My Adventures in Weight Loss: Weekly Progress

I weighed myself this morning. 167.2 I was a little disappointed because a couple weeks ago I was 165, and then I gained 3 pounds 1 week because I was being stupid, so I was kind of hoping that the 168 I saw on the scale last week was just because there was still cake in my stomach or something. I don't know. I guess I thought that if I gained it really fast, it would also come off really fast. I guess that will teach me to mess up. Cuz not only does it make me not lose weight one week, but it sends me back 3 weeks. And in my case -2 months since I've been hovering around 165 for a long time now.

well, my pictures do look better but I don't know if that's just a fluke. There's a possibility that I did lose a lot of weight this week but it will show up on the scale next week. The human body is weird like that. You'll do a lot of work one week and see no change, and then do nothing the next week and you lose 2 pounds. I guess sometimes it takes a little while for your body to catch up.

I think once I hit 163, I will be past this little hump. And I never set little goals for myself. I say I want to be 130, but when it's so far away, it's not something that I look forward to any time soon, and it's not something I'm gonna reward myself about anytime soon. So my next goal is 163. Just because that will put me in the next category. I've never been 163. I think I've been 164, but when I'm 163, I'll feel like I'm 160, and I'll be able to get past this stupid plateau.

About last night. The truth is, this is what I ate

donuts.......................6

chocolate chips........1

pb&j...........................5

soup...........................1

3 saltines.....................1

licorice........................4.5

m&ms...........................2

chocolate chips..........2

w.w. icecream.............2

total.........................26.5

...Yeah, I was craving mad sugar all day long. And I wasn't really counting very well, I was just assuming that I was doing ok because I had soup for dinner, and I was taking really small m&m portions and stuff. But then I decided to try and count it up. And yeah, so I went for a jog at midnight. And I haven't done that in a really long time, and it kind of felt really good. Which was of course very surprising to me. I might try and do more of it this week. Because I know that the people that are actually losing weight are exercising. I'm just way lazy. I like to sit on my butt. But... maybe I'll start jogging again.

About today: Congratulations to me! Cuz guess what! It's monday, the first day of the week. My Extras start over, and usually I eat almost all of them (if not more) in the first day. And guess what! I'm still in yesterday's mind set, and I'm being extra careful to not even go over my 23. You know what that means?!? That means that my theory about developing a little perfection makes you never want to mess up was correct! Because I'm so being anal about this now. And that is a really good thing. Cuz what if I can manage to not eat ANY extras this week. I'm not pressuring myself, but if it happens, that could mean losing a lot more weight!

...ok, it's the end of the day (I keep adding on all day if that wasn't already obvious), and I ended up eating 30 points and not jogging. It's that freakin candy. I couldn't keep my hands off it. You must understand that if I lived on my own I simply wouldn't have the candy in my house. But seriously people, I AM NOT kidding, I live in the willy wonka factory. Seriously. Anyway, still not too bad. In fact, I'm proud of myself because I had 6 points left for dinner, and my family went out to a restaurant, and I did what I said I would do, and I ordered vegetable soup and a side salad with low fat dressing. But guess what! I went home and looked it up just in case. And I was right about the soup -it was 1 point... The salad: 7 points!!!! (it was tiny)... There was gorgonzola on it which I mostly pushed to the side, so I think I probably had about 4 points there, but man! I'm telling you, you gotta be really careful with restaurants. They manage to pack 600 points into every little thing. Plus they put an addictive chemical in their chicken to make you crave it fortnightly.

WEEKLY PROGRESS

Weight: 167.2

Points eaten today: 30

I started weight watchers a year ago, and in the first 2 months I lost 20 pounds. Ever since then, I've been yo-yo-ing. And I still have 30-35 more pounds to lose. I have a tendency to get a little 'se la vie' about it, and end up using way more than my 35 extra. (I am alloted 23 a day, plus 35 extra each week).

So today is my fresh start! I made a new chart to mark my points, and since I spent so much energy on it (coloring and such), I will make sure to write down my points EVERY SINGLE DAY, and stay within my points EVERY SINGLE DAY. All I really needed was to refresh my motivation because I was starting to not care at all about it. I find that if you make a really attractive and perfect way to organize your points, you will want to fill it perfectly... And after like 1 week of perfection, you'll have so much momentum cuz you won't want to soil your perfect beautiful calendar by messing up.

This is the calendar I made. It lets you see the big picture of how well you've done for how long. I figured this out while waiting at a bus stop one day. I was having trouble staying on weight watchers, and then while waiting for the bus I was flipping through the little notebook where I recorded all my points, and seeing the overall picture of how many points I ate for the past couple months, I was totally inspired to do better. So I created this calendar. On the left is my weight I record each monday morning, and on the right is how many extras I ate that week. I highly recommend doing a calendar like this to anyone who's a really visual thinker. And you can just keep track of points in your head and write it down at the end of the day OR you can keep a little notebook in addition.

ABOUT MY BLOG

I will write a short entry each day with a little tid bit of insight and inspiration as well as how many points I ate that day. And on Monday's, I will record my weekly progress including my weight and pictures.. like this...

MY WEEKLY PROGRESS:

Weight: 168.2

Points today: 31