| Height: | 175.3cm |
| Start weight: | 292.40lb |
| Current weight: | 202.60lb |
| Goal weight: | 199.00lb |
| Lost to date: | 89.80lb |
| Remaining: | 3.60lb |
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One more thing -- From my weight right now, if I lose 10lbs five more times, I will be UNDER 200LBS for the first time in ELEVEN YEARS. Breaking it down into those little pieces makes it SO much easier to think about.
I lost .2lbs last week, then 4.2 at my weigh-in today?? That makes me feel way way better. It evens out to 4.4lbs over 2 weeks, and 2.2lbs a week, which puts my average a little closer to GOOD on my Milestones worksheet. I have 1.4lbs left to lose until I hit Milestone 1. Unfortunately, that milestone date of 9/28/09 falls on the first day of a surprise business trip, so I'll actually be weighing in this coming Saturday, 9/26/09, which gives me 5 days to lose 1.5lbs.
There is no Jenny Craig in that part of Virginia, so I can either pack my own travel food (which will cost $$$ to check an extra bag) or I can wing it around crazy southern food, and weigh in again on Monday, 10/5/09.
My Milestone 1 reward will have to be small, but significant, as I need to stretch my budget for Ross' birthday. He's turning 30, and we got him an old fixer-upper arcade cabinet. He's sanding it down and fixing it up to put in his own games. I'm excited for him, but I need to find other proper presents, and a healthy way to celebrate on a diet.
On the JC front, I decided to do "snacks" and breakfasts from the store, and call them "meals on my own", which is part of the JC program anyway. I've been active-ish in my participation since 2004, and I'm SO ready to stop eating their food. I think I'm going to look for a lower calorie cereal with soymilk and bananas, and see how that goes. 100 calorie pack snacks (2 starch and 1 fat exchanges each) will work for the end of the day. I need to stop eating so much corn, so anything sweeter or chocolate covered will be nice.
I don't know what else to say. This was a good week, and I hope next week will be just as good. I'm worried about this trip, but I need to learn to trust myself and bring my diet materials with me to calculate exchanges if I can't bring food with me.
I'm just posting some calculations for myself to get it all typed out and develop a plan so I can stick the dates for my milestone plans. I'm not going to get the 2lbs weekly loss at my current calorie level, so I need to amp up my exercise. I'm on the JC 1700 calorie plan.
28/Female/5'9"/253.4/Sedentary
Basal Metabolic Rate: 1950kcal/day
Weight Maintenance (Sedentary = BMR x 1.2): 2340kcal/day
Weight Loss Plan: 1700kcal/day
Caloric Deficit/Day: 640kcal
Total required for 2lb/week loss: 1,000kcal/day (7,000kcal = 2lbs)
Remaining calories to burn daily: 360kcals
I need to figure out how to burn 360 calories more every day if I want to make my 2lb/week milestones. From my calculations online (who knows), it looks like I can burn about 400 calories on a recumbent bike in 30 minutes, so I need to spend some time at the gym this week.
Hooray for rewards! So I guess I can do nail polish twice in a row as a reward, right? I ADORE the new OPI matte collection. Last time, I got the purple-ish "Domestic Goddess" shade, and this time, I ordered "Metro Chic", which is a smoke color with a hint of purple. GORGEOUS. I'm so excited! I also tossed in 2 perfume samples (One being Armani Code - I keep forgetting to try that in-store!), a shampoo sample, and a 10 day mini sample from Bare Escentuals in my normal shade, with a mini kabuki brush. PERFECT size to refill and keep in my purse for nights out without making a mess of my normal sized pots.
I forgot to report back about the starfruit. Pretty tart for my taste, very citrusy, and very similar to an apple in the skin. I washed it, sliced it into little stars, and pulled out the seeds. I took a bite, and wow, it was really REALLY tart! I sprinkled a bit of Splenda over the slices like I do with my underripe strawberries, and it was REALLY good. If you like fruit on the tart side, you will LOVE starfruit. I just couldn't justify the price to pick them up as a regular item. It's probably better to buy these right after payday when it won't impact my budget as much.
Ross is a little freaked out about the money I've been spending on the diet in the last few weeks. Before, it was about $100 for me each week - $50 at Jenny Craig, and $50 at the grocery store. I was ALSO eating out at restaurants and fast food all the time, so I wasn't eating all of my menu items. Now that I'm actually staying on plan, it's more around $200 at JC and $150 - $180 at the grocery store for both of us for one week. Granted we're not eating out at ALL, but that's STEEP, even after my 30% JC rewards discount. He said if it stays this high, he'll look into doing a cheaper version of JC in the grocery freezer aisle, which makes me think he'll be completely inconsistent with his diet.
I decided to stop buying so many freezer items (even though they taste better) so I can get some better prices going overall. Yesterday's bill was $130 compared to the last two weeks being at $190, so I think I'm doing something right. The grocery store was down to $94 from $204, which is awesome, but I really cut back on the variety of what I like to eat. Hopefully I can get my produce rhythm down and figure out how much I need to buy weekly so I can do a budget overhaul. We're saving money by not eating out at fast food and restaurants, plus being able to fit back into our fall wardrobes this year! Anything I can do to save pennies and keep him on track is totally worth it.
Weighed in last night at 253.4, down 1.4 from last week. I guess I need to be careful of the leaner weeks, and just work harder to make up for it. I'm still .2 lbs ahead of the curve right now, so that should help for next week. 1.8 lbs is manageable over this week.
I'm donating blood today. I try to schedule my next appointment every time I leave to make sure I do this regularly. I know I need to sit for the required 15 minutes and have water and a snack, but I hate trying to figure out the calories and exchanges of what they have in the lounge. One woman comes in every few days with a big sheet of brownies from scratch! I can't even THINK about those. I think I'll just throw a banana in my purse and hope they're happy with that. I can save up one of my fruit exchanges off my plan and have that before I come home for dinner.
I need to figure out my reward for staying on plan last week. It was SUPPOSED to be matte nail polish, but I blew it early the week before. Hmm, maybe I'll go back for one of the other colors? I love Sephora so much.
WI tonight at 4:55pm MST, I am at 254.8, down 2.8 lbs this week. I am well on track with my first milestone, and I've updated all of my graphs. I went out to Sephora and got myself a pretty matte nail polish as a reward, and replenished my facial primer supply.
Hit the grocery store after that, and picked up a Starfruit tonight. Not entirely sure how to prepare it, but I'm excited. They're a low calorie fruit, and they're just PRETTY. Hahaha!
Getting a little late, I need to have my dinner and clean the catbox, as tomorrow is garbage day and I HATE the early morning trash-can-shuffle.
Whipped up a quick Word document for myself so I can track my weigh-ins and goal progress. I'm going to put this on the wall above my desk.
Looking at the graph today is really disappointing, and it has been hard to not just open it up, wipe everything out, and start fresh. The idea of a clean slate is so appealing! I would love to wipe out the reminders of my gains and stumbles and just have one pretty straight line headed for the ground, but that's not how things happened, that's not how they WILL happen, and I can't turn a blind eye to the negative patterns in my life.
That scale represents my struggle since I started dieting. It's educating me about my slips and falls. It shows where I've gotten back up each time to try again. I can't just throw that all away and mentally whitewash the fact that when I think I'm doing well and I can stop "dieting", I gain all of my weight PLUS SOME back! Someday, it will really sink in that if these habits are temporary, so are my results.
So as of my weigh-in last night, I'm at 257.6 lbs.
That puts me at 57.8 lbs away from my first major major major goal -
being under 200lbs since 1999. Ten years in 57.8 lbs of fat can be
gone from my body. Maybe I'll feel ten years younger physically too?
Milestone 1: 247.6 lbs. That will be 10 lbs burned, and at 2lbs steady average loss per week, I SHOULD reach that by 9/28/09 - five weeks.
Milestone 2: 237.6 lbs. That will be 20 lbs burned in 10 weeks by 11/2/09.
Milestone 3: 227 lbs. That
will be 30.6 lbs burned in 16 weeks by 12/14/09. That will get me back
down to my lowest weight since starting Jenny Craig in 2005 and
screwing things up for myself since. Four months to get myself back on
track; that's doable, right? Less than 10 lbs a month? I think that's
generous.
Milestone 4: 220 lbs. That will be 37.6 lbs burned in 20 weeks by 1/11/10. 20.2 lbs away from being under 200 lbs. Totally possible.
Milestone 5: 205 lbs. That will be 52.6 lbs burned in 28 weeks by 3/8/10. That will be exactly my weight when I turned 18. Crazy!
Milestone 6: 199.8 lbs. That will be 57.8 lbs burned in 34 weeks by 4/19/10. What a crazy idea.
I'm going to hold off on milestones after 199.8. I think right now,
this is a good amount to digest for my first major goal, and I think I
can keep myself on track pretty well with these dates. Milestone 3 is
the one I really really hope to achieve for 2009, and anything else
will be (icing on the cake? gravy? ugh, food references) a welcome
bonus.
Ok, so the weigh-in wasn't as awesome as I'd hoped for; only lost 3.8 pounds, and I got all the weights I was missing plugged into my graph. Got my food ordered, need to make a shopping list and write up my menu for the coming week.
My knee is aching again, feels like the pain is radiating up into my right thigh. If I do get out to the gym feeling like this, I think I'm going to stick to the pool. Maybe I'll investigate one of those Aqua Aerobics classes, see how that works with my contact/goggle combination.
Bleh. Bleh bleh bleh. I need some motivation!
