Thursday, April 30, 2009

Weigh in day 4/30/09 - Reached -20 lbs goal!

I lost 1.8 lbs. So I'm a little behind schedule for my two week goal (which is now 1 week away) - I wanted to lose 2 lbs each week and have lost 4 lbs at the end of two weeks. 1.8 is pretty close to 2 though... can I lose 2.2 lbs by next week? I hope so!

And I've reached my -20 lbs goal! WOW it feels so good to be able to think and say that I've lost 21.4 lbs! For some reason it feels like so much more than 19...

Saturday, April 25, 2009

I've got a two week goal...

I was looking in my planner that I never open, when I saw that I had written a weight down on May 9th, the date of my graduation. It says: "193.4?" I think I remember writing that... I think I was a few weeks into weight watchers and was trying to calculate what might be possible by the time I graduated. Obviously I came up with 193.4, and wrote it down with a question mark so when I got to that day I could see it and see if I was right in my estimation. Well, that's only 4 lbs away! So I'm going to consider it a goal and try really hard in the next couple of weeks to lose 4 more pounds! I've already started - I worked out today, even though I normally don't on Saturdays. And losing 4 lbs in the next two weeks could make up for my small losses of .9 and .8 lbs in the last two weeks. Let's see if I succeed!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Weigh in day 4/16/09 - Somehow I lost! How???

I lost .8 lbs! How in the world is that possible? I went waaaaaay over my weekly points this past week! Maybe this makes up for the week that I tried really hard and gained .9 lbs... maybe? I'm not complaining, I'm just really surprised. Oh well! I'll take it :)

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Baaad week! Scared to weigh in...

So... last Thursday was my weigh in day, when I posted about finally being under 200. It was also my good friend's birthday, so I drove home early (I was already going to come for easter weekend.) Before driving home I stopped by the cupcake shop to get her half a dozen awesome cupcakes as a present, but I was good and didn't get myself any. Well, we went to a restaurant for her birthday. I was good and only took a couple of bites out of the appetizer. For dinner I got a hummus and goat cheese salad, which was reeeeally good. At the end of the day I still had plenty of weeklies left, and I felt proud for managing it so well. Then the next day, my mom set up lunch at a restaurant with my aunt and cousins. We went to chili's, so I got the guiltless grill salmon, which is now served only with broccoli and is 7 points. So I was good then too. Then for dinner I went to my cousin's house, where I ate a lot of fruit and a homemade lean hamburger. She also had some ice cream pies she made out of light ice cream, so I had a piece of that. At the end of that day I had used a few more of my weeklies, but overall I was still doing well. THEN came Saturday... for some reason I was hungry throughout the day and had to keep nibbling on things. My sister, her husband, and my aunt, uncle, and cousin came over for dinner. By that time I had given up on being good. I mean, I had resisted SO much temptation in the last couple of days! So I ate plenty of cheese and crackers, then had dinner (with dessert), then made smores around my parent's new chiminea outside. A lot of smores. And of course, the next day was easter, so the "easter bunny," who is suffering empty nest syndrome and takes delight in visiting adult children when they come home, gave me a basket of candy. To top it all off, my friend had a crisis and came over, so we went out to lunch together, and then went for gelato and a cupcake. By the time this was all over, my weekly points were faaaaar into the negative. Also, I was unable to exercise on Friday or through the weekend because I was so busy doing family stuff, and I didn't exercise Monday because I was working on finishing the draft of my thesis all day. So I'm definitly going to gain this week, and probably be over 200 again, which will make me CRY.

But, on a positive note, I've jumped back on the plan with renewed enthusiasm, if anything to try and minimize the damage before weigh in day. I'll post again on Thursday with results...

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Weigh in day 4/9/09 - FINALLY UNDER 200!

YAY :) :) :)

I lost 2.3 lbs this week, making me 199 lbs! I haven't been under 200 for over a year now! So I've lost 18 lbs total since January. That's a lot! And if you look at my goals, you'll see that my goal weight of 150 is now 49 lbs away. That's under 50! It used to be 67 lbs away, which seemed so intimidating... but 49 sounds a lot better to me!

In other news, I found a weight/food tracking journal I was keeping at this time last year. I started trying to lose weight on my own in the beginning February of last year and kept it up until mid April. In February of last year I weighed 204 lbs, and by the time I quit trying in April I weighed 201. Only 3 lbs in two months! No wonder I gave up. I was counting calories and going to a gym, but I later found out I was working TOO hard! I would run for extended periods of time on the treadmill with my heart rate around 190, and then go work out on weight machines for an hour. A dietician later told me that with a heart rate that high I wasn't burning fat, I was burning straight glucose. I was also eating way too little calories, so I guess my body wanted to hold on to my fat. So anyway I gave up, and then gained about 19 lbs until this past December, when I tried again on my own and got to the 217 lbs I was at when I started weight watchers in January. I know at some point before December I weighed 220 lbs, I just didn't ever want to weigh myself. But now I'm down to 199! Being under 200 makes such a big difference to me!

Thursday, April 2, 2009

I gained... for no reason! :( :( :(

I gained 0.9 lbs! Whaaat? I did everything right - worked out, drank water, stayed within my points... I didn't even use all of my weekly points! This is pretty frustrating, but I'm ready to accept it as a plateau and work extra hard this next week... maybe I can lose a lot this week and make up for this gain! Still, it sucks to try so hard and then gain! Makes me think that I should have at least gotten to eat a package of cookies or something to deserve it... ::Sigh:: and I even refused free Papa John's pizza a couple of nights ago! Oh well :(