Marshmelo's Journey to Health

[Marshmelo]

Where do I start? I am at my highest weight ever. I have previously lost 80 lbs which I gained every bit of and a bit more back. I'm only 30 years old and have decided I have to get healthy now. I got married in October 2004 and we want to have a baby now. I know that I definitely have to lose weight before I get pregnant. I think my weight is the reason it hasn't already happened. The only good thing about having gained all the weight back that I lost before is that I know I can do it since I've done it before. I have a long way to go. Probably about 150 lbs. My preliminary goal is to make it to 80 lbs of loss first. I try not to think of that because it seems so overwhelming. I like to just focus on one day at a time. I'm hoping to lose the 80 lbs by December for my Disney vacation. It's a huge goal, but I think it will motivate me. I'm very lucky that I have a wonderful Husband who completely supports me. He does not have a weight problem at all, but is very understanding and supportive of me. He gives up having sweets in the house or other things he might like to have because it helps me I am weighing in tonight after my first week of my journey and I feel pretty good. I will post an update with the results. Thanks for reading!

 

[Marshmelo]

I lost 5 lbs! Yay!

 

[toystoryduo]

Welcome to WISH!

You are off to a great start! You should be very proud of your 5 pound loss! Keep on keeping on and you will make your goal!

Have a great Friday!

~Tracy

 

[Marshmelo]

I weighed in last night and lost 1.5. I guess that's good, but I was being greedy and hoping for 3! I think I may be retaining water though. Nevertheless, I will definitely take the 1.5. I know the healthiest way is to lose 1-2 a week. I just was hoping for more since it's only the second week. I did use all my flexpoints for the week. I don't think I EVER don't use most of them My DH and I ate at Pizzeria Uno over the weekend. I got the individual 4 cheese and a salad with FF Vinegairette dressing. I only ate half the pizza and intended to eat the other half for lunch the next day. Well....after I got home, I went to www.dwlz.com to see if the points values for Uno's were on there. I could not believe that the indiv 4 cheese is 56 points! I was just glad I only ate half of it! I still ended up being able to have two pieces of it (1/3) the next day and stay in my points. I really did not feel deprived at all during the week which is what helps me stick to it. I think I only exercised 3 days though. My goal is 5 days, so I will have to work on that this week.

 

[CaroleD]

Thats just wrong! Congrats on your WW commitment and your weight loss.
Do you have sub-goals that you will reward yourself for as you go along. Like 10 pounds. Might make it less intimidating.
Keep telling yourself you can do this!

 

[Marshmelo]

I weighed in on Thursday and was down another 3 pounds! I am very worried about this week though. I didn't get off to a very good start. My sister and her husband came to visit on Friday and stayed the night. They requested a big yummy meal of Alice Springs Chicken, Salad with homemade ranch dressing, loaded baked potatoes, and rolls with my homemade cinnamon butter, oh and peanut butter pie for dessert. Sunday of course was the Superbowl (Yay Colts!! ) and my DH wanted good food.

My weekend did not go as well as I had hoped it would. Well, I counted points on Friday, even through the big dinner. I measured the salad dressing (only had 2 TBS) and the cinnamon butter, and counted the points. I only had two rolls (very small, so it was like one reg size roll). I used 'I can't believe it's not butter' and Light Sour Cream on my baked potato. I shouldn't have eaten the whole potato, but I did. We were all too full for the pie, so ended up deciding to wait until the next day to have it (they were staying the night). I had gotten some Pillsbury cinnamon rolls for breakfast Saturday morning (I should have not done that, but I like to please people!). I had one and a half of the Grands Cinnabon ones. I only intended to have one (9 pts), but it was so good that I got another half...at least I didn't have another whole one I guess. That's where my weekend started going downhill though I asked my sister if they wanted to stay for lunch, so she made some potato soup with half and half and butter, among other things, in it. I had a bowl of that and put cheese and bacon pieces and sour cream in it. Then I got out the left over rolls and cinnamon butter and had I think about 3. Then we had the peanut butter pie (11 pts for 1/8). I didn't do too bad for dinner, just had a ham and turkey sandwich and some pringles. But, yesterday was pretty bad. I made nacho hamburger dip which we had for lunch. At least I ate the Light Tostitos with it instead of the regular ones For dinner I made buffalo chicken sandwiches with ranch dressing. Oh, and I ate two more pieces of peanut butter pie yesterday

I hate feeling guilty like this. Hopefully I'll remember this feeling next time. I intended to get up and exercise today and be really good points wise. Well, I didn't exercise. I got busy doing other stuff and it started getting late and I was making excuses for myself...."it's that TOM and I feel blah", "it's so cold, I just want to take a hot shower and put warm pj's on". I am a mess!

 

[hockeygirl]

You are off to a great start!! Always remember that you are going to have good weeks and not so good weeks. Forget the weekend and go from there. Always remember that you can't dwell on the days that didn't go so well, you are off to a great start and you can definetely do this!!! I look forward to reading your journal!!

 

[DisDee]

A belated welcome to you! You're off to a great start, so just forget the weekend, and welcome each new day. We can't be perfect all the time! Much success to you on your healthy lifestyle journey! Denise

 

[CaroleD]

Don't feel guilty. Tomorrow is another day. Remember your goal. You can do this!

 

[Marshmelo]

Thank you SO much everyone for reading my journal and posting your comments of support...it really helps

I weighed in on Thursday and I stayed the same this week, but I'm happy with that....as you all read about my tough week and slip ups. I had exercised the three days before weighing in, so I guess that probably helped. I hope to have a good week and reach my 10 lb loss next week! That means I only have to lose half a pound to do that and I know I can at LEAST do that. I'm off to a good start this week. I have been counting my points and exercising. DH and I are getting ready to go to an Italian restaurant for dinner. I know I will probably use all my flex points, but I'm sure it will be worth it!

 

[Marshmelo]

I maintained AGAIN this week. I suppose that's better than gaining. I take full responsibility though. I knew it wasn't going to be good. I didn't journal a few days, though I didn't go totally wild, and I didn't exercise except for a couple days because I had a bad pain in my side/abdomen which I think was a pulled muscle or something. It gradually went away, but kept me from even moving much most of the week because it hurt so bad. Hopefully I will be able to get that .5 off this week so I can make it to 10 lbs. It's going to be a challenge though. I've already used all but a few flex points...I had a Paczki and some (well, a lot) Roselyn Tea Cookies and Taco Bell yesterday which took up most of my flex points for the week. My cousin has a birthday party on Sunday and I won't be able to have any cake and ice cream DH wants to go out to eat at an Italian place on Sunday as well. Hopefully I can find something semi-healthy to eat (though it won't be what I really WANT). Maybe the key is exercise, exercise, exercise