That flu really threw me for a loop. It’s been over a week now and I’m still weak as a kitten most days. I did get a few things done at home/school over the weekend but was exhausted afterwards and spent my time laying around.
This morning I got myself up at 5 and headed off to the gym for the first time in almost 2 weeks. I walked there (10 min) did my 30 minute circuit and walked home all pooped. I could nap right now LOL
June is just not a good time to be run down and tired at school. We have so much going on and 4 weeks as of today to get it all finished. I will have to hope the adrenaline will kick in and I can get through this.
My appetite is back however and I ate like a hog most of the weekend. I’ll be good for Mon to Thurs (I HOPE) and I guess we shall see what WI on Thursday brings.
Happy Monday everyone.
Well I knew this week would be good, although my appetite did come back (with a vengeance) on Wednesday. I was very eager to go weigh in this week and I laughed to myself on the way. Not so long ago that the thought of stepping on the scale was the last thing I wanted to do.
I was 4.2 lbs down. woo hoo for me. Then again the lady in front of me on her first week of ww lost 5. Ah well, she’s on her first week and I’m still plugging away on upcoming week 22.
Only 6 and a bit and I’ll be at 40 lbs. The lil bits one pound or part of a pound each time don’t seem like a lot, but being able to say I have lost over 30 lbs is a great feeling.
As I updated my progress pages, I peeked down to my last journey on ww and at week 21, I had lost exactly twice this amount. I remember that weigh in. While I am only moving half as fast this time, I only made it a total of 28 weeks before I tumbled off for two years.
My I ramble on. Happy Thursday everyone!
It was a good week more or less. I only got to the gym a couple times. I didn’t get any walks in aside from Sunday and Sunday night. I actually found myself eating under points. Did that make my WI a bigger loss than it could have been? or could I have lost more if I had eaten fully my daily points?
Heck I”m just glad I stayed OP and that I lost weight.
The scale showed a loss of 1.2 lbs and that was a nice little treat. That brings me to just over 30 pounds and I felt safe enough I wouldn’t backslide, that I accepted my 10% for 26.8 lbs gone.
Here’s to another week on program.
That’s what it seems like lately. No jolie don’t binge eat after your houseguest left, as you celebrate! No jolie, don’t go in the staffroom…there are delicious things in there. No jolie, keep busy for the first 20 min of the staff come and go lunch…there’s not a darn thing healthy there but many things wonderfully cooked and delicious. No jolie be good when you’re in the city to see Walking with Dinosaurs. Have a small, carefully chosen supper at the fast food place we had to stop at as we were short on time before the show. oh No no no jolie don’t have anything from the concession at the show. Aside from the ridiculous prices, all of those things would come back to bite you on the ass when you WI Thursday.
Seems like a whole mess of No. I guess that makes up for the years of muffled ‘oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh’ I gave myself permission for over years past. Muffled due to the food being shoveled into my mouth LOL
WI tonight.
Well it felt great to be back there this morning after being AWOL for a week. Not always great to be up at 5 AM but once I’m there…….it’s a good thing. I come home and feel like I’ve already done something good for myself today, and I feel less rushed for the rest of the day as well. It’s a glorious feeling of being in control…at least for awhile.
Now that my visitor is gone back home, I wonder if my abnormal stress = not eating will fade away?? lol
I’ve done well staying on program for a whole week now and I’m curious what the scale will show. We’re off to the city tomorrow to watch Walking with the dinosaurs
That will involve a supper out.
I’m off to work. Have a great day everyone!
I went walking this morning and this was one of the thoughts that fluttered into my head. One of the biggest motivators for me and this weight loss journey is that I want to be normal. I want to have a normal shaped body and be able to eat food like normal human beings without counting everything. I want my clothes to come from a normal store, not from a speciality store for bigger girls.
Between the dieters and the anorexics, the calorie counters and bulemics, the bingers ( like me) and the fasters…………I wonder just how many people out there fit this ‘normal’ I am so desperately seeking?
Part of me wants to go out and ask people..hey are you normal????? are you what I am wanting to be?? Sounds crazy, but how many people in your world don’t have these struggles at either end of the weight loss spectrum? How many are living this life I seem to want?
interesting point to ponder for me.
am on day 5 of 7 with the exchange student at my house. He’s a nice enough kid though very wealthy and I feel a bit ashamed by the size of my wee home. Before he came I was in panic and ate my way through sun and monday. Now that he’s here I find myself not even finishing my points for the day, and not starving as a consequence. It’s a very interesting scientific process. There have been numerous situations where I had the opportunity to overindulge. Fast food, Boston Pizza, birthday celebrated at work. I held firm and honestly wasn’t very interested except for those muffins on Wednesday. I have two days left of his visit and then off he goes early Monday morning. These will be the two hardest days. I am at home with them. No work for me. There are no organized activities for their visit so it is ‘family time’. We’ll be at the lake later tonight so all my ‘passing by the good food’ may be out the window, but I do not know. It has been a good experience but highly stressful and I will be very glad when my end of the deal is done 
I’m such a bad mother LOL . My son will go there in June for a week and I have no real worries there.
surprises can be nice. they can. not always, but sometimes. I went to WI expecting a gain. I didn’t ‘feel’ thinner, I knew I had misbehaved sun and monday, and my scale at home (while a different number than the WW ) was high.
I got there, prepared to face the music, only the music was singing ‘down dibby do down down’!! I was down 2.4 lbs! yeah me
I was sure she’d done it wrong.
The unexpected number made me feel very good. I took my 25 lb disk which I could have received last week (but held off) and that was nice to get the applause and oooo from people. Technically I could have received my 10% as well, but we shall keep that for next week.
I had a planned dining out and thought I’d let this be a free night and get it out of my system but I was more than satisfied with the 7 points I gave up for baked onion soup and a piece of garlic toast at Boston Pizza. Here it is, almost 8 and I’m full AND I have points left for the day.
I hope I can make more good choices than bad during this long weekend and I can be happy next Thursday as well!
Why is it that the weather can so drastically change one’ s energy level?? It’s a dull grey morning out there and it just seems to sap my drive to want to do anything…you know..that ‘go get em’ attitude that makes one’s eyes dance and fills your blood with zest??
I was hoping it would be nice today. The boys are on field trips all day and they are pretty much outdoors. There isn’t a hope of rescheduling. Ah, they are young. Hopefully they will deal with it.
Today is WI. I haven’t had a perfect week by a long shot. Our exchange student arrived and I haven ‘t made it to the gym since Saturday it doesn’t look like I’ll get there until this Saturday, or the Tuesday after the long weekend. I feel out of place about not going…as though my time there was merely a fuzzy dream. That’s not a good thing.
I struggled with food choices and made poor ones on Sunday and Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday I’ve come in under points and it was partly because I was stressed and partly, I wonder if it was my way of making up for the poor choices. I know that isn’t the way to go, but it’s the way it went.
WI should be interesting. I hope desperately I haven’t gained, or at least I haven’t gained much. I earned my 25 lb disk last week but did not pick it up and I’d like to do that this week. I have this weird superstition about not picking up milestone rewards until the following weekend. I am also only 0.4 away from 10% so that is a goal coming soon as well too and it would be nice to hit it.
The clock is ticking so I’d best get off my hiney and go get moving before I have to wake up the boys.
Have a great day!
Well I made it through the party last night. I counted my points for my two drinks and the wee bit of sunchips I gnawed on and drank water the rest of the time. It was hard to avoid the midnight lunch table and while there were a few kind of healthy things such as veggies, I told myself it was midnight and I am usually in bed then and there is NO point eating at this hour of the night.
Was it hard? oh god yes it was. I wanted to be ‘like everyone else’ many of whom are thin as rails yet had giant plates full of delicious foods. ahh life is not always fair is it?
Oh well, the party was good and today I am cleaning madly for the arrival of my guest. I am loathing this visit but if something good had to come out of it, I did some badly needed renovations and very badly needed purging of household items I no longer use.
Happy Sunday to you all. I hope, however you spend it, it brings you smiles.