Sorry to Flake Out

I am sorry that I haven't been posting. Life has just been so busy lately. I have been keeping on program, and have gotten down to 162. Pretty good, eh? Now I am changing my program just a bit. I have been doing Weight Watcher's, but it has gotten harder and I have to admit I am tired of constantly doing the math to figure points on everything I eat. So now I am counting bites. This so far has been easier for me and I don't have the stress of having eaten to many points at breakfast, so I don't have any left for dinner.

This is how I have my bites scheduled throughout the day:

Breakfast: 18
Snack: 5
Lunch: 15
Snack: 5
Dinner: 18

This works out to 61 bites a day. I might have to make the breakfast and lunch bites less, because I am getting full. Water between each mean/snack. I have only done this for one day, but I am going to try this until Friday the 16th. If I am continuing to lose with this, then I will stop WW and do this. I really hope it works, because it would be so nice to not have to pay $17 a month anymore.

I have gone up due to water retention, my ring won't budge on my finger. So yesterday I was 165. This morning I was 164 after doing the bite counting and I am still retaining tons of water, since my ring won't move still. So I am hopeful that I can get the water out of me and maybe weigh 161 by Friday. I really hope so.

I Survived Thanksgiving!

I survived Thanksgiving. I weighed myself on Friday afterwards and the scale showed three pounds up, but I ate so many salty things; chips, olives, garlic mashed potatoes with lots of salt. So I am sure that it is mostly water weight. I am sure that I will be back down to 164 in no time.

I am hoping and praying that this Friday's weigh in is better.

Here goes:

11/18/05: 164

11/11/05: 165

11/4/05: 167

10/29/05: 168

10/21/05: 169

10/14/05: 170

10/7/05: 171

9/30/05: 172

9/23/05: 174

9/16/05: 176

9/9/05: 177

9/2/05: 178

8/26/05: 179

8/19/05: 180

8/8/05: 181

8/1/05: 182

7/25/05: 184

7/18/05: 189

Hanging in there!

Friday's Journal

After much thought I have decided to change my weight goal to 130. I feel that for my age, that would be a good weight. If I should happen to drop lower, and reach 126 that is great, but I feel that I may have been motivated by vanity and pride to get "skinny". So I have adjusted it.

Now to today's food journal:

Sub sandwich: 8
Cold Stone Like It sweet cream: 10
licorice: 3
Pizza: 6

I was up at 2:30 this morning so I am pretty tired and won't really share much today.

Friday Weigh In

Here goes:

11/11/05: 165
11/4/05: 167
10/29/05: 168
10/21/05: 169
10/14/05: 170
10/7/05: 171
9/30/05: 172
9/23/05: 174
9/16/05: 176
9/9/05: 177
9/2/05: 178
8/26/05: 179
8/19/05: 180
8/8/05: 181
8/1/05: 182
7/25/05: 184
7/18/05: 189

I did pretty well this week. I lost 2 pounds! Yippee! I don't know if I will be able to make my goal of 158 by Christmas though. I'll keep on trying and trying and trying until I do though.

Monday's Journal

I haven't been journaling here for a few days. I have been feeling unwell, so I just haven't taken the time. I am still plugging away though. I am eating up my flexpoints this week, and not really sticking to the Wendie plan very well. I am dissappointed in myself, but I really am just glad that I am hanging in there at all with how I have been feeling. So I only have 3 flex points left for the week. It's a good thing that they reset on Friday.

Here is my journal today, and you will see I really blew it all today:

biscuits and gravy: 3
cereal: 4.5
hot dog: 7
cocoa: 1
1/2 cup mint chip ice cream: 3.5
1/2 cup hamburger helper (yuck): 3.5
5 chocolate chip cookies: 15

I REALLY need to stay away from cookies. I don't have the strength to let even one pass through my lips, because then I want another and another and another. And then it seems to cause temporary brain damage, because I think it won't mess up my points. So, NO cookies for me!

Friday Weigh In

I lost another pound this week. I tryed harder this week, but still only lost one pound. I guess that is just what my body likes to lose, lol!

Here goes:

11/4/05: 167
10/29/05: 168
10/21/05: 169
10/14/05: 170
10/7/05: 171
9/30/05: 172
9/23/05: 174
9/16/05: 176
9/9/05: 177
9/2/05: 178
8/26/05: 179
8/19/05: 180
8/8/05: 181
8/1/05: 182
7/25/05: 184
7/18/05: 189

Monday's Journal

Today was a pretty good day. I crocheted a backpack/purse and it came out cute. The children were pretty well behaved, and things went well. I did blow it by eating some fun size candy bars. Man staying strong during Halloween is HARD. But tomorrow it will be gone, and I just switched my Wendie plan days, so that I can stay on track.

Here is my food journal:

cocoa: 1.5
oatmeal with sugar and milk: 5.5
tv dinner: 5
chicken enchiladas with refried beans: 7
2 fun size snickers bars: 4
3 fun size muskateer bars: 4
1 fun size kit kat bar: 2

This came to 29 points. I earned 2 activity points and used them. I have 20.5 flex points left.