It's Official!

I hit two major goals tonight!!!

First: 10%

Second: 25 lbs gone for good!

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WW Leader, Bernie, and I

(wish I would have did something with that hair before we took this pic!)

WI Apprehension

Why is it...

• Even when you've done great all week
• Even when you've tracked 17 activity points
• Even when you've drank water like you should
• Even you're expecting to loose

You still feel so apprehensive about weigh in day???

If Friday night hadn't (Mucho Mexico... the best Mexican food this side of the river) happened... I'd be pumped about tonight's weigh in.

So disappointed in Blogger...

Anyone noticed the missing posts?  The site was down for several hours and supposedly all posts were to be restored.  Apparently not.  I'm missing one, another friend of mine is missing one, and I know there were posts I saw, intended to read later, but are gone.  What's up with that, Blogger?

Sore but no water issues!

It’s a beautiful day… the sun is shining… I’ve been getting in lots of activity – in the form of gardening and cleaning.  I’ve been tracking, tracking, tracking.  So I know I’m great! 

Well, almost great...  I’m really sore from the 2-½ hours of gardening I did Tuesday night.  Anytime I sit for very long, I get extremely stiff and sore all over again.  Last night, after sitting through church and then the ride home, I was especially sore.  Yes, I’ve been laughed at, but I disregard it ‘cause my flowerbeds look great!    But for some reason, I keep hearing this voice inside my head.  It sounds a lot like the voice of my husband telling me I need to start working out at the gym more because I shouldn’t be this sore from “a little” gardening.  LOL  I love that man, doesn’t he have a great sense of humor?  I’m pretty sure, no matter how in shape you are, if you do an activity you’re not used to, you’re bound to be “a little” sore.  Right?  Anyways, my perfectly unacceptable excuse for not using the gym is: I don’t want to go alone.  Tee hee.

Just wondering?  Am I the only one that has struggled with getting in all my water?  Well, I think I’ve licked the issue for the moment.  I bought two (one for home, one for work) 24 oz tumblers from Wal-Mart at a nice price of $4.37 each.  These tumblers are acrylic with the re-usable straw.  They look like a to-go cup from a convenience store, but are reusable.  One drawback is that they’re not dishwasher safe.  But I’ll take that little inconvenience… since I bought the tumblers, I’ve hit my water target plus – EVERY DAY!  I know WW recommends six 8oz servings of water, but I’ve been getting at least 8, sometimes 9 servings per day.  Now, if you want to get technical, I know you’re supposed to divide your body weight in half, blah, blah, blah, etc.  I’ll take what I’m getting now and be extremely happy with myself!  Who knows, maybe I’ll eventually work up to that 100+ ounces of water per day. 

So how do you get in your water?  Or do you drink water at all?

Reverse Psychology Needed...

No, I didn’t update last week.  Why?  I was so ashamed of myself.  Yes, I gained.  A whole 1.4 lbs.  I was very disappointed with myself and just couldn’t bring myself to admit it to my readers.  The ironic thing is that last week I was doing my best to motivate others who were discouraged with their weight loss journey.  Talk about needing to live by my own preaching!

On my way home last week, I had a nice long chat with myself.  I figured the cost to drive back and forth to my WW meetings each week.  With gas around $3.85 here, that computes to approximately $23.10 in gas expense each month… and that expense is on top of my $39.95 membership fees.  I love going to the meetings.  I look forward to them each week.  It may have something to do with the fact that it is 2-3 hours of perfectly acceptable, guilt-free, Me time.  Regardless the reason, I really don’t want to give up my meetings.  However, since I’ve flat-lined on my weight loss, I’m feeling bad for the extra expense I’m generating with nothing to show for it.  I know there are other health benefits beside weight loss, but the point in WW is: weight loss.  I gently scolded myself and decided that I had to get back on track and start seeing results in order to justify all this expense.  So…

This week, I tracked.  I ate fruit (can some one say: WATERMELON!) and stayed within my point range.  Even with Mother’s Day BBQ on Sunday (can some one say: OREO PUDDING!) I did very well.  At one point, I weighed myself (at home) and had lost three pounds.  It’s a really good feeling to know you’re doing well. 

So yesterday, my normal weigh-in day, one of my dear friends decided to go in labor.  With her first baby.  A sweet occasion I couldn’t miss.  Trust me, I was torn.  I wanted to go to WW just so I could celebrate a successful week, but knew I couldn’t miss meeting this new little fella.  So, I weighed at work (their scales tend to be more accurate than mine) and documented my weight loss for the week. 

Talk about a great week!  I’m down 4.2 lbs!  Which pushes me to my 25 lb mark and I sailed right past that 10% mark that keeps avoiding me.  Now, don’t get me wrong.  It’s not official until I weigh in on WW scales in front of a WW leader.  But make no mistake; I will keep it off this week.  I’ve loaded up on fruit and other low PointsPlus foods and I’m ready to face the week.  I will make it all official next week.  And… I will make it officially into ONE-derland! 

Here’s the stats so far:

Hold me accountable, People!  Send me mean emails telling me I can’t do it.  The reverse psychology will kick in and I will do it just to prove you wrong!