I Finally Reached My WW Goal Weight!

Yep, so I've officially done it. After a 1.6 pound loss over the past 2 weeks, I've reached my offical goal weight. I got my little star charm to put on my WW key chain and everyone clapped for me yesterday. It was nice. It's slightly anti-climactic the second time around, because I don't have to do the 6 weeks maintenance now in order to become a life time member. I just am already there. And she didn't make nearly as big a deal about it the second time around (the leader that is)... but that's okay. My mom, sister, and kids were all there at the meeting too and Mom and Leanne did a great job of making me feel awesome. :o) Leanne also reached the 10 pound mark this week and got to put her hand up for the little stars, so that was fun too!

I now have 23 stickers on my calendar in a row. That is totally unprecidented. I've never been good for this long. The weight isn't coming off as quickly as I'd like for how hard I've been trying - but then they always say that it gets harder the closer you get to your goal. I'm thinking I might cut my flex points back even more this week to 25. We'll see.

Its the middle of the night right now. We're letting Elan "cry it out" (ONCE AGAIN) and so Trevor and I are both wide awake cuz we just finished listening to her cry off and on for about 35 minutes. She's done now and solidly back asleep, but now I'm stuck awake! :o) Oh well. Its worth it because hopefully, in a few days, she'll be sleeping through the night (again).

Anyway, my next mini goal is to get to my 50 pound loss - that is only 0.8 pounds away, so hopefully it won't take too long!! :o)

And my totals for this week are:
WEEKLY Activity Points Earned: 2,2,0,0,0,1,1
WEEKLY Flex Points Used: 7,2,1,11,5,1,1

p.s. Elan is crying again now... its been 55 minutes since she first woke up. ARGH. I think its gonna be a fun night...

June 10th to 16th

I worked yesterday evening and so I didn't get to go weigh in at WW officially. I did weigh on my scale, however, and seem to have kind of just maintained my weight again this week. GRRRRR. This is especially frustrating because the 2 lovely ladies that I'm doing the sticker challenge with this month seem to be consistently losing every week. And staying on track for 16 - SIXTEEN days in a row hasn't exactly been easy.

However.

I will keep going and this week, I'm going to actually do what I said I was going to do last week - I'm going to cut my FP's down to 28. And I'm actually going to drop my points back 1 per day. I've been doing 23 points per day, but since I'm right on the threshold of dropping down below 150 lbs, I'll be having to drop one point when I officially do. ((for an explanation on how to calculate your daily points, click HERE )) So, I'm just going to go ahead and do that starting now and see if that helps.

Also, just for my own tracking sake, last week's totals were:
WEEKLY Activity Points Earned: 3,3,4,2,1,0,2 (15)
WEEKLY Flex Points Used:14,4,7,2,2,3,3 (35)

So, here we go again with week 3!

New Job & Change in FPs

If you've looked at my daily points tracking at all, you may have noticed that I've already gone over my 25 FPs for this week, and so I thought I'd just explain myself a little. I decided the very next day after I set this week as 25 FPs that that wasn't what my plan was anymore. This week is the one week in the month (ahem) in which I NEED those 35 FPs - and I used almost 1/2 of them the very first day. I was craving chocolate and icecream like nobody's business, and normally on a day like that I would say "to heck with it" and quit counting points entirely - probably for the whole week. But since we're doing this little competition, I decided to have a treat but to still count it. Now you may say "oh my goodness, she had 15 points worth of icecream!! what kind of binge is that??" but I have to tell you that that is only 1 small blizzard from Dairy Queen - and that stopping after that was still showing control on my part cuz the kids had a banana split which they only ate about 1/8th of and we left 7/8ths of a perfectly good banana split behind. boohoo. So, you see, i was still in control!! :o)
So, i'm using 35 FPs this week - and hopefully no more. I have 3 days left here to split up only a few that are left.

In other news, I started a new job on Friday - serving at Boston Pizza parttime. I've only had the one shift so far, but I really really liked it so far. I think its gonna be great. I'm still doing my dayhome 3 days per week, but in addition I'm going to waitress 2 or 3 evenings a week as well. And I'm excited about it. AND I'm excited about how I look in my BPs uniform! teehee. I've wanted to work there before, but thought I couldn't cuz I didn't look anything like what their normal servers look like (you know what I mean... they don't really hire frumpy people, or obese people, or dishevelled looking people... not that I was any of those things before, but I still didn't think I could get hired there). WELL, I will have to take a picture of me in my uniform for you, because for a huge twist - I LOVE my uniform -and it makes me look thin and I feel beautiful in it (for now anyway - ask me that again after I've been working there for a year!) :o) I also love the extra exercise that I'll be getting as I'm working at BPs - lots of speed walking and carrying heavy plates is exercise after all!!

So, that's an update on me. Happy Sunday everyone!

June 3rd-9th Week

So, I weighed in yesterday and it was a little loss of 0.4 lbs. I always say a little loss is better than a gain, but in this case, its a wee bit frustrating because I have been doing really well with points counting and exercising for the past week. However, I am definitely retaining right now and I know that has something to do with it. Also, I used ALL 35 of my flex points for last week (and not one more) and I know that for me, I won't lose as much if i use all of them.
SO, this week, I am only going to use 25 FPs - and we'll see what happens.
Just for my own record keeping, last weeks totals were:
WEEKLY Activity Points Earned: 4,3,2,0,2,3,4
WEEKLY Flex Points Used: 2,9,6,7,6,4,1

On to week 2 of being OP!!! :o)

Still At It

I haven't written a real post for a whole week, but I've been here everyday tracking my points. I have officially started this challenge with my friend Amanda, and my sister, Leanne to stay on track for the whole month of June. So far, so good! I have 7 stickers on my calendar in a row, which hasn't happened in a very long time! Hooray. :o)
The 3 of us are having a little competition (with points for tracking our food daily, for exercising and for staying within our weekly flex points). Whoever is the winner actually gets a reward from the other 2, so its keeping us honest!! The competition started on June 1st, but its not too late if any of you are interested in joining us for the tracking and sticker-earning!
I'm thinking that maybe this would be fun to do every month, with different prizes as rewards for the winnner - I don't know. Maybe we'll be tired of it at the end... we'll see.
Anyway, just thought I'd say HI and let you know that the sticker challenge is offically on.

A Month of Stickers

Its a new month on the calendar today and it always inspires me to do well with my WW because I can then put stickers on the calendar - and I always think that a month full of stickers would be so nice... so here i am going to try it again - but this time I'm enlisting other people to do it with me - anyone up for it?? I say that we have some sort of reward, like the person with the most stickers will get a $5 or $10 gift card from the other people or something - this would be really fun if we had a bunch of us doing it for real - then the person who did the best would get something fun for a reward ... or something. What do you think? I think it would be a points system (since i seem to like them) like this:
every day you write your points down the whole day and stay within your target +1 point
every week you don't go over your 35 bonus points +3 or something
every 5 points of exercise you do also is +1
so in a month you'd have potential to get alot of points...
Anyone interested? you'd have to either post your daily points results as a comment here or on your own blog. I know there are at least 3 of you out there that might find this fun...
At the very least, I think I'll do this myself, and if I get oh say, 35 points this month, then I will buy myself something fun for $10 or something!
Here we go....