Today I had planned to blog some encouraging words to my friends who are with me on the weightloss challenge. However, after getting on the scale this morning, I think I am the one who needs the pep-talk. I guess the two pounds I lost while sick was just a teaser for now. Anyone want to join my pitty party? Naaaaa!
Here is what I wrote last night to post this morning:
I still have a lot more weight to lose before I can fit into some of my cute tops without the rolls and bulges oozing out from all sides. Even so, it was fun getting out "the Box" from storage and imagining wearing all my girly clothes again. It is even enough to motivate me to put more broccoli in my omelet, sprouts on my salad, go on more walks and drink all that water. I can feel the transformation finally happening and I hope some of my excitement will rub off on you. (and I really hope that my weight loss doesn't stall, now that I am all jazzed up!) [IRONY!]
When I was trying to lose my pregnancy weight from Zander, I joined Weight Watchers. That did the trick, but didn't really help me keep it off. Not to mention they don't teach you about eliminating sugar. In fact, most of their pre-packaged products although low in points, are high in sugar and "chemicals." I just can't go back to that now that I know more about what foods not to eat. I also can't afford the $12 a week I paid for about a year to attend the meetings. So, I decided to lose weight on my own to save money. It hasn't been easy, but I have found a few free online resources that have proven to be very helpful. Fitday.com is great, you can keep track of food, exercise and weight. There is even an area for keeping a journal, which I don't use anymore now that I have this blog! The feature that I use the most is the weight tracking report that shows me when I lose (and gain) weight. I was finally able to pick out patterns in my weight loss. Like almost any time I lost a bit of weight, I could guarantee to gain back a couple pounds before loosing some more. Annoying, yes, but at least I could see that this was a pattern and not something that I was doing wrong.
The other day my mom emailed me this website sparkpeople.com. It has all of the above resources, plus if you get on their mailing list they will email you encouraging articles and suggestions. I just started doing this and although sometimes I get more email from them than I would like, often I am surprised about what they have to say, like this article on the importance of eating organic food. I hope you find these tools to be as helpful as I have.
Here is what motivates me:
Every choice I make gets me one of two places. It puts me closer or farther away from meeting my goals. When I think of food in these terms, it makes my choices much easier. Come on redheadedmama and sweetktea [and me too], put all your discouragements aside. Forget about the bad choices you have made. We have 75 days until Christmas and we can do this. WE WILL BE SKINNY FOR OUR FAMILY PICTURES THIS YEAR!!! Are you with me?
Let's set a date to go to the Friday all-night crop and celebrate our weight loss for the month of October. If you want to jump on our weight loss band wagon, just let me know...we won't bite.
4 comments:
Thanks for the pep talk, that elephant ear is still haunting me...(and the cookie I had in hood river on sunday, that really was not worth it) For someone who has sworn off bread, that is two in one week. I am just 10 pounds away from my lowest weight watchers weight, we will get there. :-) Any friday night works for me, just let me know when. And our girls weekend will be a healthy eating, excersizing, scrapbooking bonanza!!! Lets go!
Hey RHM...I'm so glad you are leaving comments!!! I can't wait for our weekend. We can totally walk around the lake (maybe not "around" the lake, but around the area. I hope the weather is a great as it has been lately.
I hope you all are having/had a great time this weekend. Andrea and I went to Women of Faith. I'm exhausted as usual. Robin McGraw was one of the speakers today and her husband (Phill) walked her off the stage. He said it was all that he could do since she has been there for 800 walk-offs.
RHM and anyone else that 'goofs' once in a while - I want to encourage you to not beat yourself up . You have to figure out what you can do to replace that thing you crave. Ok, maybe the elephant ear will be hard to replace but you might figure out why you indulged. It sounds like you were away from home. Was it the sweet hot cinnamon fragrance? Forgive yourself and carry something in the glove box for next time.
If you really are in need of some glucose in your blood a cookie is a quick and reasonable fix. A bit of candy or juice can do the same thing if you really are feeling light-headed or tired from not eating. Remember Steel Magnolias? She was diabetic so the need was extreme but it illustrates that your brain needs glucose. You can get unrealistic if you are hungry and can make many more bad decisions until you give your brain some food and carbs gets it there quickest.
We’ve found that a couple granola or Sweet and Salty bars (they are small and controllable) in the glove box keeps us from going nuts in the grocery store or from getting grouchy during physical therapy. The healthy part is getting some quickly digested calories that you really do need. If you are going low carb you have to be careful that you do get carbs evenly spaced during the day. When I've been really hungry, I’ve stopped by a grocery store and gotten freshly sliced lunch meats to snack on. You will know exactly the calorie count since it is weighed out just for you and they usually have the specific info some place.
Hmmm, that's a bit windy. Take care of yourselves - not just be being smaller and 'healthier' but by being kind to yourself, too.
Mom (forever)
I am so jealous. I love Dr. Phill and would have loved to hear what his wife has to say. I knew they were Christians. I could just tell.
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