I DID IT (almost)...

Well, on the official record, I have lost my thirty pounds by my thirtieth birthday!!! :o) The truth is that I actually lost only 29.8, but the nice lady at the scale fudged the numbers for me so that I could put up my hand at the meeting for my 30 pound loss. I'm pretty glad she did that. AND, I don't feel like I failed, because I tried super super hard this week to lose that 1.8. Or 2.0. Or whatever.

This week, I'm gonna relax a bit (being that I will be going to 2 of my own birthday parties and eating my favorite thing in the whole world... birthday cake). I plan to go back to WW 2 weeks from today and hopefully by then, I will have lost another pound or so.

Not Easy

Okay, this losing 2 pounds in one week thing is HARD. I keep wanting to go have a snack and then realizing that no, my tummy isn't even actually hungry for a snack, and so I'm better to wait till my body is asking for it . I didn't realize how often I was eating just cuz I had points available - which is okay - but when trying to lose 2 pounds in one week, I have to be as careful as possible. Oh, I really really really want a cookie right now.
But, maybe if I stay on the computer here long enough I'll be able to convince myself not to.
In Japanese, there's a word - "gambatte" (have I told this story already?) - it means keep going, don't give up, fight fight fight, stick to it, plug along, etc. Its really a great word that we don't have in english. But when someone is tired or sick or down or whatever you can tell them to Gambatte and its a great encouragement.
So, that's what I'm saying to myself right now and to the rest of you out there -
GAMBATTE!
We can do it.
(phew) I think I managed to talk myself out of that cookie.

Weigh In

Well, I have been going at it really hard for about a week and a half here, and it seems to have paid off. I lost 3.4 pounds from my last weigh in until yesterday. So, that's good news. The thing is that I wanted (WANT) to lose 30 pounds by my 30th birthday - next Friday, which means I have to lose 2 whole pounds this week alone. Now, I know its possible, but its gonna take my full full amount of effort.

I have a good friend who joined weight watchers here this summer as well - after having a baby in May. She's lost 28.4 as of this week, and so we decided that if we both hit 30 pounds by next week's meeting, we'll go out for supper together after. How fun would that be? No kids! (or at least no older kids... we might have the babies...) So, there's my double motivation. Now, to make it happen.

For starters, I'm going to choose fruits for snacks instead of baking. Second, I'm going to drink my 6 cups of water every day. And third, I'm going to try my darndest to get moving this week.

So far, so good today.

p.s.

I've been on track with WW since Monday of this week, using only 5 extra points ((until today when we had an awesome asian supper with my family, and I probably used a good 10 more bonus points)) and my strictness has been showing on the scale already. HOW BIZARRE that when you stick to the program strictly, you lose weight!!! WHY CAN I NOT GET IT THROUGH MY THICK SKULL that I should be staying on track EVERY DAY???????? MAN, I can sure be dumb sometimes.

A Start

Well, to start off, I just wanted to direct any of you who are interested to my husband's blog - his most recent post has sparked an interesting conversation between Trevor and an old friend of ours in the comments section of the post. I've been very much enjoying what they have to say about faith and the Bible and post-modern Christianity. I find it very relieving that there are others out there who believe along the same lines that we do.

So, this post is a bit of a cop-out, in that I'm not actually posting any opinions or really deep thoughts. I'm just directing you to what I've been reading lately. I'm curious what you, my friends, feel about all of this post-modern Christianity stuff and what Colin and Trevor are discussing about faith and the interpretation of the Bible. Anyone else out there in the same boat as we are?

An Expansion of Sorts

I've been thinking alot lately about how Trevor has a place to share what he's thinking about (like REALLY thinking about, not just what's going on in his life) and I've been wishing for a blog like that too. I have my family blog, but there are enough people who read that one that I don't want to share too too deeply on it. This one here, however, is a little less popular, I think. And so, I'm thinking I'd like to make a bit of an expansion to include my personal thoughts on this blog too. Since its called "A Lifelong Journey", I think it'll be appropriate still - it started with my WW journey, and I'm just gonna add my spiritual and emotional journey to it too, I think.
You probably won't notice that much of a change (depending on how brave I decide to be), but just thought I'd share what I'm planning to try to do. I have some stuff I wanna talk about here soon, but don't have the time to type it now... so that'll have to be later.

No Weigh In This Week

Well, after my last post, the wheels fell off the wagon a little bit. I'd like to blame the nasty weather we've been having and therefore, my lack of exercise. BUT, I'm the only one responsible. Oh well.
But, I pulled it together again Sunday evening and have had 2 good days since then. I couldn't make it to the meeting today, but I intend to have 7 more good days until next week's weigh in. Here's hoping.
I'm also experimenting with my points now too, because I've now introduced cereal to Elan, and as a result she's nursing less, and so logically, I shouldn't be needing as many points as I was. So, I've cut back 2 point this week. I hope that's enough to keep up with her changes.
Anyway, just thought I'd share that.
:o)