Okay, The Celebration Is Over

I have enjoyed very much eating a lot of junk over the past 4 days - partly because my tummy is finally feeling better and food looks good again and Ive been really hungry since feeling better too. And partly because I've been celebrating a little for achieving my goal (Note: this is never a good idea to do as soon as you've reached a weight loss goal because the next week you'll be heavier and you'll have to "re-reach" that goal again in a couple of weeks!!! Boo.

But, my celebration is done. You may have noticed that instead of posting my points in a post every day, I've been (pathetically so far) trying to post them in a little box at the top of the blog here. That way I won't totally be annoying those of you who have Google Reader or some such thing that notifies you everytime I post anything!

So, I am now done with the cookies, brownies, icecream, rum & coke, and mayonaise. At least for a while again. Back to work - I want to still be free next time I go to the WW meeting.

I DID IT!!! (and the flu probably helped...)

:o)
After 14 months, I have finally reached the first goal I set for myself - that was reaching 152 pounds. That meant a loss of 46.2 pounds and that I can now go to WW for free each week because I'm within 2 pounds of my offical WW target weight (which is 150 lbs). This week, I worked hard at it, plus I also had the flu for a while, and so I surpassed that goal (partly due to being dehydrated I'm sure!) My challenge will be to maintain that loss this week as I start to feel better and eat real foods again... we'll see how much of that loss was actually fat!

So, my next goals are:
1. to weigh less than Trevor, who has been 150 pounds since I met him almost 13 years ago. The lowest I've seen him was 145 when he was really sick one time, and the highest I've seen him is 155 - at which point he quickly proceeded to do situps and pushups every night for a week, and lost those extra pounds to get back to his normal weight. So, yeah, he's consistent. And I've always wanted to weigh less than him because doesn't every girl want to be smaller than her man? I've only weighed less than him once before (in the summer of 2007 just when I got pregnant with Elan) and it lasted for all of a couple of months. SO, that is my next goal - to get below whatever he weighs.

2. To get to 150 officially - since that is my official WW goal weight. When I do that, they'll have a little celebration for me at the meeting and I'll get the little charm for my keychain that you get when you reach your goal weight at WW.

3. To reach 148.2 - which will mean a loss of 50 pounds, which is more than I've ever lost before (I lost only 47 pounds the first time around on WW). When you reach 50 pounds, you get a little prize in the meeting at WW as well.

4. My ultimate goal is 138.2 - a loss of 60 pounds and my final destination weight. I'm not sure how long it'll take me to get there, but I'll plug away at it and get there one day.

So, there you have it - my goals for the next while. Thanks for sticking with me over the past 14 months as I've worked toward this first one - I appreciate the accountability you all give me with this here blog. It really really helps to know that someone/anyone is watching what I'm doing. So, thank you! And YAY!

Tuesday, May 26th

cereal and toast -3
smoothie -1

Monday May 25th, for what its worth...

Yeah, so the flu thats been pestering our house for seemingly forever really got me yesterday. So, this isn't really necessary, but I'll share Monday's points anyway...
breakfast snitches of Elan's dry cereal -1
powerade -2
fudgesicle -2
a bit of sandwich -5
some smoothie -1
Total was 12 left...

Sunday, May 24th

Breakfast A -4
Breakfast B -3
Toast for lunch -6
Milk -1
Yummy Indian supper which I've regretted ever since :o) -11
Snitch of Ice Cream -1
Total -3

Saturday, May 23rd

Toast and Milk -3

Hmmm... I started off well, but neglected to come back here and write things down... oops.
I'm gonna venture a guess anyway:

(toast and milk -3)
tuna sandwich and soup-3
smoothie & cookies -5
KD & hotdogs (apparently my tummy was feeling better by supper time!) -?? -9?
ice cream -6
total of -3? that sounds too good... I'm pretty sure I must have eaten something else in there that I'm forgetting... but I can't remember it for the life of me!
Oh well, back at it tomorrow.
Happy Sunday everyone! (all 5 of you who even look at this!) (BUT, I appreciate the 5 of you very much!!!!)
:o)

((okay I had cereal in the night too, which is an extra 3 bonus points))

Friday, May 22nd

The flu has captured our household (well, not Trevor yet) and so food isn't really interesting to me today, but I'm still gonna count points, out of interest's sake:
a bit of oatmeal -1
toast -3
animal crackers -1
toast -2
fruit smoothie -2
muffin-3
noodle soup -1
grilled cheese -5
left: 5
oh ya, and cereal in the night last night -2
a teeny tiny bit of trevor's yummy yummy ice cream -2 or 3??
=0

Thursday, May 21st (HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEANNE!)

Its my sister's bday today so I have to say Happy Birthday to her! :o) She's awesome. I don't know if I'm allowed to tell you this or not, but she recently joined WW and I'm proud of her for doing so. She was only about 10 pounds above where she usually is, but decided that she wanted to lose it now, rather than wait till she'd gained even more! I told her (as i'm sure you've heard me say before) that it is better to join WW and lose a little to become a lifetime member than to wait till you have a lot to lose! Its SO much cheaper when you're a lifetime member to lose weight than if you're not - so now she'll be a lifetime member forever! I know she's not planning to ever gain weight again, but these things happen (i.e. a pregnancy)/illness, and you never know what will happen!) but now she'll have the financial advantage of being a Lifetime member if any of that happens and she wants to lose the weight!
Side note? Leanne only actually had to lose 5 pounds in order to reach an acceptable WW goal weight, and she did it in the first week!! :o) Yay Leanne. So, now she's on her 6 weeks of maintenance and after that she'll be a lifetime member and go for free as long as she doesn't go more than 2 pounds above her goal weight.

ANYWAY, enough about all that...

Today:
cereal -3
latte -1
brownie -1
safeway chips -1
lunch -5
fruit & crackers snack: -2
more snack -1
snitches of icing -1
spaghetti and bread and chicken -9
cake, icing, and ice cream -??? I'm guessing 12???
punch -1
Total = -14

Weds, May 20th

Okay, I'm back at it here.
I actually managed to lose 1.4 pounds last week, and so I'm dangerously close to goal A that was set last year. WOOHOO. I only need to lose 0.6 lbs this week and I'll be going to WW for free! :o)
That being said, I need to stick to it this week, and points counting is what does that for me, so here we go:
oatmeal-3
muffin-3
safeway chips -1
toasted tuna & cheese -3
apple -1
dessert-1
smoothie and snack -2
lasagne, greek salad -8
coffee and vitamuffin -2
TOTAL = -1

Stuff Christians Like

Hey, have you seen the blog Stuff Christians Like?? If you are a Christian, or were one, on know any, its worth checking out - because it is darn funny. Today's post really made me giggle, so check it out!

p.s. I'm sorry if you're one of the people that read both of my blogs - this one is a repeat. But its too funny to not share!

Friday May 15th

I totally got to sleep in today (YAY!) and so I'm not eating my first points till 9:30, wheras normally by that time, I've had one breakfast and am on to my 2nd! :o) Makes it easier when you sleep in!
cereal-3
animal crackers-1
gilled cheese, veggies, snitches of Elan's, & Strawberries -5

Thursday, May 14th

Toast, PB&J, & Milk -4
Snitch of E's toast (i'm starting to see a pattern here) -1
Snack -1
Fruit-2
veg. soup & veggies -2
cottage cheese and vitamuffin-1
hamburger helper and cheese toast -8
coffee-1
muffin-3
TOTAL 0
midnight cereal-3

Weds, May 13th...

cereal & milk -4
snacks -3
coffee -1
sandwich and veggies and dip -5

OOPS - that train kinda derailed....
It's now 2:35 am and I'm up cuz I was up with Elan and then was hungry so had cereal, and just thought I better take a crack at guessing my points for the day...

muffins -9
samosas & chutney (both entirely homemade from scratch by Trevor and DELICIOUS) -6
popcorn -2
cereal at 2:30am -3
SO, total of 33, so 10 bonus points gone for this week. Boo.
But not out of control un-do-able....
See ya tomorrow!

Tuesday, May 12th...

Walk/Jog +3 (YAY I finally got on that treadmill in the morning before Elan woke up...)
cereal & milk -4
snitch Elan's cheerios (dumb, dumb, dumb!) -2
granola bar -2
yummy yummy sandwich, veggies, and dip -4
dessert (don't even ask what it was.... okay... I'll tell you - nutella and a corner of Elan's leftover lunch toast... again-dumb, dumb, dumb)-2
yogurt & frozen raspberries -2
That leaves me with: 11

Monday

Okay, so Saturday and Sunday were both a bit of a write off - but not so so so bad. (I probably haven't gone over my weekly bonus point allowance of 35 points). That being said, I MUST do well today and tomorrow if I want to have any success at all. So, here is Monday's story as it unfolds:

Honey bunches of oasts with cinnamon clusters (they're YUMMY!) and Skim Milk -4
grapes and animal crackers -2
yummy sandwich -3
slurpee -2 (? not sure how much a slurpee is - I shared a small one with both my kids and we didn't finish it at all...)
timbit -1
5 jellybeans -1(?) I have no idea how many points 5 jelly beans would actually be...
sausage-5, cauliflower & cheesewhiz-2, bbq sauce -2
evening snacks-3
=-2 total
(cereal snack in night -2) = -4 total

Friday So Far

latin groove +1
breakfast -5
snack -1
snitch -1
veggies, grilled cheese & soup -5
vitamuffin -1
icing snitches -3 (DOH!)
burger -5
macaroni salad -2
vitamuffin sundae -2
walk +1
total:0

Thursday's Progress

8:00 am:
excercise? nope - not yet - thought Elan would be awake any second, so i didn't... then she wasn't... boo.
1:23 pm:
I've still not exercised but I've been drinking a ton of water (well, a ton for me at least). in a way its helping, but I'm still totally dying to go have a nice choclately snack...
4:58pm:
I guess I'm doing okay - I can't belive how much resisting I've been doing today... shows me how much I've really been eating. We're going to a friend's house for supper tonight, so it might be a little sketchy, but I'll do my best and report back later! :o)

POINTS: (I get 23 per day) (my goal for today is to stay as close as possible to them, but especially just to start tracking again)

miniwheats and skim milk -3
snitches of E's cheerios -1
4 Animal Crackers -1
pre lunch snack (a bit of leftover baked salmon) -1
casserole, 1/2 breadstick, veggies & dip - 6
vitamuffin -1
a few safeway chips and a swig of E's chocolate milk -1
Supper At Agatha's -15???
snack -2
total: -8
but that's okay cuz at least i counted for the first time in weeks!! :o)

GET ON WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is what I've been yelling at myself for the past little while. I don't know if you've seen Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail or not, but I thought I'd spice this up with a little pic as well...
Yep, I need to get on with it (!!). I've been around 155 pounds for about 2 months now and I UNDERSTAND that that is a pretty good weight to be and that there are a bazillion people in the world that would LOVE to be that weight etc. etc. etc.

However.
I am not those people and I have my own particular journey that I'm working on and staying at the same weight for this long IS. NOT. ACCEPTABLE. I am only 3.2 pounds away from the goal I first set for myself last year - that is the weight at which attending weight watchers meetings will be free for me again. I have been "so close, yet so far away" for way too stinking long!

So.
I have decided that I'm going to make myself go to weight watchers every week (and pay for it every week) until I've reached 152 pounds (my next goal). Normally, I only go once a month, but that doesn't seem to have been working for me and if I know that it is costing me ... and a lot! every week, then I might be more motivated to GET ON WITH IT.

Having said that - I made this decision yesterday and I did not do the most fantastic today. I have been trying to limit what I eat and trying to drink my water, but I did not write down what I ate and I actually was not able to exercise. But, I am still motivated and think that the sooner I lose these 3.2 pounds the less money it'll cost me.

So, my goals are as follows:
~to drink water a lot. I usually don't include this in my goals, but I'm thinking it might keep me from eating too much or choosing coffee with cream instead.
~to start writing down what I'm eating (but man, that's gonna be hard cuz I'm so totally addicted to eating right now... but i can do it - i've done it before and i'll do it again).
~to come here and blog about it alot
~to try to exercise as often as possible

And that's that.

((My sister just got here and we're gonna go watch a movie. :o) (without binging, I hope)))

Tomorrow

Oh I'm having one of those weeks/weekends where I'm not really trying too hard... my plan is to start strong again tomorrow. Seems like every time I want to restart again something comes up to distract me or something. But, I don't think I've really gained weight here so that is okay - I'm going to WW on Tuesday - no matter what. I know I'm gonna try to think of some reason not to, but I really need to go. Paying money to not lose weight isn't an option, so maybe if I pay that'll motivate me!!

Anyway, this was just a little nothing post to say that tomorrow is gonna be different.

For real this time.

Stupid Murphy's Law

Okay, something I like to do is set my alarm a little early and get up to exercise before the kids wake up. But for the past 2 weeks (when we were at home, at least), Elan has been waking up earlier and earlier - yesterday and the day before it was something like 20 after 6. So, today I decided not to get up at 6:00 only to be interrupted in the middle of a jog. I woke up at 6:30 when Trevor left, but again, didn't get on the treadmill because I thought Elan would be up any minute.

Well.

Its now 7:23 and she is just starting to babble in there. And I could easily have gotten my walk/jog done.

Grrrrrrrrrr.

Guess I'll try to sneak one in at nap time...