Weigh in day 8/20/09 - Small loss, but I reached a goal!

While I only lost 0.6 lbs this week, that was exactly the amount I needed to lose to reach my next goal, which was the halfway point to my final goal! I've lost 36 lbs, and now I need to lose 36 more to reach my goal!

This week was a mix of good and bad. I ate way over my weekly points - my "pig out" friend came over for the weekend and we went to restaurants. I tried very hard to restrain myself and I think I did pretty well - when she left I had eaten all my weekly points and just 8 of my activity points. If I had left it at that, I probably would have seen a bigger loss. But then I got tempted at the grocery store... I was in the frozen food/dairy section, innocently following my roommate as she looked at cheese, when I saw one of those individual slices of cake that they make at the bakery. The bakery is on the exact opposite side of the store, but someone had picked up this piece of cake and then abandoned it on a shelf in the frozen food aisle under some pizza crusts. It looked sooo good... I read the label and discovered that it was "old fashioned fudge cake," with yellow cake and fudge icing. I couldn't resist... so that gave me -5 weekly points, which I vowed to make up with more activity. If I had just left it at that, it would have been fine... BUT the next day my roommates wanted to celebrate my belated birthday - they had been out of town during my actual birthday, and that night we were all free. So we rented a movie and got tortilla chips, nacho dip, and, yes, we all got a piece of cake from the bakery section of the same grocery store. I went with the same old fashioned fudge cake... so after that fiasco my weekly points were waaaay into the negative :(

BUT to make up for it I rode my bike 5 days this week, for an hour each time. My new heart rate monitor tells me that I burn anywhere from 600 - 700 calories each time I do this, so I figured I might actually see a loss this week in spite of everything. I also drank a pitcher of crystal light a day - that's 4 quarts - so I thought maybe the increased water consumption would help too. And I did see a loss this week, just a small one. I know that if I hadn't gone over my weekly points I would have seen a huge loss, but I'm happy I made it to the halfway point.

Weigh in day 8/13/09 - big loss!

Wow, 3.4 lbs! This makes up for the weight I gained last week. I was afraid I would have a gain or a very small loss, because I was slightly in the negative with my weekly points and I didn't get as many activity points as I wanted to. Only 0.6 lbs until I am halfway to goal!

Weigh in day 8/6/09 - Big gain :( :( :(

Stupid birthday! It totally threw me off track and I gained 2.6 lbs. I'm back to where I was 2 weeks ago! My birthday got dragged over several days because I had to celebrate it on different days with my family and my boyfriend. Then there would be leftover cake... also we found out this week that my boyfriend got a job 2000 miles away from here, so that added to my eat-whatever-I-want mentality. But I think that weight gained quickly can be lost quickly, so I'm going to get back on track and try to shake all this off! I'm still pretty bummed though :(

Weigh in day 7/30/09 - another big loss :)

Apparently I should move every week, because I think all the calories I burned moving from my old house, moving into my new house, and then cleaning my old house really contributed to this week's loss of 2.6 lbs. I was incredibly active on moving day, moving tons of furniture and boxes. And then after that I spent a few hours each day cleaning the old house for about 3 days. I was worried I might actually gain weight because I ate over my weekly points and into some of my activity points, but I guess that was dwarfed by the sheer amount of activity I did. I'm so close to the halfway point!

Weigh in day 7/23/09 - I'm overweight!

I finally reached my next goal, which was to get out of the "obese" category! That's been very important to me, ever since the wii fit called me obese. Such a big loss kind of surprised me because I didn't get much exercise in - only 3 days this week, and I ate a few of my Action Points. But I was still within my points, so I guess it was ok. Now I have to lose just 4 more pounds before I'm halfway to my goal!

Belated update about weigh in day 7/16/09

This past weigh in I was only down 0.6 lbs from last week. But hey, better down than up. It's still a loss. I was hoping to reach 30 lbs of weight loss, but I guess that'll have to wait until this coming weigh in. On Thursday I went to my boyfriend's house and decided to bring cake mix and frosting with me to make cupcakes. I told myself they would be for him and his new roommates, and that I would only have a couple. Of course, this was unrealistic and I ended up having 4 that day and then 2 the next day. Luckily I am still (barely) within my weekly points and I've decided to ride for an hour every day until Thursday to make up for said cupcake incident. But I realized that before I started weight watchers I would have eaten 8-10 of those cupcakes and wouldn't have written it down or compensated with exercise; I would have pretended like it never happened. Obviously I still need to work on control, but it's nice to know that I'm getting better.

Weigh in day 7/9/09 - I don't understand it, but I'm not complaining!

Somehow I lost 1.8 lbs... in a 2 week time period that encompassed a cruise, the 4th of July, and a binge at Chick Fil A. Cruises are known for their food, but during the cruise I felt like I was balancing the food with enough activity. For breakfast and lunch my friends and I went to a buffet where I tried to eat fruit and salads and took it easy on the desserts and fatty foods. For dinner every night we went to a nice restaurant on board - the kind of place where they pull out your chair and put your napkin on your lap, and the menu changes every night. Luckily the portion sizes were small/realistic, so I couldn't do too much damage. We had dessert every night but it was always smaller than a normal dessert, although very very delicious. Most days we only ate 3 times a day, and throughout the day we would do activities like jet-skiing, swimming, or walking around a town. At nights we went to bars, the casino, and the dance club. I swear, I must have burned 10,000 calories at that dance club. One night we danced for what seemed like 2 hours (and probably was!) So I thought I just might lose weight over the cruise, or at least maintain. Then I got back a day before the 4th of July. For the 4th of July we went to a celebration at my aunt and uncle's lake house. We cooked out, then made ice cream sundaes. I also made Baily's floats - Baily's and icecream, mmmm! I thought that that might undo any weight loss I might have achieved. Finally, the night before last, my boyfriend and I went to chick fil a. It took me a few days to get back on plan because I kept craving sweet things, so at this point I was not exactly disciplined. I got an original chicken sandwich and we shared waffle fries, chicken nuggets, and a cookies and cream milkshake. So, after all that I was dreading weighing in today. But, lo and behold, I'm at 188! I was so afraid I would be back in the 190's, which was going to be really discouraging. Now I feel reeeally motivated - 3 lbs to go till my next goal!