October 7

Is it the 7th? I'm not really sure. I've been in Las Cruces since Monday. All I know is that it's Wednesday. I'm not at home with my real scale, so I didn't weigh today -- actually, I did weigh on the hotel scale, but it said I was back up to 198 and I know that's not correct because my jeans are still loose. So - I'll weigh Friday morning before I leave on my next work trip. What a crazy couple of weeks! And next week Adam and I go to Las Vegas for 5 days for our anniversary! Maybe some day I'll actually sleep in my own bed again :o)

End of September

Don't have much time - gotta get on the road for work and it's probably going to be a 12 or 14 hour day. But, I did weigh this morning and I'm down to 196.8. (Adam says I'm nuts for measuring my weight in tenths of pounds, but that's what it says on my scale - and that's they way Weight Watchers did it.) So --- that means I've lost a total of 4.6 pounds. Woo hoo! I'll write more over the next couple of days about my goals -- gotta get going this morning!

Wednesday Weigh In

Things got busy and I didn't blog yesterday, but I don't want to forget. I've been doing well with my goal and when I weighed in yesterday I was 198.3. I kinda figured that once I started eating again I'd put back on some of that 5 pounds I lost with the flu. But --- 3 pounds lost in a week? I'll take that!

Apparently yesterday was my cheat day. I had 3 drinks instead of 2 and I didn't measure. We also had pizza for dinner. Oops.....but, I'm back on track today and I've eaten healthy.

I guess I need to come up with a new goal for the week. I'm going to keep trying to stick with my current alcohol consumption goal, but I think my other goal for this week will be to make sure I drink all the water I'm supposed to every day.

Weight loss is going to be challenging in the upcoming months because I'm going to be traveling a LOT for work. I need to make sure that I keep healthy breakfast stuff in the fridge in my hotel room --- because those free hotel breakfasts rarely have stuff that's both healthy and filling. I could also keep stuff in the hotel so I can make my own lunches and then I'll just be eating out for dinner. The other thing I need to be sure to do when I'm traveling is to work out at the hotel fitness center every day. But, those are goals for a future week. This week's goal is water......lots of water :o)

My Secret to Quick Weight Loss?? The Flu!

I certainly didn't mean to neglect the blog, but I came down with the flu and haven't even felt human for the last 4 days. I've lost 4.8 pounds in 72 hours (I'm down to 196.6 lbs.) --- talk about quick weight loss!! The good news is that it seems my fever has finally broken and I might, possibly be getting back to normal. Hopefully, normal won't include some of the bad eating habits I'd gotten into before I got sick. One of the biggest bad habits I'm going to try to break is coming home from work and immediately getting a glass of wine and keeping a glass of wine in hand the rest of the evening. I can't imagine how many pounds I gained simply because of alcohol intake. So, in keeping with my resolve to set small goals, I think my goal for this week will be to limit myself to two drinks a night --- and those will be measured drinks, not the 'pour until it looks good' or fill up the glass kind of drinks :o) I hope somebody is reading this who will help keep me on track with this goal!

It's not often that I'm so sick that I'm not hungry or don't want food at all, but that sure happened this time. I didn't even want to think about food for a couple of days, but now that I'm starting to feel hungry again, my food dreams have shifted. I used to dream about big plates of Vietnamese food or yummy Indian curries.....maybe a shwarma from Phoenicia Bakery or two Baja Shrimp tacos from Torchy's (with a giant side of chips and queso). Now......I'm dreaming about scrambled eggs with toast and maybe a little bowl of chicken noodle soup. Perhaps I should take a lesson from this and try to keep my food dreams a little more reasonable.

But, for now, the goal is limited alcohol intake and that's what I'm going to focus on for the week. I'll weigh in again on Wednesday and see where I am and hopefully my brain will be working well enough to remember to blog about how I'm doing on this week's goal :o)

Third Time's the Charm??????

Okay - if I could figure out how to change the title of this blog I would because it seems silly to start a new one. If I could change it, the new title would be "Third Time's the Charm."

This will be the third time I've tried to lose weight. The first time I lost almost 50 pounds. I gained back about 30 and started to try to lose weight again and basically lost nothing. I have gained all the weight back, and then some and I'm now heavier than I've ever been before. I hate to post it because it is truly embarrassing. I had lost so much weight and I swore that I'd never go back to this and then....I did. I'm 5'1" and when I weighed this morning I was at 203lbs. That's just ridiculous.

I could blame a lot of things, but ultimately it comes down to the fact that life changed and I didn't. I've tried a lot of things over the last year, but I've just kept gaining and gaining. Hopefully this time will be different. I'm not only sharing my goals with you, I've shared them with my family and they're going to help keep me on track, too. My goal right now is to lose 10 pounds in 6 weeks (by Halloween -- we have a big party to go to). I'm not going to set any bigger goals because I don't want to be disappointed. I'm going to just take one step at a time.

I don't have the money to go to Weight Watchers again, but I know how to do the program. So, tomorrow I'm going to start writing down everything I eat and I'm going to weigh myself every Wednesday. I hope it's not too boring if I write down what I eat in this blog. I'm also going to try to start exercising again and I'll write that down, too.

I don't know if anybody will read this or if it will make a difference to anybody, but hopefully it will help to keep me on track.

Mid-Week

I'm going to be brave like my friend, Lisa, and post my statistics: I'm 41 years old, 5'1" tall and weighed 189 pounds this morning. I haven't decided whether or not to post pictures or not.....I'll make some sort of decision about that this week.

So -- my goal for this week was to go to the gym four times. I went Sunday and then again Wednesday and today. I'm planning on going tomorrow and Friday, both. It will be nice to meet a goal, even though it's a small one.

I'm a little discouraged because my weight is up a bit this week -- but I have to remind myself that I didn't put it on overnight and I'm not going to lose it overnight. So, I'll just keep trying and hope to see some results next week.

I'm going to make a whole new post to tell my background story ---- I think that's important to know, especially if we're trying to inspire each other.

Here's to healthier living!

First Day

So, I didn't do so well today. Too much to eat, too much to drink, no time at the gym. But --- I've decided that I'm going to set one small goal each week and just try to accomplish that. This week my goal is to get to the gym four times. Hopefully, on Saturday, someone will ask me if I did it or not. If I accomplish this goal, I'll keep it for next week and add something new.......if I don't accomplish it, I'll keep at it until I do. No heavy psychological "why did I eat the way I did" stuff today --- I'm too tired for that --- but I know I need to get around to that at some point. For now, I'm off to bed and hoping for a day tomorrow where I don't feel guilty about what I eat.