I Shall Lose

Yesterday was my weekly weigh in at Weight Watchers, however I was so busy that I did not get a chance to post my results. I lost 3.2 pounds this past week. I am super excited about this number, however I am a tad upset that I chose to celebrate with food. I have to change the way I celebrate small goals and victories. Over the past two and a half years I have always celebrated something by going out to dinner and ordering my favorite food. This can't continue as it will catch up with me. I am happy that I noticed this today so that I can give some attention to this behavior and fix it. I know that I will correct this, so no worries.

This is a very short post as I am going to go pack my gym bag and get ready to watch the Apprentice. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

1. Food Is My Booty Call
2. The Honey B
3. Half of Jess

1. 1. I am a lover of traveling. I would travel full time if I could afford it. I have been to four countries thus far, with hopes of traveling to as many more countries as I can. I also would love to visit each state that makes up the U.S.A once. I am pretty close, need to tally the total up.
   


2. 2. I totally enjoy scrapbooking, it brings me joy. There is nothing like relaxing with a nice bottle of water (used to be soda) with some nice music and my scrapping supplies creating art. I sometimes impress myself with some of the designs I come up with (by the way, I do not scrapbook digitally, maybe one day).


3. 3. I would love to start my own non-profit organization some day. I have at least two ideas that I probably should start and put into play. I believe that my weight hinders what I do, as I think people are staring at me most times when around people I do not know. This is a major reason why I have not done more to put my ideas into place.
   


4. 4. I have two major fears in life, fire and huge bodies of water ie lakes, ocean. You probably can understand the fear of fire, but for the huge bodies of water, I can't swim.


5. 5. I would totally love to relocate to Toronto or Chicago. I love those two cities!!!


6. 6. I absolutely adore my husband. He is my best friend as well as my lover.


7. 7. I would love to learn sign language. I have always been fascinated with it.
   

Drum roll please.....today was my first weigh in at Weight Watchers and I am happy to report that I lost 4 pounds today. I was excited for the loss, but more importantly proud that I was on plan the entire week. It was not an easy week at all and because of it I only focused on following the WW plan and didn't exercise. It was overwhelming trying to track and plan, but I believe that is expected during the first week, maybe the first couple of weeks. All in all it was a good week.

Today's meeting subject was geared around portion control. It was something I definitely needed as there was some hidden things I was doing that was talked about today. One of those items was just writing down what I eat instead of adding a value to it...for instance, if I ate a piece of cake, I would write down only cake and not whether it was an entire cake, a slice of cake or a sliver of cake. I need to hold myself more accountable in being a tad more detailed in my tracking. I think this will be beneficial if I ever had to go back look over my tracker to see what I ate on a successful week. I will plan this week to do a better job at tracking more detailed.

This upcoming week I will be focusing on getting more veggies in. Last week for my healthy guidelines I ate more fruit than veggies. While this is okay and I was on plan, I would like to eat more veggies as veggies have a great amount of awards in eating them. They also have more fiber than fruit. Nothing major to tweak, but this is something I want to focus on. I will also attend the gym 3 times this week. If I attend it more than the 3 days, all the better, but my goal is three days. I believe that is very doable.

Here is to an awesome week, I hope your upcoming week was better then this past week.