WI and Weekend Tracking

Good morning!

I made my goal of tracking all weekend, and I had a loss as well. I am now only 2lbs away from my 10% goal, I'm hoping to make it in the next few weeks :) This would be a huge thing for me, because it seems like I have been trying to get there forever! I only went to the gym once, and that was Saturday morning, oh well at least its a start :)

I am so happy that I didn't have to wake up and WI at 156 -158 again on Monday morning and work all week to get back to 153-154. This is a great start, and I hope that I broke my self imposed "plateau" And that I am on my way out of the 150's it has been waaaaaay to long here, and I am looking forward to the 140's (crossing fingers)

I also made my no more then 2 drinks on Saturday goal. I ended up going out Saturday night, but I kept myself in check, after last weekend, I think this was a much needed 'rule'. I had a bit of a drunken spill 2 Fridays ago, it was something that you would do when your 16 not 25, ha-ha..

I had an unexpected brunch to go to on Sunday, my DBF's family invited us to go to dim sum, I love dim sum! but I had to make sure I only chose the steamed food, not the yummy deep fried stuff, but it was still good, and more enjoyable because I didn't end up with a tummy ache afterwards. On Sunday night my Dad came to town on his way up to Fort Mac, I haven't seen my Dad in 3 years, due to him living in the States, and I was a broke University student and I was in Australia for a while as well. Anyway its been a great visit, we went for Greek food last night. Although I have been enjoying the visit, I still feel sad and I'm not really sure why.

cdndyme - Thanks for the Advice on weekend tracking, next weekend I am going to give it a try, I really want to aim for 'planning' my weekends, I am good all week, so it would be nice to carry it over in to the weekend. And the advice on the drinks is great, I will use it too if I go out next weekend :)

8 APs Yesterday!

It's finally the weekend, I am pretty tired from this week, work has been very busy and I have been working out everyday, I am determined to get out of the 150's. I made 8 AP's yesterday, I have never been able to get that many before, so this is a big achievement for me, as well as after tonight I will have surpassed my weekly AP goal of 25. It's been taking a few weeks to work my way up to be able to achieve more then 28 APs a week, but all of this hard work is finally paying off and it doesn't seem like work anymore, I feel really pumped to go to the gym and I feel really energized while working out.

I peeked at the scale and its down, so hopefully I can maintain the loss until tomorrow morning. Weekends are the wost for me, after lunch on Friday I 'forget' about tracking, not on purpose, and I don't really notice until Sunday, but this has caused me so many problems. I couldn't figure out why I was losing and gaining the same 5 pounds and its because I would be good all week and then the weekend would come and I would throw tracking out of the door, and use Saturday as a 'free' day, which has been consisting of heavy drinking and eating out after the bar. After Sunday I would be up and it would take me all of the week to get back down to where I started. I can't believe I didn't catch on to this routine earlier, but know that I know I do it, I have committed myself to stopping. This weekend I have committed to tracking everything, and having a 2 drink max on Saturday, if I do end up going out. I know I can do it, and I am excited to see the results after the weekend. I have even scheduled a work out date on Saturday morning.

Menu for Friday:

B:
Oatmeal 1 cup, plain
1 Source yogurt
L:
Sashimi assorted 8pcs
6 small avocado rolls
1 cup miso soup
1.5 cups leafy greens
S:
apple
D:
cooked spinach
30z of chicken
2 WW wraps
FF mayo
S: cucumber slices (1cup) 2tbs Hummus

APs:
35 minutes of Cardio - High (4pt)
20 upper body strength traing + Abs (1pt)

Snow?! Again..

At first it was raining, and I was very excited for it to be raining, because that usually means spring is finally here, but I just looked out the window at work and it's snowing! I am seriously tired of how long winter lasts here, and I am ready to move again, its so frustrating to have like 8 months of winter :(

I peeked at the scale today, and I am up from Saturday, but it is T.OM this week. It seems like no matter what I do I just keep gaining and losing the same 5 pounds. I'm stuck in the 153 - 158 weight range and I can't break it. I have started to add more cardio work outs, now I am up to 5 a week, plus I do 3 days of strength training and I have Yoga for 2 hours on Wednesday. I also started walking home and to the gym after work, which is a 35 minute brisk walk home and a 50 min brisk walk to work. This plateau has been haunting me since January, and it will be May this week!

The snow finally stopped, now its just raining, yay! Living in Alberta is fun, you really never know what type of weather you are going to have, because it changes so fast. It was weird living in a climate where the weather was pretty static. There where only 2 seasons, wet and dry season, and everyday it was sunny and 28-30 degrees. It was almost surreal, the weather report would be the same every day, no change for weeks.

Wednesdays Menu:
B: Banana
Yogurt
S: SF snack bar
L: Lean Cuisine, 1.5 cups of leafy greens
S: Apple
D: Chicken Wrap w/ WW tortilla, extra lean ground chicken, Avocado, Spinach, onions and salsa
- 1.5 cups of leafy greens w/ FF dressing

AP:
Yoga Tonight 2 hours - 3pts
Elliptical 30 mins high intensity -4pts

My Very First Post..

This is my very first post on my very first blog..and Im kinda at a loss of what I should write, before setting up this blog I had so many Ideas of what I would put into a blog, and now that I finally have one, Im not really sure what I want to put in it. This blog is mainly going to focus on my weight loss journey. I am doing WW for the second time around and hopefully the last! I have never really had a weight issue until my third year of university, I joined WW at 169. I lost 35 pounds over 7 months and then figured that I could do it on my own, I did pretty well for the next 2 years, maintaining, and then I was in a car accident. Due to my injuries I was unable to exercise and I kind of just gave up, losing weight was the last thing on my mind. A few months later I moved overseas to Australia to live with my long-term boyfriend in Port Douglas. We lived blissfully in Australia, getting to live in the most beautiful tropical place, and taking a road trip all around the country in 3 months. After Australia, we went to New Zealand for 1.5 months, and rented a motor home to drive around both Islands.

When we returned home last July I realized that most of my clothes pre-trip do not fit, and then I stepped on a scale, and was shocked to see I was at 167. I thought that I would try something different this time around, I really didn't want to 'count points' and had heard about Herbal Magic from several people that had done it, so I decided to sign up. I lost 8 pounds the first month, and then the weight loss slowed in month 2 to 3 pounds, and stopped in month 3. Now I know that lots of people have had success on HM, but it just didn't seem to work well with my body. I didn't like taking over 12 pills before/after each meal. I also had to WI 3 days a week! and when I stopped losing they wanted me to come in every day, the commute was 2 hours after work, to get there and to go home by bus, and after 2 weeks of commuting that far, I was exhausted! and they just wanted more and more money, and would force me to by different pills, because that was the solution to my plateau, but nothing seem to work. I added up all the money I had spent in the 3 months I was with HM - $4,500! and when I decided to stop, they charged me an extra $500 - for stopping before my contract was up. I lost a total of 11 pounds. $5,000 for 11 pounds and lot of stress.

I decided that I need a break from my weight loss efforts and took a few weeks off, gained all of the weight that I lost back, when I started to eat foods that contained sodium. I 'rediscovered' Weight Watchers, and decided to give it a try, and so far so good!

My goals for this blog is keep me accountable, I will post my meal plans for the day and also my excersise.