My turtle journey

Well I lost a little over a pound this week - so what I gained last week plus a wee little bit more.  I am so frustrated with my crawling pace.  For someone with my weight - who writes EVERYTHING down and works out, I shouldn't be loosing so incredibly slowly - it's extremely frustrating.  Especially since my ww buddy once again said she was incredibly lax again this week and lost 4 pounds.  How is that fair?  Her laziness is being rewarded and my diligence is being punished - that's how it feels anyway.  Well I'm not going to stop being dilligent, because every time I do, I gain a LOT - so i willl keep plugging away, and eventually I'll get there, just four years after she reaches her goals.  If I'm lucky. 
    Maybe I need to stop using all my extra points in one fell swoop - but every time I use them throughout the week i end up going way over.  I think this week I am going to use my activity points - why not?  Experiment of the week - and it's just one week.

having your period really really sucks

OK well blogspot is being a bitch and won't save my colors, but you can still clearly see that I gained a pound today.  Not really a surprise, it's actually less than I thought it would be.  Plus you have to factor in that I got my period today, so if I am super good this week, I should see a nice loss next week.  Here's hoping anyway.  This week I have a lot planned in the evenings, which are my trouble food times,  so hopefully that will stop me from eating at night, at least for this week.  I also plan to get back into daily exercising.  I felt so much better and less lazy when I was doing that.
I hate hate hate how slow this is going.  I want this stupid weight to be off already.  I hate myself for letting it all back on again - how could I be so stupid?  But what's done is done and all I can do is try try again.  This week I commit to writing every point down, no matter what.

why is food so delicious?

This week has been a rough one - and I was doing so well and being so focused! I just can't stop eating. So my routine has been go home, eat too many low point items, and leave the house and go geocaching where I work up a considerable sweat (a lot of bushwhacking is involved), come home, eat a little while I catch up on some TV and then go to bed (after showering). So I still go over my daily points every day, but at least I'm getting in quite a bit of activity. I am terrified of what Monday will bring, because I want to STAY in the 230's damnit.


I found my old cards from a couple years ago when I did weight watchers at work. They are interesting to say the least. I can watch three cards worth of progression of me going up up up - I was around 174 at my lowest at those meetings. (my all time WW lowest was 163) This was the time that I was doing ww, but it really wasn't helping at all! I am currently 2 pounds above where I was at my highest point on those cards (on 1/22/09). I guess I have a new mini goal. I'll like to use these cards to start checking off/dating when I hit each of those weights. If that makes any sense. Well it does to me!

I could be wrong, but I don't think I've gone over my weekly 35, so I think I'm still in ok shape. plus I still have activity ones. I just have to get through the next three days without making any horrifically bad decisions. I can do this. I am going to try to eat very light on Sunday as will - something that's been proving difficult the past couple of months.
 
I am going to see some friends in Disney's High School Musical tonight.  Then we are going to go out to eat after - probably Uno's.  Uno's has some good food uptions - but not a lot and I am kind of getting sick of Uno's.  But they always go there Fridays because of karaoke.   Oh well, at least I know what I can eat.  I also discovered via Hungry Girl this morning that the item I always get at Applebees (yeah, I am not a fan of the WW options, they're ok, but kind of boring) the Grilled Shrimp 'N Spinach Salad is a whopping 26 points!!!! Holy crap!  All it is is spinich, grilled shrimp, bacon (chopped, it's like a piece of bacon) and a sprinkling of almonds.  20 of those points have got to be pure dressing!  Thank you Hungry Girl for opening up my eyes once again.  Next time I am getting Spicy Shrimp Diavolo, which is an insane 10 points.  Who would have thought that pasta would be healthier than a salad!

Weighing in can be fun!

So I didn't meet my activity goals last week, but the scale was nice to me anyway - down 1.8!!! I am so excited. I mist have some something right, even though I dind't do anything right. I took my measurements and am not happy with the results, i need to get back to a better regiment. Starting today! I love how a weight loss makes me feel, I can only hope to keep it up, but so far so good!
The meeting was wierd without M there, butI went anyway and sent her an update (she sent me hers too)  The topic was all about filling foods, which sometimes I am great at, other times not so much. 
I forgot my pedometer today, which stinks, because that's what keeps me modivated to keep moving throughout the day.  I am going to put it on to go grocery shopping after work, and I would like to walk at the track today unless it's completely sweltering.  I might try to get in a couple pilates videos then too.  I relaly need to get back of a regular schedule of the wii golds gym and I need to work parts of my body that aren't my legs.  Walking is great and simple, but I want/need more of a full body work out. 

Longest week in the world

I actually went to the track and did golds gym last night and a pilates video!  Holy crap!
so I have left: pilates: 6  Track: 2 Wii: 2.

It took a whole lot of will power, but I did it.  This is urning out to be the longest week ever.  I'm also having problems getting all my points in.  We don't keep junk in our house, so when i have a few extra points at the else of the day, there aren't a lot of options.  Last night I had a tablespoon of peanut butter to get them all in.
I have discovered that I like raw zucchini.  Hey, don't knock it till you try it!

A boring update

Wii fit: 1
to go: Track: 3, Wii Fit: 3, Pilates videos: 7

I had a whole huge post written, but I accidentally deleted it.  I'm notrelaly in the mood to retype the whole thing, so I'll just leave it at this for now.

I did it, Hooray!

Well I did it!  I hit my 30 lb mark(again)!  I lost a little over a lb, though my ww buddy lost 5 lbs!  How does she do it?  She does go running a lot, but I get my exersize in.  Oh well, the important one here is me.  My next goal is to loose a food point, only about .6 to that.  I know it seems like a silly goal - who wants to haveto eat LESS?  But I am finding that when I get my GHG in, 30 points of food a day is a bit excessive (except on days I have an event of some sort going on).  Next week is my week!  I don't think it's at all unreasonable to loose half a pound in a week.  Though I do have this awful back and forth pattern going on.  I relaly need to stay forcused this week.
    I find that I live for Monday weigh ins, and TUesdays and Wednesdays sort of suck, mostly because they are so far away from Mondays!  Next week I am going to have to go to my meeting alone, because M (WW buddy) will be on vaca.  That'll be so wierd because I have yet to go to a meeting without her there since I restarted this.  
    My goals for the week are activity related.  I want to do one of my minute long pilates videos every day (If i can't find a minute a day, there's a problem), I want to get back in the habit of doing wii gold's gym (for the arms) Lets say a min of four times this week, and go to the track at least 3 times.  I want to get at least 30 activity points total.  I feel better when I exersize and I feel like I have fallen out of it.  I'll keep track here.  Well my lunch hour is almost over, so off to publish!

First post's a charm

I have been cooking a lot this weekend.  Well, a lot for me.  Yesterday I made zucchini bread for my best friend who got in a car accident last week.  She had a bunch of zucchini and squash that she gave me under the condition that i used some of it to make zucchini bread, since I guess she had a craving pre-accident.  Since it wasn't for me, I made the fat/sugar filled completely delicious kind.  Of course I ended up trying a small piece, but I'm not too worried since I didn't eat much yesterday and I went on a 4 hour geocaching expedition with my brother and his wife(and we don't do it the easy follow the path way).  This morning I made zucchini sticks with a recipe that was recommended to me weeks ago at a ww meeting.  They turned out really well and I got at least 3 servings of veggies in.  I really struggle with those stupid good health guidelines, but I am doing much better than I was.
I gained last week because I was on vacation the week before in the happiest place on earth (The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter of course) but unfortunately, I have been struggling with exercise and really honestly tracking since I've been back.  Still, I managed to get 26 activity points so far this week and I haven't gone over my points, its been a struggle but I'm doing it.  Its also, and I'm ashamed to admit this, a little frustrating that my ww buddy is loosing like 3-4 lbs a week (or so it seems, she is def loosing faster than me, even though I writing down every fracking point and before vaca was getting about 40 activity points a week and she thinks she had a bad week, didn't write anything down and will loose 3 lbs....wtf)
Well weigh in is tomorrow, so I'll be sure to post something post weigh in - whether us be a sob story or a celebration.  I am so close to 30 lbs!