Fruities

I have a new food obsession.  Weight Watchers has these little gummy candies called Fruities and I just love them!  Strawberry is the best.  They are kind of like hard gummies because you really have to chew on them.  I am limiting myself to one pack a day, and one pack is only 1 point!  But I swear it's going to become a habit like smoking. lol

So far the week has gone by smoothly, at least without having things blow up in my face.  That's always nice.  Next week is a short week because of the holiday and I'm so excited to have even more time off!

Shopping Again

I got the shopping bug again.  This week I wore the same 2 pairs of pants to work because nothing else fit.  I had tried to wear a couple other nice pairs but they looked like parachute pants so I had to let them go...

I was discouraged at Macy's when I couldn't find any professional pants in the juniors section other than black pants.  I went to the women's section and the lowest size they had was a 4.

I went to Express to use a $25 gift card and found that all their pants were perfect in every way.  There was a large variety of professional-wear, they fit comfortably and they were very cute.  My favorite part is that the black pants at Macy's were size 0 and so were all the pants at Express!  It just depends on the store, though.  New York and Co. is size 2.  I just can't believe I've come this far.  A year ago I wore a size 16 and they were getting tight.  At that time I was depressed and starting a new job.  I feel like my life has changed completely and I am so grateful for that!  Never give up and you will reach the sky.

Meeting

I had my follow-up meeting with the vice principal today, about last week's observation.  She thought everything went very smoothly!  She didn't even notice all the things that went wrong!  Well that's nice.  I did tell her my perception of the situation, though.  She let me know that the eval is mainly so that I can look into things that I want to work on for myself.  For some reason I thought it was supposed to be the other way around.  haha

I had pad thai with tofu last night.  It was so amazing I just about died and went to heaven.  I wish I could eat it every night.

We have lots of flooding happening here.  Luckily I work on the hill in Puyallup so we're not affected by the flooding downtown.  I feel sorry for one of our teachers, though.  He lives downtown and he's been evacuated for a couple of days.  His mailbox is underwater, but luckily his house is about 7 feet high off the ground (for this exact reason) so his possessions aren't ruined.  Yesterday and today weren't rainy but it just now started up again and is supposed to continue for a long time.

WI

It's only been 2 weeks but I officially did the WI at Weight Watchers because I wanted my 5 pound sticker!  Our leader weighed me in and she was a bit astonished that I lost 3.4 pounds in 2 weeks.  I am a little surprised myself because it took me a whole month to lose 4 pounds last time.  She even went to the trouble to check that I wasn't getting too low on the weight range.  If I lose 8 pounds I will be at the lowest healthy weight for my height but I only plan to lose about 3.  Today I got my 5 pound sticker for losing 65 pounds.  Goodbye 120's!

My goal for New Year's is to lose 3 pounds and maintain it.  I'm excited at the notion of maintaining because I've never tried it before!

Shopping

I've been really depressed this past week because school has been stressing me out so much I can barely function.  My para's been out sick with strep throat, I've had negative parent meetings up the wazu and I finally got observed my the vice principal unexpectedly and it went HORRIBLY.  The kids were acting like complete buttheads, which is unusual for that particular group.  I don't look forward to the follow-up on that.  I feel like I might as well just quit being  teacher before I get myself fired.

Today I went shopping to cheer myself up and I really think it did help.  One of the best things is when I walked into New York and Co. and the attendant was helping me look for the right style of jeans.  She asked, "Are you a size 2 or a size 0?"  I'm a size 2 and it was really cool to know that someone could just look at me and guess my size.

I walked out of the mall with 2 new pairs of jeans, 4 nice warm sweaters and a Gap hoodie.  Yep, I'm feeling pretty good about that.  I'm going out to the U district in Seattle to celebrate my sister's birthday tonight.  Alcohol is in order here!

Friday Tomorrow!

It's Friday tomorrow!  It's been such a hellish and busy week at school.  Being a special ed resource teacher means you are expected to save the world.  I don't want to go into detail, but let's just say the successes (or non-successes in many cases) of these teens shouldn't be all on the shoulders of one teacher if you know what I mean.

That's enough drama with the weight thing.  It really was just fluctuation and probably nothing more.  The rest of the week has been in the 118's and 117's on the scale. 

I was supposed to go out to The Ram for my sister's birthday tonight but the plans fell through.  In a way it was a bummer because I was looking forward to a caesar salad and some french fries.  It was also a good thing it got cancelled because I chose to eat better foods for the evening.

Tomorrow is a themed lunch in the staff room, appetizers and desserts.  I won't be doing any planning ahead so it will be fun to see how things go.  Flex points are definitely in order!

I hope everyone's week is going well!

AAAAARRRRGH!

Noooooo!!!  Why?  120.2, what did I ever do to deserve maintenance?  That's like 121 pounds on the official WW scales!

I was happy to accept that 118.3 (118.2?) wasn't going to be my true weight on Monday but maintaining just isn't fair.  Check this out:  I was 118.3 on Saturday, 118.7 on Sunday and 120.2 today.  Explain how I gained 1.5 pounds in one day.  I expected a slight gain, like the .4 gain between Sat. and Sun.  So I thought I'd be like 119.2 or something.  And I exercised, drank lots of water, and ate really well!

I skipped my WW meeting today, I just don't have the motivation right now.  Mike is doing poker night all night so I'm just going to stay in and play video games.

The Scale

The scale said 118.3 this morning.  NO, that doesn't mean I think I really lost that much weight in 5 days!  I think it's lucky fluctuation so I definitely wouldn't count that as my loss for the week up to this point.  It was just a little exciting to see that number on the scale.

BBQ Yum Yum

There's this little BBQ joint in my town called Bill's Bodacious BBQ.  Every time we walk in we see the owner and the food is DEVINE.  I always get the chicken dinner that comes with 1/2 a chicken, red beans and rice, baked beans and a cornbread muffin.  Oh it's so good.  We got it on Tuesday and I had it for dinner for 2 nights because it's so filling.  Unfortunately I was in a food coma each night.

I've been stepping on the scale daily to see how things are progressing.  After the BBQ I went up a little but this morning I was back down.  I feel like the exercise isn't doing much.  I didn't exercise yesterday yet today the scale gave me a better result.  It could be anything but I am so ready to get out of the 120's.  How long have I been here?  Let's find out... Ok I was 129 in the end of August.  2 months.  Meh that's not as long as it feels.

Official WI for October

Hello everyone!  It's been a month since my last WI and today I finally checked in.  4 pounds in a month!  I am happy with those results.  Yay!

Even though I've been saying for the past several months that I will expect a 1 lb loss per week and be happy with it, I've really been disappointed.  But I am beginning to feel more accepting of this. 

My WW leader talked to us today about how we really have to think about our goal weight...  Is it worth working so much harder just to lose a little bit more when I am already at a healthy weight?  And will I be able to maintain it and enjoy my quality of life?  I'm really thinking about that. 

I still want to be 115 for sure and I will try to maintain that.  If it doesn't work then I shouldn't let that hurt me or else I might gain it all back.  The last thing I want to do is set myself up for failure.  This is my 3rd time losing a substantial amount of weight!!!  This time will be the time I will maintain because I have a plan!

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This last weekend was a blast!  Mike and I went out to Ocean Shores and stayed in his parents' timeshare.  I bought a new stunt kite and we flew it on the beach.  I'm a pro!  I only wish we had taken some pictures.  Mike bought an Aerobie and we got some exercise in the sand throwing it around.  Then we went to the casino and blew some money.  Mike made back twice as much as he brought in and I lost all of mine.

Oh yes, and we didn't go out to eat at all.  At least not at the ocean...

Yesterday was my mom's birthday so we went to the Old Spaghetti Factory.  I ate a caesar salad, bread with butter, and the spaghetti with rich meat sauce.  Yummy!!!

When we got home last night we watched "Over the Hedge" and it was very cute.  I like the all-star cast and it had a funny premise.  I've also been learning some interesting new statistics from the new WW magazine.