The good and the bad

The good:

• I am writing down everything I eat. I may not be doing it at the time I do it but I'm writing it down. For me, that is progress right now.


• I've been wearing my new tennis shoes and workout clothes and that is giving me some inspiration. I haven't gotten to working out yet but the extra walking and just wearing this is helping me frame my thoughts.

The bad:

• Work has been very busy so having well-balanced, thoughtful meals has been a challenge.


• Tonight I picked up fried chicken because I didn't have time to make dinner. I really didn't want it but it was the easiest and cheapest thing to buy without having to think too much.


• Drinking all my water on days when I am in back to back meetings is a challenge.

Today I realize that I have to probably cook a couple of meals on the weekend to get me through the week and freeze more leftovers.

I read a blog today that reminded me that it is a slow process and eating better, exercising, and being true with yourself are the key to success.

Focused Monday

So I have been working on getting inspired. Today I finally picked up the pen and planner and started tracking points. Overall, I did good. I did give in to a donut on my way out of the house because I was hungry and didn't have fruit and it was easy. That cost me the exact 6 points I went over today. But, as Roni said in this post, So What! The good thing I did was that I went for a walk to the bus further from my house to go to Aldi to buy fruits and vegetables. When I got to the bus stop I couldn't see the bus coming so I kept walking to the stop and then the next one. I probably could have gone one more block but I was afraid of the bus passing me up. I joined Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper's Facebook pages. Today Bob had a picture of this guy for inspiration -- Dion Makes a Change. He has lost 80 pounds! I hope to keep following his page to stay inspired. A few things to work on this week:

• keep tracking points


• balance my meals


• drink at least 8 cups of water.

Quick check-in

Just wanted to say that I'm still here and haven't forgotten about my commitment to be good. I have lost the weight that I had gained in the last month so that makes me happy. I still haven't religously tracked everything I eat but I am reading blog postings, watching and measuring what I'm eating, and building up my focus.

So, in my book, this is better than where I was when I fell off the wagon last month!

The Power of Regret

My motivation for today...

"We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be."
- Denis Waitley (1933 - , Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert)

It's been over a month...

...and I've been struggling to get on the bandwagon. The last I posted I said was back to tracking and that same day something went wrong and I just quit again. I have many excuses but I won't bore you...

So what am I saying? Well, that I know I have to get back on the bandwagon and I need to just do it. Those excuses will always be there but the opportunity to better my health before it gets the best of me won't. I turn 37 next Friday and I need to get my act together before them.

Thanks, Wilson, for checking up on me. Don't give up on me yet!

Back to tracking

So last week didn't go so well because I got a stomach bug and didn't eat for 2 days and then my body was trying to make up for it by getting really hungry. The 3 pounds or so that I lost being sick came back. With the stress of work and the need to get my body to recovery, I didn't track my food. But, the good news is that my weight stayed basically the same--I just went up .1 pounds!

I'm back to tracking my food today!

Good luck to those of you that are also on your weight loss journey! This will be a good week for us all!

While you are here, leave me some yummy, healthy snack ideas that you like!

Weigh-In: Down 4.9 lbs!

Yeah!! I didn't always make the right choices BUT I made more conscious choices. This is a great kick start for sure!

Focus for this week: continue to track, make conscious choices, and incorporate more activity.

Catching up

Yesterday was one of those days that was overtaken by work and some bad choices and no tracking or weighing in. Although I made some bad choices, like getting a bag of hot buffalo wing Ruffles that I just HAD to try, I fought my inner demon and instead of having an unhealthy dinner cooked some chicken and had a couple of tacos with cheese (that I measured!). So, overall I guess it was a balance of good and bad.

Today was overtaken by Sebastian getting sick so I didn't track my food but I did weigh myself in the morning and I was down 3.5 pounds!! I didn't eat very much today because I didn't want Sebastian to eat anything other than the Cheerios I let him eat and chicken soup.

So, tomorrow I have to start tracking again and next week I need to start putting some activity into my days. Today I did walk a little bit in the morning during our attempt to get to music class and getting back home because Sebastian had thrown up.

Loving the feeling...

...of calmness. Amazing how being focused on my eating makes all the craziness that used to get to me go away.

Today I got work done, have energy, haven't been distracted, I've tracked my food, haven't been bothered by what isn't picked up in the house, and just feel good overall. And all that even with AF visiting!

We are what we repeatedly do

I saw this quote to day and it struck me...

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." [ Aristotle ]

Repetition and order alwyas helps me be excel (it's the inner Aries in me!).

I am still down 2.2 pounds as of this morning!!

I had a protein rich (and a "little" fat :-) breakfast--egg, egg white, 3 strips of bacon, two corn tortillas, and ketchup)--but I was just in the mood for a heavy breakfast. All the sodium is making me pretty thirsty, though.

For lunch it will be a big salad and for dinner it will be leftover pasta.

Have a great day!

Quick Update

Yesterday I did good overall but still have to work on not killing points with an easy sweet or salty fix. I drank 10 cups of water!

I weighed in this morning but didn't get to write it down and now I don't remember what it was but I think I was down another pound. I'll know for sure tomorrow.

Just had a nice big salad and I measured all the things that are worth points before I finished putting together my salad - go me! Lettuce, cucumber, yellow bell pepper, beets, 1 oz shredded moz cheese, 2 oz turkey ham, and 2 tbsp reduced fat balsamic vinegrette...yummy!

I am feeling good and glad to have gotten back on track. Having a good weight loss in my official at-home weekly weigh-in next week will be good motivation to keep going. But overall I want to focus on 1-2 pounds a week ongoing.

Okay, back to work!

Weigh-In this morning!

I lost 1 1/2 pounds this morning! I have to maintain that but it is a good sign!

At the end of the day yesterday I went over by 12 points but I still have 23 Flex Points for the week!

Reaching end of Day 1

So I have been good at tracking my food intake today but I have to admit that I was so hungry all afternoon. I didn't deprive myself but I think my body needs to get used to eating less and that is going to take some time.

I didn't have any WW Points left for dinner because of the afternoon stacking and the brownie I had but 1) that's what Flex points are for 2) I know I have been successful in the past going over my Flex points for the week, and 3) I did better than I would have had I not been paying attention to my intake. I did guess and probably inflated the points on a couple of things but that's fine.

So far I am 9 points over my daily allowance so I will have to have a very low point snack before going to bed. I've had 8 cups of water so far and took all my vitamins...go me!

Here I go!

I am emotional eater. Yeap, and that has put me in that dark place of eating without caring and gaining 25 pounds in the last 6 months. NOT GOOD!

There have been many individual situations reminding me of my vision -- to be healthy and live a long, healthy life for my baby boy. So, I vow to myself to get back on the bandwagon and track my food intake, measure and weigh what I eat, and make wise choices...like being present when I start emotionally eating and find ways to prevent it. I am not going to deprive myself from eating what I like but I am going to eat in moderation. I know how to follow Weight Watchers and have been successful before, I have measuring cups and spoons, and I have a food scale - NO EXCUSES!

This morning I started by giving away the chocolate-covered-cake-lolli-pops-shaped-like-roses I got this weekend, measuring my breakfast, finding their WW point values, documenting it on my planner, and starting this blog. I really debated starting this but it helped me 3-4 years ago when I did this so although I won't have many followers I can at least talk to myself and encourage myself along.

I have a lot of weight to lose but I am going to take it one pound at a time.

Let's Go! Two, Three! ;-) (my little homage to Sebastian)