Bye-bye, 170's

The post title says it all, I'm really happy about this.  A few more pounds to go!

Cornmeal and Maxipads

Yep, that's all I walked into Super K for after my WW meeting this morning, but then I saw they had a winter clearance going on, so of course I had to look.  And jeans were also 25% off, needed those and grabbed a pair of size 12 to try on.  And guess what.................THEY WERE TOO BIG!!!!!  I had to get dressed and go and get a pair of 10 and they FIT!!!!!  MY FAT ASS FITS INTO A SIZE 10!  And I didn't have to jump up and down to get into them, and the zipper went up like nothing, and (the best part) I can breathe in them.  To be fair, they are the relaxed fit, but they're still a 10!  When my dd comes home, I"ll have her take a pic of me in them and I'll attempt to post it.

BTW, I did remember to buy the cornmeal and maxipads

Queen of Excuses!

I gained 3 lbs, which blows beyond words.  I can find an excuse as to why this happened, (like anyone reading this hasn't already thought of the following!)...

TOM

weighing in at a different center (I w/i on Saturdays, but I"ll be out of town this weekend, so I w/i'd elsewhere, where it's common knowledge that any scale other than the ones at "your" place are totally out of whack, and not to your favor!)

wore different clothing than what I usually wear (I had on jeans and a pullover vs. the lightweight slacks and cotton blouse{my uniform, so to speak} I always wear to meetings)

or could it be.............the gazillion french fries, or the bottle of wine, or the  humongous burger with mayo dripping all over that I had Saturday during girls night out?  (nah, what would even make me think it could be that?????

Ah, hell, I'm blaming it all on my uterus!

Getting Close

Went to w/i this morning and am down another 2½!!!!  I'm within 10 pounds of my goal at WW.  My person goal, the one I have posted here, is 160, but my ww goal is 165...I really want to make lifetime due to the costs of the meetings!  So, 9 more lbs, then 6 weeks maintainance, I hope it's as easy to do as it was to type!

Yee Haw!!!!

Down another 2½ lbs, which means I"m just 3½ lbs from a BMI of Average (right now, I"m overweight according to that), 11½ lbs from my goal weight at WW, and 16½ lbs from my personal goal weight.  I switched to the Core plan last week, and quit eating anything after 7 pm.  I didn't make it to the gym this week, but it wasn't because I didn't want too, I just couldn't get there (don't ask, it was an extremely horrible week).

Ah well, at least there's a few pounds less of me and I think I understand this Core thing, although I feel like I"m cheating by not counting points for every single bite.  I am still journaling everything, but only counting points on the non core foods.

No Change

At yesterday's w/i, I stayed the same, which is a good thing.  In the past, every single time I dipped down into the 170's, the next week I would go back up, so this no change is really a change from what went on in the past.  I'm switching over to core this week, several people at my meeting say that core will help me overcome this plateau, and then to be totally accountable, I took home the traveling journal.  I"m recording every single bite, even though you don't need to with core.  I've only used 11 bonus points so far, 7 of them today, but I earned 8 activity points at the gym, so who knows?  I really need to get down to my goal so I can become lifetime.  My insurance will only pay for 24 more weeks, so I got to do it witnin that time frame.

Hubby dropped 5½ lbs this week, he was really happy about that.  His clothes are really loose on him and his co=workers are noticing, so that really gives him more incentive to stick with it.

No gym for me tomorrow night, I"m going to check out a (new to me) knitting guild with a gal from the gym.  I've been in several quilting guilds, will be interesting to see any similarities!

Finally!

Had good news at w/i today...3 pounds down.  I"m not going to get too geeked about it, I've been playing with these same 3 lbs since September.......can we all say Plateau? (or however you spell it!)  Oh well, I ain't proud, I'll take it.  A few things I did different this week was to up my water from 6 - 8 glasses to at least 10 a day, usually more.  Also increased my fruit intake from almost nothing to 3 - 4 /day and am spending more time at the gym.  So maybe if I keep this routine up, I can finally hit goal soon and become lifetime and go to the meetings for free!  What a concept!

Living Will

This is an email joke, but really cute............

My Living Will

Last night, my sister and I were sitting in the den, and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegatative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle to keep me alive.  That would be no quality of life at all.  If that ever happens, just pull the plug."

So she got up, unplugged the computer and threw out my wine.

She's such a bitch.

Saturday's W/I

It didn't go well for me, stayed the same, which is better than the gain I had the 2 weeks previous.  DH, on the other hand, dropped another 3 pounds, which pissed me off (don't get me wrong, I"m thrilled he's losing, he really needs to for health reasons, but it's just rolling off him with very little effort on his part, and I"m busting my ass to just stay the same...IT JUST AIN'T FAIR!!!!)

(excuse my pity party, please!)

After weigh in, I went to a Weight Wise seminar hosted by my health insurance company (HAP) with another gal from WW.  I"m soooo glad I went!  It was held at a local hotel and everyone attending got a copy of Lickety-Split Meals by Zonya Foco RD.  Zonya was also the speaker for 3 hours...she was so interesting and full of pep and great ideas, I could have listened to her for another 3 hours.  She does have a web site (no affiliation, yada, yada) zonya.com and you can take a look at the cookbook there, I really like it and am so glad I went.

Other than that, just working, staying on track, and going to the gym (which, btw, is extremely crowded these days!  This will drop off in a few weeks and us regulars will have the place to ourselves again...when good New Year resolutions go bad).

Refrigerator Magnet

My daughter got me a magnet for the fridge.........With all the time and energy we've spent dieting, we could have built a small fat-loving civilization.

Ain't that the truth!