I'm feeling so groggy right now. I just woke up from a short nap after working half the day. The conference has been great! I'm not used to getting up early on a Saturday, though. I had made plans to get home, exercise immediately, go see "300" with Mike and then drive an hour down to Tacoma for my friend's party the rest of the night. All that was just too much so we will be seeing the movie tomorrow. Right now it's time to wake up and get in the mood to work out!
The conference this weekend was for the reading program I teach called Read Right. They had a lunch this afternoon where we got to watch a presentation by a nun from south Tucson, AZ where Read Right has really made a difference at her charter school. She brought with her a group of 8 high school kids who were not only students but a mariachi band! They performed and that was really cool to see.
Good luck to all of you reaching your goals on this lovely rainy weekend!
Friday is tomorrow and that is a good thing. Do you know what else is good?
We're going to Disneyland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I haven't been there since 3rd grade and Mike and I have never had a real vacation together. We leave the Monday after this one and come back Thursday night.
In other news, I got in 5 AP's today. Woohoo! I worked out twice since I was free after 11am.
Happy Wednesday! Today was my last day of teaching for the week and I am so excited to go to the Read Right conference! It is only 15 minutes away from where I live, as opposed to my 1-hour commute every morning. Yay, I get to wake up at 6:30am instead of 5am!!!
My goals are all being met. I have 8 AP's since Monday and plan to get in another 5 tomorrow alone. Drinking over 100 oz. each day and haven't used any flex points. The scale said 110.4 this morning. Overall I'm feeling good.
Exercise 5 days this week and get at least 15 AP's
Daily points reduced to 22 points per day rather than 24 points
Most importantly - STAY ON PLAN
So far so good! Alexia sent me several articles to read about fluctuations but my favorite by far was this one. It described how I was feeling on Monday to a T. Today the scale said 113.4 so that's even more confirmation.
If I've learned anything it's that I still have a lot to learn about weight management. I've been getting great ideas and info from all of you and I am so grateful for that!
NSV Time:
Someone brought in a two-layer chocolate cake with pumpkin filling in the middle. I watched people cut slices big and small, listened to them talk about how it was a "little piece of heaven"... And didn't take any! I didn't do like last week and get Skittles or red Swedish Fish from the vending machine, either. I put my hands on the little bags of gummy worms at the grocery store because I was having a craving. Then I decided 6 points was not worth it for what looked like 10 pieces. Lots of NSV's today, things that a week or two ago I would have just given in.
The comments I got today made me feel better so thank you, ladies! This morning when I looked in the mirror I felt and looked bloated so I am not too surprised to see such a gain, but then again my clothes fit me perfectly fine just like they always do. I did notice that I haven't been going to the bathroom nearly as much as usual and I've been drinking close to 150 oz. of water every day. Hopefully my system will get itself back in gear soon.
If anything this is really motivating me to better myself. The binging needs to stop completely. I can enjoy food without eating 2,000 calorie portions of it. I can choose one dessert rather than five in one sitting (e.g. the weekend buffet).
The coffee had a very bad effect on me this morning. Last night I had about 5 oz. of coffee at 6:30pm and was up until 11:30 when bed time is 10pm. This morning I drank a full 14-16 oz. travel mug of the stuff. At 6:15 I was drinking it in my car and feeling pretty good. By third period I felt nauseous, had the chills and a stuffy head. Wow coffee is like poison. I am limiting it to 2 cups a day.
The coffeemaker is pretty cool, though! It's a Hamilton Beach BrewStation Delux. It comes with lots of good settings, can make 12 cups or even just 1-4 cups. It's programmable and has a permanent filter and will even make iced coffee. What's even nicer is that I only paid about $50 for the store's floor model and it works great!
When I stepped on the scale this morning the whole world stopped. 115.9????? Yesterday morning I was 110.6 and I step on the scale more than once to make sure the scale isn't out of whack. How could I have gained over 5 pounds in one day!!????? I am panicking panicking panicking. What happened? I have NEVER had a fluctuation like this in the course of my entire WW experience. That's over 1 1/2 years this has never happened.
I did eat medium fries from McDonald's and a TCBY parfait yesterday but that does not account for a 5 pound gain. Someone please tell me that this will all go away tomorrow! I am sure most of this is water weight but I am so worried that tomorrow the scale will say it's worse or that I will be the same. Maybe my binges from a couple weeks ago are catching up with me... Not good not good.
By the way I am buzzing bad off of coffee this morning. I got a great machine and I will post about it later but for now please help me feel better if you can. This is bothering me to no end!
Last night was really really fun. It didn't turn out the way it was supposed to but such is life. Malia called on Friday and said that she and Tyler wouldn't be able to celebrate St. Patty's Day with us because they were going to a friend's birthday/St. Patrick's Day party. She said she'd call on Saturday about seeing "300". She never did so we didn't go see the movie.
That's ok because I got in some good exercise and we ended up going with my parents to the big casino they always go to. I started off with a Tequila Sunrise and an Amaretto Sour. Amaretto Sours are my signature favorites. Then Jen gave me the tip of trying Capn and Diet Coke so I tried that. FELL IN LOVE WITH IT. Thank you Jen!!! It is now my new drink. It's really cheap on the WW points and tastes really good!
We had reservations at Black Angus but the men were too busy drinking beer and talking about Harleys that we ended up canceling and going to the casino buffet. Waited in line for almost an hour just to get in.
I hadn't been to a buffet since high school people!!! I think I handled it ok. I got a decent amount of grapes and corn, a little bit of creole shrimp and one pork potsticker. Dessert hurt me a bit. Had one small piece of cherry pie, a little bit of cherry cobbler, a piece of chocolate cake, soft serve vanilla ice cream and a chocolate brownie. Whoa, writing it down makes it look worse than it felt.
Stepped on the scale this morning and I'm down to 110.6 from a high of 113.6 for the week. Here's my issue with weighing in every day. When I see a number I am really happy with I make that an excuse to go out and eat something really unhealthy. This is something I am going to try hard to learn from and stop doing. Today, for instance, I am going to stay on plan and not binge like I have been doing in past weeks.
We probably won't be looking at condos today because we decided it is too early to get excited about anything. We can't move out of the apartment until August. For now it's just browsing. I don't want to see something I love and then become disappointed that I can't even put in a bid.
Instead we might go with his parents out shopping. Three out of the four of us love to shop and I'm hoping that Mike's mom can give me advice on getting a good coffee maker. Here's what I'm looking for at the moment:
1) Makes 1-4 cups - Since I'm the only one at home who likes coffee and don't want a single-cup maker.
2) Programmable - So it will be ready for me when I finish getting ready for work in the mornings.
3) Permanent filter - The kind that only needs to be replaced every year or two depending on how much you use it.
4) Pause and Serve - So when I'm feeling impatient I can just get one cup's worth while it's still in the middle of brewing.
5) Resonably Priced - Enough said? $40-75 maybe.
Hopefully all of this is possible to find! Next it's finding the right kind of coffee...
The weekend is almost here!!! That makes me so happy. It hasn't been a bad week at work but I'm PMSing like crazy and have been MIA due to my crazy head/hormones/body. This PMS thing has been a recent development over the past few months. I never used to really have any symptoms at all so now, one week a month, I become a crazy stressball over nothing. So this is the kind of pain so many women talk about.
Been OP all week and that is saying a lot. Tomorrow will be a challenge since we are going out to see "300" and then getting trashed at a bar in Tacoma for St. Patty's Day. I still have 25 flex points left for the week, though.
On Sunday Mike and I are going out with his parents to look at condos. I really hope we can find something reasonable!
This weekend was a little odd in a bad way. I went to see the comedian Zach Galifianakis with Mike, my sister Malia and her boyfriend Tyler. The four of us always have good times together so it was really good to see them. We met up at The Blarney Stone Pub in Seattle for dinner and drinks and then headed to the Moore Theatre for the show. The opening guy was ok but talked a lot about race. Zach Galifianakis was not nearly as funny as we've seen on TV. It's like he wasn't even trying. We left early and spent the rest of the evening at the bar. Overall my favorite part was that I didn't have to pay for any of my drinks or food. Sad!
I'm not much of an advocate for waiting until the beginning of the next week to have a fresh start because that usually promotes continuing the bad eating habits for the rest of the week. This week it's different and I am going to view Monday as a fresh start for me. This week I will do better.
Wow it's Thursday. That means tomorrow is Friday!!! We are going to see Zach Galifianakis on Saturday night in Seattle and I am very excited to get out and have some fun!
On the food front, I've had a little too much fun already. I ate a full meal at Wendy's on Monday and then last night the school's parent committee outdid themselves on serving us dinner at parent conferences. Think pizza, BBQ chicken, lots of sweets and a giant chocolate layer cake. They even served us and all of the parents coffee and cookies during the conferences. Talk about spoiled!
Tomorrow I'm celebrating my best friend Kat's birthday so there will be yummy food at her aunt's house. Then on Saturday we are all going out to dinner and the bar before the comedy show. Where? No idea.
Sometimes you just have to make your peace with the fact that you may be eating more than you should and move on. In my case it means being really good on the days without special plans, exercising more, drinking tons of water and knowing that next week will be better. Sure I could choose not to eat all these things but in the end it just hasn't worked out that way.
I ate a full meal at Wendy's on Monday and then last night the school's parent committee outdid themselves on serving us dinner at parent conferences. Think pizza, BBQ chicken, lots of sweets and a giant chocolate layer cake. They even served us and all of the parents coffee and cookies during the conferences. Talk about spoiled!