I Love Fruit

First I will admit that I am not a very healthy eater.  No joke, I just follow the WW flex plan to my liking and often don't follow many of the 8 healthy eating guidelines.

That said, I discovered last night the perfect food to end the evening before bed.  Fruit!  I almost always eat 1-2 pieces of fruit every day but usually in the afternoon.  Yesterday I thought I would try to eat my dessert a little early and end the night with a plum and an apple.  For some reason it made me feel a lot better about myself rather than ending the night with a WW chocolate chip cookie dough sundae.

Tomorrow is parent conference night.  I hate how I only see 16 out of 60 parents during the course of 4 whole hours!  I wish more special ed kids had support at home.  It's really sad.

Still Up, but OK

I did a WI this morning on the home scale again since it's Monday.  I was 120.9, which is a lot better than before.  It's a .6 gain and I am ok with that.  I lost 3.5 pounds last week, so I've evened myself out. 

I also looked at my chart on Fitday.com and it says I have lost an average of about 1.2 pounds a week over the past month.  My average for the past 4 months is 1.5 lbs.  My average for the past year is exactly 1 lb a week.  It makes you feel better when you see what your average weight loss is over time, especially when you have a bad WI.

Aaaaaarrrrrgh!

Aw, man!  I stepped on the scale this morning to determine if I was going to exercise today and it said I am up 2 pounds from last week!  Darn it, I knew that was too good to be true.  Now I am super disappointed and wondering how I'm supposed to get those 2 pounds off by Monday!  Extreme action needs to take place!

I know the best I can do is continue to stay OP and exercise like usual.  I drink plenty of water so there's not much else to look into.

Last Monday's WI must have just been one of those lucky random fluctuation days where you lose a lot of water weight.

I went to see that new Robin Williams movie yesterday afternoon (because it was an in service day).  I forgot the name of the movie!  The one where he tries to become the President.  It was good but I was expecting it to be less serious and more funny.  I Netflixed "Eight Below" and it's sitting in front of the TV for the weekend.  It's supposed to be a real tear-jerker.  I am a tough little girl and not many movies will make me cry.  We shall see.

Hope you are all having a good weekend!

Leanne

3.5 Loss

After thinking about it, I believe I actually lost 3.5 pounds last week and not 2.5!  See, the week before I was 123.8 and on Monday I was 120.3.  Do the math and that's 3.5 pounds!  Well I know it wasn't all fat because my WW leader says that even if you lose such a large amount, there is a high probability that only 2 of those pounds could be fat.  But yay anyway!

This may be over-confidence, but I am eating a large Quizno's chicken carbonara sub tonight!!!    Today I am having a high point day and I'm counting it as 20 points.  I hope that's somewhat accurate.  I counted last week's fish and chips as 25 points with high hopes.

Aside from the weight stuff, I am sad for my co-worker.  She works in our front office and she got yelled at pretty badly by the school principal.  He is usually a calm and collected, very formal and somewhat intimidating man.  I can't imagine what it would be like if he lost it like that.  I found the poor woman crying in the bathroom this afternoon.  She's such a sweetheart and she didn't deserve it at all.  I think it is a very unprofessional thing to do as a principal not to mention a bad example to set.  It wasn't even a huge problem.  One mistake was made that technically wasn't her fault.  Grrr, it makes me so mad.   Thank God my co-worker has a 4-day weekend to relax. 

I have a 3-day weekend, woohoo!

Tofu Shirataki!

I heard about this stuff from Hungrygirl.com.  They're these noodles made from tofu and yam flour and a whole package (which is a very decent amount of noodles) is only 1 point.  The texture is a little gummy-like but it's not bad when you try it.  I made pad thai this evening with the noodles and it was definitely worth saving 3-4 points!  Instead of counting it as 7 points for a tiny portion, we counted it as 3 points for a much larger amount.  Apparently they're hard to find but Mike works in the International District of Seattle so that made it simple to locate.

My home scale said I weigh 120.3 this morning.  That means I've lost about 2.5 pounds since last week.  So I am not as scared of fish and chips.  But to tell you the truth, I didn't even like the taste of the fried fish very much!  I loved the french fries but who doesn't love big old steak fries?  Even though the food splurge didn't hinder my weight loss, I will ditch the fried fish because it's just plain not worth it.

One of my WW buddies was disappointed with her WI today because she gained .8 lbs.  She said she was ok with it because it's TOM.  It seems like everyone has either a gain, a maintain, or a tiny loss during TOM.  My body is weird.  I have a totally regular TOM and I'm on birth control.  I went back through all my WI records and noticed a regular trend where I always seem to have really good weight losses during TOM!  How does that work?  Sheer luck, maybe.

I hope you all have really good WI's this week!

Fish and Chips

Once a week I tend to go out and use my flex points on something naughty.  Yesterday I went out to dinner at Billy McHale's and got fish and chips.  I went home and looked up the points for these and it spans from 23-56 points!!!  So I have no idea how many points I spent on dinner last night.  I sure hope it's on the lower end, though.  Because there is the possibility that it was worth over 50 points, I am worried about my weight loss.  I've been working my butt off all week, but that is way too many points to be acceptable.  I don't think I will ever eat fish and chips again!  Even a burger and fries is cheaper on WW points than that.

Non-WI

I always call Monday posts "WI" just because that's what day it is.  Today was my first day not weighing in.  It was kind of nice!  I checked the scale at home this morning and it's ok, nothing special.  I think maybe I lost 1 pound.  Mike lost almost 3!  And last week he lost even more.  I'm so happy for him.   He's finally going to be my workout buddy starting this week, too.

"Rachel's Challenge" comes to my school tomorrow.  It fits in well considering there have been 3 school-related killings in the U.S. in the last week.  It's alarming.  Just last week one of our students (with pretty severe social defcits) said she wants to wait until she gets stronger and then she wants to bring a gun to school and shoot everyone who's made her feel bad.  Oh boy.

Biggest Loser

I'm rooting for the red team just for Ken because he's a fellow Washingtonian.  I was going to be so upset if he left after last night's episode!  I think if he wasn't there I would have been totally rooting for the blue team because I like their spirit and their trainer the best overall.  I think the female trainer doesn't have the same faith in her team and doesn't care about them nearly as much.  Her strategies to make the team work with her just aren't very effective.  Yet somehow they still managed to blow the blue team out of the water at WI, so yay!

I have cut my water intake from 140 ounces a day to about 80 oz.  It feels much more natural because I am drinking when I am thirsty, unlike before.  About 24 oz of that is diet caffeine-free soda which is more like a treat.  But the very best part is that I don't get up 3 times in the middle of a work night to use the bathroom!!!  In fact, I don't think I've had to get up at all.

WI - Someone's Got A Case of the Mondays

I live in fear of the scale and that is exactly what brings me to it.  Sounds strange but it's true.

Today I lost a pound.  The song that should be running through my head after a weigh-in like that is "Joy to the World", but instead I am disappointed with myself.  Why can't I lose more?  What am I doing wrong?

I only used 15 flex points this week and all my AP's.  I drink at least 140 ounces of water a day (more on this further down the page).  I exercise 4-5 days a week.  It's probably because I'm getting so close to my real goal weight.

So I'm making a commitment to myself in regards to the dreaded scale that I am so obsessed with.  Since I am a Lifetimer I am only required to WI once a month.  I promise that I will not do an official WW WI until October 23.  That way there's less worrying.  And if I do step on my scale at home, it will only be once a week and I will not record it.  There.  That's my goal.

Now to the water situation.  On Saturday Mike told me I was obsessed with water because of how much I drink and the fact that I record every ounce in my log, etc.  Naturally I fought back to defend myself.  After reading Alexia's blog on Sunday, I'm starting to think he was right in telling me that I shouldn't drink so much water.  My body only needs 64-70 ounces, and here I am drinking at least twice that amount. 

I'm cutting back now because I'm worried.  I have had the same symptoms of mini blackouts and dizziness when standing up too fast and it's only been happening over the past few months.  Plus I've been pretty loopy, almost absent-minded.  Mike thinks I'm thinning my blood too much with the huge water intake.  (Alexia:  How much water were you drinking a day when you had those problems?)

Another Sort-Of NSV

Today was Mike's grandma's 90th birthday party so of course there was good food.  I flawlessly passed up the croissants filled with meat and cheese.  When that Costco cake came out with all the frosting and giant frosting balloons on top...  I nearly cracked.  I just wanted to get a corner piece with a balloon on it and eat the whole thing!  But I said no thanks and suffered through it, even after being offered a piece about 5 different times.

The reason it was a sort-of NSV is because we ended up going out for spicy chicken teriyaki in Seattle afterwards.  Luckily it was very reasonable on points because there wasn't nearly as much chicken on the plate as there usually is at typical teriyaki restaurants.