Starting fresh- Week 1

Posted by primaballerina on September 2nd, 2009 |Filed Under Uncategorized |

Well, I had to rejoin WW today since I had been away from my regular meeting for so long, so I’m starting fresh!

My weight today was 177.8.  So, up about 8 lbs since my last weigh in, which was at the beginning of July.  It could be worse. I’ll take it. To be fair, I also ate 3 sushi rolls and movie theatre popcorn last night, so I would expect that negatively affected me, too.  Anyway…water under the bridge. I’m excited to get back on track.

So, starting at 177.8 (let’s just call it 178), my new 10% is 17 lbs (161 lbs) and my new 5% is 8.5 lbs (169.5).  At my last weigh in I was 0.8 lbs away from making my original 10%….crap :(

The plan is as follows:

1) Track, Track, Track.- filling foods, measuring EVERYTHING that goes in my mouth, and getting in all the good health guidelines.

2) Exercise, Exercise, Exercise- I’m getting back at my turbo jam program- cardio EVERY day, and will try to do Abs every day, too.

3) Stay focused on the big goal- losing 62 lbs.  52 to go.

Today I had 2 pieces of ww toast with a tablespoon of peanut butter and a banana (5 points).  Then I made the Blue cheese/arugula salad from the week 1 book. Delicious. I love that stuff. The goal for this week is to stick to the filling foods and ww recipes as much as possible. I don’t think I’ll be going out at all this week, so that should be easy enough. I’m looking forward to sharing lots of recipes here- as some of you know, I LOVE to cook! I couldn’t be happier to be back in my kitchen.

It was so great to get back to my original meeting today. I was welcomed back by my leader with a big hug- she’s THE CUTEST. Period. I missed her so much! I wish everyone who did WW could have a leader as great as her, but unfortunately I know from experience that’s not the case. I don’t know what I’ll do when I have to go back home permanently! Her support and tips and meetings are what keeps me going.

As I think I have mentioned in previous posts, I have some big events coming up for motivation:

1- My cousin’s wedding in FEB 2010. I’m going to be a bridesmaid, and I’m completely thrilled! It’s a winter wedding, and the colour that she’s chosen for us to wear is “platinum”, so basically a dark grey satin.  I think it will be nice, and hopefully something I can wear again!  Luckily it’s not something like yellow or light pink- light colours + extra weight= DISASTER!! I would really like to be in a size 8 dress by that time, or at least feel more confident in my body. 6 months to meet this goal!

2- My graduation from law school in MAY 2010.  In an ideal world, I would have liked to have met my goal by this time.  I think I may be able to get close, but after gaining and falling off the wagon this summer, I’m not sure it’s realistic.  I want to look good in my grad photos- no fat cheeks!  This summer, I bought a gorgeous magenta satin Diane Von Furstenberg strapless dress. I would love to wear it to my grad. I thought it would fit me now (it’s a size 12 and I’m generally wearing a 10 or 12 these days) but I think it must be mislabelled because I couldn’t even do it up. Further support for this theory is the fact that it is only a *little* big on my mom, who is a size 4-6.  I left it at home, and will try it on at Christmas.  Inspiration! Hopefully I’ll be showing a big loss by then.

3- Trip to Greece with my mom- JULY 2010.  I will be writing my Bar Admission Exam in June 2010 (eek! does that mean I have to be a lawyer soon thereafter?!) and to celebrate the end of my formal education, my mom and I are going to Greece. It’s somewhere we’ve always wanted to go, and it will be nice to have some mother-daughter time.  I want to feel confident in my body by this time so that I can take lots of pictures on the beaches of Santorini! I want to wear a bikini and not look like a beached whale.  That’s my ultimate goal. I’m too young to not feel confident in a bikini!

So, there you have it.  Thanks for reading, and hope all is well with you! I will be updating much more frequently now that I’m home, so check back soon :)


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