Allison's Getting back to pre-pregnancy weight

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metallison

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I know how much it helps me to write things down, so I'm giving this diary thing a chance.

Let me start by answering the diary questions:

How much weight do you want to lose? I gained 85 pounds when I was pregnant. I had my baby in Dec of 2006, and I've lost 65 of the 85 pounds, so I still want to lose at least 20.

What is the timeframe for reaching target weight? By Dec 2008. That will be the month of my sn's 2nd birthday and the time that it took me to lose the weight from my first son as well, so I know it can happen.

How do you want to accomplish it? I am on Weight Watchers, which has been very successful for me. I can't even imagine doing it any other way!

Who or what can support you in reaching your goal? I have two close friends who help me and my husband also.

How realistic is your goal? I think it's very realistic, because I have 8 months to lose 20 pounds. That's not even a pound a week.

When will you start? Right away. I'm alreayd on WW right now, but I've been having a VERY bad week! My weigh in day is on Friday, and I went to Disney World for the weekend, which meant eating out every meal. Now that I"m back, I'm still in eating mode and haven't been counting my WW points at all. I need to get back on track and back in the points groove.

My cureent height and weight is 5'6" and 171 pounds. I would like to be 150 pounds , or 145 would be even better if it's possible. I'm 43 years old, so losing is harder than ever, and maintaning 145 might not be possible for me. My whole adult life, I've always been between 145 and 150.

Today I been really bad. I only had cereal for breakfast, but I forgot to bring my lunch to wok, so I enhdd up getting a turkey sub, which wasn't too bad, points wise, but I had a bag of chips with it. Not a big bag, just a snack bag, and then I went out to diner and had nachos.
If that wasn't bad enough, my older son brought home a cupckae for me with extra icing, and since it would have hurt his feelings if I didn't eat it, I just had to. ; )

Tomorrow is a new day, and I have very intention of being on points tomorrow. THe only thing I'm afraid of is mentallly I have this thing where if I have already messed up most of the week, I can't go back on points until Friday with a clean slate, because it's weigh in day.

When I'm being good, I'm really good, but when I'm being bad, I'm super bad.

All I have to do is lose like a half pound a week to reach goal in December. I think I"m really going to have to incorporate some exercise at this point, as much as I don't want to. I've lost this 65 pounds without doing any exercise, but I think this last 20 is going to be a different story.
 
well done girl for losing the weight that you have iam sure you will get back on track soon, keep on telling yourself how good you will feel once you have lost that 20lbs! Iam doing weight watchers aswell but iam doing at home because we had all the stuff i needed at home and i actually couldnt afford the registration and meeting fees Lol! :blush5: Good luck with getting back on track and iam sure you will be at your goal weight in no time!
Kotki
ttfn!
 
Thanks Kotki!

I decided for the next couple of days to run wild, so-to-speak, and make Friday my official "getting back on track" day. It's my weigh-in day, and the first day of the new week on points for me.


I will still weigh in on Friday even though I know it's not going to be a good weigh-in, but it will motivate me to stay on points. A friend at work already asked me out to lunch on Friday, and I declined. I can't be going out on the very first day back to being good! LOL

Even though I'm not on my WW points yet, I've been trying to be good with the eating for the most part. Like last night we went out to an all-you-can-eat pizza place, and instead of pigging out, I ate a salad first and then a couple of small slices. We went for ice cream afterwards and I ordered a "kids scoop" and only ate half of it.

After tomorrow, you won't see me doings things like going out for ice cream!

So diary, until tomorrow...
 
well done your already in the right mind set to start dieting! good luck for friday
ttfn
kotki x
 
Friday is here, and the day to get serious!

My official Friday weigh-in was 172.8, which is 4.2 pounds higher than it was just 3 weeks ago since I went off WW points! :( I knew it was going to be bad though, and that's why I'm getting back on track starting today.

The first few days are always the hardest. Writing here in my diary will really help.

Fridays at work we are allowe to wear jeans, and I feel so uncomfortable in mine today because of the extra 4 pounds. I'll be so happy even when I get back to the weight I was 3 weeks ago.

I ate cereal for breakfast and I had broccoli with 1/2 cup whole wheat spaghetti for lunch, so I've only used 5 points so far today! I still have 17 left for an afternoon snack and dinner.

I took a really long walk yesterday after work and I did some push ups this morning. I feel optimistic for this week.
 
sorry to hear that your weight is up but dont worry you'll soon have them off again!
 
Thanks kotki, I knew it would be up, so I was prepared for that. It's still sort of depressing, but now I'm back on points so I will lose now.

So, yesterday was my first day back on points and I did great. I even had chinese food for dinner, but I had enough points for it. I used 4 of my 35 weekly flex points and then after dinner we went for a walk, so I swaped out one of the activity points from the walk for one of the flex points, so I still have 32 flex points left for the week.

Today for breakfast I had a bowl of Fiber One cereal. It's got 13 grams of fiber in it, so that should keep me full until lunchtime.

Weekends are hard for me. There's too much food around and being home means I can eat whatever, whenever I want. At least when I'm a work, there's more control. I only have 1 or 2 points snacks at my desk, and I bring lunch, so I know how many points I'll be eating all day.

I usually can't help myself and weigh myself everyday, but this week I'm going to try really, really hard not to weigh myself in weigh in day on Friday. I can't guarantee I won't do it though. :)

I have a Wii at home, and I ordered a new game called Wii Fit. It's exercise for the Wii. It comes out some time in May. Right now all I do is walk around the block a few times a week for exercise, so I'm hoping I will do some more when the game arrives.

I've also been doing pushups everyday. Why pushups? It started as a joke at work, because 20 years ago I was inthe Army and I could do 21 pushups and the other day at work someone asked me how many I could do now. I said I'm sure I can't do any, and I was right! LOL I couldn't even do 1. So all week I've been conditioning myself to be able to do a pushup. Not the kind on your knees, a real one. I could do 6 of them on my knees, and by Friday Iw as able to do 7. I'm hoping to keep doing the knee pushups enough until I become strong enough to do a real pushup.

Wow, long diary entry today. I had a lot to say. LOL
 
hay i ve heard that wii fit thing is great my friend has it and she says it makes her feel so tired after using it! i also used to use my dance mat alot to lose weight it told me the calories that i was burning as i was dancing iam hoping to get it again on the ps2!
 
Well, I made it through the weekend without too much damage. lol. It was a doubly hard weekend, because it's that time of the month, so I had the munchies all weekend. I tried to stick to low point snacks to munch on, but I know I used a bunch of flex points.

Today my friend is visiting me from NY and we're going out to dinner. We are going to a Mexican restaurant, and they have this vegetarian burrito that is delicious and not so bad as other things on the menu. I brought in broccoli for lunch today so that I would have plenty of points left over for dinner tonight.
 
I think dinner last night went well. I got the vegetarian burrito and only ate half of it. We ordered jalepeno poppers, and I oly ate one of them. AFter dinner my friend took us to this shop that makes homemade chocolate and fudge and has ice cream with homemade waffle cones. All I got was one small piece of chocolate, which was really a miracle with the way this shop smelled of chocolate when walked in! I was really proud of myself for staying in control! I wanted this huge piece of choclate wth pecans in it, but I stuck to the small piece that I bought.

When we got back to my house everyone was having beer, so Ig ot a Bud Light, but then I didn't even drink the whole thing, I took maybe 5 sips out of it, and then it was warm anyway, so I threw it out.

We started up the Wii and played tennis, bowled, and then played Guitar Hero until midnight, so all that Wii'ing had to count for some activity points!

Today I had my cereal for breakfast, and I brought broccoli for lunch again.
 
I have really sucked this week. I guess I can blame it on being "that time of the month", or stress, or a million other things, but the bottom line is I have been weak and I've been doing emotional eating.

I'm good ALL day long at work and good at dinnertime, but then at night before bed I can't help eating. Last night for example....it was 10pm and I was watching Nip/Tuck on DVD. I was really hungry, but it was late eoungh at night that I could have just gone to bed and waited until morning to eat. My points for the day were done and I hadn't gone over them.

Suddenly I find myself walking into the kitchen and getting a snack. I don't even want to think about how many points it was. I woke up feeling completely awful and totally depressed about it.

I had already gone 3 points over my flex points for the week BEFORE the snack incident last night. I guess I'm not going to lose any weight this week. Now I can only hope I don't gain. I really do hope this is just hormones, and next week can get back to normal.
 
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hay hunni i think iam in the same boat with the time of the month hormones i usually get more hungry and more emotional before d'day Lol! so i know exactly how you feel! dont worry you should be feeling better next week!
 
You're right kotki. I need to think positive. I feel so much better today than I did yesterday. I'm much happier and feel much more optimistic.

Last night my summer college class (algebra) started and it was good. I got home and I was starving, so I had a few pita chips in a bowl, but I didn't even finish what was in the bowl. I think the hormone munchies are finally over!!! :hurray:
 
glad to hear that you are getting back to your normal appitite, i still have the hormonal muchies iam soooo hungry Lol but i wont give in if i get too hungry i will do 30mins on my exercise bike and that will mean 2 extra points for me to use!
 
I've been offline for a few days. Haven't been feeling too well (sore throat, headache, etc.) I'm feeling a bit better today. I lost a 1/2 pound for the week even though my sickness made me want comfort food.
I think the reason I've lost a bit is because I stopped the late night snacking.
LAst night I was starving and not at all tired at 11pm, so instead of getting chips and such, I made some air popped popcorn and ate that instead of high calorie snacks.
I'm back to wrinting all my food in my WW diary too. I've been so bad with not writing things down and then not knowing exactly how many points I've eaten for the day.
I was going to set a goal for myself for the summer, but honestly I feel like I can only take things one day at a time right now. ONe hour at a time. It's been hard the past few weeks. I don't know what's going on with me right now. I don't know why I'm doing emotional eating. I don't feel sad or anything. Maybe it's all the stress of working, 2 small kids, and taking a summer college class. That's got to be it. I need to relax a bit and not let everything get to me.
My husband was out of town last week too, so everything was on my shoulders. He's back now, so hopefully I'll feel more in control of my life now, which in turn will put be back in control of my food.
 
Iam sorry to hear that you werent feeling very well :( sorry to hear that you have had a lot to deal with recently but looking on the bright side atleast your husband is back now :) i hope that you feel better soon!
 
It was a whole month ago that I started posting here and I haven't lost any weight. It's not Weight Watchers fault at all, it's all on me. I've had one excuse after another after another, and it ends today. Well, yesterday actually.
Let me explain. I've been eating good on points all day everyday, until night time. Then I would find myself snacking at 9 or 10 o'clock at night! I couldn't stop. I blamed it on everything from my husband being out of town to having PMS, to being stressed from work and school. And maybe those reasons were contributing to my lack of willpower, but ultimately I have nothing and no one to blame but myself!
I reached a turning point yestereday afternoon when I was trying on bras. First of all having to stand in front of a mirror with only shorts on was disturbing enough, but then adding to it the nightmare of trying on bra after bra and they were all so tight and unflattering. I wasn't in the store doing this, I was in my own home, which means the bras I was trying on were mine. They were bras that fit just a few weeks ago, and now are so uncomfortable that I can't stand to wear any of them. So by the time I finished trying them all on, I was completely disgusted with myself and what I had let happened over the past month.
So, I got on the scale and found out I was 5 pounds over what I was when I first joined this board. I gained 5 pounds in one month. I was out of control.
The whole experience yesterday gave me what I needed..a real honest look at myself and what I want to achieve, and the motivation to do something about it.
So, I am making a promise to myself. Stay on points, have will power and NO snacking at night. When my points are finished for the day, I'm done.
I also bought some Alli to see if that helps at all. It says it's supposed to help you lose more weight than just dieting alone, so we'll see what happens.
This journal up until now has been all excuses and disappointments. I want today forward to be nothing but successes!
 
It sounds like you have some great motivation! Move on and be positive. BTW, I completely understand the late night snacking thing. Oh my gosh, I get it so bad. I feel so incredibly hungry and I think that's one thing I struggle with the most (that and getting my lazy bum up to exercise). When I feel like having a late night snack, I log on here or anywhere else and look at the before and after pictures and remind myself why I"m doing this, what I want, and how much it will set me back. Seems to be working so far! You can do it. Take it one meal and one day at a time :)
 
Thanks so much for the encouragement purple! I really appreciate it. It's so helpful to know other people struggle with the same issues I have.

Well, my weekend was a total success! :hurray:
I didn't even use any flex points all weekend, which is a miracle in itself. I worked out and walked on Saturday and walked on Sunday. I was starving Sunday night, so I was going to make some air popped popcorn and have a Weight Watchers snack cake, and ended up only having the WW cake, which was only 1 point and a diet coke for zero points.
I got out all the stuff to make the popcorn, and then decided I didn't feel like sitting there watching TV and stuffing my face with food, even if it was only popcorn.

Tonight I have to go to class after work. There's not a lot of time between the two, so I either have to skip dinner completely or go to Taco Bell for dinner. Skipping dinner is not really an option, so I went on the TB website to find the least damaging menu item. I found the Bean Burrito only has 7 WW points, and it has 12 gms of fiber, which is really good, so that's what I'm going to order. I have to stay under 15 gms of fat with my Alli pills, and the bean burrito has 12, so it fits that as well.
I'm thinking of bringing a 1 point WW cookie with me, so I'll feel like I had dessert and will feel satisfied.

I won't be able to work out tonight, because I won't get home from class until 9:30pm, and then I still have to make lunches for tomorrow, and I really don't feel like working out after such a long day. Maybe I will just do my "body test" on the Wii Fit. That only takes a few minutes and while I'm there I might feel like doing some yoga poses or something before I go to bed. Once I start the Wii Fit, I usually end up doing something, even if only for a few minutes, which is better than nothing at all.

I have to say, I already feel better after being on points for only two days. I don't feel as bloated, and my clothes even feel a bit better already.

I feel very hopeful right now. My friend Kelly at work restarted herself on WW over the weekend too, so we have each other to help stay motivated. She's going on vacation the same day as me, so we have the same goal date (July 20th).
 
Things are still going great. I didn't snack after school last night at all. I came home, watched some TV and went to sleep. A night without snakcing is a good night!

:hurray:
 
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