WW Wednesday

Down 2.4 this week, total of 9.6 so far! So the meeting was about goals, tips for making goals that you can follow through with in the short term. Basically I am already failing at that this week. Last night I ate an entire medium pizza and then today a giant sandwich from Snarfs. Not a great way to achieve weight loss. I honestly think that a huge part of the problem is that I am stressed lately. 

The whole idea behind WW new plan is that it focuses on doing the things that make you happy and when you are happy it is easier to make healthy choices. Lately though I am having a rough time with things going on. Money is always an issue but I think it is more the changes and living situation I am in.

See a year ago I was living in Georgia, renting a huge 4 bedroom house for 850$ a month. I had a great nanny job taking care of 4 of the best kiddos I have ever known. I also worked part-time at McDonald’s. I was fostering Chow Chows for a rescue and was just all around pretty happy. Then I found out the house I was renting was being foreclosed and I had to move. Well I could not find another house anywhere near that price range so I made the decision to move back to Colorado. Back in with my dad which in itself is a huge stress. He is not very clean, keeps almost everything (not like trash or dirty dishes but other things) and his house is quite small. The biggest problem is that even though I pay him rent he basically makes it clear that I am not really welcome and that I have no say in the common areas of the house. Unfortunately for me there is NO WAY I can currently afford rent out here either. 

Ok, sorry, back to the whole goals thing. Most of us joined weight watchers to lose weight so that would be the BIG goal, to achieve this we need to focus on much smaller goals along the way. Example this week my goal was to make healthy food choices (hence the failure since a medium pizza is not healthy). They had some great tips to use when setting a goal:

1.     Define success on your terms

2.     Think small

3.     Nail down the how

4.     Keep it real

5.     Be flexible

6.     Don’t compare yourself

7.     Use my success story

Well I define that I failed at my goal this week. A whole pizza is far off from the flexibility area of my goal. It is ok I am simply going to reinforce why I am doing this and try again. Failures will happen and some weeks I will gain instead of losing, the key is to keep at it anyway. Until next week remember You can do this!

WWW

This week I actually gained a pound :( it happens from time to time and I think a lot of the gain was because I have been worried about my dog, EJ. He hurt himself and is not healing well, a post on this to follow. Due to my weight gain I felt the timing of this week’s topic was perfect! It was all about loving yourself and being positive in your thoughts and actions.

As an example when you wake up in the morning instead of thinking “Ok Teresa you will NOT eat any sweets today” you think “Ok Teresa today you are gonna eat at least 3 fruits”. The idea behind this is that if you tell yourself a negative, you will literally spend the day thinking about that one thing. And for me at least it is true, when I try to force myself into something or think about one thing that is all I can think of all day. This makes it very difficult to deny myself something but easy to have something I approve of.

So Far my tracking is going fairly well. I am still working on getting better at tracking when I am at home. I am great at it at work, probably because my day is much more structured and planned out. I also notice I tend to drink less water when I am at home! My focus for this week has really been on just that, making sure I drink enough water during the day.

I am figuring that this week will not be a great week for me as far as my weigh-in goes but like I mentioned before that is ok. This journey is a work in progress and admittedly my focus this week has been on EJ.

The other thing that we talked about this week was our why and letter to ourselves on the day we decide to quit. I am looking for my original letter so that I can post it here but have not yet found it in all my many moving boxes! As for my why well I suppose that is fairly simple:

I want to like what I see when I look in the mirror but more importantly than all of that I want to be healthy, feel healthy and have energy. I often find that there are things I really want to try or learn but then the thought of getting up and actually doing it makes me tired. Yes I am lazy and Yes I procrastinate but I believe that a lot of that is because I simply run out of energy so quickly it seems pointless to try. My why is that I want to get out in the world and live!  It is all for me and no one else, because no matter what we do in life there will be someone that does not like you or agree with your choices.

I think that is where I will leave you this week. If you have never looked into Weight Watchers or feel like it is too hard, I encourage you to give it a try. Plus you can always check out a meeting for free and nothing is better than free :)

Weight Watcher Wednesday!!!

So sorry I missed last Wednesday’s post.

Last Week when I weighed in I had lost another 3lbs for a total loss of 6.8lbs. This meant I was back down (exactly) to my originally beginning weight from years ago. The meeting was about finding your focus. They have a new thing going for the next 9 weeks where we choose one specific thing to focus on for the week. After 3 weeks we get what I feel should be deemed Weight Watcher Wage, yes I like the triple W thing. Anyway it is money to spend at Weight Watchers. Of course getting rewarded for making it to meeting is awesome but I really like the idea of focusing on one small thing at a time. They broke it down into three main categories to start and from there we have to narrow it down to one thing. The three categories are Food, Fitness & Feeling good. For the first week I decided to focus on food, specifically on tracking everything I eat.

This week I only lost 1.4lbs loss :( Still that brings my total loss to 8.2lbs! I picked to focus on food again this week and am trying to add more fruit to my days. I am doing fairly well with it. I truly love fruit and quite a few veggies as well but for some reason I never think of them when I want a snack. I am hoping very much to change this frame of thought. I think one issue I find I have is that fruit goes bad and I hate the grocery store. I try hard to only go once every couple of weeks. Not at all conducive to fruit and veggies. I shall simply have to decide what is more important to me, my weight and health or avoiding the grocery store!

This past week was my 4^th weigh-in and that means I get a key chain. To some it may be silly but one of the other things I love about WW is that they give you these little charms when you reach different milestones. The first thing you get is a key chain to put the charms on. It is nothing fancy but I will post a picture for you next week. Unfortunately I was unable to stay for the meeting this week so I did not get it yet. I will though, I will.

In the meantime I thought I would share my before photo from the last time I did WW. Forgive the mismatch swim were but it was a good “outfit” to show my body in. I still need to get my new before photo done but dread it because I DO NOT like how I look currently. I have zero desire to be super model skinny or anything like that but I do want to be less bumpy and wobbly. Some days I feel like a weeble, you know “weebles wobble but they don’t fall down”.  Perhaps more importantly I do not like how I feel!!!

I found out recently from the doctor that I am pre-diabetic and now I have to take Metformin, a medication to help prevent diabetes. This is a scary thought for me because in all my time being overweight my bloodwork as always come back 100% healthy. Guess I re-joined WW just in time. My heels also hurt a lot these days and I believe that is from the weight as well as the high AC1 blood test. Wish me luck! I am trying to make the changes needed to get me healthy and happy.