Weight Watchers Week 16 weigh in and progress pics

Well, it was a loss, but not much.

I weighed in officially at 207.4 this am.  I have been 207 or 208 the last 5 weight watcher weighins.  I am not going to lie and say its not frustrating.  But as I have been telling myself over and over, all I can do is eat right, do the exercise and keep a positive attitude and the rest will fall in place.  My weight has no choice but to drop if I do those things.  However slow it may come, it will come.

I am not stepping on any scale this week other than the Weight Watchers scale next Saturday.  I am really going to bare down and stay away from my trigger foods, a big one of which is chocolate chip cookies.  Those were the food indiscretions I talked about last night in my blog.  I had a few of em each day wed, thur and fri after nat made some for the kids. 

I have Kempo X up on the agenda for exercise today and a rest day tomorrow (Stretch X) but I may do cardio X I don’t know we’ll see how I feel.  I used my dumbells last night for some of the leg exercises and i liked it.  I am excited about having the weights to add to some of the movements in P90x, and I also got two more heavy duty resistance bands for exercises I still want to do with those.  I am expecting a really good week of workouts this coming week, and I will break this 207 weight watchers scale barrier.  I weighed myself for the first time all week on my scale on my way out the door this am, and before putting on my shorts and t shirt I was 205.5.  The lowest I have seen on my scale was a week ago yesterday I think (or was it two weeks ago?) and it was 203.1.  So I am not far off.  I know I am starting to build some muscle, so I will do my best to not allow the scale define my success or progress.  This is why I take progress pics once a week.  You can see this weeks pic below.

Off to enjoy the day with the family. 

Weight Watchers week 2 report

Well today I went for my third weight watchers meeting and my 3rd weigh in. The verdict is I am down 0.4 pounds.

I did not expect to be down much if at all this week. I am not upset about it, it is what it is. I am happy with my eating this week as far as food choices. I have not eaten enough weight watchers points this week. I struggle to get to 28 points each day and I am supposed to be eating 34. I am happy with my food choices though as I have been eating proper portions of meat, eating fish and eating salads. This was unheard of for me before.

As I mentioned, I did not get in as much exercise this week as I did in week 1. I was walking many days in week 1 for 2.5 hours or more broken into 3 short walks. With the weather and stuff this week I did not get in as much walking, only hitting 10,000 steps on my pedometer 1 day, where last week, I averaged nearly 13 500 steps a day.

I am not discouraged, or mad about it. This week I will lose more. I am starting Power 90 tomorrow, and I will get in my walks. I am returning to work hopefully Friday. I started a new medication this past week so maybe that had something to do with it, I am not sure. I am encouraged by my eating and I really like the weight watchers plan. You can make it as successful as you choose to in my opinion, and I am almost certain I will be staying on it far longer than the 12 weeks I prepaid for it.

I did not weigh in at all this week, and for me at least I think that hindered me a little. A lot of people become slaves to the scale, and get to confident when down, to discouraged when up. I am pretty good of using it for what it is a tool to see where I am. I don’t get to bent out of shape either way about it. So I will weigh myself a couple times through the week as a progress report.

My waist measurement didn’t move this week either. I think that the fat I have gained over the past few years is going to be stubborn. I gained it over a period of years, its not going to go easily. I can easily gain 10 pounds in a week or so, and of course as we all know losing that same 10 can be a much harder proposition. A blogging friend of mine used to blog about weight watchers years ago ( I have lost touch with her) but she talked about something that has stuck with me. She didn’t talk about “losing the weight” but rather about “releasing the weight”. I always liked that way at looking at it. I have built up a wall of fat on my body as a defensive mechanism of sorts. I make fun of myself and call myself fat etc and make myself the butt of jokes and kind of just fell into a huge rut. I am ready now to “release” this weight. To let it go. I know if I keep on plan eating wise, safely up my activity levels, the weight will go. It has no choice. It may put up a fight, but it will go. It will have no choice.

What I did well this week:
-food choices were good, portions what they should be
-kept track of every morcel of food with the weight watchers online tracker
-started power 90 workouts on thursday
-kept a positive attitude

What I can do better this coming week
-Start 90 days of Power 90 tomorrow (Sunday)
-more water
-get all my points in each day
-more walks, aiming for 10,000 steps a day
-get food accounted for earlier in day so that I can plan what I eat better

This weeks comparison picture

progress:

weight: down 0.4 pounds
waist: remained same

blood pressure today: 132/96