A New Me

Oops

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:35:27 GMT

I've been SO BAD about updating this journal. Sorry.

Well, I've now lost 31.8 pounds. I'm now 3 pounds away from being under 200 pounds for the first time since I got married five years ago. I'd love to be there before the new year. I've set a new 10% goal at 189 pounds. I can actually wear my engagement ring again!!! Clothes are getting huge, but I'm not quite ready to buy new ones yet.

And on that note, I'm off to cook tons of Thanksgiving food *groans*

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:47:27 GMT

I MET MY 10% I MET MY 10%!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I'm now down 23.8 pounds!!!! GO ME GO ME! I got my 10% key chain today, too! LOOK OUT SKINNY BITCHES HERE I COME!!!!

AWWWWWWW YEAH!

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:21:51 GMT

I lost 3.4 pounds this week for a total of 22!! WOO HOO! I'm so happy, especially after last week! I'm gonna have Jeff take some pictures later so I can compare and see if I notice any difference. People have told me they do, but I'd still like to see it for myself!

Dammit

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:53:37 GMT

I was feeling really good today. I mean, I felt thinner. My clothes were fitting me so well!! And then I got weighed in. I GAINED .6!! Here's what pissed me off.

This morning I weighed myself and I was 208.5. Then I came home from work (after eating breakfast and lunch) and weighed 213. THEN I ate dinner because I was STARVING, and I ate it right before I left for my meeting. I weighed myself before I left. 214.5!!! WTF?

I can't wait until 7:30 on Tuesdays to eat dinner. I eat lunch at 12:30! I've tried eating a snack instead of dinner before my meetings, and it somehow makes me hungrier. GAH! I'm so close to my 10% I want to scream!! I'm even CLOSER to 20 pounds! *sigh*

I should have never eaten dinner so close to my meeting. Poo.

WHOOOO!

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:27:21 GMT

I lost 1.6 pounds tonight for a total of 19.2 pounds! I'm almost at my 10%! I have to say going in tonight, I really wasn't feeling very confident. I didn't think I had gained, but I wasn't expecting 1.6. I have PMS so bad I could have eaten non-stop today and not thought anything of it. But I didn't! GO ME!

My goal is to be below 200 pounds for New Years. I can totally do that!

STUPID STUPID!

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:08:27 GMT

So after last week's gain and the fried pickle disaster, I lost a pound this week for a total of 17.6. Not bad. Today I had to go to a conference, right? And they had box lunches. Which was bizarre as hell, but whatever. In my lunch was a ham sandwich (with cheese of course), Oriental mix (weird), a small cup of fruit, coleslaw that only had oil and vinegar on it (yuck) and Oreo cheesecake. I did NOT eat the cheesecake. But my lunch still ended up being 16 points. Oh, and all they had for breakfast was doughnuts. THAT'S IT. Only doughnuts.

All in all, by the time I came home I had 5 points left. I ate a Smart One plus some fruit. I had used about 7 of my flex points. Then Jeff came home. With Arby's. I ate a roast beef sandwich without checking the points.

It was 10 FREAKING POINTS. No cheese or anything, but still 10 FREAKING POINTS!!!

Which means I only have 16 flex points for the week (until next Tuesday), I'm getting my period so I'm STARVING constantly, Friday is my 5th anniversary and we're going out to dinner, and Saturday is my sister's birthday (again, dinner).

I'M SO STUPID! Why didn't I CHECK BEFORE I ATE THE DAMN THING.

Dammit.

*sigh*

There. I feel a little bit better now. Still nauseous at the thought of only 16 flex points left, but better.

sigh

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:43:40 GMT

I gained .4 this week. I'm totally cool with it. I've been craving salt like CRAZY this week (and I'm not even getting my period yet) and I probably didn't drink enough water to flush it all out. Yesterday was like a salt party.

What I'm NOT ok with is the fact that we went to Applebees for dinner. I ordered the Confetti Chicken (7 points, quite tasty). Jeff's parents ordered 3 different appetizers (nachos, boneless wings, and fried pickles). The lady put the fried pickles down RIGHT in front of me.

I love fried pickles.

As in, LOVE fried pickles.

I ate almost all of them.

So, not only did I blow the diet, I'm going to be extremely sick later.

I'm trying not to be too hard on myself. It's the first time I've blown it since I've been on it (June) so I'm really proud of that fact. Secondly, what I REALLY wanted was a hamburger and fries, which would have been WAY more points than I ended up eating anyhow. And third, I'm only human. I have a whole week to work it all off. Plus I didn't use ALL my flex points (thank goodness!)

I guess I need to start exercising again....Maya's gonna kick my boo-heinie...

WHOA!

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:44:16 GMT

I lost 3.6 pounds this week! I seriously nearly fell off the scale!! I felt like all I did was eat last week, and not all of it healthy either. I'm down a total of 17 pounds now, and people are FINALLY starting to notice.

WOO!

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:43:45 GMT

Another 1.4 pounds gone! I'm up to a total of 13.4 now. Getting much closer to my 10% goal!

My mom is REALLY starting to drive me nuts at the meetings. See, when you go, every time you lose 5 pounds you get a 5 pound star sticker to put on this bookmark thingie. My mom can NOT understand it's only for when you lose 5 pounds. So this week we were doing celebrations (where people get their 5 pound rewards amongst other things) and my mom kept pointing to me and going "She lost this week!" I'm like "MOM! STOP it!"

MOM: But you lost weight!

ME: Yeah, but I didn't lose 5 pounds!

MOM: So, you still deserve a sticker!

ME: But I didn't lose 5 pounds!

MOM: But you still lost weight!

*headdesk*

Rather than have this same argument for the next 15 minutes, I told her she was embarrassing the hell out of me and she had to stop or I wouldn't sit with her anymore.

I must point out, we have this conversation EVERY WEEK.

Oy...

OOPS!

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:51:03 GMT

Haven't updated in a while! I've now officially lost 12 pounds! My clothes are getting looser. I can actually take a pair of jeans out of the dryer and put them on without laying down on the bed lol! I need to set a new mini-goal for me. My first one was to lose 10 pounds by the start of the school year, which I've already done. Not sure what I should do next. Suggestions?

WHEEEEEEEEE!

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:50:54 GMT

I lost 2.2 more pounds for a total of 10.6!! WOO HOO! Go me, go me, go go, go me!!!

My clothes are a wee bit looser. I can't quite wear my engagement ring comfortably yet, but I'm getting there. YAY!

Proud!

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:57:07 GMT

I'm so proud of myself! First, I lost 2.6 this week, for a total of 8.4! My clothes are definitely starting to feel a little looser. AND, I SO did not wanna work out today. I have my period so I feel very blah. But I made myself do it for 30 minutes! I grumbled about it the whole time and swore at my TV several times, but I did it!

GO ME!

I REALLY wanna lose 1.6 this week to make it an official 10 pounds!

Oy..

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:31:16 GMT

Maya totally kicked my ass today. First she noted that I missed a few workouts (5, to be exact...oops). And I guess as revenge she made me do a nearly impossible workout. I seriously couldn't keep up. After so many exercises she'll ask you how you're feeling. LOL, every time I choose "I couldn't keep up." And then she'd say "I'll adjust it next time." NEXT time?! How about NOW! When I couldn't finish an exercise I just walked in place. Yoy I'm out of shape. I upped the time to 30 minutes though, and I earned 2 activity points. Since I ate Wendy's on Saturday I'm just leaving them, I'm not going to eat them...

Blah blah

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:00:12 GMT

I've been trying REALLY hard to watch my salt intake this week. I'm getting my period soon, and I bloat and retain water a lot when I do. I've also increased the amount of water I drink. I'm peeing insane amounts, but hopefully I won't retain as much water. I was kinda getting lazy about fruits and veggies, so I've also increased those. I bought some V8 juice to help when I don't feel like cutting up fresh veggies (I'm not a big canned veggie fan). Frozen are ok, but I prefer to make those for dinner so Jeff and I can split them.

I haven't been exercising though. I just CAN'T get motivated! I make excuse after excuse! So starting Monday I'm increasing my Yourself Fitness program to 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. I just hope I lose this week! Sometimes I hate waiting until Tuesday. And I REALLY hate weighing in at 6 PM, but what can I do?!

Boo.

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:28:28 GMT

I only lost .2 pounds this week. I was really disappointed. The lady was all "You'll have some weeks like this!" but that didn't make me feel any better. When you have, like, 80 some pounds to lose, .2 is nothing. Boo.

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:25:43 GMT

I decided to join Blogathon 2007. It's blogging 24 hours for a charity. Here's my blog: Live Strong!! I decided to blog for The Lance Armstrong Foundation, obviously due to Jeff's cancer, and because he got a lot of information and comfort from the package he received from them. He still wears his bracelet everyday. So, if you're able to, please sponsor me. You can make a flat donation or donate per entry i write. I have to write 1 entry every 30 minutes for 24 hours. Even if you can't donate, stop by and see how I'm doing!

Hm

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:33:44 GMT

Well, it's been awhile since I've posted. Things have been, well...nuts. Everything with my gramma, then one of my guinea pigs died on Friday. So that sucked. But I'm still keeping up with the diet! I get weighed in tonight.

Ok, so, mysticrealm bought me this cool thing for PlayStation2. It's called Yourself Fitness. It's SO COOL! You have a trainer, Maya, who basically helps you get into shape! THANK YOU K!! This is the most awesomest thing ever!!!

So right now Maya has me doing cardio for 15 minutes 5 days a week. I can handle that. I can change how many minutes I want to do at any time. So my goal is to do 15 minutes Monday-Friday of this week and next week, then increase it to 20 minutes, then 25, etc. I'm so bleeping out of shape I HAVE to start out slow or I'll kill myself. I've really been conscious about how much I've been moving around, too. I love having a pedometer. I have the WW one (a birthday present), and I can add my steps into the online points tracker and it tells me how many activity points I've earned.

I'm hoping I lose tonight. I ate kinda bad this weekend, but did manage to stay within points most days. This is the first week I've really used my flex points, so I'm curious to see how much I lose!

Man....

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:40:46 GMT

According to WW scales I've only lost 4.4 pounds. I'm kinda disappointed. But at the same time, I had only eaten 9 points before I got weighed tonight because my gramma was rushed the the ER. I didn't really have time to eat. But I DO know that I absolutely MUST START EXERCISING. Last week I kept using the excuse that I had my period. I have no excuses now.

Dammit.

I hate exercising.

Update

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:16:17 GMT

According to my scale I've lost another 2.5 pounds, for a total of 5.5!! HOORAY! My goal is to lose 10 pounds before I go back to work in mid-August. I'm pretty sure I'll make it!

I've been bad

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:10:15 GMT

I've been really bad about updating my journal! I've been staying on track, though, and even remained on points on Fourth of July! My friend took me to lunch at Chili's today for my birthday and I got the Guiltless Gourmet Chicken Sandwich. It was only 10 points! Quite tasty, too! My mom got me a WW pedometer for my birthday. I wore it yesterday, but I had it in the wrong spot, so it wasn't counting correctly. I'm wearing it today, and it's counting much better! I also got an iPod shuffle, and it's SO COOL! Been really bad with the exercise though. :( I got my period and I'm always such a slug when I have it. The only thing I want to do is take Fizzy for a walk, but it's so damn hot outside!! Maybe I'll go after dinner.

And that's about it!

My Day

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:31:56 GMT

I officially lost 3 pounds. I think I would have lost more but my period is coming any second now. I've been trying to exercise, but i can't fight this cold. I think I may have an ear infection now. It's all clogged and I can't hear out of it and it's staring to hurt. *sigh*

My Day

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:48:51 GMT

I am CRABBY today. I don't feel like posting what I ate, so I won't. I did fine, I'm just feeling very lazy. I'm getting my period, so I'm all cranked out. Tomorrow is weigh in. Yay. I've discovered that my mom is much better at TELLING ME how to diet rather than her dieting herself. Way to go mom. You dragged me into this, and now you're gonna CHEAT. Thanks.

I'm off to bed. Maybe I can sleep away my crabbiness.

Oh, one more thing. I did the one DVD Jeff bought me that uses an exercise ball. 1) It's hard, in a good way. And 2) I am UNGODLY uncoordinated. I rolled off the ball several times.

And NOW I'm off to bed.

My Day

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:21:26 GMT

I ate a lot of snacks today. Mostly because my breakfast was gross. I tried making a fruit smoothie...blech. Not good. I actually found it hard to eat all my points today. I just wasn't hungry. The popcorn really filled me up! No exercise either. Still feeling like poo.

My Day

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:44:29 GMT

I didn't feel very good today. I really wanted to try one of my new exercise DVDs, but I just felt like crap. I'm getting my period soon, too, so my back was KILLING me. Blah.

My Day

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:11:45 GMT

I'm totally digging the eTools thing. It figures everything out for me, including activity points. LOVE IT!

Jeff is so sweet. My birthday is next Saturday, so he went out and bought me a bunch of fitness stuff. I told him how I think it's gonna be hard around my period because I crave salty stuff, so he bought me a air popper for popcorn, plus the popcorn, and a butter seasoning that's 0 points! he also bought me 2 Denise Austin DVDs. One is a yoga one, so I ran to Target to get a yoga mat. The other one involves an exercise ball, which I also bought. He goes "Please don't think I bought you this cause I think you're fat!" LOL! Silly husband...