Weigh in #34 An eye-opener

I neither gained nor lost this week. I know that happens sometimes no matter how strict you've been, but to be honest, I haven't been strict.

I've been lax about actually tracking things some days but have kept a running tally in my head. Or so I told myself. Today was a busy day. Lunch was late and on the run, a McDonald's plain cheeseburger and a diet Coke, 8 points. When I sat down tonight to enter today's foods, I hit my daily total of 27 points before entering the WW salted caramel bar (3 points).  Oops!

But the bigger problem is a little item, specifically Hershey Nuggets.  There was a bag of gold ones (they have nuts) and a bag of silver wrapped milk chocolate nuggets left over from Christmas projects. I can easily avoid the candy with nuts. Those silver wrapped ones are sneaky though. 

Did you know that one of them is 1.5 points? I know I had three of them today, maybe four. This is what got me into trouble in the first place. I know not to eat a whole candy bar mindlessly but these darn little things are obviously a red light item for me. 

They are now in a container with a lid and inside a cabinet instead of sitting in an open bowl calling my name. 

We're all different. For someone else it might be chips that beckon. For me it is milk chocolate.  With eyes wide open and fingers ready to track (typing, not writing), I plunge into the week.

Onward and downward. Cautiously.

Weigh in # 33

Today was a big day at WW for me. I reached a 50 pound loss. Fifty point one, to be exact.

I am not giddy excited, but I am pleased. I have further to go and definitely plan to get there, but I am savoring the accomplishment so far and how much better I feel. I still am not exercising, but housework is less tiring, and I didn't realize how tiring it was before. I thought it was just boring.

Whatever your current weight and fitness level is, nobody would choose to carry this around day and night for an unlimited time right?

Ten 5-pound packages of sugar (or anything else) would make you weary and that is what I have carried, plus more, for many, many years.

It is so easy to put off making a change until Monday, but often Monday arrives along with an excuse for another delay. I did that for years, 52 times per year, consciously and unconsciously. If I had made the mental connection to do this 15 or 20 years ago, you wouldn't be reading this because I hadn't heard of blogging then. It doesn't matter when you start, just start. I'm not beating myself up for any yesterdays or yester-years. I am celebrating today and not afraid of tomorrow.

Onward and downward, with less to haul around.

A so-so week, but that's ok

Not much about this week has been typical. Monday should have been my weigh in and meeting but the road conditions were bad (snow and ice) and not only do I not like that, my car is still new (not a month old yet!) so why dodge drivers who act as if the pavement is clear and they can stop on a dime?

I weighed in on Tuesday morning. I was disappointed to be up .6 pounds again, but not very upset. There have been a string of days where dinner hasn't gone as planned. An impromptu family meeting on Friday became a pizza night, and not the pizza my husband and I usually choose. This was thicker, cheesier and greasier. I was hungry and had two pieces, points be damned.

The rest of the weekend followed suit. I didn't track, even though I've said all along this helps me, I've been lax. I haven't been snacking on high point items and I have made the best choices I could, sometimes from a menu that was nearly printed on fried paper.

Given this admission, what is .6 pounds, right? Putting together how I feel after eating bad choices and how this affects my digestion and elimination, I think the gain will be gone by the next weigh in.

Years ago I went to a hypnotist with a friend. The subject was weight loss and we were all supposedly  given the subliminal message "proper foods feel the best". That didn't help either of us at the time but it sure is true now.

I am not going to give up impromptu pizza nights with my family, but 80% of the time or better, I will choose foods that don't give me indigestion, sit like a brick or make the scale numbers go up.

Weigh in # 31

The first full week of January. Do you know what that looks like at a Weight Watchers meeting?

Just kidding on that photo, but it was a packed meeting. I hope most people have as good an experience as I have been having. I know all too well how easy it is to drop out after a few weeks.

Before WW this morning, I had a doctor's appointment for a routine re-check on blood pressure. I've lost 12 pounds in the two and half months since that last visit. Not earth shattering but steady. The best news is that I've gone from a full dose of blood pressure to half a pill daily in that time, and now I am trying a regimen of a half pill every other day. If all goes well for two weeks, I'll stop entirely and see how that goes. Next recheck is in six weeks.

Total loss is now at 48.5 pounds. I hope to hit 50 next Monday!

Onward and downward!