Trying to get the feeling again…

After the weigh in - Oh, here are the number - BF lost 5 lbs, my son-in-law lost 10 lbs,  and my daughter lost 4 lbs.   I say a good week indeed as we lost a total of 28 pounds this week. 

 We went to Applebee’s after the weigh in.  I had the skewerd shrimp for 5 points.  Not bad at all.  I would have never ordered that a month ago.  My bf had his dinner picked out before we went.  He went online and checked it out.  He is now in the living room on the treadmill.   WOW!  It is very motivating with him doing this.  He gets online and charts his meals and exercise.  I haven’t exercised yet.  It is what I need to start doing this week.  I have a few parties to go to so I need to get my ass moving.  I have so be avoiding it for so long.  I have a nice treadmill in the living room.  It was highly rated in Consumer Reports.  I have over 4,000 songs on my Ipod so again, I have no reason not to do it.  I am being a whiny lazy ass.  I don’t want to exercise.  But I don’t want to be fat either.  DAMN!!! 

The scale at WW said I lost 9 pounds this week.   My scale at home, which is the one I have to live with says I now weigh 225.  That is cool.  I can honestly say I haven’t seen 225 in awhile.  I don’t think I really lost 9 pounds this week, more like 6 but I will take it and go by what they say because I will have to go by their scale for a long time.   The good news is I only need to lose 85 pounds.  Not 95 pounds.  Not 100 pounds.  85 pounds. 

 I was reading old posts where I said how hard it was because I had no support from my bf.  Now I do because he is doing WW with me and what a change it is.  It makes me feel like I can do this.  Good food is more expensive but worth it. 

Merry Christmas! 

So in about 2 hours, I will go and get weighed.  I have completed my first week with WW.  I had lunch with my friend, Leslie yeaterday and told her AFTER lunch that all of us have joined.  She confessed she is about 210 and needs to lose weight.  She said it is so hard having a husband who needs to lose 80 pounds and doesn’t care and 3 children to cook for.  I TOTALLY understand.  In previous attempts, my bf would still eat chips and candy and donuts and whatever else he wanted to no matter how many times I told him I needed his support.  This time around, with him doing it, it is so much easier.  I make food for US not just ME.  Tonight we are going to dinner at Applebee’s - his idea - because they have a WW menu. 

Anyway, Leslie told me I should have told her I was on WW and we could have went to someplace different.  We were at a Chinese restaurant and I managed.  I told her no, that I have to LEARN how to eat right.  Not just put myself on a restrictive diet that I will FAIL at again.  I keep reminding my bf and daughter that we can eat whatever we want.  It is just that we have to understand that an entire bag of chips is not a serving!  LOL! 

In the past, I have ordered a medium Candian bacon pizza and eat the whole thing - alone.  I would do this on Sunday when Kevin is gone all day until 12:30 a.m. working.  Just me and an entire pizza.  Not again.  I will eat pizza but one or two slices will work.

What I am enjoying right now is all the veggies I am eating.  I love them but got away from eating them.  Laziness is all it was about.  I am glad it is cold and soups are in.  They are low in points and  I love soup. 

Shower time.  I will post my loss later.

I wore my high boots today.  Not that I look great in them or anything because I have this HUGE stomach that encompasses my body, but the boots by themselves are cute and I get tired of dressing like a fatass.  So today I wore my black pants (of course to camoflauge the fat belly) and my boots.  BUT I was on my feet for WAY too long like 12 hours up and down running all around.  And my feet are killing me.  I am actually whining here and so it’s good you are only reading this and NOT here in the room with me. 

 I am giddy with the hope that maybe this time I might lose weight and give my poor feet a rest.  They have been very good to me but are getting tired of lugging this belly around. 

My daughter and son in law are still gung-ho about the whole WW thing.  Of course they are, we haven’t even done an entire week.  Wait until we are in the 100th week and let’s see how they are doing.  They and my bf are doing great and it really is nice to have people to talk to about what we are eating, not eating, should be eating, and just plain eating.  Of course, it is not like talking on here, because here I tell all.   When I have some after pictures to show, I will post before and after.  I was thinking like every 10 pounds, take a picture and post it.   Eventually, like a flip book, a change will emerge. 

I did manage to lose three more pounds in November on top of the 6 I lost in the summer.  I was sick as a dog for like two weeks and that’s how I lost the three.  But they have stayed off so far so I am counting them.

It’s 11:49 p.m. and my feet are still crying.  I think I will take them to bed. 

Hugs to you all and Merry Christmas

I did something I thought I would never do - something I said never works for me.  I joined Weight Watchers.  This time, it is different and may just work.  This time, my entire family joined too.   I have been begging, yes begging for support to lose weight.  They have no idea how much I need to lose.  I need to lose the most out of everyone.  They don’t know that.  Nor do they need to.  In due time, they will figure it out.  But for now, I am so happy that my bf, daughter, and her husband are in the boat with me and we are all on the same page.  We all eat together several times a week and all of us being on WW together will make it so much easier.  

Our weigh in was December 12th.   We will weigh in each Wednesday.  Everyone is in point shock.  My bf is still trying to figure out if he will starve or not.  LOL!  He only needs to lose 30 pounds. 

 I have gone through the house and labeled the point value of everything.  I made two point snack bags of pretzels.  Last night when we all went to the movies, we took our liitle bags of pretzels and munched on them.   We came home and ate some 2 point spicy chicken soup and baked tortilla chips I made.  Everyone was amazed how good everything tasted and how few points we actually ate. 

I have always wanted this support and am so happy to have it.  I was surprised that when I suggested we all join WW everyone agreed and couldn’t wait for the first meeting.  Maybe this time will work afterall.