Yo-yo no more

 LABOR DAY (9-3-07) GOAL:

ULTIMATE GOAL

Okay.  I’m here again… to lose the weight once and for all!  I actually started this adventure in weight loss with my husband back in January 2007.  My starting weight was 235 pounds  (my highest weight ever was 262 pounds the night I went in to have my daughter on February 11, 2006).  Due to extreme circumstances on the home front, all weight loss regimines were put on the back burner mid-way through January and stayed there until mid-July.  I take that back.  There was a period of about a month or two before it got SO hot in the summer that my husband and I got in the habit of walking 4 miles a day.  Then, as it got hot, I stayed home with the kids.  Granted, I didn’t gain any weight during this time, but I certainly wasn’t trying to lose either.  But, since mid-July, I have been trying to eat better and yesterday, I started in with the treadmill again, hoping that when cooler weather comes around, I can re-join the hubby on his walks.

My weigh-in days are on Mondays.  This past Monday my weight was at 224. So, obviously my next weigh-in will be on Monday.  But just to make it interesting, we are going to my parents house to housesit this next week. So, I am weighing in on Sunday (the day we leave to go to their house). 

My choice of action against this battle of the bulge is Weight Watchers.  I love it!  I can still eat foods that I like… I just have to learn moderation.  I find that I eat out of boredom and I am also an emotional eater.  I find that if I’m watching TV and something sad, depressing, exciting, etc. happens on the TV, I feel the need to eat something.  This has been my biggest struggle.  But, when I feel that urge, I come to the computer and get on 3fatchicks.com or I get up and do something to get my mind off of food. 

Brett (my hubby) and I want to have another baby.  But, we won’t do it until we are both healthy!  I’m so proud of him, he’s lost 60 pounds since the first of the year!!!  I know that I’ve lost weight and I am happy as long as I am losing.  I was working out today at the clubhouse and I was switching from TLC (the learning channel) to The Food Network (odd choice to watch while working out, I know).  On TLC, they had a “Baby Story” about a woman who was having triplets.  I actually cried while I watched it!!!!  I want to have another baby again so bad.  So, I’m fighting for it!  I was so blessed and lucky to not have any complications from my first 2 pregnancies.  I don’t want to push my luck with the 3rd though.

I found this neat website where you can make a virtual model of yourself, so I did one at my highest weight, one at my current weight, and one at my goal weight. I’ll post them at the bottom of this blog. Pretty motivating!

I’ll close this with a quote that I got from the 3FC forums:

“Being obese is hard, losing weight is hard, maintaining your weight is hard…. CHOOSE YOUR HARD”

That quote is now my theme!!  If I don’t write again before Sunday, I’ll see you Sunday for my Monday weigh in.

Lady J