Weigh in day! I am at 240, which means I have lost 20 pounds since September 21st. Wooot! Very excited.
Things are going okay. I still have issues with having absolutely no willpower, but as long as I keep things out of the house then I am fine. Walking has been good, my sister and I have picked up the pace a little and have been walking a lot farther as well.
We have a winter storm warning for tomorrow, so it isn’t looking good for walking. I have exercisetv on demand though, and we should be getting a used elliptical machine soonish too. I will probably keep it at my house since I have more room, so that is good. Something to do while I watch The Biggest Loser instead of laying on the couch like I tend to do.
I tried on my old size 22 jeans I haven’t worn since before I had my son yesterday. They fit! One pair that I have give a little more muffin top than I am willing to show off LOL so I will wait a while for them, but one pair fit perfectly. It is nice to have new options without shopping.
The downside of the whole size 22 thing is that my 24s don’t fit so well. I love some of my jeans and I am gonna hate to see them go, but I refuse to keep them. If I get rid of everything too big then I will have nothing to wear if I slip and gain a few pounds, and hopefully kick my ass back into gear. I don’t intend to slip, (who does?!) but I am trying to learn from the past and getting rid of this is the best plan I think…
…which also bummed me out a little when I was thinking about it. Here I have alllll sorts of 24 size stuff, and I was talking to my sister-who is size 20 now btw- about getting rid of some clothes and we could only thing of 1 person who would be able to wear this stuff and she is so short that I don’t think she would be able to without altering them a LOT. How sad is that? I am the fattest person I know. Not for long, but right now… yep I am. *sigh* I guess I can find someone who needs it, woman’s shelters, or ask my neighbor to bring them to her church or something.
Anyhoo… WOO 20 pounds gone! /dance
Actually 25 off my highest recorded weight!
7.69% Smaller!
This week the scale said 243! That’s a 5 pound loss from last week. I rechecked 5 times to see if it was really true and I suppose when it says the same weight 5 times it must be.
Last week wasn’t even that great. We walked 5 days, I wasn’t feeling well one day and Sunday…well, I just didn’t feel like it. I honestly didn’t feel like it today either, but I did anyway.
I learned that my sister and I have NO willpower whatsoever. We took the kids to the open house at the fire department, got the kids pizza and then we had to get some too. Then my nephew wanted to get cookies from the bake sale so I gave him a few dollars to do that and what does he get?! Snickerdoodles. I am not much of a cookie eater, don’t think I really ever have been, but I <3 snickerdoooooodles. So I ate one. Stupid snickerdoodles. We counted everything we had and it wasn’t horrific, I think I was at like 1750 calories for the whole day, but knowing that I can’t control myself is scary. Need to work on that or something, I don’t know.
We did go grocery shopping last week though, got enough food for 10 meals. We looked for healthy recipes that looked good and made a huge list. The only non-healthy thing on it is knoephla soup, but that’s for the kids. I’ll probably make it tomorrow and add up the calories just in case someone else wants some. But with dough and whipping cream it probably isn’t very calorie friendly.
Another Monday, another weigh in… this week I am down 3 pounds to 248. Woot. I am not entirely sure of my height. I need to really check it, but I am between 5′6″ and 5′7″ and this weight has me riiiiight on the edge of no longer being morbidly obese. Oh I am still obese and will be for a while, but that whole morbid thing is scary and I am glad that it doesn’t technically describe me, or my BMI anymore.
I planned on writing here a lot more, but I honestly don’t have much to say. I walk still, and it still hurts more than I expect it to. I think it is getting better though. It is getting colder fast and I really don’t know what we will do about walking in the snow. It’s one thing for us grown ups to do it, but we have 2 year olds and I don’t want my baby to be cold and miserable, plus the playground and the snow don’t mix, and I don’t know how I will explain that to someone who is 2.
My sister is losing faster than I am. While I am happy for her, and happy I am losing steadily I wish she would let me catch up! LOL I think it helps to stay on plan when I’m trying to keep up with her. This week is TOM anyway, so maybe I am retaining water or something, seeing that my TOM is more like TOYear. Not so fun.
Went to my sister’s house to weigh in this morning. Down 3.2 lbs to 251.2. Not too shabby considering last week, it rained, snowed and was just horrid. My daughter had Thursday and Friday off of school so we didn’t walk that much. My daughter had a hole in her heart repaired in May, and she clutches her chest when she gets tired, so I don’t want her to walk with me until we get it rechecked. Which reminds me that I need to make that appointment.
