Saturday, October 15, 2011
Sassy Saturday
Today is the start of my 5th week back with Weight Watchers and what a great start it is! When I weighed in this morning I was down 3 LBS!! That's right, you read that correctly I lost 3 damn pounds this week! Oh hot damn! You know the movie, How Stella Got Her Grove Back, well (prepare for corny haha) this is How April Got Her Weight Loss Back! Holla! I am so excited! Like, every week I am nervous going in and getting on that scale. I feel like I could have done better or I think back about the food I ate and made myself believe that I did not do so well. Apparently I am doing well. I want to reach my goals so bad! I can taste them. First big goal I am still trying to reach and I will do it! To get to less than 200 Lbs. Every week I am getting a little bit closer! Right now as of today I only have 30.2 Lbs to make it to 199! I can not wait! That is going to be an amazing day! For now I am going to keep on trekking.
Saturday's Weigh In
So Saturday went really well. This past week I had lost 2.6 lbs! Heck yeah! Since we have been making bread and will continue to make bread I decided instead of taking it all home , where I will eat it whether I am hungry or not. I am stopping by my work on the way home and dropping it off for my coworkers. :) It is a win win. They get fresh warm bread and I get to get rid of it without wasting it. YAY! What is really cool is that I am giving bread to the Executive Chef and the Sous Chef at the hotel. Yeah, trying to get them to love my baking skills, so far so good.
Also, I have added a great workout to my schedule. It is not much yet but I love it. Every Thursday I do Yoga at this awesome Yoga studio downtown.
I go at noon which works out perfectly because I get out of school at 10:35 AM. I walk down to the square, study or work on homework, then I go do Yoga for an hour. You know how many activity points I earn for 60 mins of Yoga? 5 yeah that is right 5 extra points towards food I can eat, yum! After Yoga I catch the Max and head home to sleep before work that night.
Small baby steps again and I will get there, eventually.
Also, I have added a great workout to my schedule. It is not much yet but I love it. Every Thursday I do Yoga at this awesome Yoga studio downtown.
I go at noon which works out perfectly because I get out of school at 10:35 AM. I walk down to the square, study or work on homework, then I go do Yoga for an hour. You know how many activity points I earn for 60 mins of Yoga? 5 yeah that is right 5 extra points towards food I can eat, yum! After Yoga I catch the Max and head home to sleep before work that night.
Small baby steps again and I will get there, eventually.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
The Breakdown
I had finally hit it, the dreaded breakdown where I just threw a temper tantrum and just accepted the fact that I was just going to fat the rest of my life. The beginning of September I was struggling mentally, emotionally, and physically. I was eating whatever was insight and if it wasn't insight I went to the store and got "it" whatever "it" was at the time. I kept saying to myself I am just going to eat this and then I do better tomorrow. Well, the Tomorrow I kept saying never came. My weight has been bouncing up and and some downs, but being honest mostly up since I moved to Portland. I thought I could do it alone, I thought since I had been so successful that clearly I knew how to do this and what to do. Obviously not! I bounced with 15 lbs back and forth, then the last few weeks I notice there is was no more bounce just a steady gain; 1 lb here, 2 lbs there. I thought it is ok, a few stressful things started happening and I just blamed it on that. Around the second week of September I started looking back into weight watchers. That is what worked for me and clearly I needed to pay money to sit with strangers and just listen for me to lose weight. I am still not really sure why that is but most of the women and the few men in there are roughly 6-20 years my senior. Sometimes I feel like I am the only late 20's, early 30 's struggling with my weight and willing to go to weight watchers. Which is fine, I can do this, I did it in Alaska so why am I struggling here in Portland?
On September 10, 2011 I RE-JOINED weight watchers. I am sucking up my cheap side and spending the damn money to sit with strangers and listen to their stories. When I weighed in on that first day I was sadden to see how high my number had gotten again. I was tipping the scales once again at 235.4.....:( then the next week 9/17/11 I had lost .4, 9/24/11 I had gained 2 lbs ( I blamed my finals week on this gain. I was stressing losing my A in one of my classes) and to get us up to date I weighed in last Saturday 10/1/11 and I had lost 2.2 lbs. Weight Watchers has changed a few things and now I think it is for the better. First when you go in no more pulling your card and them writing down your weight. Now you have a bar code and they scan you into the meeting then you go over to the scales and they scan you again, you get on the scale and the computer does the rest. The best part is it automatically sends it to your tracker if you use the etools. Plus the app they have is badass. You can set alerts to send you messages about the time you eat to remind you to track and then it takes you right to the tracker. I have tracked way more now that it is on my phone. With my schedule all hectic I forget to write down what I eat so this is so much better. I am loving it!
My weigh in days are Saturdays because there is a location about .5 of a mile from my job and I usually work Friday nights so when I get off in the morning I can just walk over there. My meetings are at 730 AM and I get off at 6:15 so it works out pretty well. I am going to attempt to update this blog after weigh ins on Saturdays from here on out! It is time for a change in my life, time for me to finally reach my goals, I am done with putting my weight loss in the back seat and thinking everything else is more important. So here I go again, starting on this journey once again, only this time I will achieve my goals.
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| After weight in on 10/1/11 |
On September 10, 2011 I RE-JOINED weight watchers. I am sucking up my cheap side and spending the damn money to sit with strangers and listen to their stories. When I weighed in on that first day I was sadden to see how high my number had gotten again. I was tipping the scales once again at 235.4.....:( then the next week 9/17/11 I had lost .4, 9/24/11 I had gained 2 lbs ( I blamed my finals week on this gain. I was stressing losing my A in one of my classes) and to get us up to date I weighed in last Saturday 10/1/11 and I had lost 2.2 lbs. Weight Watchers has changed a few things and now I think it is for the better. First when you go in no more pulling your card and them writing down your weight. Now you have a bar code and they scan you into the meeting then you go over to the scales and they scan you again, you get on the scale and the computer does the rest. The best part is it automatically sends it to your tracker if you use the etools. Plus the app they have is badass. You can set alerts to send you messages about the time you eat to remind you to track and then it takes you right to the tracker. I have tracked way more now that it is on my phone. With my schedule all hectic I forget to write down what I eat so this is so much better. I am loving it!
My weigh in days are Saturdays because there is a location about .5 of a mile from my job and I usually work Friday nights so when I get off in the morning I can just walk over there. My meetings are at 730 AM and I get off at 6:15 so it works out pretty well. I am going to attempt to update this blog after weigh ins on Saturdays from here on out! It is time for a change in my life, time for me to finally reach my goals, I am done with putting my weight loss in the back seat and thinking everything else is more important. So here I go again, starting on this journey once again, only this time I will achieve my goals.
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