It is Wednesday morning and I have not posted, not because I have nothing good to write about but because I have been so busy being good! I have been the perfect WW so far this week. Even though I ate more than I planned to over the weekend and did not exercise, I have still been 100% on plan!
Monday and yesterday were super charged WW days for sure! Monday I walked on the treadmill for 20 minutes, took a 70 minute spin class, and then walked at my daughter's practice for 80 minutes. I drank plenty of water, ate well, and stayed within my daily pp target...yeah! Yesterday I got to the gym too late to walk before class, but I did take a 60 minute weight / step class and a 60 minute yoga class. The step "thing" is super slippery so I am going to bring some of my husband's no slip grip liner that he uses in his tool box drawers. I have only been using the step in class sometimes and yesterday I decided because it slides so much I am afraid I am going to fall. I love that class and I really want to be able to get the most out of it. Yesterday's yoga / pilates class was the first one like that I had ever taken. It was pretty hard, but I was really surprised how much I was able to do. I will try it a few more times before I decide if I really like it or not. I do not earn very many WW Activity pp doing it, but I know it is good for my body especially for flexibility and range of motion. Yesterday I also drank a ton of water and actually had 1 pp left for the day. I haven't used my remaining weeklies, or any of my earned activity pp, a complete change from the WW I have been for the past few months...yeah me!
Today I am going to try to take spin. Usually my butt still hurts by Wednesday from the Monday class, but I think I am ok today...we'll see. I will test it out before class to make sure. My daughter has practice tonight so I should be able to get over an hour of walking in. Since I weighed in on Saturday instead of Friday last week, I will weigh in one day early this week. My home scale already shows a loss so I am really looking forward to Friday. I only have two more days to go, I KNOW I can do it! Tomorrow there is a fundraiser at Panda Express for my daughter's track team. I already know what I am going to order so I am sure to stay within my pp for the day.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
4 Weeklies left...
Today was a pretty good day, kinda eaty especially since we were out of the house for quite a bit which I had not planned on. I tracked EVERYTHING and still have 4 of my weeklies left. Yesterday I had planned to use less of my weeklies over the weekend, but the most important thing is I did not eat mindlessly and I weighed and measured everything.
Tomorrow morning I will get back to the gym to walk and take a spin class. I have not been there in two weeks, and I am ready to get back in the groove. I NEED to keep on track this week and lose some poundage to get past the 70's and into the 80's so I can move onto the 90's. Since I only have 3 weigh ins until my birthday, I know I will not hit my 100 pound goal. I have set that goal so many times that I think I need to change my goal to a smaller number. I will try focusing on only 5 pounds at a time and see how that goes. With that, my current goal is to make it back to 80 pounds...76 pounds down, 4 to go. I have not weighed less than my current weight since high school. I believe I can reach my weight loss goals, I just have to believe I deserve to.
Four days to go until weigh in...
Tomorrow morning I will get back to the gym to walk and take a spin class. I have not been there in two weeks, and I am ready to get back in the groove. I NEED to keep on track this week and lose some poundage to get past the 70's and into the 80's so I can move onto the 90's. Since I only have 3 weigh ins until my birthday, I know I will not hit my 100 pound goal. I have set that goal so many times that I think I need to change my goal to a smaller number. I will try focusing on only 5 pounds at a time and see how that goes. With that, my current goal is to make it back to 80 pounds...76 pounds down, 4 to go. I have not weighed less than my current weight since high school. I believe I can reach my weight loss goals, I just have to believe I deserve to.
Four days to go until weigh in...
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Weigh in...
Well...not fantastic, but could have been worse! If I had weighed in last week, this week would have been a loss. However, since I did not weigh in last week...I was up 3.2. My total lost is now back down to 76 pounds. I am so frustrated with myself that I have allowed some poundage to creep back, but I do not feel like I am totally out of control. I am more or less maintaining...up a few, down a few, and so on. Maintaining would be great if I were 80 pounds lighter than I am now, but since I am not, I need to get back to losing on a weekly basis.
Today I went to the combined Saturday meeting for the first time. There were so many people there...quite a few familiar faces, but several that I have never seen. I really miss our regular Saturday meeting group. We are now at a new location which replaced two previous locations. It is was it is and I will not let that change throw me off.
Today was a long day. I know I am tired and if I had not needed to get up for WW, it would have been a great day to sleep in. I will be sure to turn off the alarm tonight so we can sleep in a bit tomorrow. I got quite a bit of scrapbooking done today. Our Easter was not super exciting, but we had some good pictures...9 pages worth. I wanted to eat so many times throughout the day when I was not even hungry. I opted for water, gum, and some fruit here and there. It is now the end of the day. I tracked everything and only used 6 of my weeklies. My husband was gone all day today helping a friend do some repairs to his new house. He will be gone tomorrow as well. I plan on staying home all day tomorrow, doing laundry, working on PTA and getting the final crafts ready for my daughter's birthday party next Sunday. I will use my weeklies tomorrow if I need to, but I would rather save them to use throughout the week. I think my problem lately has been that I use them all by Sunday and then continue to go over my daily pp throughout the week. I really want to see that scale go down by Friday's meeting. I did not get in any exercise today, but I still consider it to have been a pretty good day!
Today I went to the combined Saturday meeting for the first time. There were so many people there...quite a few familiar faces, but several that I have never seen. I really miss our regular Saturday meeting group. We are now at a new location which replaced two previous locations. It is was it is and I will not let that change throw me off.
Today was a long day. I know I am tired and if I had not needed to get up for WW, it would have been a great day to sleep in. I will be sure to turn off the alarm tonight so we can sleep in a bit tomorrow. I got quite a bit of scrapbooking done today. Our Easter was not super exciting, but we had some good pictures...9 pages worth. I wanted to eat so many times throughout the day when I was not even hungry. I opted for water, gum, and some fruit here and there. It is now the end of the day. I tracked everything and only used 6 of my weeklies. My husband was gone all day today helping a friend do some repairs to his new house. He will be gone tomorrow as well. I plan on staying home all day tomorrow, doing laundry, working on PTA and getting the final crafts ready for my daughter's birthday party next Sunday. I will use my weeklies tomorrow if I need to, but I would rather save them to use throughout the week. I think my problem lately has been that I use them all by Sunday and then continue to go over my daily pp throughout the week. I really want to see that scale go down by Friday's meeting. I did not get in any exercise today, but I still consider it to have been a pretty good day!
Friday, April 13, 2012
40 Day Challenge...lasted on a few days...
So the moment I decided to get serious and created a plan, plans changed and flew right out the window! Last week was Spring Break for both of my kids. My niece, nephew, and their room mate made a last minute trip to visit us from Utah at the beginning of the week. They called to ask if they could come and showed up 12 hours later in the middle of the night. I cooked, we ate, we crafted, played ping pong, made quilts, and had a great time. They were here for only 1 1/2 days...not nearly long enough, but we definitely made the best of that short time! Thursday of last week was my daughter's birthday. We went to lunch and had a nice day which ended with track practice, 51 mini cupcakes, and the Happy Birthday song in the middle of the track. The next day was weigh in, but I opted to take the day off from WW, since I had pretty much taken the week off anyway. The weekend was busy with a track meet, hours of volunteering, and getting the kids ready to go back to school.
This week I was not feeling well and the only exercise I got was a 93 minute walk at my daughter's track practice last night. I felt so good during and after...I have decided my body really LOVES exercise! This week I tracked half-heartedly. There is no track meet tomorrow so I did not go to WW this morning and will go tomorrow instead. I am so excited to see all of my WW peeps! I love our leader who also leads my new group, but being with the same group for over a year has made the change to a new group hard. Once my daughter is done with track for the season, I will be back to my regular meetings for sure!
I know I will be up tomorrow from my last weigh in a few weeks ago. If I had gone last week, this week would show a loss for sure. It will all even out and I will get that scale going down. I know tomorrow is going to give me a push start in the right direction...even though I still keep in touch with my regular meeting peeps on Facebook...it is just not the same not going to the same meeting. They are fun, lively, loud, and rowdy, and I love them all!!
Since my daily routine seems to change on a consistent basis, it has been hard to get into a good groove. I will continue to do my best with whatever changes and obstacles come my way, but really need to focus on not letting myself fall of my to do list! I also need to make posting a priority...even if no one else ever reads my blog...I want to have something I can look back on. I have come so far, and it is far too easy to focus on how far I still have to go rather then remember where I started from.
I'll be back tomorrow with my weigh in...
This week I was not feeling well and the only exercise I got was a 93 minute walk at my daughter's track practice last night. I felt so good during and after...I have decided my body really LOVES exercise! This week I tracked half-heartedly. There is no track meet tomorrow so I did not go to WW this morning and will go tomorrow instead. I am so excited to see all of my WW peeps! I love our leader who also leads my new group, but being with the same group for over a year has made the change to a new group hard. Once my daughter is done with track for the season, I will be back to my regular meetings for sure!
I know I will be up tomorrow from my last weigh in a few weeks ago. If I had gone last week, this week would show a loss for sure. It will all even out and I will get that scale going down. I know tomorrow is going to give me a push start in the right direction...even though I still keep in touch with my regular meeting peeps on Facebook...it is just not the same not going to the same meeting. They are fun, lively, loud, and rowdy, and I love them all!!
Since my daily routine seems to change on a consistent basis, it has been hard to get into a good groove. I will continue to do my best with whatever changes and obstacles come my way, but really need to focus on not letting myself fall of my to do list! I also need to make posting a priority...even if no one else ever reads my blog...I want to have something I can look back on. I have come so far, and it is far too easy to focus on how far I still have to go rather then remember where I started from.
I'll be back tomorrow with my weigh in...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
40 Day Challenge...
Yesterday flew by so fast! I couldn't take spin class because I had to take my mom to the doctor. Instead I walked 35 minutes on the treadmill and did 50 minutes on the treadmill. I ate really well yesterday and broke even for pp allowed and pp consumed! I earned 23 activity pp between my morning and evening workouts. I walked for an hour at the track during my daughter's practice. I felt so good by the end of the day!
As of yesterday, there are 40 days until my 35th birthday. I have decided to make my own 40 day challenge. My biggest goal for this challenge is to make it to 100 lost by the May 4th meeting, which is my actual birthday. As of last Friday's weigh in, I am down 80.2...therefore I need to lose 19.8 pounds.
My challenge includes daily goals of...exercising...even on the weekends...eating within my daily pp...drinking plenty of water...and enjoying my extra 49pp VERY carefully throughout the week rather than blowing them on the weekend and then using them all over again!
Yesterday was Day 1 and I met all of my daily goals...woo hoo! Today I am already off to a good start. I got in 30 minutes on the treadmill and then I took an hour long step / weight class. The class was super hard because it has been so long since I have taken it...but I did it! It is 12pm and I have plenty to do today...meeting my goals included!
As of yesterday, there are 40 days until my 35th birthday. I have decided to make my own 40 day challenge. My biggest goal for this challenge is to make it to 100 lost by the May 4th meeting, which is my actual birthday. As of last Friday's weigh in, I am down 80.2...therefore I need to lose 19.8 pounds.
My challenge includes daily goals of...exercising...even on the weekends...eating within my daily pp...drinking plenty of water...and enjoying my extra 49pp VERY carefully throughout the week rather than blowing them on the weekend and then using them all over again!
Yesterday was Day 1 and I met all of my daily goals...woo hoo! Today I am already off to a good start. I got in 30 minutes on the treadmill and then I took an hour long step / weight class. The class was super hard because it has been so long since I have taken it...but I did it! It is 12pm and I have plenty to do today...meeting my goals included!
Sunday, March 25, 2012
I CAN do this...
It has been almost a month since my last post. I really need to make posting a habit, even if no one ever reads my blog but me. I recently realized that the tracking and notes I do in Weight Watcher's e-tools only seems to go back about 2 months. I can imagine if everyone's full history was kept their data base would be totally overloaded!
So here is goes...
My last 4 weigh ins have gone as follows...
March 3...-.8
March 9...-.4
March 16...-2.8
March 23...+2.0
Which means I have lost a total of 2 pounds in the past 4 weeks. I have been struggling since December and every time I seem to be getting back on track I seem to get off track just as fast. It almost seems as if I am sabotaging myself. I have gone up and down the same few pounds for months and months, and I have got to make some serious changes if I am going to get past this nonsense and get back to losing a significant amount on a steady basis.
I still have about 70-90 pounds to lose and I know if I got back to business I could lose them this year and meet my goal weight by the end of the year. The time is going to pass anyway, God willing, so I have got to figure out how to make the most of it.
I really love exercise, and most weeks get a lot of it. When I don't exercise as planned it is usually because I need to care for my kids because they are sick, or because I have to take care of my parents. A few weeks ago my daughter started Track and Field. She has practice 3-4 nights a week. During her practice, I walk around the outside of the track for 60-90 minutes. I can watch her practice and get some extra activity in at the same time...win...win!
So exercise has not been my problem lately...eating has. I find that I start most days off well and then sometime over the course of the day I make one poor choice that leads to another. This does not happen on a daily basis, but has definitely happened more often lately. I know I am up since my weigh in on Friday, I feel horrible...like I am 80 pounds heavier again.
Tomorrow is a new day. I will start my day with oatmeal, a good walk on the treadmill, and a 60 minute spin class. I will keep myself super busy all day, and plan the week's meals so I am prepared and not eating things I shouldn't. Throughout my journey I have never eliminated any foods that I really enjoy, but I have had better control over when I how much I ate. I need to get back to the mindset which helped me lose 80 pounds in the first place. I have to get back to my 100%, faithful, WW self. I have to get back to me.
I deserve to lose weight and reach my goals. There is not reason why I shouldn't be a WW success story. I CAN do this!
So here is goes...
My last 4 weigh ins have gone as follows...
March 3...-.8
March 9...-.4
March 16...-2.8
March 23...+2.0
Which means I have lost a total of 2 pounds in the past 4 weeks. I have been struggling since December and every time I seem to be getting back on track I seem to get off track just as fast. It almost seems as if I am sabotaging myself. I have gone up and down the same few pounds for months and months, and I have got to make some serious changes if I am going to get past this nonsense and get back to losing a significant amount on a steady basis.
I still have about 70-90 pounds to lose and I know if I got back to business I could lose them this year and meet my goal weight by the end of the year. The time is going to pass anyway, God willing, so I have got to figure out how to make the most of it.
I really love exercise, and most weeks get a lot of it. When I don't exercise as planned it is usually because I need to care for my kids because they are sick, or because I have to take care of my parents. A few weeks ago my daughter started Track and Field. She has practice 3-4 nights a week. During her practice, I walk around the outside of the track for 60-90 minutes. I can watch her practice and get some extra activity in at the same time...win...win!
So exercise has not been my problem lately...eating has. I find that I start most days off well and then sometime over the course of the day I make one poor choice that leads to another. This does not happen on a daily basis, but has definitely happened more often lately. I know I am up since my weigh in on Friday, I feel horrible...like I am 80 pounds heavier again.
Tomorrow is a new day. I will start my day with oatmeal, a good walk on the treadmill, and a 60 minute spin class. I will keep myself super busy all day, and plan the week's meals so I am prepared and not eating things I shouldn't. Throughout my journey I have never eliminated any foods that I really enjoy, but I have had better control over when I how much I ate. I need to get back to the mindset which helped me lose 80 pounds in the first place. I have to get back to my 100%, faithful, WW self. I have to get back to me.
I deserve to lose weight and reach my goals. There is not reason why I shouldn't be a WW success story. I CAN do this!
You are so fast...what!?!
This post was written on Feb 28, but never posted....Yesterday my legs were killing me...during the night and when I got out of bed. I think the walking Sunday got to me since I had not exercised in over a week and I wore sandals. When I got to the gym I could not face the treadmill so I took a spin class instead. I have never worked so hard in spin and really pushed myself. I felt so good once I was finished. I got to class a few minutes before it started so there were only a few bikes left. I opted for one in the second row, right in front of the instructor. At first I was a little intimidated, but once class started I was fine. I try my best to keep up with his pace and yesterday I was able to. Most of the class I am starring at his shoes to make sure my feet are moving at the same pace. After a super long, and fast sitting sprint, the girl next to me swatted me with her towel. At first I thought "what the heck"...then, out of breathe, she said "You are so fast! I was trying to keep up with you and I couldn't". Who would have ever thought I would be a super spinner...certainly not me! I thanked her and was so excited.
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