Well, now I am back and couldn't be more ready to begin focusing on myself again.
Long story short, I spent the summer living with a terrible person. This person ridiculed me for being vegetarian and was just awful to me in general. Sure, there were good days, but by no means did those days out-weigh the bad days.
Anywho, I left the situation and am now back home for the remainder of summer before returning to school.
While at home it is my goal to get back on track with a vegetarian lifestyle and exercising more frequently. Hopefully I can then keep it up when I return to campus. I know I can! Everyone in my family has been really supportive of me, and I thank them for everything. I couldn't have asked for better parents.
So, now I am up a few pounds from stress...That will change. My goal is to still get down to 125lbs.
The little engine that could...I think I can. I think I can.
Only in my case...I know I can. I know I can. I have support and I'm a strong person.
This year has been quite the roller coaster for me thus far. With that being said, however, I wouldn't change a single thing. School has been fantastic. I have a wonderful internship that I'm hoping will yield a job offer (which I would take in a heart beat!) and I've made some really great new friends in my dorm and on the general campus.
Moving along, though, the main purpose for this update is to say that I've transitioned to vegetarianism. My reason is not to save the animals (although that is a wonderful by-product of my decision to transition), but for my health. I've been sleeping better and for the most part have had much more energy than I did prior to transitioning. The only thing I have missed is fish and the ease of availability of non-vegetarian food in the dining hall here at college.
Those two issues have been remedied, luckily, by talking to the general food manager (who has agreed to have the chefs prepare special meals for me upon request), and by cooking my own food. I've even managed to find a good recipe for tofu 'fish' sticks. They are made with kelp powder and taste great with organic tofu - the silken kind doesn't work well at all.
The first week I transitioned I lost two pounds and then I lost another pound this past week. I'm weighing in on Friday and I hope to lose some more weight. I've been going to the gym as frequent as possible and I can see the results! I love the results! I've lost almost two inches in my waist since starting a gym routine and I've lost about the same amount in my hips. Woohoo!
Overall, things are really beginning to look up for me. The only gripe I currently have is that I haven't had enough time to get all of the things I need to get done throughout the course of my days. I've been extremely busy. I won't let that busy-ness conquer me, though. I will not turn into a 'carbo-tarian' (my word) because I cannot prepare vegetables in time to leave for the day. I will prevail!
I'm back down to what I weighed freshman year of high school. That's such an awesome feeling. I'm not gonna stop here though, I plan on losing another 13lbs. I want to be a svelte 125lbs and I know I can do it.
I totally binged today on Chinese food and then felt terrible after. That's not something I plan on doing again for a long time because even though it tasted great, it's not worth it.
As my leader says...Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
I did something really stupid today and I ended up disappointing a good friend of mine. I really wish I hadn't done what I did today. I hope he doesn't hate me now.
UGH...I've done terribly this week. My cravings during this TOM have been worse than any other TOM cravings I can remember. I've eaten everything from cookies to ice cream to flavored pretzles. I made sure I counted everything using points, but I really really really don't want to weigh-in Friday morning. I'm afraid that the scale will show a gain for this week :-/
Next week I will do better. Not nearly as much junk and I certainly will NOT use as many weekly allowance points as I have already this week. UGH
This morning at weigh-in, I found out that I lost another 1.6lbs for a total of 13.2lbs in 6 weeks. Today starts my 7th week of Weight Watchers and I'm very pleased with how my weight loss has been going thus far.
I was even able to get a pair of size 7/8 khaki pants from Aeropostale. Woohoo! A size 7/8...I could hardly believe it. But, even though I'm a size 7/8 in this brand I am still a size 9/10 in most other Junior sized pants. Either way, a 7/8 or a 9/10 is still great considering just 6 weeks ago I was in a size 11/12 or 13/14.
I feel pretty darn good right now. I just got home from a short afternoon of shopping for black work pants. The ones I was wearing to work are now too big (they're a juniors 11/12) and the ones I picked up today are a misses size 6. Once I lose another 4 or 5 pounds they will fit perfect. I didn't want to get the size 8 pair, even though they fit better than the 6's, because in a week or two it is my hope that they would've been too big. So, hopefully these 6's will fit for a while because I don't want to buy any more black pants this summer.
This morning was pretty exciting. I went to WI to find out I lost 3.2lbs this week for a total loss of 10lbs my first month on WW. I don't think I could've been happier than I was at the very moment I found out. Then I went grocery shopping, which went just as great as WI. The things I bought were all on sale with the exception (of course) of the WW bagels. I love those bagels and the best thing about them is that they are only 2 points for a whole bagel. How exciting is that? A little later on I went to work. Work was a disaster this morning, but I think we all had fun comiserating with eachother. It was awful, one movie wouldn't work at all and another movie was a complete attack of the blob on the screen. It just would not focus, so people kept bitching at me. I'm not the projectionist. I don't know how to fix movies, so it was so frustrating that I was getting yelled at. Oh, and tonight I went with my mom to see The Devil Wears Prada. That was such a good movie....definitely a chick-flick....but a good movie anyway. But, now it is time for me to hit the hay so I can get up in th morning for work.
I have to say that this is the first time I am actually excited to weigh-in tomorrow morning. I feel great and my pair of 9/10 jeans from Aeropostale fit perfectly. When I bought them they were a little tight but I got them anyway because I was anticipating losing weight. Well, I've done it...I've lost just enough weight for the 9/10's to be a little big. I'm so excited and I can't wait to see what the scale says tomorrow morning. Hopefully all goes well :)
Hi. I'm a college junior studying Counseling Psychology in the Boston area. I absolutely love my major, even though my school isn't that great. A lot of what I've learned in school has to do with mental health but I've realized that in order for me to be a mentally healthy/happy person I need to be physically healthy...which is why I'm writing in this blog. I just started Weight Watchers on June 3rd. Today is the 24th and I've lost a total of 6.8lbs so far. The weight is coming off a little slower than I had hoped it would. Over the past few weeks I've had to learn how to completely overhaul my eating habits. It's been a difficult three weeks, but I'm very pleased with how my clothes are fitting (or not fitting because they are now too big). So, my plan is to just keep at it. I want to return to school in the fall as a new, healthier, thinner me.
