Today I am up 1.8 lbs thanks to my amazing baking abilities. So I have learned that I can handle Thanksgiving w/ a date weekend with Hubby no problem but Christmas cookies……not so much! I'm not sure if it was due to the lack of planning and point calculating or just ate WAY to many cookies. I figured 2 points a cookie and I finished off two trays of different types of cookies in 4 days. O_O BFF said it was so worth it and it's only once a year. This is true. I don't make these cookies another time during the year so that is a REALLY good thing. And I will not be weighing in next week because I have to work on Christmas Eve & that is my normal weigh in day. So in two weeks I'd like to not only lose the 1.8 I just put back on but also my goal of 1.25 lbs a week, a total of 4.3. That is allot. Not totally undoable but it's allot even for two weeks time.
Christmas is coming and some of my favorite foods are going to be there. The same Broccoli casserole that I made for thanksgiving will be there but I have those points figured out but we are also having swedish meatballs and I have NO idea how many points they are. I am making them so I will figure out what the point total is for the whole batch then divide them up by how many I make. I am sure there is an easier way to do it but this is the way I am going to do it. We have more cookies to make this week but luckily I am not a big fan of sugar cookies so that shouldn't be such a big deal.
I have to be honest about today. I don't even know how many points I've eaten. I went to McDonald's for breakfast, had fried chicken for lunch and my hubby picked up fish and chips for dinner and I ATE IT ALL! Plus some carmel corn. Since my big cookie binge I've been feeling ill. I've been eating WAy to much crap and I've decided to do another cleanse. You can use the Advocare cleanse every 90 days it has been 120 since my last one so I am due for another. I feel like I need to get this crap out of my system and I am almost looking forward to my cleanse. I have a 4 day weekend the weekend after Christmas so I am going to start it on the 27th and I'll be done with round one of my fiber drink by the time I have to go back to work.
This weekend my BFF & I also wrote down our Half Marathon training into our calendars. But that is a topic worthy of it's own blog post. :-)
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Consistency
Weigh in was today and I am down another 0.8 lbs. The lady at WW said something to me that NO ONE has ever said to me; You are just being so consistent these last few weeks. One thing I have never been is consistent. Well let me rephrase that. I've never been consistent at things that are good for me. I've been consistent at eating crap for years and years that is how I got where I am. Down 13.2 lbs now. No major eating out plans for this week so I should be able to use my points a little more wisely. I went shopping today and need to prep my food but I have lots of good choices ready to go this week. This will I am planning on reaching my1.25 lbs loss goal. Although the best would be another 2.8 week cause then I would have lost 15 total and the WW scale would show me in the 160's.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
All wrapped up...
We are done Christmas shopping except for a couple gift cards we need to pick up and they are all wrapped and under the tree. Christmas is my favorite holiday and I love the whole season. Gift giving is my love language. Now that all the shopping is done and I am settling in for my Christmas knitting and holiday movie watching, I find my mind wandering to New Years. The ads have started making there way to the new year and how you can change your life. Weight Watchers, Medifast, Jenny Craig are all on the move for the New Year New You.
Every year for as long as I can remember I spend a lot of December planning my attack on the New Year. Reviewing my blog from last Dec, I spent lots of time concentrating on everything I had been planning on doing that I didn't do. How I didn't lose any weight or get in shape. This year my mind is not in the same place. For the last 3 weeks I've been having successes in my weight loss. In the last 3 weeks I've lost 4 lbs that is just slightly above my goal of 1.25 lbs a week. Now that I have truly accepted the process I'm not upset with the small weight losses.
3 weeks ago was the week before Thanksgiving. Never in my life have I been so close to the holidays and actually started losing weight. That is the point were I would normally have said Oh well only a month and a half left of this year and with all the holidays I will just start January 1st. But for some reason I didn't. The last year of digging at the reasons as to why I keep on sabotaging myself and my weight loss was mentally exhausting. But if we don't fix our brain and just lose the weight it'll come back. I feel like I have a better chance now that my thoughts seem to be on the right track.
All this being said tomorrow is weigh in day and I this week wasn't my best. I am not negative points but I didn't spend my points wisely or eat every 3 hrs. My most successful week was that wee after all my prep in my food. I need to go to the grocery store and do that again for the next week. I will post my weigh in tomorrow.
Every year for as long as I can remember I spend a lot of December planning my attack on the New Year. Reviewing my blog from last Dec, I spent lots of time concentrating on everything I had been planning on doing that I didn't do. How I didn't lose any weight or get in shape. This year my mind is not in the same place. For the last 3 weeks I've been having successes in my weight loss. In the last 3 weeks I've lost 4 lbs that is just slightly above my goal of 1.25 lbs a week. Now that I have truly accepted the process I'm not upset with the small weight losses.
3 weeks ago was the week before Thanksgiving. Never in my life have I been so close to the holidays and actually started losing weight. That is the point were I would normally have said Oh well only a month and a half left of this year and with all the holidays I will just start January 1st. But for some reason I didn't. The last year of digging at the reasons as to why I keep on sabotaging myself and my weight loss was mentally exhausting. But if we don't fix our brain and just lose the weight it'll come back. I feel like I have a better chance now that my thoughts seem to be on the right track.
All this being said tomorrow is weigh in day and I this week wasn't my best. I am not negative points but I didn't spend my points wisely or eat every 3 hrs. My most successful week was that wee after all my prep in my food. I need to go to the grocery store and do that again for the next week. I will post my weigh in tomorrow.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Weigh in, the odds were not in my favor...
The odds were NOT in my favor this week. So much not in my favor that just a month ago the me with the old attitude about losing weight would have said: "I might a well give up this week, maybe next week." Here are some of the odds that were against me.
1. It was Thanksgiving
2. Black Friday shopping w/ snacks
2. I had a weekend with Hubby away
3. Ate out at at Cinnebar (Philly cheese steak & Fries)
4. Ate out at the buffett at the Casino
5. Ate out at Dick's Drive In
6. Visited a chocolate factory and got candy bar that was worth 12 points! O_O
7. Last but not least, and a TMI, it is that time of the month.
All these sound like amazing and practically valid excuses don't they?? If you read my previous POST about getting ready for Thanksgiving, I was prepared and my points were planned. Granted I didn't spend my points the wisest ways I could they went towards more junk than they should have but I tracked every bite! And I even brought shock to the lady at WW when I stepped on the scale. I was down 0.4!!!!!! I've never been so proud of under a half pound in my life!! With all the circumstances surrounding this loss it is amazing! The lady at WW said Holy Cow you lost weight. I don't think she saw may losses this week with a response like that. MyBFF's respond was "who loses weight on Thanksgiving?" I'm like apparently I DO!! Yes it is a small loss but it proves once again that WW works. Even in the midst of everything that went on and everything I ate. I stayed in my points just barely, I was honest, I tracked everything and I lost weight.
7. Last but not least, and a TMI, it is that time of the month.
All these sound like amazing and practically valid excuses don't they?? If you read my previous POST about getting ready for Thanksgiving, I was prepared and my points were planned. Granted I didn't spend my points the wisest ways I could they went towards more junk than they should have but I tracked every bite! And I even brought shock to the lady at WW when I stepped on the scale. I was down 0.4!!!!!! I've never been so proud of under a half pound in my life!! With all the circumstances surrounding this loss it is amazing! The lady at WW said Holy Cow you lost weight. I don't think she saw may losses this week with a response like that. MyBFF's respond was "who loses weight on Thanksgiving?" I'm like apparently I DO!! Yes it is a small loss but it proves once again that WW works. Even in the midst of everything that went on and everything I ate. I stayed in my points just barely, I was honest, I tracked everything and I lost weight.
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