Weight Watchers Weekly Weigh-in #12!

This week, you get a fancy photo I took of myself last week (my sister requested demanded it) It seems awfully snotty to post a picture of myself, but man - I haven’t had the self esteem to post a “full body” shot online for a long time. I’m okay with it now, even though I’m not at my goal yet.

I guess my point in even showing you is to (hopefully) inspire you, or motivate you, or encourage you to keep going. It’s hard for me to believe that girl in the pic is me, that those abs are mine - even that my hair has grown that much! It does happen though, with persistence and knowledge and just treating yourself to a better meal, and better snacks. It’s not my intent to brag (to the point of arrogance, at least), so don’t be thinking that I think I’m “all that” - I don’t. I’m just at a place, finally, where I can accept myself and my weight and be comfortable in my own skin.

Today is a great day, and it has everything to do with that little thumbnail to the left. That is a screenshot of my CalorieKing.com Diet Diary from yesterday (click it to see it full size).

Yesterday I made awesome choices. I was full all day, and I snacked when I felt hungry.

Today, I’ve broken into the 150’s again. Now I’ll say what I weigh. Now I’m not ashamed anymore. 158.4. I haven’t weighed this (much/little) in at least 12 years. Seriously. I don’t have too far to go to meet my goal now, my realistic goal is 155, and my dream goal is 140. I don’t intend to “stop” when I get to my goal, because look at that menu! I ate a lot of satisfying, healthy food yesterday and it was good. I made the right choices and it showed up on the scale this morning.

Weight Watchers Weekly Weigh-in #11!

A really surprising week for me, honestly, because I had a disappointing meal or two where I thought I made good choices but it turned out that they weren’t as good as I thought. Thankfully, eating all the goodness the rest of the week kept my metabolism in check and burning my poor choices away along with a little bit of excess baggage. Yay For Core!!

In case you didn’t catch it, here’s that post I wrote about How to Lose Weight the Right Way. I’m seeing a lot of people talking about diets and dieting, and for me - it’s not about a diet. Diets are temporary things, you go on them, you go off of them. If you want to be successful, you have to re-learn and re-train yourself. You have to be prepared to permanently change your way of thinking about food. In order to do that, you have to study food and the components your body needs for fuel. I said in my comments on that post that you have to eat for your body, not for your social or emotional needs. Learning how to do that is absolutely key in continued health and maintaining/achieving a healthy and natural weight for your body.

“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively.

“You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

~Trina Paulus

The quote at the meeting this week is so appropriate. Without these meetings, I might not keep things like this in mind, I would definitely not feel like I am holding myself accountable for my health and in turn - my weight.

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Weight Watchers Weekly Weigh-in #10!

If you’re following my weight loss progress, you’re noticing that I haven’t kept my promise of detailing out the reasons for my weight loss success as of yet. I’ve started it, but as many of you know - my clients come first, and I had a doozie of a project last week (No, not you - or you either. You don’t know ‘em. I promise.) that stressed me out a bit and kept my head in a cloud of CSS. It also kept my loss at a minimum - but I’m just happy to see another negative number!

This week is looking much better and I’m excited to get a few really neat projects done and I will, of course, link them like a crazy person.

Weight Watchers Weekly Weigh-in #9!

The past few days, I’ve been writing this big long detailed entry (in my head) about how this works for me, why I think it’s successful, and what it really takes to make the changes I’ve made and not fail. It’s still in my head, of course - because I have blog designs to finish, and a faucet that decided to rain on my morning, and I have a post-it pad in front of me that I’m jotting more “to-do’s” on as I think of them. I am not even finished with my first cup of coffee this morning, and the day is half over. Happy Monday! heh!