So as I am in week six on Weight Watchers and my C25K I have been frustrated w/ the slow going weight loss and how the works out seem to not be doing much for me. This morning I woke up and stepped on the scale, like I do almost every morning, and my jaw dropped. I reweighed myself 3 times to see if my scale was kidding. It said 173.2! I quickly did the math to add the 1.4 lb difference that WW has me at and that brings me to down 9.2. That means at this point I've hit my 5% goal they set for me. Now keep in mind I basically took a week & a half off from tracking, kept to my C25K schedule and on Wed, two days ago. They had me up 1.6 from my last weigh in. So this is saying that I lost like 3 lbs in the two days I've been tracking again. I've had a theory about how I think because of all my MANY short lived dieting attempts that maybe my body is just waiting for me to give in and stop eating better. I always assumed if I made it to 3 weeks surely my body would start cooperating. But that was the week of the .4 gain. And I tracked everything. Now here we are week 6 a while 3 weeks later and my total loss is only 6.2 that is only 1 lbs a week. I would love to see a jump in my loss this week and finally hit 10 lbs loss. It's been a LONG time since I've stuck to anything long enough to lose 10 lbs.
The amazing news is this is the longest I've stuck w/ anything since LA Weight Loss in 2007. That is when I lost 27 lbs and hit 140. I have much further to go to hit that milestone again this time. However for the first time in a very long time I am hopeful about my weight loss. I feel like it is going to work. It is going to take longer than I'd like but it's going to work if I keep at it. I am rereading "The Shift", again I highly recommend this book for the way she talks about her thinking and her struggle. Like I've said before I don't agree w/ her diet process but until 6 weeks ago I was preaching the same things. I thought that there was no room for moderation and choices in my diet life. I had to miss out on all my favorite foods because I am wasn't capable to just have one brownie w/o it totally throwing me off track. I posted how I tried to explain to DH that moderation isn't an option, and that I don't think I should have food choices either. I should be forced to eat protein and veggies every meal no matter how much it makes me cranky. This is the way I have treated every diet attempted since my youngest was born in 2010, so the last 4 years. They all have come to the same horrible end where I break because it isn't fair that they get to enjoy food when I have to hate it. And then I binge for days on everything I've been depriving myself of for how ever long the diet lasted. I've tried the whole purge the house from junk food thing but w/ 3 boys in this house that was always short lived. Today I went shopping and got the kids their favorite snacks and the snacks I need like fruits and veggies, cause they are zero pp. I keep Dark Chocolate Dove squares in the house for weeks because I have self control. Once a week I treat myself to dinner out that isn't diet friendly. I use my weekly points to make this happen and stay w/in plan. If I want a Dick's Drive Inn Burger and fries I can, if I have the points. If not I can plan that on having next week when my weekly points become available again. So there isn't this dramatic good bye to all my favorite foods. It is a well I just can't live off of them alone anymore.
So this isn't the 5-6 month journey I always hoped it would be but now I am ok with a year. If it takes me until next May to reach my goal. I really think I am ok with that. While thinking about a it taking a whole year is a little daunting. It is better for it to take that year and for me to learn how to eat in moderation. Than for me to live on lean protein & veggies lose it all in 5 months, then try to go back to real world eating and do what I've always done, slowly but surely gained it back plus some. I have proof that it is already working because I didn't track for a week and a half and we ate out almost exclusively. Yet my weigh in only had me up 1.6 and after todays weigh in, it must have been water weight. Dare I say it is working and I am learning. I can't tell DH he was right yet again. :-) JK. Moderation is key.
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