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.

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.

Tomorrow is the big day. I am super excited, but oh I am so nervous. This is what I have been waiting for all week, to walk into a Weight Watchers meeting for the first time in two years. It is a scary feeling. The unknown is really making me anxious, but tomorrow all of this will end. I will do it!!!!

Back in 2008 I was a member of WW and was successful, losing close to 40 pounds. It was the last time I remember being happy. The program was easy to follow and I did with no problem. After losing the 40 pounds, I got the big head and thought that I could stop tracking my foods and eyeball my portions by estimating what the points would be. This turned out to lead me to two straight gains and since those two meetings I have not been back to Weight Watchers. Scary I know, but oh so true.

This time around, I will not allow a gain at the scare keep me away from my weekly meeting. My plan is to attend the meeting every week unless there is something MAJOR happening where I can not. Again I am excited, I pray that this is the time that I will lose the unwanted weight, FOREVER. I know I am not ready to face my initial weight, so I have decided not to look at the first weigh in amount, but instead I will go through a week on plan and hopefully lose and next week at weigh in I will know how much I weigh. I hope this works.

I have cleaned out my home of all of the crap and tomorrow after my meeting I will go grocery shopping with the point slider to purchase groceries. I used to love doing this back in 2008 when I was on program.

Well this is it, I am ready....ready to rock and lose : )

I just created this blog to help aid me in my attempt to lose over 100 pounds. I know it is a long way to go, but I know that I can do it - I Shall Lose. It has not been an easy road for me while I have tried everything, but this time I am going to give my heart and soul and lose the weight.

Today I joined the YMCA and I am happy for this. I used to be scared to go into the gym as I always wondered what people would say or how they would look to see a 300 pound plus female enter the gym. I must say, it was not that bad. I will attend the gym tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday this week. On Saturday I will attend my first Weight Watchers meeting in over two years. I will have my official weigh in then. I am super excited, but at the same time I am nervous as I have tried to lose weight over and over. I am hoping that this time will be different. Let me rephrase that, this time WILL be different.