by Claire on July 19, 2010
In the continuing saga of my weight loss journey, I feel compelled to ‘fess up.
I have been basking in the glow of compliments and skinny clothing for about a year now while hovering about 9 pounds from goal. I love the compliments – they really help with encouragement and staying on my path. I’ve also been steadily and consistently going to my Weight Watchers meetings every week unless I’ve been sick or out of town or the location was closed for the holiday. I have been doing a lot of things right.
But I’ve also been doing some things wrong.
I’ve been slipping.
BLTs they call them. Bites, licks, and tastes. And portion distortion. And plain just not counting what should be counted.
And now it’s biting me back in the ass. The sum of the last two weeks has resulted in a 5 pound gain. That is HUGE in the world of weight loss – or in this case, gain.
At my meeting tonight, I talked to my leader. We tried to figure out what caused the weight gain this week as I tracked (mostly) and I did a lot more activity. I know what happened the week prior – that was no tracking and eating bad-for-weight-loss food in San Antonio. I also talked with my fellow members and we tried chalking it up to hormones changing post-age 50, too much sodium in my diet, you name it, we tried to blame it.
The bottom line is it all adds up to what you put in your mouth and putting too much of it in. I immediately came home and weighed out the watermelon I’ve been eating (per serving). What was being not counted – at all – added up to 2 points. Do that a few times and I’ve eaten up 1/3 of my weekly bonus points. Add in the second helping of coleslaw and the ice cream cake that was justified as a meal – and then coming home and eating a late night leftover meal anyway. It all adds up.
So keeping it honest and keeping it real here means I’ll do a better job of staying on program this next week. And I’ll remember that each week when I weigh in, it’s feedback, not failure.
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by Claire on November 10, 2009
So… I’ve been frustrated with myself and my weight loss progress lately, so I kicked my own butt buckled down and got back to basics with my program this last week. I was sick and tired of losing the same two pounds over and over again.
Although I have the Weight Watchers Monthly Pass membership that gives me the online tracking tools, I have lately found that I really like the simple weekly paper trackers that they have at the meetings. Keeping it simple, folks. I don’t even like the three-month journal, which I’ve tried but found too bulky and cumbersome. This tracker works just great for me.
Since I work from home, I kept the tracker open on my counter all day long and jotted down everything I ate – good, bad, ugly. You’ll see I made some good choices, and some not-so-good choices. (Popcorn and WW fudge bars – my “treats”.) Even so, I managed to lose one pound. I’m now back at my lowest weight ever – where I was in late September. Sad, but it happens. I got lazy and quit tracking, quit weighing my food, quit being fully accountable and fully “on program”. Getting back to basics has worked, even with the “bad” choices.
At the end of the week, I used just over half of my weekly points and earned a whopping 24 activity points. I succeeded in my challenge to myself of adding a day of activity to my routine, totaling four days. Best yet, I don’t recall being ravenously hungry all week long, which was a common complaint for me the last few weeks.
So, this week, I’m going to do it again. I figure if I do the same thing over again, I should get the same results, more or less.I also have a challenging week ahead – birthday dinner out for my daughter, who’s turning 30, (she chose Red Robin) and a party for her on Saturday with a Mexican-style buffet.
I learned, once again, the power in tracking all my food and activity – precisely, not “guess-timating” – and the results showed. My goal this week is to cut back on the not-so-good choices, sweat more, drink more water, and then we’ll see what the scales think of that!
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