Category: Weight Watchers

Not Great but Okay I Guess

Wednesday was a good day weight loss wise.  I had a big dinner, but not nearly as much snacks as the previous couple of days.  Thursday was… eh.  I had the usual lunch and the usual breakfast.  Dinner was tiny.  Why was dinner tiny?  Because of all the between meal snacking I did in the afternoon.  Some fruit, but mostly little low-cal snack packs.  I had way to much.  Hopefully my small dinner evened everything out.

I mentioned the other day that I won’t be going to my normal early morning weight watchers meeting tomorrow.  I haven’t really looked for an alternative for this week.  I’ll probably just have my first post-holiday meeting next week.  Maybe two weeks of good behavior will wipe out the damage from two weeks of bad behavior.  Not likely.

We’ll see.

Two Days Down

I did a little bit better on Tuesday than on Monday as far as eating better is concerned.  I had a slightly healthier lunch, and a much, much smaller dinner.  The snack situation was the same.  Peanuts… tons of them.  Way too much, although not as much as Monday.  I’ll take the wins any way I can get them, even if it isn’t much of a win.

There were two downsides though.  First, after lunch I had a soda.  A Coke Zero.  I needed caffeine.  I’m not happy about that, but it was necessary at the time.  I hope to do better today.  The other downside was again, no treadmill.  What the hell Rob?  You were sitting next to it as you ate all those damn peanuts!

Progress.

I also found out last night that I won’t be going to my usual Saturday morning weight watchers meeting.  There is a karate tournament that one of the black belt step kids will be competing in, and I will be taking her.  Maybe I’ll go to a Sunday meeting instead.  I wonder if there are Friday evening meetings at our branch?

Room for Improvement

I did all right yesterday.  I had a small breakfast, a smallish lunch, a smallish dinner.  That’s all good.  I did have a snack after dinner.  Peanuts are on the Simply Filling approved list, but a serving size like I had is not.  I had way too much.  I need to stop doing that.

I also failed to get my fat ass onto the treadmill.  I must start using that bastard every day.  Every.  Day.  No excuses.  It has to become part of the routine.  I’m never going to be healthy if I don’t exercise regularly and that’s the only indoor option we have.  I could go outside, but COLD.  So… no.

My goal for today:

Smaller snack portions
Use the damn treadmill

I can do it.

Torture

This morning I had a little you’re-going-to-lose-weight breakfast.

Check.

This afternoon I had a little you’re-going-to-lose-weight lunch.

Check.

Right now I am cooking a little you’re-going-to-lose-weight dinner.

Check.

Unfortunately…

 

I AM SO HUNGRY I COULD EAT MY OWN HEAD!!!!

 

I was only off the wagon for a week and a half.  It’s not like I changed my routine that much either.  I just allowed christmas themed candy and maybe an extra serving at dinner.  That’s all.  Today though… it’s like torture.  I need to eat eat eat eat.

I’ll get past this though.  I am strong.  I am red head, hear me roar!

Play Time is Over

Play time is over, fat ass.  You’ve had your little christmas vacation.  Now it’s time to drag that huge bulk you call a stomach and get back on that weight loss wagon.  The holiday break is over.  You need to eat right and exercise every single day.  You were down 37 pounds the weekend before christmas.  You probably gained 30 of that back over the last 10 days or so.  It’s time to stop all of that horse hockey crap and lose some effin’ weight!

 

 

ps: I figured I’d try the drill Sargent approach and see how it goes.  I’m going to a weight watchers meeting on Saturday and I hope to have a great week which minimizes the damage to the scale.  Think Thin!  WOOHOO

Going to be a Tough Day

It’s going to be a rough one today, weight watchers wise.

For the first time since we jumped onto the wagon back on Labor Day weekend, I failed to go grocery shopping this weekend.  That means I had nothing to make a brown bag lunch for today.  Since I didn’t have a bag, I also failed to bring my usual tiny breakfast.  Not good.

That means breakfast became a convenience store breakfast, which means donuts.  Very bad.  Later on today lunch will be cafeteria lunch, which isn’t as bad as donuts, but it’s not even close to as good as a small sandwich on a deli thin.  Worse, we ate out last night at a Japanese restaurant and I had hibachi chicken, steak, and friend rice.  Even worser worse, on Saturday night we ate out at what might be the best steak house I’ve ever been too.  I had the single best steak dinner of my life.  Ever.  Bar none.  Not question.  I also ended up cleaning off my wife’s plate… and my step son’s… and my step daughter’s.  Remember me being happy about losing 4.6 pounds last week?  I probably put it all back at dinner on Saturday.  It was soooo good.

This just means I have to go grocery shopping tonight after work, and that I have to be extra good for the rest of the week.  I can do it.  I just want to manage things until after the new year, and then it’s back to an almost militarily disciplined diet again.  I can do it.

Weight Watchers Weigh In Results

Holy crap guys, trimming my finger nails worked!

I was down a whopping 4.6 pounds for a total of 37.6. I did not see that coming at all! I mean we had sub shop take out dinners twice this week. Twice! I will say though that for most of the week I was just too damn busy to eat. Even on my Thursday telecommute day, the calls and emails just kept coming all day and I didn’t have time to over do it at lunch. Then yesterday I probably lost 2 pounds due to all of the exercise walking back and forth from my desk to my boss’ office.

My goal for December is still very much to not lose any ground due to holiday feasting. I just want to stay level if I can. This weigh in though. I’m really surprised. I’ll probably be up next week, but for now? WOOHOO!!

Temptation

The temptation is always there. The temptation to dive face first into a pile of junk food and begin the surprisingly short process of gaining back all of the weight I’ve lost is always right there.

All of my company’s buildings have kitchenettes on every floor. There’s refrigerators, coffee makers, water coolers, sinks, various supplies, soda machines, and candy machines.

Since my lifestyle changing diet began a little more than three months ago I have, for the most part, only been using the fridge. I have brought my lunch to work with me every day since starting the diet. When I come in each day I put my lunch in the fridge, and that’s it. There are also occasions when I need caffeine. Eliminating caffeine was one of my initial goals for losing weight. That and eliminating coca~cola. I have been 100% successful on the coke front, and maybe 90% successful on the caffeine front. Some days I just need a boost. When that happens I’ll head to the kitchen and get a diet coke, or a coke zero. On average I would say it happens once out of 10 work days. Much more than I’d like, but not the end of the world.

Other than that, I only use the fridge. Around 1:00pm I go to the kitchen, grab my lunch, maybe a paper towel or two if the stack on my desk is getting low, and that’s it. No fuss, no cheating.

Today though…

I let my eyes wander to the candy machine. They immediately settled on the holy trinity of delicious candy bars: Snickers, Milky Way, and 3 Musketeers. They were all there, like a Roman triumvirate ruling over a senate made up of all of the rest of the junk food in the machine.

The temptation to cheat was overwhelming. It was like a physical weight pressing down on me. I would guess it weighed the same as the 33 pounds I’ve lost so far.

I did not give in. I did not cheat. I had my bag lunch and that was it. No junk food additions to the lunch menu. It made me think about things though…

They say you need to do something for three weeks for it to become a habit. Well I’ve been at this for three months. Making my lunch in the morning before I leave for work is a habit. Not stopping at a convenience store to get junk food on the way to and from work is a habit. These are good things that I often focus on when I need to prove to myself that this diet thing is for the best.

Having said that, I was hoping part of the habit forming process would be the elimination of the desire to eat the junk food crap that put me in this position. That is not the case. Maybe I haven’t been at this long enough, but the temptation isn’t lessening. It’s getting stronger. Grocery shopping during the first few weeks of my diet was brutally difficult. My wife and I did it together for the most part, and that helped to keep me from cleaning out the Doritos section of the chips aisle. Now though, the pull to fill up a whole shopping cart with just chips is almost unbearable. Just like today when the pull to blow all of my money on Snickers bars from the candy machine in the kitchenette was all but unstoppable.

I don’t want to cheat. I don’t want to give in to temptation. I am proud of myself for sticking with this as long as I have, and I don’t want to ruin what progress I’ve made. But the urge to cheat, the urge to give in to temptation, is stronger than I would have ever dreamed.

Weight Watchers Pre-Game

I wasn’t great this week, but I was okay. I should be down from last week. Unfortunately I didn’t weigh in last week, or the week before.

So I’m probably up from the last weigh in.

The holiday season… Tough stuff, I tell ya.

I’ll let you know how it goes. Fingers crossed.