fix the typos, especially when he makes a dive for the cursor and marches on the keys. He is a charming kitten! Current Mood: accomplished (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
8:09 am	Update? What's that? Right then, So last week I was up half a pound, but the week before I was down a pound, so the upshot is that I'm only 2/10 above what my last posted weight was. My current weight before I weigh in today is 143.6 pounds. According to the homescale I'm moving downwards, slowly but steadily, so I have high hopes for today's weigh in. I'll post proper stats today.. I PROMISE!! Some thoughts: I'm finding that 20 points is REALLY really hard to live on for me. I don't think I've stayed within my points for a single week (well maybe one) since I went down. I'm usually only 1 - 2 points over the points for the week, but it's annoying. On the other hand, yesterday I had lots to do at dinnertime and Kat made dinner, turned out that the dinner made was only a 3 point dinner. I'd saved 11 points! I had a glorious night last night enjoying some veggies and fruit, a glass of milk, and then popcorn and a coke. WHOO HOO! then I callously chose to go over my weekly points for a piece of cheese and you know what? It was DELICOUS!! I feel not the slightest bit penitent. Izolda's party was fun. I found myself circling the food table repeatedly. Completely avoided the cookies but happily chose a piece of cake from the corner so that I had tasty icing on 3 sides. Absolutely worth the points! Allison's tasty little bread balls were really good too, I had two of those, but aside from that it was grapes and carrots and hummus and a very small handful of potato chips. I might (maybe a little bit) be learning how to focus on food and STILL eat properly. I hope so anyway. So off for a busy day. We have high hopes that we'll get a date for when our kitties will come home. I have to jump through a couple of hoops today but I'm on it. More later! Current Mood: hopeful (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
6:32 pm	Down again So I haven't posted my stats for this week. It's been a really good insanely busy week. I've been sllooooowwwwlllyyy catching up on stuff (including things that have been backed up for literally a year or more) and I"m kind of excited about that. Anyway... A loss again. I'm getting so very close that it's truly nervewracking. I seem to be losing a little less than a pound a week during these last few pounds so if all goes well I should be at goal just about exactly in time for Halloween Candy, Thanksgiving dinner and the round of Xmas/New Year's parties. Yay??? Starting Weight: 210.2 - 3 January 2006 Goal Weight: 140.0 Last week's weight: 144.4 Current Weight: 143.4 Loss/Gain: - 1.0 Total Loss since I began this journey: 66.8 pounds Weight to Goal: 3.4 pounds I continue to work for the "prize" and I need to remind myself that this is a journey not a destination. I'll get it though I just know it. Meanwhile in the world of cool NSV's... A long time ago I think I posted about my wedding ring. See I hadn't been able to remove it for about 13 years (coincidentally the age of Aly) I hadn't remvoed it in time when I was pregnant and it got stuck on my finger and became unremovable. The thing is, it wasn't actually MY ring that got stuck. It was Rick's. He wasn't wearing a wedding ring anymore by the time I was pregnant with Aly and I was getting bigger and my ring was too tight so I started wearing his and that's the one that was stuck on my finger. Well a couple of months ago I finally was able to remove the ring and play with it... and YESTERDAY I put on MY OWN ring for the first time in about 15 years!! And yes I can take it off if I so desire. I'm so amazingly skinny. Oh and the other odd NSV that amuses me is that a bunch of the ladies at my weight watcher's meeting (including one that has reached lifetime already) have taken to calling me Skinny Minnie. I point out that we'll all use that name eventually but they say that No it's mine alone because i"m looking so darned skinny. W00t!! Current Mood: accomplished (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
11:46 am	Well um, that was relatively easy! Yep, so that 3.8 pounds up from last week? I seem to have lost all of it. I've done gain/loss weeks before, but never quite that much. I got up this morning, fairly confident that the homescale was telling me that I was doing reasonably well. Ate breakfast, wore jeans and my belt for darned sakes. (I still take all my pocket stuff out of my pockets before I weigh in, but I DO wear my pedometer and my hat (and now my belt) every week. Anyway, check out the stats. Starting Weight: 210.2 - 3 January 2006 Goal Weight: 140.0 Last week's weight: 148.4 Current Weight: 144.4 Loss/Gain: - 4.0 Total Loss since I began this journey: 65.8 pounds Weight to Goal: 4.4 pounds So here I am, I'm in the last 5 pounds to lose to get to my official Weight Watchers weight. Now understand that my private goal which I have not even bothered to think about yet is actually 137 not 140, but 140 seemed so very far away that I couldn't even consider the concept until now. AND THE BIG NEWS? As of today's weigh in my Body Mass Index gives me a Healthy Weight. I am no longer considered overweight!! And yeah, it feels GOOD! Onward and Downward! Current Mood: elated! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 11th, 2006
7:41 am	Oh, um... guess I should have updated last week Funny how I'm all eager to update when I'm losing, yet I can put it off with a vengeance when I'm not. Last week was glorious fun. The family drove up to Gloucester, MA for Cousin Kelly's wedding. Road food, Family dinners at expensive restaurants, Wedding food and cake... I journalled everything but I didn't try to count points... heck, it was a special occasion. Sunday morning, we got up early and dropped me off at Logan airport where I flew to Atlanta for Dragoncon. Dragoncon was more of the same. For both events I was seeing friends/family who had not seen me since before I started the journey. To them I am amazingly thinner than I was before. I ate like a HORSE! Sunday night I went out to dinner TWICE within 2 hours and had massive desserts at both dinners. I'll admit it, I had a great time. *Grin* But arriving back home the same day as weigh in, was a sobering wake up call. I'm up 3.8 pounds this week *OUCH* I could try and make up excuses, but I just have to keep going back to that statement above... "I had a great time." Obviously I can't eat like that all the time or I'll just shoot back up to 210 pounds in no time. But I don't have to eat like that all the time. I've been on program again this week and I've lost some of that weight. We'll find out how much tomorrow. But meanwhile: Starting Weight: 210.2 - 3 January 2006 Goal Weight: 140.0 Last week's weight: 145.6 Current Weight: 148.4 Loss/Gain: + 3.8 Total Loss since I began this journey: 61.8 pounds Weight to Goal: 8.4 pounds Current Mood: determined (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
2:16 pm	Amazingly it was Down! Not down very much, but since I expected to stay the same or go up a little, I'll take the 0.2 pounds down and run with them! Starting Weight: 210.2 - 3 January 2006 Goal Weight: 140.0 Last week's weight: 145.8 Current Weight: 145.6 Loss/Gain: - 0.2 Total Loss since I began this journey: 64.6 pounds Weight to Goal: 5.6 pounds Of course having lost instead of gained I now want more more more!! I"m only 0.3 of a pound from hitting a healthy BMI.. why oh why didn't I get there this week? This weekend I have a long drive to Goucester, MA.. a family wedding complete with 2 planned expensive dinners out AND the wedding lunch, and then to top it all off.. flying down to Atlanta for Dragoncon. I'm gonna have to be VERY careful if I want to get that danged healthy BMI sometime soon. NSV: Forgot to mention another great NSV. You may or may not remember that I went shopping for clothes for lonebear's wedding, but at the time I bought a TIGHT purple sleeveless spandex shirt in size small. Well I've been out shopping a couple of times since then and all the shirts I'm buying now are small. 6 - 8. I don't think I EVER wore that size before. I went straight from kid sized 18's to adult size 10/12's. Whoo hoo!! Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
10:11 am	No guesses but I think Up Up/Down Up/Down Everyone told me that the last 10 pounds were gonna be murder and I politely nodded my head while inside I thought "NOT FOR ME!" But in fact my homescale has been up and down all week and while it's pretty much down to where it was last week finally, I don't think it's enough down to make a significant loss. We'll see when I go weigh in, but I'm hoping for a basic maintain this week. I had a wonderful time at the Boy Scout court of honor barbecue on Sunday which is part of the Up... ate way too much which was valuable becuase it reminded me how very uncomfortable that feeling is and why I don't want to eat like that all the time. Still, I love pasta and potato salad and it was a fun time trying lots of different kinds (but small helpings like I would never have considered in the past. I have learned SOMEthing from all of this!!) NSV for the day: I went to drop off a form at the Board of Ed today. The building is out on 108 and is about 1/2 a mile from another building owned by the BoE. Turned out that the person I needed to see was in the other building and I walked out the door and walked over to the other building without even thinking about it. In the past I definitely would have gotten into my car and driven over there and parked just because it was a "separate" place, and completely ignoring the fact that it was so close. Today at WW they're rolling out the new pass. It's a monthly pass that automatically renews off your Credit Card unless you tell them to stop. Being as how I'm planning on continuing to pay until I reach Lifetime, this works just fine for me. Best of all, they finally got smart and included the WW etools in the package. I've never quite been able to justify spending an extra 15 bucks a month or so for etools but I really want to give it a try. Lots of raves from the folks who have it already and most importantly, it has a recipe builder program that spits out points so that I can get accurate points for my random recipes like my lasagne and meatloaf so that I can plan for them!! I'm planning to go over a little bit early today since I suspect there'll be a line of people signing up for the new pass. I'll try and post again today about how the weigh in went, but even if I'm up now, I know I'll be down again soon. And the Ups never seem to be as high a number as the Downs... I'm getting there.. micropound by micropound! Onward and Downward! Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
7:10 pm	On my way back down again As I figured, some of the weight gain last week must have been water weight, since all of the gain is gone and another half pound beside. Exciting news: 25 is a "healthy weight " BMI (Body Mass Index) and I am currently at a 25.1... ALMOST there!! I'll most likely have a normal BMI just in time for Cousin Kelly's wedding and Dragoncon when I'll shoot back up again *grin* I'm still not exercising, but I have at least hatched a plan to build exercise time into my schedule for when we all start back to school on Monday. Tomorrow the kids and I are taking our first "organization class" and will be working on scheduling, so my fingers are crossed that I get it together. Starting Weight: 210.2 - 3 January 2006 Goal Weight: 140.0 Last week's weight: 149.0 Current Weight: 145.8 Loss/Gain: - 3.2 Total Loss since I began this journey: 64.4 pounds Weight to Goal: 5.8 pounds Onward and Downward! Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 19th, 2006
9:57 am	Weigh in Argghh, I still haven't gotten anything even vaguely caught up since I got back from NYC/Boston/Maine but I DID go weigh in on Wednesday when I got home. No real surprise that I was up. Just a wake up call that enjoying birthday cake on three different days, wedding cake on another, eating full out at the wedding and then again for 2 more days on the road (LOVE that corned beef hash at the diner up in Maine!) will most likely result in a gain *grin* It'll come off, of this I have no doubts!! Starting Weight: 210.2 - 3 January 2006 Goal Weight: 140.0 Last week's weight: 146.4 Current Weight: 149.0 Loss/Gain: + 2.6 Total Loss since I began this journey: 61.2 pounds Weight to Goal: 9 pounds On the plus side, the homescale says I've lost some amount of it already... AND it was my period last week which usually shows a water weight loss on the next weigh in, so with any luck on Tuesday I'll be back on track! I'm getting more and more frustrated with myself about going to workout. I really MEAN to go out and go to the Supreme Sports Club and finally start working out again, but I keep adamantly not doing it. It's kind of like when I knew I needed to lose weight and had actually researched the different programs and chosen Weight Watchers... I STILL managed to go almost 2 years without actually STARTING. *sigh* School is about to start again. The year will be much more programmed and scheduled and I can only hope that I do better keeping up with stuff at that point. Onwards and Downwards! Current Mood: determined (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
12:09 am	Dicking Around The closer I get to goal weight the more I seem to be dicking around with myself. Now maybe it's just the timing right now. I DID just have a birthday party and I've got tasty delicious leftovers from that (most notably S&M's) so I keep wandering by the candy bowl. I'm journaling everything, but I've used up all my flex points for the week and Jeff's wedding is tomorrow and then I drive to Boston and the next day I drive to Maine and the day after I drive all the way home from Maine to Maryland. And NONE of that is conducive to eating only 20 points in the day (since I've used up my flex!) *sigh* Oh well, I'm gonna get myself back together soon enough. I've run out of excuses. Maybe if I dance a lot at Jeff's wedding I can count it as Activity Points *grin* I'll be weighing in at the Wednesday meeting when I get back and hopefully will not have done TOO much damage to myself. Onward and sort of Sidewaysward...oops I mean DOWNward.. yep that's what I mean! Current Mood: aggravated (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
2:43 pm	WOW!! Absolutely amazing. By the homescale I was hoping to have about a half pound loss, but I guess I had forgotten what it had been on last week due to the up and downness it has shown me this week. Anyway.. down another 2.2 pounds. Even though I had decided F**k it and had gone ahead and worn denim shorts and my belt (which add a bit of weight) I STILL lost more than 2 pounds. I have no idea where that came from! I did wake up early this morning and eat breakfast much earlier than I have been on weigh in day, so that's a teensy bit of weight that I usually weigh. I'm still boggled!! Starting Weight: 210.2 - 3 January 2006 Goal Weight: 140.0 Last week's weight: 148.6 Current Weight: 146.4 Loss/Gain: - 2.2 Total Loss since I began this journey: 63.8 pounds Weight to Goal: 6.4 pounds I have GOT to start working out. Wearing heavier clothes. SOMETHING! Mentally I'm not yet ready to hit goal. Especially since I know that around the same time as I hit lifetime will be when it starts getting colder out.. I'll be wearing heavier clothing and then it'll be heading into Thanksgiving and Christmas and all of their temptations. I need to be SOLIDLY in control of myself by then!! On the more exciting side, I also need to call my tattoo parlour soon since I'm going to have my shoulder dragon re-inked when I hit goal. Hurray! Current Mood: nervous (1 Comment |Comment on this)