Day Six

Special K berry and cup milk with an apple
fresco chicken taco
sandwich and veggie chips
1/2 serving hamburger helper
OJ

Late start Saturday

Well... just finished breakfast and it's noon.  Probably NOT the way to be doing it, but I stayed up late last night.  What do you do, eh?  I made it through my late night snacky Friday without going over points.  Did this 2 ways...  Saved points from lunch so that I had more available 'after dark' and found some snacks that were light on the points. Twizzlers, Pretzels, granola bars, and WW Ice Cream Sandwiches.  Even went with sweet (splenda) tea rather than diet soda.

What's everyone else's secrets?  What are things that you do to make it through heavy snacking times?

Day Five

Yogurt
Lean Cuisine and an apple
Clementine
Sugar Free jello with manderine oranges
Sandwich: whole wheat bread, colby cheese, Miracle Whip, lettuce, onion and sliced beef
  with vegie chips
butter pretzels
granola bar
WW Ice Cream Sandwich

Lazy night

Well.. here I am sitting ....  NOT exercising.  I am mentally exhausted and just want to veg.  This time my laziness is going to win.  The fact that I am posting is going to have to make me more accountable right?  I mean you all can razz me if I don't do anything this weekend (which is regretably likely).  Geeze... how stubborn AM I?

First Weekend Loomin Ahead

As I take a little break and eat my Clementine (I love these things... have you ever had one?  If you haven't you should try them.) I think about the weekend looming ahead of me and worry about staying on track.  What are some things that I can do to prepare?

What a morning...

What's this about?... this morning I didn't want to eat anything!  I brought my fruit in and had cereal ready to pour, but it just didn't look good.  Went with a yogurt instead.  How strange. I just wasn't hungry.  I normally would have a cup of coffee (double) and 2 hostess cupcakes....  wonder how they are doing.  Probably sitting in the cupboard wondering when the heck they are gonna get some attention.

Day Four

Good day today for the most part. No major cravings.  I think I was just way too busy at work to get the munchies or anything like that.  The 2 things that sucked today were 1... I save points to have Taco Bell for dinner and I planned ahead and looked up the best choices and ordered 2 of them and the freakin' drive thru ppl forgot my chicken fresco burrito... boogers.  Then the second sucky thing was that I was all set to go swimming and forgot that Kery had a band concert tonight that I forgot completely about so now I am 2 days inactive :(  That just means that I will have to exercise tomorrow and Saturday instead I guess.

Special K with 1/2 cup milk and banana
cup of soup, v-fusion, clementine
chicken meximelt
5 layer burrito
Undetermined snack for 3 points later tonight (ended up being chips and pico de something or another)

Day Three

Well I survived the day... but I am having a more difficult time tonight. I was supposed to have class tonight, but on my way home to change the instructor called and cancelled class for the evening. So here I sit and this is the problem that I have always had... I am NOT hungry... most definately not, but I still want to eat.  I want something super sweat and am trying not to go after it.  I even put more points into dinner to try to avoid this, but the urge is still very strong. 

I got some WW ice cream sandwiches and I may need to break into one of them.

Special K cereal with milk and an apple, Coffee with creamer
sandwich and chips with a banana
a different sandwich and veggie chips
Weight Watchers Ice Cream Sandwich.

Getting Schooled

When I started classes a year and a half ago is about when I started to gain the weight I had lost last time back.  This time I am trying to be prepared on class night with some snacks and some wiser Drive Thru choices that fit into the WW plan. 

Off I go... We'll see how I do when I check in before bed tonight.

Oh my aching head

O lordy!  my head is pounding... could this be my body hollering from withdrawals?  namely caffeine?  Wouldn't surprise me.... stupid addictions.

It must be a withdrawal of somekind... Nearly 5 hours later... still throbbing.  Bummer.... At least I am full.... lol  We had a Sandwich Bar Potluck at the office today... yum yum.  Good thing that I had a sandwich for supper last night and I had a good idea about portions.

Healthier Weight for you...

Signed up for the 'Healthier Weight for You' Challenge at work today.  I guess I don't weigh in again for 12 weeks... so I am in the same place that I would have been in without it.  The plus will be if I win something when it's all over.

One of the providers did a presentation on obesity which was very good, but he was focused on calorie counting and I am not sure that it's right for me.  I know that I am carb sensative hardcore, so I think that I am just going to stick with the WW plan...

Day Two

Today was good.  I am starting to wonder how I am going to get all 38 points in every day?!?!  Seems like a lot of food, but I imagine that I'll get it ironed out over a little time.

Here's today's menu... a little better than yesterday.  I was surprised how full I got from the V-fusion. 

Special K and fat free milk
cup of soup and a banana
clemintine and 8 oz of V-fusion
Multigrain Snacks
Beef sandwich with cheese and lettuce with veggie chips

Day One

Bad start with 2 peanut butter cup cookies for breakfast
Spaghetti noodles with ketchup and hot dogs (watched my portion control)
Clam Chowder and Multi Grain Crackers with a clementine
Sugarfree Jello with Manderine Oranges
Smart Pop Kettle Corn

Sifting through the information

I started reading about the Weight Watchers Points Plus program and am going to list some of the highlights.  Things that I want to remember as I move forward.  Some of what I am reading has the 'duh' factor, but it is important none the less and sometimes I need to be reminded.  (Obviously, that's why we're here, right?)

• Slow down when you eat. It takes about 20 minutes for the brain to realize the stomach is full.
• Don't eat until you are stuffed. Eat until you are Satisfied.
• Don't be afraid to eat fruit.  Just don't eat until you are stuffed.
• It's OK to splurge.  Sustaining a lifestyle of continual deprivation is not feasible.
• Be active wherever and whenever you can.

Think I am done reading for tonight.  I think Breakfasts and Lunches won't be a problem.  I am more worried about dinners that will satisfy the whole family (and being able to afford them).  I shall begin the search for recipes to try some new things.

It's here, it's here!!!

The FedEx guy just dropped of my Weight Watchers kit.  Very excited to begin rooting through it and reading this afternoon when I am done with work!!!

Harder at Home

Home with a sick kid today... Of course, had to be day one.  It's easier for me to eat here, just as busy, but access to more.  I think I just need to focus on portion control and becoming more active at this point.

As the morning goes on I get an email about a 'Healthier Weight for You' challenge that is happening via the wellness program at work.  Apparently it's between the Hospital employees and the local school district employees.  Lo and behold, it starts today!  I think I may use this as an added incentive for me to get started.

Facing the music

All right, all right... I did it.  I got on the scale.  Well... good news is I am catching this before I ended up at my all time heaviest weight.  Bad news is I am only 3.3 pounds under it.  Last time I was this heavy it caused me to NOT be in a very good place mentally (emotionally).  That isn't the case this time.  I wonder why? 

I fear that I have just resolved myself to the fact that I am going to be this size forever and that thought scares me half to death.  I don't want to feel like this. I don't want my children to thinks it's OK to eat the way I have been. 

I don't want anyone to think I am passing judgement.  I am not even beginning to say that women should be the stereotypical Barbie.  What I do know about myself is that I have NOT been making the right choices to be a healthier me.  Being a size 6 does NOT make a person healthy and I know this.  Altho' I DO want to be a smaller me, it is more important that I become a healthier me.  I want to be someone who is more active and energetic. I'm tired of the fact that carrying the laundry up the stairs is a chore that makes me want to sit down for 10 minutes.

Enough moaning...  I am officially weighing in at 247.2   Ugh!

To Weigh or Not Today... That is the Question.

OK... Even though I don't have the support materials in front of me there's no reason that I can't wiegh in today to get started right???  I mean, what difference can a couple of books and a points calculator make?  I sit in 'my chair' as the hubby on and off watches the game and keep finding things to do rather than get on the scale (ie... entering this post and harvesting my farm.)

OOOOOooo... I think the dryer's done... I'll do that first.

WW App, worth the $$$, yes or no?

Tired now and finished for the night, but I've been reading about the Weight Watchers App that is available now and trying to decide if it's worth the 15 dollars a month that it takes (I think) to download it.  We will most likely be getting smart phones soon and it seems like it would be a real benefit to have available.  If anyone knows anything about it, I'd LOVE to hear what you have to say!

Anxious to get my WW items in the mail for Weight Watchers At Home...  It'll be good to approach this from a life-long healthy way rather than just a solution with quick results.  I am preparing for the long hall.

Good night