Tag: weight watchers

I am Going to Weigh In Tomorrow

It’s been a long time since I’ve gone to a weight watchers meeting and weighed in.  It’s been over a month now.  The last weigh in was on December 13th.

Tomorrow will mark week number 20. I’ll admit it, I’m nervous. I’m afraid that in the two weeks that I was off the wagon I did so much damage that all of the progress I made leading up to that wonderful 37.6 number will have been erased, and two weeks of being better but not great will not have shown any results.

It’s not about numbers. I keep saying that, and I honestly believe it. It’s just that the meaningless number I saw on December 13th was a really good meaningless number. I don’t want that meaningless number to be lower tomorrow.

It’ll be okay. Even if the number is down to zero, it will be okay. I will lose weight. I will be healthier. I will reduce my risk of having a heart attack. The number isn’t important. How I feel is important.

Cheater

I was good yesterday. Almost.

Good breakfast, good lunch, no between meal snacking until after dinner. Dinner itself was bigger than it should have been, but not the end of the world. There were peanuts, of course, but I didn’t over do it.

So what’s the problem? The snack that came after dinner but before the peanuts. A chocolate chip cookie sandwich with about a two inch thick vanilla frosting filling, that’s was the problem. I cheated. I was bad.

It’s not the end of the world. It could have been worse. I didn’t fall off the wagon or anything, I just had a moment of weakness. Big deal. I’ll survive. I’ll recover. I won’t say that I won’t do it again, but I will say that I won’t do it often. Frequent junk food is one of the reasons I’m in this mess in the first place, I’m not going back to that.

I cheated, but it’s okay. I just won’t cheat again for a while.

Weight Loss Weekend Wrap Up

Okay, I know you’re all wondering how I did on the weight loss front this weekend.

My answer?

Eh.

I did way too much snacking, but all of it was approved stuff.  So choices were good, but portion sizes (and frequency) were not.  My breakfasts and lunch were either minuscule or non-existent.  Hence the snack frequency.  Dinners though… not good.  Bad choices and huge portions.  Not terrible choices, just not that good.  We actually got take out from a real restaurant last night, and take out from a better-than-fast-food-but-not-by-much place on Saturday.  Saturday at least my portion size was pretty small.  It’s just that the side dish was tortilla chips and my portion size there was too big.

All in all… eh.

I didn’t weigh in on Saturday and I didn’t want to throw off my normal schedule (which I haven’t actually been on in almost a month) so my first post-holiday weigh in will be this coming Saturday.  Hopefully two weeks of not being dumb will make up for the two holiday weeks where I was dumb and I’ll be right around where I was before Christmas.

Oh yeah, almost forgot.  I spent 10 minutes on the treadmill last night.  10 minutes might seem like a waste of time, being as it’s so short a walk, but for me it’s absolutely epic.  If I can do that every night this week it will be huge.

Form good habits, Robert.  Eat right and use that damn treadmill!

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!!