Week 9 - The Cardinal Rule

Well, I am disappointed in myself this week. I broke my two cardinal rules of weight loss weigh ins. The day before your way in, you definitely do not eat late at night. You eat a reasonable dinner within your daily allowance at a reasonable dinner hour. No late night dinners or snacks. Rule number 2 is that you eat a light breakfast of say, cereal, and then definitely a light lunch. After lunch, no eating or drinking until after you weigh in. I much preferred when I lived in Utah and my weigh in meeting was in the morning. Now that I weigh in at 6pm, I have to watch what I eat and drink all weigh in day. Well, last night I blew it and had dinner way too late. I hadn't eaten much during the day, and so I had a lot of points left, but didn't get to eat dinner until after we got back from a church activity. When I got up yesterday morning I had lost 3 pounds so far this week. When I weighed in at Weight Watchers tonight, I only lost .4. Very disappointing. Especially after gaining .2 last week. The good news is that if I stay on track, next week will be very good. But it is the week of Thanksgiving. I am determined to lose weight through this holiday even though we will be traveling. I know I can do it. I just need to keep my exercising up even if I'm out of town. Today I was a little crazy with exercising. I did my step aerobics in the morning and then late afternoon I did a crazy new dvd workout video by Bob Harper. My dear svester introduced me to it, and it is called Yoga for the Warrior. Wow, it is a toughie. Today was the second time I had done it. The first time I did it, I wasn't sure if I could ever choose, of my own free will, to put it back in the dvd player and do it again, but I am glad I did. I could tell that even after one workout, that I was a little bit stronger than I was two days ago when I first did it. I will be doing it again.

Weigh lost this week: .4 lbs.
Total weight lost so far: 8.8 lbs.
Weight still to lose: 106.2
Goal this week: To lose any amount of weight even though it's Thanksgiving (but hopefully I'll be down 2 pounds)

11-9-11

Three days this week so far, and I have exercised every one of them. I am glad to know that even when I slip up on what I am eating, that if I keep up the exercise, I am still moving toward a healthier life. One of my regrets is letting days, weeks, and months pass where I did not really & truly work on losing weight and becoming healthier. You know, when you say to yourself, by the time my next vacation comes, I want to be down 20 pounds, or by summer I want to be in such and such a size of clothes. Almost inevitably that event rolls by and you are still where you were months before. I guess what I am saying is that I want to seize every moment I have. We hadn't been able to have children for the first 7 years we were married. I believe that was due to my weight. It is ridiculous to me that I lost those 7 years because of food that I ate and not exercising. I would not trade a single one of my now three children for a single morsel or the whole load of food I ate those seven years. Now that I am looking at wanting to get pregnant again, but knowing I need to wait until my weight is at a more managable level for a healthy pregnancy, I want to make sure that I am not wasting a single minute, hour, day, week....

Week 7 - Yippee!

Well, another week, another weigh in. I am happy to say that even though it was Halloween this week, I was still able to lose 2.4 pounds. I have had a cold that is threatening to take over me for the last couple of days, so it has been difficult to get up in the morning and exercise. Yesterday I missed exercising, but because to today was weigh in day I had to make sure I got it in. I dropped T off at dance and had a small window of opportunity to get my step aerobics in. I am glad to say that I did it, and it definitely paid off for the weigh in.

Weight lost this week: 2.4 pounds
Total weight lost: 8.6
Weight still to lose: 106.4
Goal this week: To lose 2.5 pounds