MEASURE ME MONDAY!

So I finally did it, I finally gained weight.

Not this week but about two weeks ago. I was actually excited to weigh myself because I had been walking my son home from school everyday and I was sure the extra exercise would have paid off, but I didn't factor in the fact that I was drinking a gallon of soda every day. Not really but occasionally I do get cravings for soda and I can't help myself it's all I want and I tend to feed my cravings.

Then depression got the best of me that next week and I'm pretty sure all I did was sit around drinking soda and eating hand fulls of anything I could find such as popcorn, chips, Candy and of course chocolate.

So last Monday I weighed in again and I was at 170.4, so while I wanted to go out and get a tub of ice cream and eat it, I decided to start working out, sticking to my weigh watchers, walking my son to and from school everyday, and drinking a ton of water and I'm doing my best to make these habits stick. I do live on the surface of the sun and I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to walk with him but for now I will continue to do that.

I lost around 24 pounds almost a year ago and I keep it all off, until last week when I weighed in at 170 but I could never get over that 25th pound and I have a feeling I'm finally going to get over it this week (that 25th pound is at 164 by the way).

I weighed in today and I was at 166.6 so all my hard work is paying off I lost 3.8 pounds last week. : )

So.....

Starting weight (last week)-170.4
current weight-166.6
Total weight loss-3.8

I hope every ones weight loss journey is going well, every walk counts, every work out counts, every time you drink water, stop yourself from eating when you know your full, eat smaller portions, or pass up a dessert or in my case a soda it counts. YOU CAN DO IT!

My 500 & something weigh in but only my second post about it

Okay so I was checking out my weight blogs to make myself sad and to make sure I totally over eat at dinner tonight, which won't be anything new for me cause I'm pretty sure I over eat every night. I'm sad to say I haven't stuck to my goals at all, what's up with that Bahama mama! I'm also sad to say that I started this weight loss journey (for the second time) in November and gave myself 8 months to lose 38 pounds which should be a simple simple thing. But I haven't stayed on track with my weight watcher points or working out at all. I'm all over the place, some weeks I work out, some weeks I eat right, some weeks I do NOTHING.
I'm almost 199 % sure I want to lose this extra weight, but yet I sit and do nothing.

I sat on my bed yesterday (had a few min of alone time) and I looked at my wedding pictures and I just cried. So sad that they would make me cry sad tears but I look so skinny, that's right skinny, me skinny. My oldest was a year and a half and my youngest just a month old and in a months time I got myself down to a beautiful size 7, which yes that's skinny for me (I've always carried extra weight). I know I can lose the weight I did it twice before, three times if you count my freshmen year of high school when I was tired of being a size 13 so I joined the cross country team, soccer, and track team to get a cute little body. What is really keeping me from losing now?? Maybe I will have the answer within the next few weeks, I'm hoping it doesn't take longer then that to figure it out and get myself into better shape.

Here's my November goals and I'm sticking to them (maybe, I'm not changing them just yet, anyway)


weigh in every Monday (and only Monday's)
write down everything I eat and drink (for the first month at least)
drink 64 oz of water everyday
drink an 8 oz glass of water before every meal
don't eat after 7 pm
no soda (only diet)
use less salt (I'm a salt addict)
try not to use my weekly 35 (extra) points
work out 4 days a week for 45 minutes or 180 minutes a week
do 100 sit ups everyday
Lose 38 pounds in 8 months

4 months later and still at 165 pounds, 4 more months to go. I'm sure I can try to lose some of the weight in four months 4-5 pounds a month would be awesome, I am happy that I haven't gained any weight, I will (try) to post every Monday to keep you up dated on my progress.

So we will call Monday's MEASURE ME MONDAY'S I don't actually measure myself but we will be "measuring" my progress, so I thought that would be a cute name for it. If you want to do it with me you can comment your progress or comment and let me know your measuring your progress on your own blog. GOOD LUCK TO YOU AND ME! Eat healthy and smaller meals, and get out and get some exercise.

My first weigh in.

I can honestly say that this week I was surprised by the weight loss, but I did it!

I know I did okay I followed some of my rules or guidelines so to say...but not all of them and I wasn't consistent with any of them. : (
That's probably the laziness in me.

What I need to continue to work on

• Write down everything I eat and drink
• Drink 8 oz glass of water before every meal
• Don't eat after 7 pm
• Don't use my extra 35 points
• Working out 180 min a week
• Sit ups every week
• Lose 38 pounds in 8 months

What I did great on but need to make sure I keep doing

• Drinking 64 oz of water (some day's it's a lil less but not to much) I did great on it
• I haven't had any soda well I had 3 glasses of diet all week and 2 glasses where coke zero which is considered water on WW
• I used less salt (just a lil) I did good, I will continue to do good, and try to cut out a lil more

I wrote down everything I ate Mon-wed and I never went over my 25 points, the rest of the week I didn't write anything down. In my defence it was a crazy busy busy week.

I worked out about 75 min last week and did the sit ups Mon-wed the rest of the week wasn't so great on the working out.

I just really need to push myself to do harder and I will (try). I really want to lose this weight, oh my gosh I want to, I'm just an emotional eater and an emotional person so its really going to be a lot of work to break my habits, to bad I can't be a person that works out when I'm feeling emotional or an emotional organizer or something crazy like that, why do I have to love food.

Okay well here's my weigh in results

• Starting weight-168.o
• current weight-165.4
• Total weight loss-2.6

I can do this!

I also wanted to say you can leave me comments. You don't have to have a blog spot account or write your name if you don't want to, you can comment under any name you want to or anonymously. thx

Laying down some laws for some serious weight loss

Tomorrows Tuesday and I wasn't able to do Atkins at all, it's just not something that is practical in my life right now. I'm sad I wasn't able to lose a couple pounds before the picture, but I'm sure I will get over it at least I'm not the full weight I was this time last year. : )

Something more practical for me is doing weight watchers again. It's easy to follow and it's a life style change rather then a diet, the only reason why it didn't "work" for me the last time was because I didn't follow through with it.

So I started doing ww today, and I will continue to do it hopefully FOREVER!

I'm still at a weight of 168.0 (I know cause I weighed myself this morning). I will weigh myself every Monday. Any who that puts me at a total of 25 points allowed each day. With 35 extra points a week. I'm going to try hard to not use that extra 35 points.

Here's my plan Stan

• weigh in every Monday (and only Monday's)
• write down everything I eat and drink (for the first month at least)
• drink 64 oz of water everyday
• drink an 8 oz glass of water before every meal
• don't eat after 7 pm
• no soda (only diet)
• use less salt (I'm a salt addict)
• try not to use my weekly 35 (extra) points
• work out 4 days a week for 45 minutes or 180 minutes a week
• do 100 sit ups everyday
• Lose 38 pounds in 8 months

When I look at that list it seems like a simple plan and super easy to follow. I'm not asking myself to do anything way crazy or unaccomplishable (is that even a word). I'm really looking forward to the weight loss and I think this will be a good plan for me. Well wish me luck again. I will try to write my accomplishments every Monday. Until then I guess I'm stuck with this weight. hahaha

Poundage

Wow my least favorite topic. I'm not even sure that I should do this, then again maybe it will be motivational for me.

Okay so I haven't really thought much about goals or what types of exercise I want to do yet. What I have thought about is....

Well my sister called about 2 day's ago and said hey moms birthday is coming up and she would love a family photo (of us adults, and all the grand kids). This is going to be a surprise present for my mom, she's been asking for this for about 2 years and we have yet to do it. So we set a date, in a week and a half from today to take the picture.
I'm totally excited to be doing this for my mom, I'm not however excited to take the picture. I haven't had a professional picture taken of me sense high school. : (
I'm not at a place where I feel good enough to take a picture that's going to be hanging on a WALL for god knows how long.

So I decided I would weigh myself this morning and I have gained about 6.8 pounds in the last 4 months.

So that's what i know and this is what went down about 8 months ago.

Okay so about 8 months ago some friends of mine started doing WW and convinced me to try it with them (and at the time) I was training to run a half marathon.

I did pretty well the first month and lost 20 pounds quickly but after hitting 20 pounds it took me about 3 or 4 months to lose 9.2 more pounds.

And now

I'm still glad to be over that 20 pound mark because even with my current weight I have lost 21.2 pounds.
I want to get back on WW and try to lose more weight, I would love to lose about 30 to 35 more pounds. I would love to get out and run 2 to 3 day's a week at least 3 or 4 miles each time and go walking 2 or 3 more days for at least 3 miles every time.

I'm seriously considering doing Atkins for the next week and a half to try and lose a quick 10 pounds before we take this picture. The truth is I'm going to start Atkins TOMORROW, when I've done Atkins in the past I notice the weight lose right away in my face, and I would love to look skinner there then anywhere else (for the picture).

I will try to be good about posting my progress...I will definitely be good about posting it as long as I'm happy with my results. : P

Well here's the most painful part about this posting

My current weight lose 21.2 pounds
My current weight 168.0 pounds
My goal weight 130 pounds

Well GOOD LUCK TO ME!!!