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Hey BB2010! Thanks for stopping by my Diary! I'm still getting used to navigating the site but I managed to find your diary so go me! lol.

Losing weight is definitely a lot harder than putting it on. It's so easy to become fixated with the number on the scale. From the way it sounds, you're doing the best you can with counting calories and exercising. You shouldn't be so hard on yourself! Just know that if you keep at it, not only will you eventually lose the weight, but you'll also become healthier regardless! :p Keep up the good work! I'm gonna stop by and check up on you! haha!
 
hey there

hey i am reading
sorry for not commenting sooner.. :(
I am on WW's too and honestly i have weeks like that too. when the scale doesn't move. and i eat my way back up 2 lbs .:|
I am on this journey myself and actually i have very little advice to offer except to say that you are definitely not alone and i've been there. And sometimes i am still there. I try to look at the before and after pics on this site and when i see some of the progress i think, 'hey if they can do it so can i'..and i also remind myself that i didn't put on this weight overnight. It was because of a life-time of wrong choices so i can't expect that it would come off instantly. (Though after i am finished exercised i wish it would!!)
Really all i would like to say is don't give up. it will happen. Just keep doing the right things and it will happen. Also, i don't weigh myself everyday. Water weight is the worst!!

Hope you stay with us..:waving:
 
karajmartin said:
Hey BB2010! Thanks for stopping by my Diary! I'm still getting used to navigating the site but I managed to find your diary so go me! lol.

Losing weight is definitely a lot harder than putting it on. It's so easy to become fixated with the number on the scale. From the way it sounds, you're doing the best you can with counting calories and exercising. You shouldn't be so hard on yourself! Just know that if you keep at it, not only will you eventually lose the weight, but you'll also become healthier regardless! :p Keep up the good work! I'm gonna stop by and check up on you! haha!
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You're right, I will try not to be so hard on myself. I told myself I wasn't going to get hung up by the scale but it is so hard not to. It's hard because it seems like everytime I start exercising regularly the scale won't move or I have a gain. I used to think "I'm gaining muscle!", but reading some of the posts on here people say you most likely cannot gain muscle while in a calorie deficit, and when you do strength training you're just preserving the muscle you do have. So I don't know what to think anymore about that.

Thanks for commenting. I hope you do check up on me, and I will definitely check up on you! :)
 
Island Girl said:
hey i am reading
sorry for not commenting sooner.. :(
I am on WW's too and honestly i have weeks like that too. when the scale doesn't move. and i eat my way back up 2 lbs .:|
I am on this journey myself and actually i have very little advice to offer except to say that you are definitely not alone and i've been there. And sometimes i am still there. I try to look at the before and after pics on this site and when i see some of the progress i think, 'hey if they can do it so can i'..and i also remind myself that i didn't put on this weight overnight. It was because of a life-time of wrong choices so i can't expect that it would come off instantly. (Though after i am finished exercised i wish it would!!)
Really all i would like to say is don't give up. it will happen. Just keep doing the right things and it will happen. Also, i don't weigh myself everyday. Water weight is the worst!!

Hope you stay with us..:waving:
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You are so right. Last time I was on WW's, I ended up frustrated when I hit a plateau and I quit. I definitely am not going to quit this time! There is too much I feel like I'm missing out on because I am embarrassed of my weight.

The Before and Afters are so inspiring! I took some horrible before pics and I can't wait til I can post them with my after pics!

It's hard for me to not weigh myself everyday because I think that if I had kept weighing myself everyday before I wouldn't have gained so much weight or I would have started to lose it sooner.

Thanks for your encouragement! It helps more than you can know. I'm going to go find your journal now! (If you have one that is!)
 
Yesterday was a good day. I actually forgot to weigh myself, and it felt weird, but then I was glad to not know, lol. I knew the next day was my weigh-in, so I didn't care. I ate within my points yesterday for the first time in awhile, yay! I got a oven roasted chicken sandwich from Subway and ate half for lunch and am going to eat the rest today. I exercised yesterday even though I woke up late and tried to put it off all day. It felt weird because it felt harder than usual but at the same time it was hard to get my heart rate up. So I burned about 521 calories on the elliptical and then did my weights. I like doing the weights so much more than cardio. It's not nearly as boring and I feel so strong when I do it, haha. I usually listen to music when I exercise, but to change it up I watched a dvd with some I Love Lucy episodes. That is one of my favorite shows even though it's from the 1950s. I have been watching it since I was 10.

The scale this morning said 187.4, which is just .2 more than last week. So I feel like I can definitely make up for that this week.

I am going to try and not weigh myself this week until next Tuesday, so we'll see how that goes. I know it will be hard for me...

Later! :)
 
Hey BB2010! I just joined the forum and am checking out other peoples diaries/journals. You seem to be doing great! It's really hard for me not to weigh myself every day also but you can do it! Good luck with this week. :)
 
xtremelyperfect said:
Hey BB2010! I just joined the forum and am checking out other peoples diaries/journals. You seem to be doing great! It's really hard for me not to weigh myself every day also but you can do it! Good luck with this week. :)
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Thanks girl! We seem to have similar goals as far as weightloss. Good luck to you too! I'm off to read your journal!
 
Oh great job on the weight loss!! I keeping my fingers crossed for my weighing day :S. Yeah i tried weight watchers some years aback and found it was quite good but i never stuck with it and i gained all the weight and then some.
Now i am attempting it again and what i like about it is that i don't feel like i am on a diet. The portion sizes sometimes still surprise me though..lol. But i am trying. It is sometimes difficult to get accurate points for some of the food i eat because we prepare food quite differently here in the caribbean.
Btw, so u are taking a cruise to the Caribbean? That's lovely!!! :D I am soo excited for you. Well i will be checking in your progress, you are quite an encouragement to me. :) Ciao
 
IslandGirl . . .There is a special place in my heart for the Caribbean :beating: lol. My husband and I, with his family (like 10 of us), have gone to the Dominican Republic like 8 years in a row. This is actually the first year we aren't going as a group - too much going on :( Where in the Caribbean do you live???
 
Ugh! I am so aggravated! I just typed like 3 paragraphs and right before I finished my husband's stupid laptop turned off on me. The battery doesn't work anymore and you have to keep it plugged in. Well, it accidentally came unplugged and I lost all my typing. :ack2:

So I will retype, (on my desktop computer this time) but it probably won't be as good as the first time, lol.

I managed to resist the temptation of the scale this morning. It was very hard though. I hope I can make it the rest of the week. I ate 24.5 out of 25 WW points today. I'm proud of the fact that I've been good with my liquid intake lately. I am so bad about getting enough liquids in. Those Powerade Zeros or whatever they're called really are great. (They have 0 calories.) They taste so good and I love to drink them while working out especially. My favs are grape and strawberry.

I had a great workout today, too. My heart rate monitor said I burned 605 calories after my 30 minutes on the elliptical. I feel like it's getting easier. (Just a little bit!). In another week or so I'm going to have to go shopping for some heavier dumbbells! :hurray: I don't know how much the ones I am using now weigh, but I think they are 8 or 10 pounds. It feels great to know I'm getting stronger. One funny thing is that the muscle on the right side of my right butt cheek feels really tight. Sorry for the description, lol, but I don't know how else to describe it! It's kind of annoying. Good thing tomorrow is a rest day. I wish I could stretch it, but I have no idea how!

Just also wanted to say that my husband pinched my side (by my hip) today and commented that there is not much left to pinch! :p


Island Girl said:
Btw, so u are taking a cruise to the Caribbean? That's lovely!!! :D
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Yes, it's not definite yet, but we really really want to go. We are definitely planning on it. It's not until November or December of 2011 though. So it's over a year away. The reason is because we live close to New Orleans and we want to leave out of that port, to cut down on expenses. We want to cruise on Royal Carribbean, and they left after Katrina, but they are coming back Nov. 2011! It will be my first cruise!! The best part is I should definitely be at goal by then. :hurray: That will be a great reward for all of this hard work!
 
I may not have written for a few days, but I am still working hard and losing weight. I've just been busy cleaning the house and other things. I managed to not weigh myself for a couple of days, but yesterday I couldn't take it anymore so I weighed myself....187. So then since I had already broken down about the scale, I weighed myself again today....186.8. At least it's going in the right direction! I decided that it's worse for me not to weigh myself everyday because I freak out about my weekly weigh-in. I'd rather know. But it was good to take a break from the scale for a couple of days.

I decided to measure again, and I have lost almost 5 inches from around my belly button. (I say belly button instead of waist, because my actual waist is higher up than my belly button, so I measure both areas.) That's where I have lost the most inches but I also have lost a couple inches from my hips and thighs, as well as little bit from other places.

Everything else is going just fine. I saw my mom today and she said my face looked like it was a little thinner. Yay!

This weight is coming off slowly, but I still have a couple of days to go until my weigh in.

I had a very late breakfast (if you can call it that) this morning because I was doing stuff with my mom, and all I had was a large coffee (just sweet and low, no cream) and a peach. Then my husband felt like some popcorn, and I ate about a third of the bag. (It was 94% fat free popcorn.) So that was only 2 points! Then I had a Smart Ones pizza for 7 points. That leaves me with 16 more points for the rest of today and it's after 7 pm! My husband is cutting the grass right now, and as soon as he is done we are going to eat something. I am tempted to get something bad because I have so many points....but I will try to be good.

Oh by the way, I tried these mini cheeseburgers that Smart Ones makes. They are only 4 points a piece. They are so good!! They taste like a real cheeseburger, lol. It really satisifed my cravings.

Hope everyone is doing well meeting their goals. Later! :)
 
Tomorrow is weigh-in day...hope I can keep this good thing I have going. Today I weighed in at 186. That's 1.4 pounds down from last week. Hopefully that number will drop down a little for tomorrow.

Two days ago when I had all those points left over for dinner I thought long and hard for what I've been craving for most...and Taco Bell came to mind. So I looked up the nutritional info online and figured out what I wanted before I left to go over there. I got a supreme chalupa (no tomatos, I hate tomatos.) and one beef soft taco. I drank water with my meal. (It was so hard to pass up my usual favorite mountain dew, but I did!). So I know it wasn't exactly nutritious, but I fit it all in my allotted points for the day.

Yesterday was not a good day...my period arrived and I didn't feel like exercising. I ate 3 points over my daily amount...when I first start my period I most of the time feel like eating everything in sight. The worst was the not exercising. It's going to be hard to make it up later this week because I am not going to be able to exercise Tuesday or Wednesday because I have plans, and then this weekend (Saturday & Sunday) there is this big jewelry and gift show that is in town and my mom and I always go to that. I might do double cardio today....ugh. We'll see how things go.

I haven't mentioned this yet, but I love to dance and I am a member of this dance group that dances/marches in the Mardi Gras parades every year. We start back up again somewhere around the last weekend of August or first or second weekend of September. Last year I was sort of put on weight probation...but then the lady who runs it said as long as I could fit in my costume from last year it would be fine. I managed to lose about 8 pounds and I fit in my costume and nothing was mentioned since. Now I am exactly at my lowest point I was last year on the team. I really want to lose enough weight so people realize I'm smaller than last year. I only have about 6 weeks left though. I know I shouldn't be so concerned about it, but it's hard not to be worried about it. Last year I wore Spanx under my clothes I wore to the practices each week because I was desperate to look thinner. But they are so uncomfortable to dance in, at least the almost full body suit I was wearing was. I really hope to be in the 170s before practice starts again...
 
Hi everyone! Hope everybody is having a great week! I couldn't weigh-in on my weigh in day (Tuesday) because I had to leave really early with my husband since we commuted together and he has to be to work for seven. So I couldn't weigh myself at my usual time (around 9:30 or 10 AM), so I decided to wait until Thursday to weigh-in. (I commuted with him Wednesday, too.) So I am 185.6, 1.8 pounds down from last week, 9.2 pounds total loss.

I can't wait to get to 10 pounds lost. I should definitely make that for next week, if all goes according to plan. I mentioned a while back that I really liked these running shoes I saw in the mall one day and decided to make those my ten pound reward. Only thing is, I got them early because they are last year's model and I was afraid they would be extremely hard to get if I waited too long. As it is I had to order them because they weren't carried in the store anymore. The good thing was they were only $65, which is great for Nike. So I got them in last Friday, but all I did was try them on to make sure they fit, and then I put them right back in the box. I am making myself wait til I reach 10 pounds lost before I wear them, lol.

I have to exercise today and tomorrow to make up for missing exercise earlier in the week.

Well, that's about it. Cya later!
 
10 pounds down!!! :party:

I now weigh 184.8. So first thing I did after I weighed myself is get dressed and put on my new running shoes, a.k.a. my Ten Pounds Lost Reward.

Today was a great day to break them in, too. I went to this jewelry and gift show that they have in the convention center in New Orleans 4 times a year. My mother and I always go, but this time my mother-in-law came, too. We had so much fun, but it was an exhausting day. We shopped until we literally dropped. We were on our feet for 8 hours straight, carrying heavy bags loaded with our purchases. I am considering counting that as a workout, lol.

So, with ten pounds down, I just have to do this again 6 more times and I will reach goal. (Does anybody else ever think like that? ;)) I know what works, and now I just have to stick with it. And for the first time in my life, it doesn't feel like it's that hard to do!
 
So much for my ten pound loss....

:eek: :rant: Oh, how the scale keeps toying with my emotions!! I'm a whole pound up from yesterday! The only thing I can think of is maybe I'm retaining water because I didn't drink enough yesterday...so I'm going to try and drink a motherload of water and powerade zero so my body will flush out that water. Ugh, this is so frustrating....guess I shouldn't have been so quick to put on my new shoes...:cuss:
 
Just wanted to pop in and say that my weight dropped back down .8 today! :hurray: So almost back to my ten pounds lost. I drank a bunch of water yesterday, and I will try to drink as much today so I can make sure the water weight is gone. I don't have much time because I have to go exercise and hurry up and shower. I'm driving in today to New Orleans to meet my husband after work. We are seeing a movie and having dinner with his sister and her fiance. So I hope everyone else is doing well this week. Cya!
 
Congrats on the ten pound loss! Even if you are only at 9.8 right now, the fact is you reached ten pounds and you'll reach it again quickly! You totally deserved those running shoes. Reading your journal makes me think I should have some stronger goals and more defined limits to what I should be eating…. I’m sort of just saying “eating better” and “exercise more” right now and that might not be enough to keep me going. So you have motivated me to sit down and try to think of what really matters to me and how I should go about getting there! Thanks :) Good luck on your continued progress, I’ll check back and see how you’re doing soon!
 
Laura F said:
Congrats on the ten pound loss! Even if you are only at 9.8 right now, the fact is you reached ten pounds and you'll reach it again quickly! You totally deserved those running shoes. Reading your journal makes me think I should have some stronger goals and more defined limits to what I should be eating…. I’m sort of just saying “eating better” and “exercise more” right now and that might not be enough to keep me going. So you have motivated me to sit down and try to think of what really matters to me and how I should go about getting there! Thanks :) Good luck on your continued progress, I’ll check back and see how you’re doing soon!
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Thanks Laura. I had been staying between 184 and 185 for the past two weeks. Then in the past two days I have lost 1 & 1/2 lbs. I am now 11.4 pounds down, so it looks my "mini" plateau is over. :hurray:

I'm glad I have inspired you. It's funny though because I don't feel like I'm restricting myself all that much. Really I eat whatever I want, as long as I stay within my Weight Watcher points. A lot of days I go over by 2 or 3 points and I still manage to do okay. I do try to eat as healthy as possible most of the time. But tonight I felt like a candy bar, and damn it, I had one! :) I don't want to limit myself too much because I want this to be the way I eat for life, not a diet I can go "off of". But Weight Watchers has helped me learn about portion sizes, which were really my downfall. When I first started at the beginning of June, I tried to just do it on my own without counting calories or doing Weight Watchers. I only lost 1 lb in 18 days! Once I started Weight Watchers, it has been coming off much faster.

And you have inspired me to start writing in my diary again! :)

So I kind of took a break from writing here because I was kind of upset about plateauing. I didn't quit; I kept eating right and exercising, but I tried not to focus on thinking about it too much and so I just didn't feel like writing here.

But now I am back. :)

I don't think I've mentioned that I'm a huge New Orleans Saints fan. Tomorrow I am going to sit in the 95 degree, 80% humidity heat, to watch the Saints practice. It sounds miserable, and the heat is no fun, but I went last year and had a great time, despite my awful sunburn. This time I am wearing sunscreen! And I'm bringing an umbrella for shade and lots of bottled water. I'm also bringing a little handheld fan. I'm going with my mom and brother. The players often give autographs after practice so I am bringing my Superbowl Champs hat and will try to get some signatures.

Last year I played fantasy football for the first time. I joined a league with my friend and her family. I had so much fun, and it got me more interested in all the other teams and players in the NFL. It made watching the other games (without the Saints) more fun because I would cheer on my fantasy picks. This year we're playing again, but this time we're all pitching in $50. There's eight of us, and the top four finishers will get some money. Last year I came in 2nd, so hopefully I will do just as well this year and win some moola!!
 
How was watching the Saints practice? I'm not a football fan at all but I'd still like to see the Patriots practice sometime. One of these years!
 
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