Weight Loss Journal

Happy Hump day to you too!!! lol.

So I decided to check in for no reason. Just wanted to mention how the rest of my day went. I managed to avoid lots of bad food today including chinese food and some cake from my brothers bday. I reached my max points for the day so I couldn't have anything else. I did have a beer today at school and just adjusted my food accordingly for the rest of the day. I just finished running on the treadmill for 25 minutes. I did 6.5 mph the whole time. A personal best. Well I am very proud of my accomplishments today and my ability to just say no. It's just not worth it. I don't want to see a dreaded 145 on the scale tomorrow. Maybe I'll fit in some cake or something tomorrow when I have some points.

Anyways I'm exhausted and I'm going to bed. Night night!!
 
I'm freaking confused. I am sticking to my points everyday but the scale hardly budges. I was 143.6 today. A loss of .2 from yesterday. Maybe I'm just being impatient but a couple days ago I was 142... it should be easy to get back down to that but I'm slowly creeping back down. My body shape is changing though despite the slow scale movement. More than likely I'm building muscle from that body pump class. Whatever. I'm probably going to force myself to weigh in once a week soon. I am sticking to points and I am exercising everyday so maybe if I just look at the big picture then I can appreciate my losses more. Well today there won't be any alcohol going into this body. I have no reason to be at the bar today. I plan on doing the step and strength class at school today and then I might hit up the body pump class after school. well that's all for now. Hope everyone has a good day :)
 
A drop on .2 from one day to the next is fine. Normal fluctuations of a pound or two make it so that you could have gained or lost fat, but since you were "good" you can count that as belonging in the lost category. Do the weekly thing and you'll see a big difference that will be real. Especially if you are "good" all week. :iagree:
 
You are definately right buddy. I don't think I'll be weighing in until Monday.

so just thought I'd check in with the rest of my day.. which isn't exactly over yet. Eats were very good. I managed to turn down the chinese food again, though I hovered over it like a starving hawk. I went to put a piece of sweet and sour chicken in my mouth and when I bit down I realized it was breaded and fried. I chewed it a couple of times to get the taste and then did the funniest thing.. I spit it back out and threw it in the garbage. That was as satisfying as eating the piece without eating any of it. i ended up having chicken breast for dinner with mixed veggies and basmati rice. After dinner I went to the body pump class. I gained 7 activity points in total today. I still have 4 points left for some treatzza pizza.
My cousin is coming over tonight and asked if I want to drink. I told her no because I just don't have the points to. So no drinking for me. I'm not sad about it at all. I'll just chill with her and socialize. Alright gotta hit the showers.
 
Hey trops thanks for that post but it's almost the middle of the month so I'll just hold off.

In other news.. I fell off the wagon again. Went over my points last week. I drank on friday and saturday and ate bad saturday sunday and monday. I didn't workout from saturday on.. mostly because I've been really focused on exams. I finally got back into decent eats yesterday.. only caving in to a small slice of pizza. I do keep going over my points though. Yesterday I was over by two and today I was over by .5. I forgot my motto over the weekend "It's not worth it" but I'm really glad I remembered it. I weighed in at 147.4 on monday morning and was down to 144.4 by this morning.
I finally had some time to workout today too. I had two exams on monday and two on tuesday and a big one this morning so I've been constantly studying for the past few days. I ran on the treadmill tonight for 25 minutes with my mom and then did some barbell lifts. It was super hard tonight for some reason but I'm glad I broke the cycle. I have one more exam and it's not till Friday. I'll be doing a lot of studying tomorrow and right up until the exam and I'll try to get in some workouts as well.
I also came up with and idea for how I'm going to dodge this weekends partying (I always have some crazy idea). I decided to keep my phone either off or out of reach all weekend so I don't get any phone calls. I seriously don't want to go out. I simply can't afford it financially and physically.

OK I'm off to get some sleepy. Night.
 
Hehe, dodged going to an office Christmas party last night myself... and good thing too, coz everyone's looking hungover this morning!!!

Well done for breaking the cycle, that's the hardest part over! And good luck for your remaining exams!
 
Hey Ankee thanks for coming by. I haven't seen you in a while (except in Lily's diary) just glad to see your still in the game. Thanks for the nice words and the luck wishes. I'm going to need it.

well I'm doing what I do best... procrastinating. I don't even really have anything to discuss I just figured that if I made a post then I could avoid studying that much longer. So I jumped on the scale today and I'm down to 143.0. It's higher than 142 but it's lower than the 145 I was aa couple weeks ago when I started WW. Overall a decent weigh in that I am content with. I decied that I'm going to set up mini goals of 5 lbs and adjjust my ticker accordingly. So 138 will be my first mini goal. 5 lbs sounds so much easier to accomplish than 15+ lbs. and one I reach my 5 lb mini goal I'll just have 5 more lbs to get to my all time low of 133. It just seems soo much easier.

Because the scale moved so nicely this morning I'm determined again to continue losing weight and stick to a good diet. Honestly I'd like to be noticeably smaller when I go back to school in the new year. Tomorrow is my last exam and I'll have no excuse not to workout all holiday long since I'll have so much spare time. So here goes nothing. 138 here I come bitch!!!
 
Amanda, good job on getting back on it after the weekend. If you spend this holiday break working on your goals I think you'll find a big improvement in January when school starts up again. Think about if you spent half the time that you did spend on school working out or doing something healthy, you'd be a force to be reckoned with. :cheers2:
 
Hey lady I'm happy that you are almost done with finals!! I have until Tuesday, I'm jealous you're done tomorrow.

Anyway, just wanted to check in. I wouldnt worry about any flubs during finals... when its all over you can focus on yourself again and get that number down!!!!

Happy Thursday!
 
Wowww look at that!! I'm almost at the halfway point!!! If thats not encouraging I don't know what is lol. I like the 5 lb ticker idea. Well I'm free from school work until January THANK GOD!! I dont work today either but I'm sure I'll feel like I should be doing something important all day today lol. Well it may appear that I am quite happy-go-lucky... which I am... but I woke up with one swollen gland....meaning an evil sickness is on the horizon. Just in time for the holidays. It's not fair. Just when I was ready to give 110% to getting in shape I'll have a sickness to hold me down.. bummer.

so last night I came home from work and I treated myself to a small weight watchers carrot cake for doing so well. I also had points left in my day for a couple glasses of baileys. My brother came downstairs and was like "hey mom are you making dinner?" clearly he was on something (drunk I assume. I said "Dale it's 10"30 why would anyone be making dinner?" so then hes like "mom make me two grilled cheeses." now my mom is the type of person that does everything for her children. Especially my brother because he blackmails her and tells her he's going to move out. Even before all this phase of partying I used to tell my mom that he can do things on his own and you don't have to get him a plate or make him some cereal or stupid shit like that. so I looked at my mom and said "he can make his own grilled cheeses." and I hear from the kitchen "Fuck you!" Yep that's right. All I said was he can make his own grilled cheese and I get a fuck you in return. Nice brother eh? So I bought him a gift cert for a hat store for xmas but I'll be giving that away to someone who deserves it and will appreciate it more than him. I'm fucking sick of being badmouthed when I say the slightest things in the nicest ways. I refuse to talk to hime anymore. Why should I? Only to feel like shit when he shuts me down again? No fucking way. I'd rather not talk to him. He obviously doesn't care if he has any family in his life.

Anyways... that's my rant.. Have a good day everyone.
 
Amanda, I'm with you on the small goals. Seeing something right in your grasp makes it easier to stay focused.

It sucks that your brother is so self centered and helpless. It also sucks to see someone you love giving into his unreasonable demands. Hopefully one day he'll grow out of it.
 
It definitely does make it easier Trops. I only have 3.2 lbs to make it to my mini goal! That looks so much easier than 12 lbs or whatever the number is right now.

So for some reason I've decided to check in again. I was putting in my points and just figured I'd stop by here. Lately I've been trying to find many healthier substitutes to less healthy things. I bought some egg substitute the other day and it's actually not that bad. It's made with egg whites only, no yolk, and it has 0 mg of cholesterol opposed to the high amount of cholesterol in one egg. Another substitue I bought today is a half of a ham. I ate that instead of bacon this morning. 60 g has way less calories than bacon and I get to eat more of it. So today's breakfast turned out to be 7 points worth. This is including the milk in the two coffees I drank. Not bad.

I just got back from the gym not long ago too. My mom and I did the body attack class. The instructor made the class much harder today than previous classes. After the class my mom and I went to do a few lifts to work our upper body a little more and our core. Overall a great workout today. I got 8 activity points!!

One of the biggest accomplishments I've faced recently (not sure if I've already mentioned it) is that I've started to do pushups on my toes instead of my knees. I can only do 16 consistently before I have to switch back to my knees as I learned today but it's a freaking start and a major accomplishment in my eyes.

My moms friend from her old work (she got laid off in october) has invited her to a christmas party tonight. She asked me if I'd like to go with her and I said yes. Alcohol and food will be provided so I will really have to try and be on my bestest behaviour tonight. I think after seeing a decent drop today it won't be hard. The absent minded picking at hors d'ourves (sp?) all night will be what I need to really focus on. Also looking for some healthier options. These guys are loaded so I'm sure there will be many options.

Anyways.. I'm out.:seeya::coolgleamA::smash:
 
Amanda, 16 real pushups is amazing. Really great work. it's nothing to sneeze at. A friend of mine is doing the 100 push up program, and he has some good things to say about it. I'm thinking about starting that.

Egg whites is a real go to food. It's pure protein. The yolks have all the fat and cholesterol, but they are a good protein source, too. One idea I got from Mal is to make deviled eggs, but use hummus instead of the yolks. It's a low fat high protein hour d'over.
 
I did the stupidest thing this weekend. Gave in. Idiot!
I drank way more than I anticipated at my moms friends xmas party and there was WAYYYY more food there than I could have ever imagined. So I kept picking at different things all night. Went over my points for the week. Yesterday I still went to the step class and did alright eats wise. Then we went to my dads for dinner. I couldnt help but have a second piece of pork roast and a second serving of mashed potatoes. Even though I was stuffed after the first helping of food. Then at work I decided I wouldn't blow it all away and pig out... but I got a party table of 8 who were very unimpressed at the end of the meal and I got a 4 dollar tip on a 110 dollar bill. After that I just couldn't get into a rhythm with my other tables and it seemed that I just kept making little mistakes. Well this brought on a case of emotional eating. I had a little lindor chocolate but managed to resist most of the food till I got home. I had some leftover pasta when I got back home and then ate a hefty portion of chips finally washing down the salt with two frosting ritz cracker skor piece treat things my sister made that are super bad for you. I know all my efforts have not been lost though because a) I didn't gorge anywhere near as much as I did last week b) I continued to workout all weekend regardless of the drinking and eating bad, and c) my stomach does not look like its as fat as it was a couple weeks ago.

I was going to avoid the scale today but decided to just face it. 146.2 this morning. I went to the body attack class and then came home and went on the scale again and it read 145.6... so thats the number I took for the day. I know that I'll be back down in a couple of days... but I could have been at 139 today and that's the stupidity of it all. I really need to step up my weekends. Even if I do drink (I think it may be unavoidable at this age) then I need to buy just the 250 ml bottles of liquor and just deal with the healthy eating when I'm hungover. It's the poor eating that goes with the drinking that is contributing to my super high weigh ins on mondays.

Well my friend aurora wants to go for lunch today. She wants to go to kelseys and have the toasted sesame salmon salad. I'm very happy she wants that because it will be easier for me to get it too and eat healthy. I looked it up of WW and its 13 pts for the whole salad so I plan to tell the girl to put half of the entire salad into a takeout container before serving it to me. I'll eat the second half for dinner. That will leave me with 6 points for the rest of the day for snacks and whatnot.
 
Well today went wonderful. I had a great day overall. Got my two winter tires put on just in time for a snow storm. I weighed in today at 144 as well. I'm sure I'll be down more tomorrow. That's just some additional water weight from the weekend.

Well I had a PB or as weight watchers calls it and NSV (no scale victory). I ran on the treadmill today at 6.5 mph for 35 minutes!!!! That is a PB on its own. I cooled down for 4 minutes after my run so 39 minutes total. I did a total of 4 miles which was another PB. And the calories... the most I have burned on a mill at once is about 390. Wellllllll today I burned 450 CALORIES!!!! Thats on the treadmill alone. I went to the pump class with my mom and cousin and burned another 300 calories. Thats a total of 750 cals burned for the day!!!! I'm super happy and stoked. We had a wicked awesome dinner tonight too. I had about 3 oz of chicken, 1/3 cup of rice, 1 rib, 1 1/2 cups of veggies and about 3 cups of salad. I finished off the day with one point left in case I underestimated anything today. I also had room (points) for a weight watchers carrot cake after dinner.

Soooo did anyone watch the Biggest Loser Families finale tonight?!!?!??! OMG!!! They all lost sooooo much weight I could not believe it. They all looked so amazing. It was very inspiring to watch and I'm sure I'll get to look that good soon enough.

Well anyways I'm going to go to bed now. Have a great night folks!
 
Yestarday was awesome and full of activity. I tried snowboarding for the "first" time and took a lesson. It was so much fun. I'm pretty sore today in my shoulders. obviously from pushing myself up a lot. I went to the gym with my cousin afterwards and went on the elliptical for 25 minutes or so. After that we went to Montana's and I tried their rustic citrus salmon salad. It was only 9 points and was sooo yummy. Went on the scale today and was down to 141.8.

I woke up this morning with a scratchy throat. Sure signs of a cold coming on. There is a 90 minute step class at the gym on sunday that I reallly don't want to miss. I looked on the internet today to see if I could find any way to stop a cold from getting worse and I found a few things that I tried. Vitamin C supplements and H2O2 in the ears.

For some reason I just want to eat badly. I don't know why. I had ham and egg substitute for breaky with 1.5 slices of toast with very very little butter. Then I allowed myself a chocolate turtle. I put it into my weight watchers points. then for some reason I had another turtle and about 2 tsp of nutella. I've worked out my points for the rest of the day so I know where I stand and how many points I still have. I have 2.5 leftover right now and am thinking of adding a slice of bread to my tomato soup lunch.

Well that's all for now. I'm out.
 
Shit man we got like 20+ centimeters of snow and its still coming down!! I just finished shovelling the driveway and porch with my uncle. Took 1/2 an hour. Theres my activity point for the day haha. I gotta work at 5 if I make it out of the driveway. Honestly who the hell is going to want to go out for dinner in this weather???? I just hope I get sent home early... I may run later if I'm feeling up to it.
 
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