Catching up

I suppose I should catch up in this blog. I suspect that I still weigh close to the same as I weighed at my last entry. I have had five months of up and down at the scale. It is very frustrating.

Then last week I was sick with a cold that went into my chest and caused me respiratory problems. I couldn't even get on the treadmill most of the week. I did eat healthy foods. I lost 2 pounds!!! Go figure.

I just cannot lose my motivation because the scale is not going down fast enuf or it is not going down at all. I actually gained back some pounds in the last five months. I am still working my way back down to a new number.

Weight loss is not easy. It is a battle. At least it is a battle with a plan. Weight Watchers! I trust WW's because they have been in business so long and they keep re-inventing their plan and have a panel of experts and scientists to oversee it. I believe if I keep doing what the plan calls for with very little or no going off track I should lose.

The bottom line is that any alternative is unacceptable to me. I am not giving up because that would mean gaining all my weight back that I have lost. I have lost 42 pounds! I have many more to go but 42 pounds is significant.

Not so much

Well I did not lose as much as I wanted to lose this week. I lost .06 which is just a skosh over a half a pound. Now on Monday my home scale was giving me love and showing a 3 lb loss. How did it get to be half a pound by Tuesday?

The mystery of our human bodies, I guess.

The new Momentum program has rolled out in the WW meetings this week. I am happy that the flex part of the program is still intact. It is essentially core with points. That is a good combo for sure.

We have new materials and a new membership folder with it's own holder and everything. Can ya hear the cha ching that WW's spent on us? I wonder when the price will go up?

Surprise! Surprise!

I had a gain after the Thanksgiving Holiday. I never expected it. I thot I did so well. What a disappointment. I did not spin out over it tho. I have been good all week.

I got my workout music loaded up on my ipod touch and I am good to go. No more discman hanging around my neck in a case. It worked but I finally got an upgrade to an ipod touch. Oh yeah!

Tuesday will be my next weigh in. I am hoping for a loss of more than the gain that I just received.

Continued success

I have continued to lose since my last post. I aced my Thanksgiving Day meal and had even less points than I planned. I might even make my goal of losing 50 lbs by the end of the year or the end of one year in WW's (Jan 22nd)

Great report!!!!!

I lost 2.2 lbs today!!!!!! I am so happy! All my hard work paid off!! Finally!!!

I switched up foods I was eating and my exercise routine and I wrote down everything I ate. It worked! Gonna do it again!

This is war!

Well once I figured out that I am actually at war with my own body regarding this weight loss plateau, I figured out what I need to do.

I need to outfox my own body. I need to change up the food I am feeding it. I need to change up the way I exercise. I can use the incline option on my treadmill and slow down the pace. I can exercise with my new DVD unopened as of yet, "Shaping up with weights for dummies."

I am going to throw everything at it that I can think of to shake it out of this plateau. I am also praying and telling my body that it is okay to release this fat now. We are on our way to a healthier weight.

NWI - No weigh in

Today I chose to opt out of my weigh in. I just could not bear to see another gain. I have been trying to lose the same 2 lbs for over 3 months. All I want is two losses back to back.

My leader was really kind. She talked about being at a plateau. It turns out that there were 3-4 other ppl in the same boat as me. It was a good meeting. Our leader gave us pamphlets called "Plateau Rescue." It states that plateaus are normal. It is your body's reaction to losing weight. Your body wants equalibrium and a plateau is how your body tries to regain control.

I am at war with my own body now? Geez!

So I am committing to writing everything down that I put in my mouth! I am also going to let myself feel a little hunger before I eat. Not a lot of hunger but just a little. I seem to eat so often that I never feel hungry.


I trust Weight Watchers. I know that they know what they are doing. I believe if I stick to my efforts I will lose weight again.