A Smidjin at a time

I posted yesterday that I lost a pound. Well that changed my weight based points allowance for daily food intake. I lost a point. So instead of getting to eat 30 points worth of food, I now only get 29. Which might not seem like a big change but for someone who had been using a vast amount of the weekly points not for special occassions but for everyday eating that adds up to 7 points a week that I no longer have. But as Luck would have it, somehow I came in 7 points UNDER today. I am sure that is mostly cause it was one of my weird sleep in late days and only eat 2 real meals plus snacks. Or maybe it was cause I sat down at the beginning of the day and tracked everything I planned to eat for the remainder of the day. Either way I am in bed and not hungry. Maybe I can pull it off 2 days in a row, I am trying to save my extra points for sunday as I will have 2 special meals that day. And adter much reading in my PCOS workbook I have started taking some vitamins in addition to the medica...

thats what trainer Bob said on last nights Biggest Loser. And boy is he right, victory is hard. Heck, progress is hard. I lost a pound this last week. And I know I should be happy about it and I will take it. But I felt like this had been a decent week. I ate low most of the time, worked out, uped my amount of fruits and veggies. It makes it really hard to wanna eat right again tomorrow if I can eat right and workout and still only lose 1 pound. What gives.

I was really hoping to have lost my first 10% by now. But alas. septemeber was not a good month at all, and i felt i was getting back on track. Until monday when I twisted my ankle and couldn't even stand on it, much less actually go to the gym and work out. So i really wasn't expecting much at weigh in this week, but thankfully I weighed exactly the same as last week. At least it wasn't a gain. And now that the ankle is feeling better, a gym going i will be tomorrow. And I got a BRAVO sticker at the meeting! I love getting bravos. It was for having to buy produce 2 in a week. It wasn't cause the stuff went bad (like it normally does in my house) but because I actually at it all and wanted more. I am pretty sure green peppers are my new favorite raw vegetable, over celery and over carrots, I love green bell peppers. And when you are fat and lose weight slowly you hit the 16 week milestone before you making it to 10% milestone. WW likes to celebrate certain milestones. 1...

So I decided today was beautiful and went to 2 pumpkin patches with my friend Kat. And I ended up spraining my ankle :( Which means holding back on the gym for a while, which is now bueno cause I was just getting into routine. And of course, today I had to sample apple cider donuts from 2 pumpkin patches and get aple cider from both locals, and have lunch out with my friend and my mom. So I am gonna be over points today. And I will need to be extra diligent with my points tomorrow. Good think I bought tons of fresh produce at EZ Orchards today.

This years theme on Biggest Loser is "pay it forward". They talk a lot about what the contestants can share with their familes and their communities when they are eliminated, which got me thinking. How have I paid it forward in regards to my weight loss journey. Well last night I got rid of a pair of jeans, I could pull these jeans completely off of me without having to unbutton them at all. So I took them to weight watchers and gave them to my frien Jenn, who just got down to that size. Jenn reached her 5% milestone, and to see the joy on her face when she heard her weight loss that week and then when awards were given at the end of the meeting totally inspired me to keep going and actually remotivated me. It was humbling to think that I had been the motivation for her and another friend of mine to join. And today at work I was talking with a coworker who wants to join. I hope she gets to make it work. So my challenge to you my friends is to think of ways you have paid it fo...

I personally find it funny that after 16 weeks on weight watchers I still don't fell like I have had a good week. Even today I went in and just didn't feel great about the week. I even took my socks off at the meeting to weigh, and then I took my shirt off too, no worries I was wearing a sports bra. It ended up being okay, I lost 2.2 lbs. And I am thrilled with 2.2, that a full kilogram, yes I would love to have more in a week, but a loss is a loss. I just wish for once that I would go in to weigh in and at least feel good about it. So I must have done something right this week. Maybe it was the 43 activity points I earned with all the cleaning over the weekend. Cause I will admit, it wasn't cause I stayed perfectly on plan with the food. I diffenately have some oom to improve there. But I got some soup mix I am gonna make up and portion it out into indivual servings instead of having it all in one big bowl. To all my Biggest Loser friends out there, I am watching week 4 as...

So I am discovering a pattern. I do well at breakfast and lunch keeping them in a good points range. My problem comes with dinner. I never know what I am gonna make for dinner. Sometimes I come with an idea while I am at work, but then I can't remember if I have the ingredients at home or not and who really wants to go home and then go back to the store. I mean yeah it like a 3 minute drive from my apartment to the store, but really is that what i really wanna do after work. Especially after adding in the gym. I need to get a lot better at planning out what I am gonna make when. I'm just not good at it. I really wish I was. It's on my list of organize things I wish I was better at. Keep my apartment clean, know where things in my cupboards, eat all 5-7 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and have a weekly meal plan. Anyone have any ideas on ways to make it easier to plan out meals? So in the last week I have had 2 friends ask me if I am gonna be doing the Helvetia Half...

It's the little victories right? You know the ones where you get to the gym and realize everything is in your gym bag except your...sports bar. And yet you decide to put in a 20 minute workout anyway. Yes it's true I could have just gone home and changed there and gone back, but I was so tired that if i had done that i wouldn't have gone back at all. So I stayed and worked out in my normal bra, choose to get on the recumbant bike so I wasn't bouncing around. But yay me I had packed a gym bag the night before and actually remembered to have it in the car!!! So tomorrow would be my normal weigh in at weight watchers day. But since this week I am working day shift on thursday I have the opprotunity to go to the thursday meeting with Jenn! I like going to meeting with friends. It makes it way more enjoyable. I am so honored that I was the catalyst to get Jenn to join but at the same time she continues to push and motivate me. As does the Biggest Loser weigh in I am watching...

WARNING: this became long. So today I went to a costume party. Well it was the Newberg art walk and it was a Halloween theme at the most important stop, Mode Du Jour. So I went in costume, I dressed up as a "Half- Marathoner". I wore my running capri's, running shoes, official race shirt, a lamented copy of my race number pinned to my shirt, my medal, my ipod on my arm, you know the whole nine yards. So mom and I go out to dinner and with the exception of the ipod I am still in costume, and someone stops in the restaurant to ask if I had done that today, and when I say "no I walked it in June" He says "well still congratulations, that is so cool". Why did it take a total stranger to remind that it is so cool that I walked a half marathon? Yeah so what I didn't run, who cares that it wasn't a whole marathon. I walked 13.1 miles straight without stopping. Plus the walking from the parking lot to the stadium to the starting point, and then from th...