Board hog here.
Had my WI this morning, down 1.7 and I made my 5%!
I tried to stick on plan for the last couple of days of my week--thanks for the push when I needed it. It's also my first 10 lbs (10.7 thankyouverymuch!). I have a couple of old "10 pound ribbons" from when I did the plan before so I'm going to pull one out. And I promised myself a pedicure when I hit 10 lbs--not exactly sandal weather yet but I've got icky "winter feet".
Congrats!
I have an old 10% keychain or two, and I gave one back to myself when I hit my *second* 10%. Come to think of it, I hit my third...I should probably find the other one I have. It's fun to do those things.
So today was my first time on my new plan and I ended up using 13 points for breakfast, snack and lunch. I have a WW Aloha bar for my before aquafit snack and thats another 3 points bringing my total before dinner total to 16. I now realize I was crazy to think I could do it under 10!
I was thinking about you the other day, when I managed to eat only 10 points and it was 4 and I was starting to get really weird. I didn't even have any zero point foods with me. And worse, I was at a birthday party (my son's friend) and they brought in pizza. Which smelled SO good, but we had *just* made dinner plans for after the party and I didn't want to mess that up. Oh I was SO hungry by the time I got to dinner.
For breakfast I had a yogurt and when I got to work I had some carrots, celery and cucumbers. Lunch was actually delicious (more than I expected) I made a salad with lettuce, tomatoes, red peppers, shrimp, gyro meat, feta and tzatziki with a little bit of balsamic vinaigrette and fresh fruit for desert. Once you start to add up the feta, dressing and meat the points start to add up (it certainly makes me realize more how I used to think I was under my points when I wasnt tracking that there was no way I was!). Ill have the same thing for lunch tomorrow and then on Wednesday we are having a going away lunch for a co worker at a Chinese restaurant so Ill use more points on that day.
Those realizations are powerful, aren't they? The "ah, no wonder" moments...
I am still kind of hungry. Not starving certainly but I dont feel full. In reality this is probably how Im supposed to feel after a meal but since I usually overeat it seems weird to me. I dont know if it will be enough to last till after aquafit with just a granola bar so I may need to have something else this afternoon. I dont know what Im going to have for dinner tonight as Monday is our busy night (girls both have activities after school and in the evening and I do aquafit). Usually my dh and the girls have subway and then I pick up Thai food after aquafit but I dont want to do that so Ill have to come up with another plan. I still have lots of points for the day left over so thats not a problem. It would be better if I could eat before aquafit since I could then work it off right away but I dont have time.
Getting used to the "not stuffed" feeling is a process, that's for sure!
WOW that's fabulous!!!! I am always happy when I hear people are losing weight but when I hear it's an amount like this I'm inspired too. I have more than that to reach my goal and at times it's seems completely overwhelming. I realize that we are all in this together but sometimes I feel like someone who only has 20 lbs to lose can't ever understand the sheer overwhelmingness I feel when I think of how much weight I need to lose to reach goal. (and I am jealous of them for it!). The reality is though I put the weight on so I need to work at it a pound at a time to take it off. If you don't mind I'd love to hear more about your story - what was your inspiration, how long did it take, what tips worked for you etc.
If you're on the WW forum, have you run across Wendy yet? She is an amazing inspiration, and hangs out on the "more to lose" boards (the main boards there are like the Community Board here, but with namecalling, making fun, and calling out of people ALLOWED....but she says the "more to lose" people are really nice and accepting of anyone hanging out there with them). She lost 302 lbs. She is a Zumba teacher at my Y and attends meetings at my center (though on Sunday vs my Saturday). I've met her now.
She was featured on People and Oprah... You can find articles about her by googling "weight watchers tacoma wendy". (using that, it's the komonews.com link)
I can't find it anymore, but she used to have a very simple blog where she logged in each weigh-in. It took her about 5 years to lose her weight, which sounds so long, but in the end, she lost that weight. I liked looking at the log of WIs because it showed me that every week, even the gain weeks, is a step closer to goal, no matter how far away the goal might be. She just kept on going, kept doing the program, just continued, and she got there.
The process to lose - eating less than you used to - is the same for everyone. It's the *time* spent eating at that level that can take longer for those with more to lose. Of course, having spent my teens and early 20s trying to take off those last 5-20 lbs and failing utterly, I know that even 20 lbs can take a LONG time! A friend of mine in WW is TWO pounds away from her goal, and has been hovering in that range since December. It's making her nutty. But it's the same process for everyone. Which I had to realize when I hit my 40 lb mark and started thinking negatively about my leader because that's "all" she had lost to hit goal. And I realized that thinking that sort of thing might be natural, but at the end of the process we ALL will have to watch ourselves forever more, and that's where the REAL time is... We'll all end up the same after we hit goal, right? At the same time I know that even for me the total is overwhelming. Right now at <20 away from my original goal I feel further away from it than I did when I was starting. And DH has his own confusing feelings about his process (if he can get to WW goal his loss will be 200 almost exactly), and he's on the slower loss track because that's just his metabolism.
But I still really want my husband to meet Wendy, because he has a lot to lose and can get really overwhelmed and despairing when he thinks of the whole process. And he has NO idea if he'll ever be able to hit the WW goal just because of how he is built. He's never been there except as a young teen, and he has always been considered (by himself, by his MOM, and probably by his doctor) as being overweight, though he and his mom (especially) really exaggerated HOW heavy he was as a child and teen. But in short, he doesn't know if he'll end up using a doctor's note goal. The idea makes him sad because he'd be a GREAT WW leader, and you can't be a leader with a doctor's note goal.
Anyway, I'm digressing, big time.
Since my stated loss-goal is 80ish lbs I might not be who you want to answer, but I will anyway. I finally re-joined WW last year after seeing a new-to-me picture of Jennifer Hudson. Her body just totally transformed, and that astonished me. I had sort of figured that I would end up looking like I still had weight to lose, and that bugged me enough that I wouldn't rejoin, but her absolute transformation got my butt to the meetings. First meeting I sat right under the poster of that picture of her. She was my buddy for that meeting.
But that came after a 2 week
Disneyland/Universal Orlando (yep, bicoastal) trip where I hurt with EVERY step, where not just my ankles swelled but also my leg, and I was just miserable the whole time. DH and I also were really noticing that DS was all alone in all pictures; if we died our son would have no proof that we had existed since he was something like 3 years old. And that made us sad. DH is better about sucking it up and taking pictures, so he started getting in photos. That I took. And was never in. I had to start losing in order to get into pictures; I just wasn't strong enough to deal with the photos until then.
Anyway, those things got me in the door, and although I admit sometimes I wish I could just stuff my face with a couple of the trigger foods I haven't yet allowed myself (weird ones...this chipotle dip that's like "pimento cheese" only with chipotle, and marinated artichoke hearts...), once I started losing it's like there was no going back. It just feels so good (even if it's scary sometimes) I don't want to go back.