Wow, I can't believe I haven't posted since September! Wow! Just to catch up, my lowest weight is usually 126 or 127. I have been maintaining that within 2 lbs since October. For some reason this last week, my weight has jumped. Not sure why - just PMS (16 days late) and being sick and not drinking water or exercising I guess. I am feeling better and the weight is going down so hopefully I will get back to exercising tomorrow morning. I need to focus on getting back into the swing of things.
Life is great! I joined an online dating service in November and have met a really great guy! He's a teacher and we've been seeing eachother since right before Christmas. Don't get me wrong, I did meet 4 other men, not all bad, not all good. It was quite an experience! Hopefully this one will go ok, it seems to be so far. He has 2 boys and we are planning on a time for us all to meet. They know all about me and have ok'd the plan so I think it will be soon. I'm nervous and excited at the same time. They are 14 and 12 so who knows what will happen there. Teenagers!
My 41st birthday is Saturday. We are planning dinner with my best friends at the Melting Pot - my favorite! It should be a good time and for once, I feel good about getting older.
I'm addicted to clothes and can't go by Ann Taylor without spending lots of money or Dillards and buying lots of high heels! I'm suprised I'm not broke yet. Luckily my friends from work got me a gift certificate for Ann Taylor that will go quite a ways in purchasing something new. Aren't friends great!
I'll try to post more often and follow how getting back to 127 goes. I really need to start writing stuff down again. Maybe I was out of control? Don't think so but, you never know!
Ok, I have found that I can't put a number on my goal weight. My JC consultant (a new one) keeps pushing me to do it. How many times can I say "I just don't know." I mean really, it's just a number.
I started with 140. It sounded good and frankly, it sounded like somewhere that I would never get. I did make it. Now what? Let's start with another 10 and see how that goes. Ok, almost there. And then the question - what is your new goal? I don't have one!!!!! My scale says 131, but what if I go to the doctor and it says 137? Does that mean that I now need to change my goal? Shouldn't it be based on how I feel? That's what I think anyway. I'm close, I know I'm close. I just don't have a number for it. Could be 125 could be 120. I just don't know!
On another subject, JC approached me to fly out to San Diego and participate in a photo shoot for promotional materials. I was torn on what I should do and because of that, I asked my friends and family and explained to them why doing this was bothering me. Do you know that everyone, and I mean everyone did their best to convince me to go? They just didn't get it. One person did and told me "don't do it if you're not comfortable with it." That was what I needed to hear. I said no thank you and everyone seemed so disappointed and nobody seemed to get it when I said "it's just not me." You would think they would understand that as they've known me for either my entire life or for over 25 years. Huh......
Well, I finally did it. I hit my goal weight of 140. I'm more excited than I thought I would be but probably not as excited as I should be - if that makes any sense. I think it might be due to the fact that I'm planning on losing another 10 lbs, that takes me to 130. We'll see.
I am finally back from my 17 day vacation to Europe. I was on a 12 day Crystal Cruise and went to some wonderful places such as Sorrento, Santoniri, Croatia etc. I also spent 3 days in Venice. It was a great trip but I am so glad to be home.
The food was wonderful! I didn't really monitor myself, ate what I wanted within reason and drank wine and beer. It was easier than I thought it would be. I didn't want to eat a lot and was so satisfied with a little bit of everything. I loved it! and it really helped me to see that I won't have any problem maintaining my loss when I"m done.
That being said - I lost 2.6 lbs while I was gone! I will admit that I was totally attached to the onboard gym. I was on the treadmill 9 out of 11 mornings. The first few days I walked 3 miles and the rest was 4 miles. I think I'm addicted!
I am going to eat an early dinner and go to bed. I'm jetlagged and it didn't help that I was stranded at the Atlanta airport overnight and got home 13 hours later than expected! I planned on being at work all day today but left early to pick up my dog from camp and now I'm totally exhausted!
Well, I'm so close! I weighed in at 144.6 this morning. 4.6 lbs away from my original goal. I feel great but will not be happy at 140. I know I've said this before but I really, truly mean it. I'm taking it down to 130 for now and will see how that goes. I know I need to do some major toning and that will start in August. I just want to be happy (as I can be) with my body and weight and be at a place where I can easily maintain my weight.
I went shopping all day on Sunday. Wow, what a thrill! Size 8 all the way. I bought clothes at Ann Taylor Loft, NY and Co and other stores. In a couple, I pulled 8s off the rack and thought "no way will these fit." Imagine my suprise when they always did! It was such a rush. I've been wearing my new clothes at work and wow, people notice even more now that I'm wearing clothes that fit. I tossed all the old stuff I had been wearing the last month or so.
Take a look at my new picture. I'm wearing a pair of jeans that I was wearing when I started JC last August. Isn't it funny? I mean I knew that I'd lost over 75 lbs but wow! I've lost an entire person. I can't believe I was that huge. I mean I can but you just never realize.
I had a great weekend. I went to my mother's (and sister's). My nephew was christened over the weekend and I"m his Godmother. He was an angel - thank goodness since I was holding him through the whole thing. He is just too cute! Did you hear that Sarah?
I ate well while I was there, even got in an extra 3.5 miles of walking last week. Turns out I lost between 1.8-2.8 pounds while I was gone. Yeehaw! Finally, another loss over one pound! It made me feel like dancing. The loss sounds funny but when I got home Monday afternoon I was down 1.8 but Tuesday morning it was 2.8. Of course now, it's back to 1.8 - gotta love it huh?
I bought a new dress while I was there - my sister picked it out. It does look good I must say. I'm wearing it today at work and so far I've gotten one "stunning" and one "sexy" on top of all the other compliments. Of course I don't mention the fact that I have to wear a major foundation undergarment to hold the tummy in!
I'm very excited to be getting closer to 140. I know it's not where I plan on stopping but it feels like such an accomplishment. I can't wait. I'm just hoping I don't put any weight on while on vacation. I guess we'll see.
The dreaded slow down in weight loss has happened. Two weeks with only .8 loss each week to show for it. Bummer! I guess I was expecting it. I have about 20-25 lbs left to go but I sure do miss those 1.4-1.6 weekly losses!
I followed plan all week. I went to the movies and out to dinner on Saturday night. We went to Applebees and I had the WW French Onion soup (well, most of it) and a side salad hold the bacon and cheese, my favorite parts. I had made low-fat corn dogs for lunch but they weren't as good as I had hoped. I made them with the 97% ff hot dogs and they are 160 calories each. I ate one and then froze the other 7. I hope they are a bit better reheated in the microwave. The dough cooked up kinda crunchy and hard so maybe the micro will help.
I also upped my exercise last week. My doctor still has me on restrictions due the the muscle injury I got over a month ago. So no toning, weights or pilates - only the treadmill. I usually walk 2 mornings before work - 1.25 mile each (this is after the 3/4 mile dog walk each morning) and on Sat and Sun I walk 3.25 miles each day. This week I added one weekday morning and upped the weekend to 3.5 miles. Didn't seem to help much.I lost the same this week as I did the week before that didn't include the weekend walks. Maybe it's just water weight from Saturday night and the grilled cheese I had for lunch yesterday. The ff american cheese is rather salty and I drank tons of water yesterday and my night time weigh-in was 1.5 lbs higher than usual.
My air in on the fritz. I think the drain for the condensation is clogged as a ton of water dropped out into the garage and the cooling stopped. This happened last weekend too. I shut it off for about 12 hours and is working ok this morning. Same thing happened last week. I hope to get someone out end of this week first of next - it's hot in Florida!
I have a new plan on getting my house clean and in shape. I hate cleaning and really hate doing it on weekends. Last night I made of list stuff that needs to be done and put it in order of importance. I kept each item rather short - 15 mintues to do and my plan is to tackle one thing each weekday night Monday-Thursday after dinner. Hopefully this works and is something I can continue doing to keep my house in continual shape. I seem to work much better when I regiment myself and do things in small doses. Wish me luck!
I may have mentioned before that I am a scale junkie. I weigh myself every morning and every night. I have a calendar on my closet door where I mark the weight downI like to know where I am and luckily it doesn't affect my following plan. I am in tune with my body and how it reacts to dieting. Usually, I have a loss on Thursday mornings and am down more over the weekend. Well, not this week. This week I'm actually up a bit, not much, under a pound. Is this a sign that I am finally going to hit a plateau?
All I know is that I haven't been marking the weight down on the calendar and have already done an extra morning on the treadmill and may add tomorrow too. I guess I have been expecting some difficult times since it has gone so well, with only 2 weeks since August with no loss and only 1 week with a slight gain. I'm within 11 pounds of my original goal but really want to get down at least another 10. Of course this would happen now with my being only 5 weeks away from vacation and wanting to get as close to goal as possible before leaving since I need to buy all new clothes.
Now I'm obsessing on my vacation as I plan to eat wisely but not limit myself. What is my body going to do with the extra calories? I will be exercising more than usual so that is good. I rarely gain more than 2 lbs on these vacations but that was in past years when I was consuming so many more calories on a daily basis. I'm already trying to figure out how to hit the gym every morning for a short walk before all the daily exercise I'll be getting. I'm already thinking about dinners and how much food I'll leave on my plate with each course and how I'll probably have to choose food that seems healthier rather than sounds good. Uggh! I'm going to be on a cruise and love the dinners. I know I'll pass on the cheeseburgers for lunch - well maybe 1 burger, hold the fries.
I guess I need to quit worrying about it and take each day as it comes. I'm not worried about "blowing it" but I will also be adding alchohol (limit 1 per day) after not drinking since August. Talk about empty calories. Ok, enough! I can do this in a healthy way and not deprive myself.
Ok, back to this week. I feel lucky that I'm not tempted to throw in the towel on losing weight since I haven't budged all week. I also know there is a very good chance that I will have a loss this week. I am so lucky that I'm loving the way I have changed my eating habits and patterns and have no desire to quit those good habits. I love the JC food and wonder if I'm ever going to give some of them up. Once I hit goal, I'll have a 35% discount so I probably won't give some of them up. After all, this is a life-long change, not a diet and some stuff is sooooo yummy!
The weight loss is going well. I've continued to lose each week at around 1.6 lbs per week. I'm thrilled that I'm continuing to go down and hope to be around my original goal of 140 when I go on vacation in July.
I've had a bit of a health problem for the last 3 weeks. I have a pain in my left side, sore/tenderness on the lower portion of my rib cage. It hurts when I breathe deeply, yawn, sneeze (oh jeez that really hurts) and with the occasional hiccup. I went to the doctor after a week. She thought it was a muscle pull/tear but we did x-rays and blood tests to make sure. Everyhing was fine but the pain was getting worse and it sure didn't feel like a muscle strain. I went for an ultrasound last Wednesday and apparently all my organs seem healthy. That is great, except for the pain. The morning of the test I had the sharpest, stabbing pain that made me cry and almost knocked me off my feet.
Anyways, I stopped exercising for about a week and a half to give myself a rest. The pain is still there, but not as bad and now I would have to say that I'm on board with the muscle diagnosis. It is worse in the morning when I wake up. I've started stretching just a bit, but still no weights. When I move at night it almost feels like a spasm. All of that is pushing me towards the whole muscle deal.
I gotta tell you though, I was totally freaked out! Never, never google symptoms. Bad idea! I took some afternoons off work and went off JC for about 5 days. Now, I was still watching what I ate and still continued to lose weight. I followed the calorie and exchange plan but I ate Lean Cuisine pizza (pizza is my ultimate comfort food) 5 nights in a row and had Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches for my nightly snack each night too. Yeah for me! I was depressed and upset and still ate right! Still lost weight! I didn't call Pizza Hut or get enought chinese food for 10 or any of that bad stuff.
I got back on the treadmill Sunday and did my typical 3.25 miles and have walked my 1.25 mile treadmill walks on Tuesday and this morning. I have 2 new Pilates DVDs that I really want to try this weekend but I am afraid of aggravating my side. I might try and see what happens. I might wait until next weekend and hope the pain is better.
Wow, I haven't posted in a while. Anyway, I did something silly. Not something I really have to worry about but something I wish I hadn't done. A local radio program is having a contest called "Pick your Plastic." Basically, you write an essay on why you want plastic surgery (choices are lipo, botox, implants, reduction, lift, eyes) and they choose 12 winners. Well, I entered last week. I wrote my funny and untrue story and sent it in. I regreted it immediately. I picked a breast lift.
I feel stupid that I did this. If by some insane chance I won, I would have to talk about it on the radio and I guarantee people at work would know. Now, realistically, there is no way I'm going to win. They get at least 10-20 thousand entries and people send multiple stories. I'm not a particularly funny person so the chances are less than slim. Still, I feel like and idiot! My breasts aren't really that bad, just not quite right, if you know what I mean. Besides, I am 40 so, gravity and all, plus going from a 42dd to maybe a 36d right now.
