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Weekly Weigh In & Stats & Crack Shake

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Weight Watchers Weeks 1-19 (-30.1)
Weight Watchers Week 20 (+1.1)

Weight Watchers (-29)
On my own (-6.4)
Total Lost (-35.4) Hey, at least I dont have to give up my 35 lb award!

BMI Start 46.4
BMI Current 41.0
Loss to BMI (-5.4)

Inches Lost Weeks 4-20
Bust Over (-4.5)
Bust Under (-2.25)
Waist (-3.5)
Hips (-2)
Right Thigh (-2.75)
Left Bicep (-1.5)
Right Calf/Weeks 16-20 (-.25)

Total Inches Lost 16.5!!!

So as expected, I gained this week. It wound up not being as bad as it could have been, had my weigh in day been yesterday, I would have been up just under 4 pounds. Ugh. I know, it’s not all about the scale. I’ve lost a total of 16.5 inches since Week 4, which is amazing. I am focusing on that for now, to keep me from thinking about the scale.

I’ve decided to challenge myself to not get on the scale again until next Thursday for Weigh In. Since the scale is just sitting there (Fireman seems to weigh himself everyday too), it is going to be a challenge for me. I was getting so frustrated this week with the ups and well ups that the scale was showing me, I wanted to scream. Maybe a week without the scale ruling my life will be good for me. I will never be someone who can only weigh once a month, I like the daily reminder of how I am doing.

I did Day 8 of the EA Sports Active Challenge this morning, and got a little frustrated over the Wii not reading some of my moves during the Bicep Curls/Shoulder Presses. I watched the video several times, but apparently still wasn’t getting it. So instead I did the exercise’s on my own and then clicked to skip through the exercise on screen. I’m going to try it again this evening to try to figure out what I was doing wrong. I started using the exercise cords that I got at Target yesterday, and am really enjoying the increased tension on the workout!

New week, new beginning. 24 days until my trip, so I am now half way through my Step Goal to Trip to Paradise, and am already over ½ of the way to the final goal of 408,000 steps! (See I’m trying to come up with lots of positive things so I wont kick myself over a gain.)

Photo Food Journal 5/27/2009

Breakfast-Egg Whites, Laughing Cow Cheese, Grapes, Banana, Double Fiber Bread, Brummel & Brown (6 Points)

AM Snack-Oikos Fat Free Greek Yogurt & Banana (3 Points) Look for an upcoming review of Oikos Organic Greek Yogurt and a give away!!!

Lunch-Turkey Chili, Light Sour Cream, Apple, Laughing Cow Cheese, All Bran Crackers (11 Points)

PM Snack-Oat Bran & 1 Tbsp Brown Sugar-No Picture (2 Points)

Dinner-Chicken Breast, Polenta, Greenbeans, EVOO (7 Points)

Dessert-Crack Shake (2 Points)

Points 32 of 32
Activity Points 3

Workinprogress asked me to give out the recipe for the “Crack Shake”. This is by no means my own invention, and it’s something that I’ve seen on several sites (Happy Texans, Trim the Fat, My Road to Weight Loss, etc):

1 Tbsp SF Pudding Mix (any flavor)
8-10 Ice Cubes
1 Cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze
1 Cup Strawberries (or any berry really….Raspberries not advised, they are SO seedy!)

Throw it all in the blender and blend. Makes 1-2 Point Serving or 2-1 Point Servings.

I’m really digging using the Cheesecake flavored pudding mix, wasn’t a huge fan of the white chocolate pudding mix, but it’s really just a preference. I used Raspberries in my shake this morning and spent most of the time trying to chew through the seeds!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Weekly Weigh In & Stats

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Weight Watchers Weeks 1-15 (-25.2)
Weight Watcher Week 16 (-0.8)

Weight Watchers (-26.0)
On my own (-6.4)
Total Lost (-32.4)

BMI Starting 46.4
BMI Current 41.4
Loss to BMI (-5.0)

Inches Lost since Week 4
Bust Over (-4“)
Bust Under (-2“)
Waist (-2.75“)
Hips (-2“)
Thigh (-2.25“)
Bicep (-1.5“)

Total Inches Lost 14.5“

Well not as big of a loss as I had been hoping for, but a loss is a loss, especially after yesterdays freak 3 lb gain. I had been down several pounds until yesterday. Oh well, I’m averaging about 2 lbs per week right now over all, so I’m happy with that. This week I earned the fewest number of activity points that I’ve ever earned in a week (12), but I also ate the fewest flex points that I have ever eaten (13). Usually I have one meal out where I spend a good portion of my flex points. I know this Saturday I will probably wind up using a lot, if not most of them on Pizza, as we are doing a movie night with the kiddies and are ordering pizza.

Inches lost however was a big shock! I feel great about 14.5 inches being gone. One of my co-workers asked me today when I was going to get a new wardrobe because most of the pants I’ve been wearing to work, are well, BIG. Yay! NSV are really great sometimes.

Fireman got home from his business trip last night, and is actually home sick today. Seriously, this man NEVER gets sick. He is constantly injuring himself playing softball and doing normal things like, well, walking, but he doesn’t get sick. I feel so bad for him! When he hurts himself he’s a giant baby. On a scale of 1-10 his pain is always a 10, never a 4 or a 5, but a 10.

Today is going so much better than yesterday! No eggs on the floor, I had hot water, the shower curtain stayed put, etc. It never even occurred to me to binge, especially since it was the day before a weigh in. Not binging feels like a huge step to me. Days like yesterday in general stress me the hell out. I worked really hard at trying not to over react and focus on just getting to the next step of my day. This approach served me pretty well!

Photo Food Journal-

Breakfast-1 Egg & 2 Whites, Sm Apple, Laughing Cow Cheese, Brummel & Brown, Double Fiber Bread (6 Points)

Lunch-Atlanta Bread Company ½ Ham Sandwich (dry) and Creamy Tomato Soup (7 Points)

PM Snacks-2 Sm Apples, String Cheese, Smart Food, Fiber One Bar (7 Points)

Dinner-Pork Chop, Ronzoni Pasta, Velveeta, Broccoli (frozen…yuck), Olive Oil (11 Points)

Dessert-Vita Muffin, SF Pudding (2 Points)

Points-33 of 33
Activity Points 0

The Photo Food Journal has really helped me to focus on finding different things for dinners. I’d hate to show ya’ll the same things week after week. I put together next weeks grocery list today, and there are some yummy dinners coming up! I found out that Sweetie Pie doesn’t live that far from me, and she has a lot of great pictures of her eats. She mentioned that she has been going to a Farmers Market, and was nice enough to share with me which local one she goes to (the food looks GREAT), so I plan on hitting it up this weekend. I LOVE FARMERS MARKETS!!! Also, be sure to check out Sweetie Pies page as she is having a fabulous give away right now!!!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Statistics-What all do you keep track of?

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I’m a numbers person, I like charts, I like to keep track of things, I create budgets (which I don’t stick to). This post over at Thuseybelle, made me think about my Excel spreadsheet that I use to track my weight loss. Seriously, it’s a bit of over kill, here is a screen capture of it (click on it to make it bigger):

I track what week I’m on, weight lost this week, total weight lost, how close I am to my goal of 1.5 lbs per week, BMI stats, where I am on the BMI, what goals I have along the way, etc. INSANE, I know. I’ve made charts somewhat similar to this in the past, but never, ever, have I made it past week 2 keeping the data. I’ve kept this data every week since I started. I have it linked to my Excel version of my Check Register, so it’s always there to update when I balance my checkbook. The only information that I don’t track on it are my measurements (note to self-add measurements to neurotic spreadsheet.) Seriously, you cant see it on here, but the spreadsheet goes all of the way to my goal weight. The items in Yellow are various things that I am excited to go to, so that I can have different goals. If I put every concert on here that I was going to this summer, the entire page would be yellow (yay for Wolf Trap in the summer!!!)

So what all do you track when it comes to Weight Loss? Please tell me ya’ll track so I don’t feel crazy lol. Tomorrow is Weigh In Day. The scale at home has been moving in the right direction, but with TOM in town, there is no flippin’ way of knowing how the WW scale will react.

On a completely different topic, who else watched The Biggest Loser last night and cried…more than once? I’m not even someone who cries very easily!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Weekly Weigh In & Stats

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Weight Watchers Weeks 1-11 (-17.6)
Weight Watchers Week 12 (-0.8)

Weight Watchers (-18.4)
On my own (-6.4)
Total Lost (-24.8)

EFFING-A, I want to scream. I hopped on my scale at home this morning, and it showed I was down over 3 lbs since last Thursday. I’m only tracking what the WW Scale says though. I’m angry, I’m frustrated. BLAH. I was even excited to hop on the stupid scale at the meeting today, and when the person said “great down 0.8” I had to ask her to repeat herself. I really needed the scale to work in my favor this week. The scale couldn’t even give me the extra 0.2 to get me to an even 25 lbs. So onto better things:

Measurements Weeks 4-12 (I didn’t take measurements until Week 4). I am going to update these stats every 4 weeks. I’ve decided not to post my real measurements, its embarrassing enough to see my actual weight hehe.

Bust Over- (-3”)
Bust Under- (-1”)
Waist- (-2”)
Hips- (-1”)
Thigh- (-1 ¾”)
Bicep- (-1”)
Wrist- (-0”)

Total Inches Lost 9 ¾”

BMI Starting 46.4
BMI Current 42.6
Total Lost to BMI (-3.8)

I hope everyone is having a great weight loss sort of week! Next week I will see 25 no matter what….seriously I will take my pants off in the meeting if it gets me to 25 pounds (aren’t ya glad you don’t weigh in at my location!)

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Today is a new day

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Last night I didn’t workout, I really didn’t do much of anything after I got home, besides make dinner and watch some TV. I still wasn’t feeling 100%, and then I read the comments and the emails that you all sent, and it completely helped to turn my attitude around. Thank you so much for your kind words and thoughts, this blogging community really does have an impact on individuals, and I greatly appreciate it!

I woke up this morning and went to OnDemand to see if any of the workouts looked interesting on FitnessTV. I decided to give Leslise Sansone a try, and did the Work & Tone workout, which is supposed to be 2 miles plus light weights (I used my 2lb hand weights since I do not have the belt that they use in the video.) GWF showed that I exercised for the full 30 minutes, granted only 6 minutes showed me in the vigorous zone, but still, it really did feel great to workout. I feel so much better today. Sure I am still frustrated about the weight loss, but I physically feel so much better.

For any of you that have OnDemand with your cable company, check out the Freezone (at least that is what it is called here in DC) and go to Health/Wellness and to Fitness. There has to be 50 different workouts available, many of which look a bit like fun. Fireman wants me to try the Carmen Electrik Strip Tease, but once he saw what it was, he thought it looked a bit boring. Aww he knew to say the right thing haha.

I decided to go ahead and take my measurements two weeks early and compare them to my starting measurements. There really is a dramatic difference in the inches lost. I don’t have the measurements here with me today, but I think I will post them at the end of week 12 (currently on week 10). My starting measurements aren’t actually from when I started, but from week 4 officially on Weight Watchers.

I am going to do an experiment starting next week, which is a bit of a combination of several of yesterday’s comments. Per HappyTexans advice, I am going to try out the “Wendie Method” which has you vary the number of points that you eat each day, some days are high, some days are lower, but the aggregate of what you normally would consume in a week.

Per the advice of Kilax, I am going to mix up my work outs a bit more this week. Typically it is the Elliptical at the gym or 30 Day Shred at home. I’ve given up on Biggest Loser Cardio Max, it is too disorganized for me. I am going to try a different workout on ExerciseTV everyday this week, starting today (Walk & Tone workout).

Per the advice of Mommie2lea, I’m not going to let myself down on the Lent Challenge. Honestly, I really do enjoy how I feel after I workout, I get this total rush that lasts for several hours after working out (well on most days, some days I’m just pissed that I am all sweaty and have to shower yet again). I’m going to try to experiment a bit more with how many of the extra (weekly points allowance and activity points) points that I am eating, to see if I can find a good number that works for me and keeps me in the losing mode. Next week I am going to experiment with eating 20 of my WPA and none of my activity points.

Official WI day isn’t until Thursday, which is when a new week will start for me. With exception to the not giving up on working out, I am going to implement each of these changes starting on Thursday of this week. So far this week, I am totally on plan points wise, and have really gotten back into the groove with eating and tracking (after my couple of day slip up a while back, yet I still tracked everything.) Fingers crossed the scale will move, it should considering that TOM is visiting, which is usually at least a couple of pounds lost for me.

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare
PS-Have any of you WW out there tried the new 1 Point Mint Cookie Crisp Mini Bars? OMG so good, it seriously tastes like eating Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies! I do believe that they have or had a 2 point bigger version, but I hadn’t gotten around to trying them.