I will do anything for an award!

I'm a product of the 80's... I will do anything for an award or a sticker! I got my ww 5k award for helping fight Alzheimer's @ the memory walk

Shopping my favorite boutique...

Today I rediscovered my favorite store! My closet! I'm fitting into clothes I purchased 4 years ago! That means I've almost lost all of my recession depression weight! When I lost my job I went from a size 22/24 to a whopping 28! And even those got tight! I'm now wearing my 18/20 sweatpants that I got while in collage. I always thought I'd be excited to buy new clothes as I lost weight but the new me... Or the more mature me is loving becoming re acquainted with my "old friends"

All you can eat shrimp

My boyfriend and I love red lobster. Recently we went and I got all you can eat shrimp... I opted for the grilled shrimp because its a filling food. I've always been curious if I could do filling foods but my answer is no!!! I ate 37 shrimp! How do my filling foods we members do it?

The coveted 25 lb award

This week I received my over slightly due 25 lb award! ( less than 10lbs away from getting my 50lb award) It's a silver tone washer w/ 25lbs on it... It's amazing how something so simple as a washer and a clapping hand can encourage you and keep you going...

I'm committed to making this work this time! This week we asked ourselves three questions and reflect on our goals. Be a healthier me& a thinner me

As of right now I can fit my size 22 plants just can't zip them yet! Not only that but I've succumbed to owning skinny jeans! My feet and legs are thinner! There is room in my plus calf boots its an amazing feeling. My fingers have lost a bit to and have wrinkles! Lol

Football season snacking

Ok folks... I'm sitting on my sofa watching the game... What do I reach for? The BBQ Pringles or the Rice works an all natural brown rice crisp... My first reaction was omg what vegan hippie came in and brought this? But it's kind of growing on me. I don't have the overly salty greasy feeling regular chips have and that's a plus!

I just can't seem to weigh out what's the better option when u get 6 more Pringles than rice crisps! For the same total of 4 ww points plus... They have the same amt of fiber,Pringles has less carbs...

What one would u choose? I'm going to continue my research! One for me... One for me!

I'm my own trainer...

Today I wanted nothing more than to put my house pants on ( pants no one else should see cause I've had them since 2000 and the fuzzy texture has worn) and a tshirt with a quip saying that I've adopted from my boyfriends collection. But as I plugged in my active link and found out I was at 50% I grunted and put my shorts on... Sneakers... Grabbed my water and walked... I was going to walk till I reached 100% but this is day one... There's a new day tomorrow!

Active link assessment week

I drank the Kool-aid! Being a nut for research and having a few general OCD tendencies I am anxiously awaiting the results of my 8 day active link baseline assessment week.

I'm nervous and excited! I hope my baseline is not to high! Ww advises no more than 6 activity points a day but my current pedometer brings in 12 points a day. So apparently I'm an active person!?!

My father told me once that our family stock was made to push/ pull a plow! So I've always thought I need to push it further than most... Well it will be interesting to see the results!

There are more amazing things than smaller pants!

I recently found myself ecstatic that a chain sporting good store had there 1/4 ton chair on 30% off! And a 20% off coupon in the paper meaning I'd get two chairs for the price of one!

I had purchased 2 a few years priority the urging of my mother after I destroyed a regular camp chair with a 250lb limit while @ a craft show. Again a warning sign I had gained too much weight!

When my mother had suggested the 1/4 ton chairs I was insulted! But the chairs are sturdier, wider and higher all a round more comfortable than the $6 drug store ones I'd used in the past. Now that I've lost weight I'm noticing that it's even more comfortable and I'm a firm believer everyone should own one!

Am I booty calling my deli?

I realized tonight that I've apparently broken up with my local convenience store deli... 4 years ago every night between midnight and 6 am I would find myself driving to get a BLT or a meatball shortie w/ added pepperoni a bag of chips or Doritos a large 32 oz soda or wawa iced tea lemonade... On a really wild night I'd add 4 servings of Ben & Jerry's

What was I thinking?

It took me walking in and realizing they remodeled and the staff was all new faces! How long has it been? I didn't even realize I had made the behavior change till tonight but not only what am I saving from my waist line by not eating an extra 72 points every night but @ $12-$15 a night what am I saving my wallet?

So I would have to give myself and anyone else who has made a change like this a bravo for this behavior change!

Exercise...

I need to find a fun free way to add exercise to my day... I no longer have a gym membership & I miss classes like Zumba and swimming!

Im active at my current job, I started wearing a pedometer and I range from 10,000 steps, to 21,000 steps so some days I am exhausted when I'm home from work! But on those few days I'm closer to the 10,000 I need a way to maintain the level I am most other days!

Food-cation

How many times can you say oh I'm on vacation who cares about tracking what I'm eating? Or calorie counting?

Well I wrestled with vacation this year and the idea of staying the same weight or gaining no more than 4 lbs.

I ate like a queen almost every day while on vacation I will spare u the details of each meal, but my days started with my man making pancakes and bacon covered in vt maple syrup and lunch and dinner was either grilled chicken, shrimp or ribs almost daily& being in dairy country we had to take trips to Ben & Jerry's factory! But I refrained from the $35 Vermonter Sunday and opted for a heath bar crunch sundae.

Now this year we tried something different, water have you tried it? We brought 2 cases of water bottles and 3 gal. In the fridge. And 2 bottles of soda instead of two bottles a day! We packed snacks for vacation. However most got repacked and brought home.

So when it came time for my Friday ww meeting I said ok I'm skipping! I will give myself an extra week! Saturday I woke up to a different attitude! I told myself no! You need to know how bad you did! I ran out the door got to my meeting and the moment of truth came I was 3 lbs lighter! I felt like a winner! Like the decisions I made and behavior changes have paid off. Gold star week for me! Now back to reality and my crazy week ahead! How have you made it thru this summer with vacations? And BBQ's?

Amazing take off horrible dismount...

I had an amazing day food wise. Despite of what was going on around me I was on track w/ my plan in mind be full on healthy options. No sugar added apple sauce, carrots w/ hummus, whole wheat bread pb&j w/ water! A whopping 10 ww plus points... Then came work sabotage! We were baking snacks and I was quality control, then my boss got low fat Pringles and was insisting I eat my half the container... At the happy hour I hosted they served warm soft pretzels! I'm a self proclaimed carb junky I know better than this but why!!! Why do I crave them? So like the title says amazing take off horrible dismount today! But tomorrow I will try again!

Bravo moment

I'm giving myself a bravo... Yesterday I ate dinner till I was satisfied, but it was not at all what I was wanting to eat. I wanted to go out for dinned. But I'm starting to lessen making dinner an event and more of a daily have to, like going to the bathroom and breathing!

15 more lbs to go till my 50lb reward!

Today's weightwatchers meeting has challenged me to think about goals... The idea of loosing 160lbs is over whelming. But the idea of breaking it down to 5 lb stars and or a 50lb award it seems doable.

Just like my 16 wk award and my 10% award... Here's to my next 3 5lb stars!

Compliments and how to accept them...

Compliments have always been something I've never received well. As a kid i was told my hair was beautiful... I ran and cut it with scissors.

I recently was told by a dear sweet older woman that compliments are not to be taken for granted. Listen to them cherish them and let them out weigh the bad words/ thoughts.

If we shift to focusing on to what's good about ourselves do we then have the bad parts fade to the background!?

Light Bulb moment this week...

I have finally figured myself out! When i have bad snacks in the house i wont eat them! but if i have nothing in the house its all i can think about! so from now on i will always have bad snacks and fruit in the house. lets see how this goes. Anyone else out there have the same issue?

I asked my "friends" one said its the devil speaking! LoL

Is food trying to tell me something?

Ok so some people get reflux w/ tomato based dishes me I react the most to fried foods. Its the hardest thing to get past though cause fried food is everywhere however recently onion rings gave me the giant FU! And I got a surprise when I went for the last ring on my boyfriends plate...
I got an onion ring with a slash looking like the anti- onion ring. Now a few days later I said I've been good! Like behavior should be rewarded?!? I got a small frie a whopping 9 points! I pull out of the drive in and crash the fries fall on the floor of my car like ha! You shouldn't eat em anyway!

Protein...

Im always looking for meal alternatives. Who isn't? I have a busy work day and don't always get the time to eat a filling lunch on those days I like to have my protein shake. This is my favorite one I usually pick it up @ trader joes. I love the texture and the flavor. The Blender ball was a gift from my mom years back and omg what was life like b4 it?

So what do you drink?

I only let myself eat this...

I caught myself today... I was at the mall... I have lost so much weight now that im loosing my shorts!

But the mall is the home of the evil kiosk of pretzels... Doc popcorn... A&W root beer & chilli dogs!

So after trying on 30 pairs of shorts. I saw the photo of the chilli dog I had to have it... Right?

I went to the dreaded food court. ( btw its located directly below all of the plus size stores! Evil!!!) I got my chilli dog and I said " I only let myself have one a month now" to the guy behind the counter.

And who am I kidding... 30 days in a month and I could probably say that 30 times... I only let myself have this----- once a month!

Food cravings

I have been having overwhelming cravings for Italian food. I do not understand why, because I'm Norwegian/German I should crave salmon or sausage and cabbage right?

But no like chicken picatta, chicken Parm, eggplant, meat sauce and spaghetti you name it! Thank god my boyfriend makes the best balls in red sauce a girl could ask for!

But what is it about Italian food that my mouth begins to water just thinking about it.

What's your motivation?

What gets you out of bed and your day going? For me it's music. I have to have a song in my heart and use that as my anchor!

Yummy lunch

I use to take advantage of whopper Wednesday$1.89 for yumminess! But now grilled chicken w/ rice grilled onions and peppers, topped with mango salsa and table spoon of cheese a white peach, strawberries and blue berries for dessert... Who am I??? LoL but I will tell you it's soo much more filling than the whopper that gave me cramps 30 min later!

Birthday cake instead of Sex

I started writing this post a week ago but wanted to get permission from the person i mention.

I recently found out a male friend of mine while going thru a divorce had sworn of relations w/ women for a period of time and replaced that feeling of satisfaction and indulgence by eating not just a slice of birthday cake but a whole cake!

I was caught off guard but I thought to myself what guy admits that? But more over how many of us do that?

I myself was a virgin thru college I spent my nights with my favorite men, Ben & Jerry, Jack Daniels just to name a few! It was safer for me to stay in my dorm room doing thesis research than it was to be in the manhattan dating scene. That's a whole different topic!

But I get it I get how it's easier to find satisfaction in food than with others ha... U don't have to deal with hearing from old Ben & Jerry that they have work in the morning or they have a headache!

So think about it!, remind yourself before u indulge is it really worth it!

One

Is one pound enough? I'm always thrilled when I'm loosing no matter the number! But one pound really? I'm busting my ass!!!

80 activity points...

When I hit my 10% goal last week I rewarded myself with a new ww pedometer!!! My first week I've earned 80 activity points!!! That's like two extra days of food!!! Wtf do I eat em? Or is this why I've been dropping weight faster? It's a predicament isn't it? Then I start thinking 80 points... That a bk fries a day... Or a hotdog a day... Or ice cream!!! I'm such a fat kid at heart! :(

Eat...

When your fat... Obese... Pleasantly plump... BBW... What ever you categorize yourself as we're all the same when it comes to controlling the Amount of food we consume. I say consume because eat sounds so Short, Clean and Neat! Show me an overweight person who can eat for a short period of time and be neat. Most of the time I have this image in mind of when I was on a farm at feeding time... The lamas sniffed it's chow... Took a mouth full and worked on it for a while... The chickens frantically pecked at the food on the ground... The goats chewed with there mouths open... But the "cleanest animals" ( sign really said that!) the pot belly pigs couldn't be bothered by people watching them... They hunted out the eggs smashed them egg yolk running down there snouts oats and what ever the mush was caked to there cheeks... They were a mess!

Where am I going with this? Well when I eat now I'm trying to be careful I don't turn into a potbelly pig with food on my face shirt hands etc when I'm eating or as frantic as a chicken! But to relax listen to my body when I'm satisfied I push the plate away. If I don't finish my dish I save it for later! I

Portion control

Recently I attempted to put a plate in the microwave it was to big!!! What's happening to the plates in America? Or are our made in china appliances getting smaller? Now when picking my plate I make sure it's about the size of my hand! It makes my meal seem more satisfying as well!

2 fat for Wii Fit...

I bought a Wii Fit before I rejoined weightwatchers... Not knowing that in tiny letter on the side of the box..."up to 330lbs" was written! And how does the kid at the store go miss your to Fat for Fit! With out getting decked? So I got it home striped down to my sports bra and light weight shorts. Almost like I was on biggest looser. The game starts up... Says step on... "oh!" it says then error you exceed the maximum weight capacity! Fml really I'm trying to loose weight people now a computers like ahhh!!! Step off!

So after a few weeks and rejoining weightwatchers... I got that error daily! Till one day no error came up just my really cute figure on the screen got huge! And a word no one ever wants to hear is said out loud "obese" but this obese meant that I was finally thin enough for my Wii Fit that I could start working out @ home after work instead of going to the gym I drive by every night ( so stupid ) I threw my hands in the air like the Philly icon "Rocky" and went yeah! Going strong now...

Why three fourty 1? .... Lets go back to the beginning!

19 months ago I was the heaviest I've ever been tipping the scales at 341lbs I was able to get down to about 333 by the time I mustered up the courage to go back to the meeting id quit a year prior... this was also the first time I was determined to loose weight for me and no one else... it was the second year that i had been given a medical diagnosis around the holidays... under active thyroid...A1c in diabetic range... I had had it!!! was I really that girl? was I giving up on myself and hadn't told myself yet?

I left my meeting charged! excited! and I was on top of the world! I also had a blind date that afternoon... (long story short hes my boyfriend now!)  Dating and weight-loss are counter productive for most people... going out for dinners movies etc... but I found the perfect guy for me, he understands & supports me along the way!  so much so that today I reached my 10% weight loss goal!

January 7, 2011

I Signed up for weightwatchers for the 5th time... why? because I was working at the counter of a retail store when a woman came up to me and I realized id been in her ww meeting! she was my old thursday leader! She told me all the awesome new changes and I said ok I will try it again!

How many of you out there have tried the same thing over and over and gotten no where... I know all of us Serial Dieters have!