weigh in 10, happy (almost) thanksgving!

another careless week. hmm maybe not so careless though. i did pretty much record most of what i ate and tried to stay in the range of portions i should have. but i definitely drank almost every night last week and had cake and shit. but guess what. i weighed in at 163.2 pounds! (a loss of 1.8 pounds) haaaaa. i cant even say maybe its activity because the most activity i did all week was walking to the fridge. i did nothing cause i felt all tired from my period. hmmm. so. i'm 16 pounds down and i'll hit my 10 % body weight at 161.3 pounds. which is not far! so it's coming soon, yay!!!and my goal is 160...psht. thats changing, i'm not satisfied! i know what i need to do though.....tone. i'm just having a hard tme trying to start.

so this week is thanksgiving week. its sometimes scary to think of the holidays because usually thats when we all gain weight and then try on new years to lose it. im determined to atleast maintain my weight this week. i mean, thanksgiving is only one day....and i dont eat that much anyway. i'm only really into ham and sweet potatoes...oo and pie! i'm looking forward to that. so every other day of the week i'm just making sure to stay within my daily points so i can save my 35 weekly points for thursday. this way if i make some sort of slip, i wont feel guilty about it on thursday.

i really want to increase my fruits and vegetables intake also. on a good day i usually get about 3 servings. i'm supposed to get 5. so i'm gonna try and get them in better. gotta look up ways to do that....alrighty. it's bed time. night!

weigh in 9

stupid period. gotta blame myself too though. i didn't do my best this week because i was all willy nilly with not writing my food down and eating out almost every night. can't be doing that though. not only can i not afford it but neither can my health. anyhoo. i weighed in at 165 pounds on the dot. so i lost 0.4 of a pound...in weight watchers that's half a pound.

i'm hoping i'm just bloated and not showing real weight loss. i'll see if there are results by next week. but i'm soooooo close to 15 pounds down and my 10 percent. woot! still motivated to do better...

weigh in 8 + no more blt's + new recipe!

man, i complain about nothin. i don't know how i loss this week. maybe it was the dancing....i duno. i dont understand the science. but i love it! so i weighed in today (well yesterday since it's after midnight) at 165.4 which is a loss of 1.8 pounds this week. after i overate, had chocolate, cake, margaritas. soooo bad! lol. but hey, i don't know what i did. but i need to still make improvements ofcourse.

i think one of my downfalls is my blt's. in weight watchers blt's are: bites licks and tastes! yes they count depending on what you are tasting. so i'm gonna challenge myself not to bite, taste, or lick random things and just eat the food in front of me that was made for me. just so i see if there is a difference it will make.

today i was so excited about losing after being a pig, that i decided to try another rachael ray recipe. i made rachael ray's turkey sweet potato shepperd's pie. man it was goooood. ofcourse i tweaked it a bit to make it more figure friendly. it came out to about 10 points for a huge slice, 5 for half a slice. anyhoo...i need to make even more and more recipes. why am i obsessed with food network and cooking now? lol.

photos of the process (lol):












(my piece!)

i probably shouldnt be up right now.....

...but i can't sleep and i might as well blog about my bad times. lol. so the guy im seein made breakfast for me this morning...well really yesterday morning, but my day has yet to end. so anyway it turned out to be 11 points!!! leaving me with 12 points left for the day. which was fine at the time.

for lunch i had a 5 point salad. then time went by and i didnt eat dinner. we were at dave and busters at midnight and i was hungry so i split an appetizer with him. it was a crispy chicken mini burgers..small so i figure it couldnt be that much but now i fear it is. plus i had 10 french fries which is 5 points :( and then i had a margarita! which im sure was like 10 points because of the amount of ounces. i went waaaay into my weekly points. i think i only have 6 left. so im scared i either gained this week or won't lose anything at all (which would be better than gaining)

i just hope it turns out ok. can't psych myself out because i had one bad day. but i wish i had more willpower when i eat out. but anyhoo, i have 2 more full days before my weigh in day....so i'm gonna make good light meals full of fruits and veggies! anyway, i'm gonna hit the hay....

motivation

sometimes, to get motivated i look back at pictures. this was taken in late May of 2008 when i felt so sluggish and my tummy was always hidden behind those pregnant top shirts and dresses. i'm so happy i started weight watchers. me and trish look/feel better. :)

weigh in 7

stepped on the scale today and it read: 167.2 pounds! whew. so wow, a week goes by mad fast! i didn't even really get to my challenge. this week i'm continuing the same challenge of activity since i didn't achieve it.

but this week, man i craved fat ass food. and i kept tasting things. lol, so basically i'm happy that i still basically lost. and it's november 4th, and i'm still in the 160's! so i feel good about that. now i'm officially 7 pounds away from my [first] goal and 5.9 pounds away from reaching my 10%. my goal is really close to my 10 percent, i know. but i'm calling it my first goal because i'll talk with my leader when i get there and see where to go from there.

i've been watching thanksgiving things on food network and i wanna see how i can make atleast one figure friendly thanksgiving dish. i don't mind eating the fattening things as long as its well portiened but i think it will be fun to make a new dish that tastes good and is good for you.

so that makes 12 pounds down! i wonder if i can hit my goal by the new year.....