The most inspiring Weight Watcher I've found!

Is the amazing Ms Bitchcakes!
http://msbitchcakes.blogspot.com/2010/07/day-i-reached-goal-weight.html

Weigh in tonight

This week I am weighing in early, as I can't make my normal weigh in on Sat. I wonder how this will work. I never weigh myself at home (I feel like I am the only person that does this, but I have no interest in the day to day number!) so don't know what my weight fluctuations are midweek. This will be interesting for me!

Considering...

...setting up a new Flickr account and taking pics of my food every day as a sort of visual record and reminder of what I've had. Hmm.

Meh.

Not much to say...weight stayed the same.

Tomorrow, tomorrow

I weigh in, tomorrow. You're only a day away....

I'm really not sure how I am going to get on at weigh in tomorrow. I've been bad this week - I've barely tracked (have tried to keep note of my points in my head), and in truth I know I've gone over by a few points most days. For some reason I've found it really hard this week. I've not been feeling great and most days I've woken up feeling sick, skipped breakfast and just had coffee. Stuck to my normal lunch, but then overcompensated at dinner. Probably all the bloody food lying in my stomach overnight is what's making me feel icky in the morning!

So I guess I'll just need to see how I get on. 23 hours and counting...

Ugh

I don't know why but I am really struggling this week. The last time I felt like this was about 5 weeks ago and I had a nightmare of a week trying to find things to satisfy my cravings that were within points. The problem is I can't remember which week it was so I can't even look back in my tracker to see what I did eat! I was definitely over points on Saturday and Sunday (Saturdays not an issue as I never point or track on a Sat) but I am pretty sure I was over yesterday and today as well and I can't face chasing. Normally I go to the gym quite a bit but I only managed once last week and the week before and this week I went tonight and had to leave after 15 mins as I almost was sick and passed out. I've no idea why I feel so crap and then want to eat everything (no, I'm not pregnant!). Ugh. Hoepfully this will pass tomorrow.

Struggling today

I really want to eat stodgy, fatty, calorific carb laden food today but I can't! Not sure what to have for dinner. I only have 8 points left, which is 2-2.5 than I normally have for dinner. Grr!

Duh duh duuuuun!

So, I had 3.5lb to lose to hit my 10% off, and I hoped to do it over two weeks. Some off this week, some off next. I stood on the scales yesterday morning and had to rub my eyes - 13st 0.5lbs - that's the 3.5lb I had to drop to hit 10%!!!!!

I actually can't believe it and have no idea how it happened. I didn't do anything special this week. In fact, I did less than I normally do - I only managed to hit the gym once, and that was for my toning class which in all honesty is not the most punishing of classes. I didn't walk as much as normal. I didn't save any more points that normal. I even ate out and went to the pictures and had a treat!

So I guess I have 0.5lb to drop and then I'll be down to 20 points a day....eeeek! I hate dropping points. I know its only like one point but I found it really hard last time and I think it's more psychological than anything. I also am now worried that I'll do everything I'm meant to this week and put on. But that's me - I'm just a worrier! We'll see how the week ahead goes....

xo

Weigh in tomorrow & ticker

So I get weighed in tomorrow and for some reason I am feeling quite nervous. I had quite a good weight loss last week, dropped 2lbs, even though I wasn't the best last week due to travel / stuff beyond my control / stuff well in my control that I didn't control. Although I've stuck to it this week - stayed within my points, even managing to save some (even when eating out - thank god for restaurants that publish their NVs so I can check it out beforehand!), I still feel like it's not going to be a loss this week.

Although I know this happens sometimes, I'm not sure how I'll deal with it when it does happen. I guess we'll find out in 25 hours...

Oh and I've added a little ticker thing to the top of my page. I've put the target at 150lbs. I've not set a goal weight yet (not even thought about it!) so I just popped that in there just now. It seemed like a doable number, even though I've not worked out how many stones that is yet haha :)

Today was the day!

Yes. Today it happened. Well, technically it was yesterday, but I was sure of it today. Today I put on my trousers for work, and they were too big! They are literally at the point where whenever I walk I need to basically pull them up all the time, which looks awful, but kinda makes me happy at the same time! This is the first time an item of clothing has felt too big for me, and I'm quite excited. Even more excited about the fact that soon I'll be able to buy some new clothes, in a size smaller! Woohoo!

Progress so far

Okay, so I signed up for WW on 10th May, and I weighed in at 14 stone 6.5lbs (202.5lbs). Here is how I've weighed in since. It's all in stones and pounds. If you don't know, there is 14 pounds to a stone.

15/05 = -4lbs
22/05 = -3.5lbs (7.5lbs in total) *** Silver 7 star award ***
28/05 = +1lb (6.5lbs in total)
05/06 = -2.5lbs (9lbs in total)
12/06 = -2.5lbs (11.5lbs in total) *** 5% of original weight lost ***
19/06 = -2lbs (13.5lbs in total)
26/06 = -1.5lbs (15lbs in total) *** 2nd Silver 7 award ***
03/07 = + 0.5lb (14.5lbs in total)
10/07 = - 2lbs (16.5lbs in total)

I am currently 3.5lbs away from my 10% award. Both times I put weight on is when I've gone out for dinner either on the Thursday or Friday before weigh in (I WI on a Saturday morning). Even though I normally have quite a lot of points saved, eating a lot this close to weigh in obviously doesn't work for me, so I know in future not to do it again.

I expected to put on this week and was delighted not to have done. I was at a conference at work and we had what they billed as a BBQ in the evening, it wasn't so - it was food they fried and served outdoors. I had planned ahead to have salad and BBQ'd chicken, but when it came to it I ended up having a burger and a roll on sausage - the salad items were drenched in oils and dressing (I'm not a salad fan but HATE dressings of any kind so I wouldn't have touched them even if not on WW), and there was no chicken. I did have an exceedingly naughty dessert - a chocolate orange pot, but I stopped myself half way through. I then had a McDonalds for lunch the following day but ended up not having any dinner because I was so tired, so I guess it evened out.

Even though I've lost what in my opinion is a good amount of weight, I haven't noticed it on myself yet. My clothes aren't any looser and I still feel fat and bloated most days. I'm not too worried about that part though because I know if I stick to this, then the inch loss will come too.

Anyhoo, I just thought I'd get this out there and hopefully keep at it.

202.5 to...?

So I guess this is a little intro post. I've just started this blog as I am doing Weight Watchers and want to track my progress. I still feel like I am new to the whole thing, but I'm not really as I've been doing it for over 2 months now.

I started off at 202.5lbs (14 stone 6.5lb) and am down to 188lbs (13 stone 4lbs). I've not set a goal weight or anything yet, just concentrating on getting my 10% Award when I lose another 4lb.

This blog is really for myself, to track my progress and be able to look back on where things have gone wrong and right. I was going to make it private, but I find inspiration and tips in other weight loss blogs so decided to keep it public in case anyone stumbles across it and finds it useful.

I'll go back and get all my losses etc so far and hopefully post pretty regularly.

TTFN.