Out with the New and in with the Old

Starting weight: 166 lbs

Today's weight: 158 lbs

Total Weight loss: 8 lbs

I made it to the 150's.  Phew!  More than anything its a relief.  I have been hovering in the 160 range for close to a year now and it's great to be out of there. 

Here's the deal.  I stopped using the new WW plan and went back on their old plan.  Weight Watchers has the right idea, reduce carbs and increase protein to eliminate the craving for high carb snacks, while making smarter choices like fruit and veggies.  The problem that I have with their new plan....it stopped taking account of calorie intake.  Bad Bad Bad.  I still know for a fact that if you take in more calories than you burn in a day, you will gain weight.  So the trick is to take in less calories than you burn while keeping an eye on the foods that you take in so that you get your macro nutrients that aide in your overall health.  Therefore, I went back on the old WW plan that tracks calories, fat and fiber and kept in mind to include lots of protein in my diet.  IT WORKED!!!  4 pounds this week alone.  Now I say that is an improvement.  I didn't exercise this week either I wanted to make sure that the diet was going to work.  So all I did was play volleyball twice this week and stayed off the treadmill.  This week I will add the treadmill again and see what I can do this week. 

So the "Out with the New In with the Old" is a promise two fold.  Out with the new WW Plan, and in with the Old WW Plan.  Out with the new "fat clothes" and back in the old clothes.  I am definitely back on track. 

Stop the Insanity!

I am not sure if I am the only one who remembers those commercials in the eighties.  A really fit woman with very short blonde hair clenches her fists in frustration and screams into the camera, "Stop the Insanity".  Then this woman that you would kill if you could, starts talking about her exercise program.  Well right now, if I had that woman in my face I think I would grab her by the nose and scream right back in her face. 

Starting weight: 166 lbs

Today's weight: 162 lbs

Total weight loss: 4 lbs

I realize that I should be happy.  I am four pounds lighter than I was two weeks ago.  However, I had a goal this week to reach the 150's and it didn't happen.  WHY?  Well I have a theory.  Weight Watcher's new program and basically it involves my intake of more fiber and protein and less carbs and fat.  Well I am used a low fat diet, but generally I didn't pay attention to the carbs I was taking in.  NOW  I am having a very hard time taking in all "points" that I am supposed to in a day.  I think I am slowing down my metabolism.  Go figure. 

I will continue my daily walks which last week were at 2.5 miles.  This week I will increase my time to an hour and that should yield me about 3.8 miles.  I plan to just walk this week because I want to give my calves and thighs a chance to acclamate. I fell off my 4 mile wagon and now I am building it back up.  Volleyball is still in my exercise routine, although sometimes it doesn't seem to really be EXERCISE. 

My goal is going to remain one and the same for this week. 

GET TO THE 150's!

Insanity woman, Stay out of my Way!

Back to the Beginning

My health didn't take a front seat until after I had my third child. I finally realized that I had to be proactive. I joined Weight Watchers and went to the meetings religiously. After a short ten months I lost over forty pounds and I felt better than I ever had. I had never been so thin. I really loved it. I joined Curves and kept the weight off for the better part of four years.

BUT.....

yes there is a but. Last year an evil demon crept up inside me and it kept telling me that I could eat this because I wasn't going to get fat eating just one gallon of ice cream. Okay okay it wasn't an evil demon and okay it wasn't just ONE gallon of ice cream. Little by little I got heavier and heavier till about a month ago I got sick of it. I got sick of my clothes not fitting anymore, sick of getting winded walking up my stairs, sick of my scale screaming at me to "GET OFF!" My dear sweet husband agreed that he was having the same demonic possession and we decided it was time to start being proactive again.

My motivations have changed since my last weight loss journey. Back then I wanted to look good and frankly see if I could even do it. This time around, I know I can do it so I feel even more pressure to lose the weight because I know I have done it before. I know what to do. I know what works. Crap......now I actually have to do something.

I started Weight Watchers again, only this time I am doing it online instead of attending the meetings. WW switched up their program recently and so it feels somewhat new, but the purpose is the same, train yourself to eat the right things and get out of the frame of mind that it's a diet. It's not a diet, it's a way of life.

So I am off and running.

This blog is for me more than anyone else. It's for me to keep myself accountable. This blog is so that I can write down my triumphs and frustrations. It's a way for me to journal my experience while I encourage myself and others that this body is the only one I get. I don't believe in reincarnation. I believe that I have one chance at this life, and God gave me one body to do it in. It's my responsibility to keep this body fit and maintained so that I can make it to the end. So unless I am wrong and come back as a monkey, a snake, or luck out and come back as an elusive unicorn I am going to do my best to take care of what I have.

So here is my first accountable stats.

1-21-11

Starting Weight: 166 lbs (1-9-11)

Today's Weight: 162 lbs

Weeks Weight Loss - Well nothing since this is my first Blog. DUH

Total Weight Loss: 4 lbs

UGH, when I put them down on paper and know someone out there will see it, it makes me cringe. But I can do this. Breathe in Breath out.

The People on the bus go up and down up and down up and down.