No sooner than I started writing on my blog about slow weight loss, than I surprised myself by losing 2.2 pounds this week for my Weight Watchers meeting! I realize that for some of you, this would be disappointing, but I have only been losing about a pound a week so this was good! I still haven’t hit the 10 pound mark, but I’m close! After not losing last week, this was just what I needed to have happen.

Our WW leader had some funny stories to share, as usual. The woman needs to be a stand-up comeddian or something. She keeps us all laughing to the point of tears.

Today’s discussion was on hiding your diet foods so your kids don’t eat them all up! She told us she hides her 100 calorie snack bags in an empty box of All Bran cereal in the pantry, because as she shared, who is going to look there? The same goes for the freezer…store those Skinny Cow sandwiches and blue bunny swirl treats in an empty bag of frozen peas. The family will NEVER find them. HA!

Off to my scrap retreat for the weekend where I hope to not completely gain back all that I’ve lost. My friend and I are providing a WW friendly meal the first night, so at least it’ll just be one full day I have to watch myself.

Pounds lost this week: 2.2
Total pounds lost: 8.4
P2G: 21.6

Hi ladies. I’ve been meaning to join this cool club for a while now but I was way too busy eating junk food. Now that my pants are all a bit snug (okay a lot) and Spring is just around the corner – here I am.

My goal is to lose the same damn 10 pounds that I’m constantly yo-yo-ing with. This week, I’ve cut out the crap from my diet (which was like everything) and got back into exercising. I’ve been going to jazzercise everyday and loving it although my knees may have a different opinion.

Shopping is always a great motivator for me so I bought some new workout wear at Lucy.com . (I have a coupon if anyone is interested). I also ordered a new DVD set called The Bar Method that just arrived today from Amazon. I think it will be good to do some days instead to give my joints a rest from the pounding of aerobics. I’ll let you know if I like it.

Well, I’m off to watch Survivor and not snack. No sir – no snacking…

My mantra: I will fit in to my summer clothes. I will ! I will !

*PS- I love WP 2.0!!! I want it Leanne.

Weight Loss Profile
Start Weight: 168.2 lbs
10% difference: 151.4 lbs
Weight Goal: 135.1 lbs
 Weight lost: 11.4 lbs (as of last weigh-in Sat, Feb. 4th)

As of last Saturday I am just 5lbs from my 10% goal. (According to WW). Realistically, I really started all this weight loss at about 172lbs - I was just fortunate to have lost weight before my first weigh-in. (Who says cold n’ flu season doesn’t have a silver lining?!)

I’m not usually one to “work towards a goal”. I’m really good at just floating along hoping for the best. But I’ve decided I’m floundering a bit. I’m cheating a bit here and there eating off the kids’ plates, being “too tired” to workout.. and I’m bad about getting the water I need and a daily multivitamin. I’ve noticed the weeks I’ve been more diligent I’ve seen almost a 3lb weight loss. The other weeks.. well… not so much.

So, here’s my (first ever) goal:

By my Feb. 18th weigh-in I want to be at or surpass my 10% weight loss goal. That gives me two weeks to lose 5.4lbs. A safe, do-able amount of weight loss for me – when I’m “sticking to it” and not cheating like crazy. With a little effort on my part (making time to workout, getting enough water, avoiding the kids’ french fries) I CAN DO THIS. So, I’m telling y’all to keep me honest.

No gain or loss this week. Still -6 / 24 PTG.

My mother-in-law is coming to visit tomorrow for a long weekend, which is usually nice yet stressful for me at the same time! I like to sneak away and have a little time & chocolate to myself when she’s here. This is a bad habit – the chocolate part.

What do you go for when you want to reach for comfort food but are staying true to your weight-loss goals?

I went to my weigh in on Tuesday morning and did plan to come back and tell you all the result but I forgot about a 4 year olds (Leigh’s God-daughter) party I had to go to in the early evening and had to go shopping for a gift for her. Now, I live in a small fishing town and there are not many shops to start with let along shops with gifts suitable for a 4 year old! But i managed to find something in Woolworths – a biggish shop that sells a bit of everything. I got her a hair braider/wrapper thing – the type of thing that wraps thread/breads into your hair.  its says it was suitable for 3+ although I am guessing that it with parent supervision! Also got her the board game that used to be called “guess who?” but seems to have been renamed to “whoisit?” Yes all one word.

Anyhow, weigh in – Stayed the same.  Bit disappointed but it beats a gain.  I don’t know whats going on with this cause WW always worked for me in the past and I am counting/weighing everything. Maybe I am not eating enough protein?  Or calcium? – I have heard that calcium plays a part in weight loss….

That was the OK news by the way.

On to the bad news….

OH has been sacked. They said in the letter that it as due to poor performance, but we pretty much know its because he said that he can’t do all the overtime that they are asking him to do because it effects out tax credits and basically we end up worse off.  Whats the point in him working more hours for us to be worse off?  So all the money issues are up in the air again – we have a large balance on our credit card from the last time this happened (£1,800) that is supposed to be cleared by the start of May because thats the end of the 0% deal that we are not going to be able to clear now.  That means that they will charge us 18% interest on the whole balance for the whole 6 months.  I haven’t worked out how much that is but I know its a lot of money.  We also got SKY tv installed recently on a special offer – we thought we could afford it cause he was employed now – we are locked into a 12 month contract at £15 a month.  I just can’t believe this is happening to us again, just as we are starting to get back on our feet – they knock us back down again. :bawling:

We don’t even know if we can afford for me to still go to WW.

From what i can see, me and Leigh need to do something to earn money from home – this is the 4th time it has happened to us – 1st I was sacked while pregnant with Teagan, accused of theft and failure to comply with company policy regarding cash handling – had to go through appeal process because I was not having them accuse me of something I did not do – got the theft section overturned and all the people who had handled the investigation into me in the first place lost their jobs and the shop where I worked was shut down because they were not training people correctly. 2nd time – Leigh made redundent with a weeks notice, lucky – had another job lined up anyway. 3rd time – Leigh termination of contract because he couldn’t be flexible enough for the company and come in at all hours of the day/night (the job was a 50 mile drive away.)  Now this, termination of contract because he can’t work all the overtime they want in a job he was not employed to do. (he was employed as a factory labourer – then their driver retired and they have made him do the driving ever since.  They wanted him to do overtime on the driving….)  :rant:

Sorry for the long post…I just worry so much about all the money problems we are going to have now. :bawling:

I found this article on SparkPeople this evening and it’s got some good advice for anyone who’s not seeing the scale move as quickly as they’d like.   (And that’s all of us from time to time!)