Filed under: Struggles
It looks like my downfall is going to be life. I had a hard week at work last week and this week is starting off pretty sh!tty. Explanations are probably better for another forum, but after a bad day today, I just wanted to come home and eat eat eat. I grabbed some carrots and put in leftovers from yesterday, but man, I want some chips — bad. I got some baked lays, I hope those help.
Filed under: weigh in
My weigh in: CraZ
Week: 0 Total: -6
I didn’t lose any weight this week and considering the week I had last week, it’s a miracle I didn’t gain.
My Weigh-in: Snarkychic
Week: -5 Total: -5.
This is my first weigh in. I wasn’t able to weigh in week one. -5 is a miracle. I was BAD while traveling.
My Weigh-in: A
Week: 0 Total: -4
Like CraZ I am lucky to not have gained. It was not a good week.
Traveling is going to be my down fall. The last week and a half has been a real challenged. I tried to stick to the points as much as possible but it was hard. First, my mom’s house is insane. There were cookies, chips/dip and various other varieties of tempting food. I tried to stick with carrots butI have to admit I gave into temptation. I really like chips and dip.
I had hope for my trip to DC and WW. I did do OK but the cookies during the breaks were calling my name. Also, I thought it might be rude to the conference organizers if I didn’t partake of their cookies. You know me…I am nothing if not polite. Thankfully I go home tomorrow morning. I have healthy food at my house.
Also, I was unable to weigh in this weekend. I think I might have found the pounds you ladies lost… finders keepers… Anyway, I am hopeful for this weekend and next week.
I hope everyone has a great week.
Here is my weigh in:
Week: -4 Total: -4
If you can, you can just edit my post and put yours in here too. I did my weigh in on Saturday. What day do we want to do? If I am careful this weekend with my Flex Points, I can move my date to Sunday or Monday. So if I exercise, we’ll be fine. I know SnarkyChic was not near a scale last week and was not in WW friendly territory.
Here is mine: CraZ
Week: – 6 Total: -6
Don’t be impressed. I was ill for quite a few days. And that sucked. I would have rather kept the extra pounds and kept my food down.
In my first week, I did lose 4 pounds. This week, I have maintained that loss. I’ll be honest here, I weigh myself nearly every day. I’m not sure why I do that. I know I’m not supposed to but I do. Maybe some day I’ll stop doing that.
Even though I have maintained that loss this week, it has been a rough week. Monday I had to pick K up an hour away from work and get to a meeting by 6 p.m. So I left work early and built in about 40 minutes to allow me to stop at Subway for a sandwich. Naturally, there was an accident which ate up all of my extra time and made me 15 minutes late for the meeting. Then we stayed and chatted after the meeting which meant we had Wendy’s for dinner. Wendy’s for dinner is a 13 point dinner for me. 7 points for my jr. cheeseb and 6 for a small fry. Yumm-0. I heart Wendy’s.
Yesterday, I had a final pre-trial in the a.m. & K’s bus was late. Which meant, you know it, I had a donut for breakfast. Then I had jury selection at 1 p.m. and I had filings to get in before that. I didn’t know before we left how many other cases would be picking. Last time it was 5 and I didn’t get out of there until 6 p.m. So I brought a granola bar with me and ran through a drive through for lunch. Yes, it was Wendy’s. I heart Wendy’s. So it was a 13 point lunch. Dinner was not much better as K announced it was family fun night. This meant she made us blueberry smoothies (with honey, yogurt, b.berries, and milk, yummy, with good things from the berries and yogurt but lots o’ sugar which means more points!) and I made us some cheesy broccoli and chicken breasts. Being family fun night, she talked me into the betty crocker mini-cakes in the cake isle. They are 3 points each and come in 2’s. We picked the chocolate fudge. You add a little bit of water and microwave for 30 seconds. Very chocolatey and very yummy. I now have 9.5 flex points left. 9.5! Last friday was wonderful because it was my last night and I had like 12 points left for dinner plus 14 flex points left! This friday will suck.
To top of my bad eating this week, I exercised on Saturday. That’s it. I need to make exercising a priority every day. I guess I am going to have to start getting up earlier in the morning.
So that’s where I am.
Filed under: Struggles
The problem with 0 point foods is that they aren’t comforting. I’ve had some hard days recently: people are pissing me off and work is being annoying. When I come home, I want to eat and be comforted. Carrots are not comforting, neither are pickles. Lettuce pisses me off. So I come home and try to be good. Unfortunately, I haven’t been making it. I’m way into my weekly flex points already and today is only Monday. Cross your fingers for me, I’m not sure I’m going to make it. I did lose last week, so that’s kind of a comfort. A small one.
I feel like I passed an important test last night. I had a rough night with K who is super moody when she is tired. Yesterday, she was on some allergy meds to deal with an allergic reaction she had earlier in the week. I knew she was tired but I wanted to exchange mynew suit for a smaler size. (Yippee!) So we went to Penny’s and I returned the suit (ordering a new one with a coupon online). We browsed around the store. After she tried on 4 outfits, she picked a different outfit (2 World Wildlife Tee’s and a pair of sparkly jeans). We didn’t have much time before gymnastics so we were rushing. She began sulking in the store because she only got one outfit. Then in the car, she wigged out. Started sobbing and claiming it wasn’t fair that I bought more things for me than for her, blah, blah, blah. At first I tried to wait for a break in the storm so I could reason with her. But then she just lost it. So I did eventually get her attention (there were some threats and some yelling involved {I try not to yell}). Finally she calms down acknowledges she behaved badly even apologizes. She goes to gymnastics for 35 minutes and then we go home. I was exhausted, shopping with her is generally a lot of work, dealing with an overwrought almost tween, horrible. I wanted to binge, I really, really wanted food. I did end up 4 over my day. But I’m okay with that. I still have flex points left. I was too tired to work out 9 as planned so I just went to bed at 10.
The important thing is I didn’t make a stressful situation worse by overeating to deal with it.
Lessons: Girls are hard work, you can get through stressful situations without overeating.
I can tell already that one of my problems is going to be the t.v. I’m sitting in front of it, and all I want to do is snack snack snack. I should get off my ass and go to a grm, but I’d rather be on the couch.
How are people allocating their points? 3 meals a day? More points at certain times of the day? What? I need ideas.
Do you all count half points? My bread is 2 slices for 1 point. If I were at home, I could look at the cals for 1 slice and it would probably say 1 point. I don’t remember what online WW used to say about 1 slice of the WW bread. So I was just wondering, do you could 1/2 points? I did.
I meant to put up an introductory post before I just blathered on about my day. Ah well, here it is. I am motivated right now by the other changes going on in my life. I am moving to a new city in a different state after I get a job – which means that I have to interview for jobs, which means that I have to buy at least 1 new suit, which means I have to go suit shopping.
I hate suit shopping. I have the hardest time find suits that fit and look good or at least don’t make me look bigger. I dread it. I am particularly frustrated when over and over I find great suits that are just the next size down. So right now, my mini-goal is to get to the next size down. My end goal is to lose at least 60 pounds, but 70 would be nice. In WW, your 10% goal is important – it is big. My 10% is 19.5 pounds. (I can’t believe I wrote that down where you could read it.) I remember 19.5 pounds ago and there are suits in that size. I am really hoping that 5% down means a size at the store. I think I am going to celebrate my 5% goal too.
