weigh in 15

OMG! it seems as if every time i belly ache about over eating i lose weight! lol. goes to show you i totally under estimate the good things i do to my body.

but anyway, i weighed in today at 158.8 pounds! a shocking loss of 2.6 pounds. i'm skeptical about it though. cuz i felt starved before my meeting. lol. i usually eat before....but ah, it is a loss no matter what. maybe its all that wii-ing i did this week. trishia got a wii and so did my bro. i was hitting that up. lol

one down side about being in the 150's...i have lost a daily point! lol. i mean its only one point. but sometimes one point can make all the difference in your day. its ok though. i can manage with 22 points. plus, i'm a supporter of dipping into your weekly's.

but anyway, other than that nothing exciting has happened. i got offered to join the weight watchers team. maybe become a receptionist. i could use the part time money. i'm gonna check out an informational about it on january 11th. it should be interesting. and plus itll help me stay on plan.

so i added it up. and even though i gained a pound and a half the first week of december, all together for the month of december i've lost 6 pounds! woot! who says you can't lose weight during the holidays? ;)

anyway, happy new year!!! a new year and new goals to make. :)

3 days to make it right

i feel guilty for not eating so healthy this christmas week. now i have saturday, sunday and monday to make up for this with activity points. i have faith that i can stick to my 23 daily points and move a lot more than the past few days.

if at the end of these three days, on tuesday i weigh in and there is a gain, or some sort of maintenance then at least i know i truly tried this week. other wise, i'm gonna feel like a fat shlump. and there will be none of that! makes me depressed.

so since i seemed to have no control over what i put in my mouth these past few days...i'm going to turn to my book and try out 3 days of the weight watchers planned meals that they have for us. this way i wont have to think of having healthy meals. its all done for me!

ok i'm crossing my fingers. and sticking to this.

weigh in 14, 10% reached!

*drum roll* I ACHIEVED MY 10 PERCENT GOAL!!!! *bows* man, i feel like i'm walking on air.

lol, i weighed in today at 161.4 pounds. a loss of 1.4 this week. wow. omg! how did i do it? i would really loooooove to know. i mean, what? i was like..."are you sure" when i saw the scale. but it really happened! i got my little key chain for accomplishing that too. its cute.

wow, so this week is definitely proof that eating all of you weekly points and doing close to no activity can still bring you success if you don't go so overboard with eating. i'm just so proud of myself. what a perfect christmas gift to myself.

alright, now i know i don't wanna see a gain on the scale for next week. it's christmas and i may indulge on dec 25th....hell i KNOW i will indulge. but that's what excercise and weeky points are for. i'm gonna do some yoga this week. just got my hair done cant sweat this out just yet. ha. i'm excited to bring in the new year with a smaller waistline. :)

ooo omg, i found these weight watchers peanut butter cups that tastes like reeses. which is my weakness! and its only 2 points! what? i need to purchase this in bulk!

boo december

ugh, the holidays is not a time for weight loss. man, there is always something to detour you from making smart choices. lol. like cookies, and egg nog, and liqour, and every other jolly food! lol yes i know, we should have more will power. but sometimes its hard. i stayed the weekend out. i'm finally home. i was in long island for a few days and at my babes house for 2 other days. so that means i was out for 4 days. that is 4 days of trying to stay in points but doing a bad job by waking up late, eating bigger breakfast's and believing that the day was all down hill from there. plus, no activity, hardly any fruits and vegetables and no healthy oils in for atleast a week. *sigh*

i can't beat myself up about it because its inevitable. it is the holidays. i just don't want to go back to bad eating habits. last christmas season i gained almost 15 pounds from the holidays. i don't want that to happen again.

but anyway, i know for sure that the scale will not be my friend this tuesday coming up. but i'm going to try and get some activity in tonight and tomorrow during the day. i just hope i can atleast maintain and not go backwards. lol...i just gotta make it through christmas and new years! where is january! lord! lol

weigh in 13...omg christmas is next week!

i weighed in today at 162.8 pounds which is a loss this week of 0.6 of a pound.

i kind of expected more of a loss. i mean, i worked out. i may have used ALL of my weekly's but i felt like i put in work man. although, some days i just didn't care because i was sick. i ate things that were bad but i still counted them. but i'm not complaining too much. cuz i guess i still lost half of a pound. :) and plus i'm on my period. but damn, i'm only 0.4 of a pound away from my 10 percent goal! grrrr. i was so close.

but you know what? i'm happy to lose at all during the fattest month of the year. lol. can't believe next week is christmas already.

so i really do want to reach my 10 percent next week. i think that would be a nice mini goal to accomplish (and present) for christmas. i mean....0.4 of a pound? i can do that! right? lol. although, this upcoming weekend could hinder me. i have a christmas party this weekend and i will be with friends. and we know how those go. i'm gonna do my best though!

no matter what, 16 pounds down in december seems pretty sweet to me! last year this time i was almost 190. i feel good :)

new goal weight

so yesterday i had these jeans on that i'm wearing in the picture next to this. this picture is from my 21st birthday in march 2007. the jeans are a size 13/14 ish and yesterday i wore them and was able to slide them off with out unbuttoning or unzipping. they just slid down. so i'm uber excited to go to a mall and try on some jeans. cuz you know my true ultimate goal was to wear a size 10 jeans.

so my first goal was to weigh 160 pounds. (which is pretty much losing 10 percent of my body weight. and is what ww starts you off with as a first goal.) when i'm 17 pounds down i would have hit that milestone. (not too far) but i've officially changed my goal weight on weight watchers to 150 pounds. and i figure i may as well annouce my new goal. i'll be going to the mall sometime this weekend to see if i can squeeze my ass into a size 12. if so, then progress baby! on my way :)

meetings: surprisingly enjoyable

i was surfing through the official weight watchers myspace page and saw this. when i first joined weight watchers in september, i was really nervous. i never before joined a group of people who were trying to lose weight and talk about it. i didnt know if it was going to be like some AA meeting where i have to stand up and say something like "hi, i'm danielle....and i like food." lol.

i didnt know what to expect so i guess the unknown was the scary part for me. but that first day when i walked in and sat down and my leader asked all the "joining memebers" to introduce themselves and say why they wanna lose the weight, i thought "FUCK!!! i thought i didnt have to talk". i didn't want to be judged for wanting to lose weight and i'm also not one to talk in front of a bunch of a people. but i said it quickly and after that it wasnt painful. it was actually just a bunch of women sharing stories about why they want to lose weight and troubles they were having and any success they had that week.anyway, after the first meeting i never felt pressured to speak in the meetings again.

weigh-ins are another nerve racking thing for me because i like seeing success. and weighing in at a meeting makes me actually accountable for what i ate or how active i had been the last week. i like that about it, because i have a feeling if i weighed in at home....it wouldnt be the same. i'd probably check my weigh everyday and become obsessed with the scale. going to the meetings and weighing in actually makes me motivated to do good all week. i never want to disapoint myself (or the receptionist who records my weight every week lol). i like that it is also confidential and i've never heard someone say their actual weight in a meeting.

week after week after i saw some familiar faces it got easier to share a tip, or ask questions about things i was having trouble with on the program. and when you get to know members its like a little weight loss family you see once a week. we laugh, and share stories. and now it's something i actually look forward to going to!! so if you are someone who is hesitant about going to a meeting (which is only about 45 minutes a week by the way), i say just go! get it over with....and get the support. it's actually fun. :)

weigh in 12, momentum program

i weighed in today at 163.4 pounds. so that's a lost of 1.4 pounds this week! yayyyyyyyyy!!!! i basically lost most of the weight i put on during thanksgiving week. whew! even though i chomped on honey nut cheerios every night when i didnt have points. lol, bad! i'm never buying them again.....or if i do, i must measure it out. but i have to kinda thank my friend stacy. she let me into her gym for free yesterday and i did a good workout. i also did one of the workouts on the get moving mix that i bought from weight watchers. so i feel good about activity for last week. i'm going to keep that going. i'm just SO happy to have lost weight after i gained weight last week. :)

so weight watchers has this new program called the momentum program. we learned all about it today in our meeting. i like it cuz i have new book material and i get excited about these things. i'm a loser, lol i know. so far, week 1....its pretty much the same as my flex program. so not much of a change. but my leader told me to focus on filling foods this week (there's a list). so i'm going to do that.

i also toned this afternoon. with some weights and the weight watchers dvd. i think if i do that twice a week (tuesdays and thursdays) and get atleast 20 minutes of some activity in a day i can work up some activity points. so monday, wednesday, friday: cardio. tuesday, thursday: toning.

welp....i'm gonna go read up on the momentum program. this is exciting, its like another fresh new start!

weigh in 11

i'm sad. it's my first gain. *sigh* i weighed in today at 164.8 pounds, which is a gain of 1.6 pounds! :(

totally self inflicted though. must learn from mistakes. i basically went crazy after thanksgiving and didnt track what i ate, had mad liqour, stayed in the house and didnt move much. it was the holidays. when i stepped on the scale i expected it. i didnt go too overboard, but i did over indulge. which is not so bad. i think the problem was that i also didnt get my fruits and vegetables and healthy oils in like pretty much at all this week. these do affect your weight loss.

but even though i'm sad that i gained a pound and some, it is pushing me to lose lose lose! i bought the weight watchers get moving mix cause lets face it, the only excercise i get for the week is walking to my weight watchers meetings on tuesdays. basically nothing! i need to move and get back in gear. i am too close to my first goal to become lax now.

so this week: no dipping into the weekly's and i'm going to try the get moving mix. i think i might do it tonight actually. i'm actually a little glad i gained something. i needed something to push me more, because i was definately settling into this 'i'm ok, i dont need to lose more weight thing'. NO! i want to meet my goal. no matter how long it takes and how many mistakes i make, i'll get there.

i entered my weight in my tracker on the weight watchers website and it said:

So, you gained a little bit this week.

Is this what you expected? If so, today's a great day to make a fresh start. If you're stumped, talk with your Leader to assess your week and get advice on how you can make some changes to get back on track for next week.

Good luck in the coming week.

that's why i like weight watchers....so you had a lil set back. keep going!