Hey! Checking in with you all. I don’t have the time to check in here every night like I want to, but I will keep coming here at least once a week.

I am still on my detox diet and have lost three or four more pounds since i started it a week and a half ago. (Now about six pounds in all and that includes a ton more muscle from yoga so I’m happy with that loss.) I feel lighter because of it. Add yoga to it all and I’m feeling great.

I’ve been thinking about our mental struggles with weight loss. So many here are complaining that the weight isn’t coming off fast enough. We’re older now. Our body wants to hang on to this extra weight for some strange reason. I’ve been imagining the process like a game of tug of war. We can eat well and not lose the weight, but it doesn’t mean it’s not having an effect. You just have to keep pulling at the rope, and suddenly your body will decide to let go and you’ll have a good loss for a while. And then your body decides it wants to hold on again. So you don’t give up but keep pulling the rope tighter, waiting, until your body is ready to let go.

Does that imagery help? It’s been helping me a lot.

By the way, for those who asked, my detox diet includes fruit, veggies, rice, rice milk, beans, most nuts (not peanuts), sea salt, vinegar, soy sauce, green tea…..

I don’t go hungry. I just wish I had a Sushi Chef living with me. I’d be set.

Well, I didn’t lose or gain any weight this week, despite working hard the last half of the week. For those of you doing Weight Watchers, do you use your flex points? I have another friend doing it right now who lost 5pounds last week by actually eating all 35 of her extra flex points. I don’t usually even eat 1/3 of them. I try to keep within my points and may go 1-2 over each day, but never that much.

Have you  noticed a difference if you do consume those extra points? I am afraid I would gain, but I have to shake up something here because I’m really stagnating. I’m starting week 6 at 6.2 pounds loss and, while I know that’s still a pound a week, it is hard. My friend has dropped major weight and I sit in meetings with people who are losing 4-7 pounds a week. Granted, they have  more weight to lose than I do, but I still have 24 pounds left and need to do something here!

Any advice will be much appreciated. I’m also diabetic and am worried about this being some of the issue here.

Weight Lost: 6.2 lbs; P2G: 23.8

You know how they say that you should view your change in diet as a “way of life” rather than a diet? You know how you hear that people lose the weight and then gain it all back (because they go back to eating what they did before they dieted)? I keep these things in mind a lot. I keep trying to find foods I’m going to continue to eat forever and ever – because I’ve just figured it out. I can’t not. This is it – I can’t go back to eating Panera Egg Souffles for breakfast and Chipolte soft tacos and salty chips for lunch, followed by a fatty rib eye for dinner. Not ever.

Before WW, when I ate whatever I pleased, my BP was frequently very high (180/120) – high enough that it freaked out all my doctors every doctor’s visit (and it got so I hated going to the doctor for anything because I knew the blood pressure lecture was coming), my cholesterol test results have NEVER been normal (since I was an underweight 20-something year old) and I was sick pretty much constantly.
Somehow I didn’t chalk this up to my poor diet. I’d never considered the amount of sodium in my diet. Never connected the dots that not getting enough veggies might be leaving my immune system weakened to every germ/bug/virus my pre-schooler brings home with her.. the only thing I noticed was that my face didn’t look like it used to in the mirror and I didn’t like it! My budding double chin and my chubby cheeks drove me to diet. Thank goodness for vanity, eh?

The surprising health benefits of my change in diet are shocking to me. So far two of my kids have been sick – and mommy didn’t end up sicker than them! I didn’t even catch their bug.

My BP has returned to normal without me taking my beta blocker.

And, I’m thinking.. I’m thinking this summer I’ll let my doctor do an updated cholesterol test — just to see if my change in diet has finally had a positive impact there, too.

So, as much as I like the looser pants (and even my tight size 12s), and the fact that my hubby says my face looks thinner.. I need to really remind myself that this is it. I HAVE to eat better. I don’t like being sick all the time. I sure hated thinking that I had unusually high blood pressure for a gal in her early 30s. This is about more than just my physical appearance – although my heart health wasn’t what made me want to lose the weight, I hope it’s what helps me keep it off.

Yesterday was weigh in and I lost almost 2 lbs. last week, 1.8 lbs.  So I am down a total of 11.5 lbs.  It kills me though, I have been really conscientious for the most part about eating correctly, water, etc., but my daughter on the other hand, had several little episodes of eating too much or the wrong thing and she still lost 3 lbs.  It has taken me 4 weeks to lose 11.5 lbs. and it has taken her 2 weeks to lose 10 lbs.  Interesting.  I have decided that this week, I am going to have to MAKE myself get up and do some exercise and get into the habit.  It is just so hard by the end of the day and with all the rain and stuff my body just aches by the time I get home, all I want to do is plant myself.  I don’t think I can lower my points anymore because I will get too hungry at this weight so its a must.  So.. Wish me luck.  I am determined.  I have got to get my metabolism revved up.  The WW meeting was actually very good, and I got a couple of new recipes and ideas and meal planning. 

 Congrats to all of you for your successes this week!!! :clapping:

I could just kick myself. I bought a big bag of candy for the kids to give out with their Valentines. Well, lets say I am going to have to buy another bag because I binged and ate enough for all of us here the last three nights.

Now I feel down, depressed,ugly and frustrated.  Why can’t I do this right now? UGH!!! I am blaming it on lack of sleep. Been a week and T is still waking to nursing all night(cries for hours on end) . I haven’t nursed him at night so why is he still waking for it? Last night he tried to nurse off my nose : ( But thats a whole other issue.

Today is a new day and I swear I won’t eat anymore candy untill after my anniversary. I MUST lose this weight!!!   Maybe I should send the candy to work with J and by more the night before so I can’t eat it. I have no will power. It used to be easy for me to eat healthy and get back in shape. Now I am so busy and can’t sleep at night. So I eat junk late at night *sigh*

pity party over…………………….

Hi, I’m Jacque. I’m a stay-at-home mom of 4. 1 girl (12) and 3 boys (10,4,2) I am not used to blogging and basically very cautious and quiet. I have 45 pounds2go, more like 50-60. I’ve never counted calories I always believed if I exercised enough things would work out. Obviously I stopped moving a few years ago (10 to be exact) and its all caught up with me. I have not weighed myself yet. First I have to find the scale under my bed and go buy batteries, but I promise to do it. This week I’ve done better but I sure don’t get a blue ribbon for it. Now the kids and hubby are home for the weekend and there’s left over pizza in the fridge. After reading everyones blogs I now realize I must be dehydrated and need alot more water. I need to get up…..

I started that entry sometime in the beginning of Jan. I never finished it or posted it. It is now Feb. 2 I did get the batteries for my scale and weighed myself (first time in almost 3 years) I discovered I have 55 p2go for my goal. Since then I have lost 7 lbs. I’ve increased my water intake and reduced my portion size and make better food choices. Also am avoiding sugar especially soda pop. I am waiting on my Y membership (long story) but am excited to get started on increasing my exercise. I also wear a pink band bracelet to remind me daily I have power to change my eating and exercise habits and become the healthy person God meant for me to be. Well I need to go drink some water. Thanks Leanne!

Good morning, fellow P2G’ers! Happy Groundhog Day! Our Nova Scotia rodent did NOT see his shadow this morning, so can spring be far off?

Yesterday was a good day again with no major mistakes in it. Well, I did have a 2″ slice of apple pie at suppertime, but even with that, I stayed within my calorie range for the day, thanks to a fish and salad brunch.

I started a new “diet blog” yesterday and have linked to that instead of my other one. I wanted a place where my day to day struggles and triumphs while losing weight wouldn’t get overshadowed by other posts. I posted an anecdote this morning about a canoe trip I took in 1996 and how the memory of that trip inspires me to face new challenges, if you care to read. I imagine that everyone has some sort of hardship they’ve overcome in their past from which they can draw inspiration and determination.

As of yesterday, I am down another .5 lb and hope to make that a full pound by tomorrow, my usual weigh-in day. From then on, I’ll be weighing on Wednesdays. Wishing you all GOOD days!