Joined Weight Watchers

I joined Weight Watchers Monday. I decided to go back to Weight Watchers so that I can be more in control of my eating. So far I am doing great. I have lost 4 pounds since my weigh in on Monday! I am excited about going to the next meeting for weigh in this coming Monday. I WANT TO BE A WEIGHT WATCHER LIFETIME MEMBER!!!

September Update

Things are still going fine. I am not losing as quickly as I would like, but I have gone down about 2 pounds. That's a lot better than going up. I am seriously considering joining weight watchers again now that R.J. is old enough to be quiet in the meetings. I think that may help me to stay more motivated. The school nurse has been checking my blood pressure every week for me and today finally it was down. It wasn't perfect, but it was a lot better than it has been.

A good day

Today was a good day. I stayed focused and reminded myself of my goals. Sometimes I have fleeting moments where I think "what's the point" and that I will never make my goal, but I have to push those thoughts out of my mind. I only have this one life to live and I need to make it the best possible and as long as I am so overweight I am not making the most of my life. I cannot enjoy so many things because of my weight...I would love to go to the beach or go out dancing, but I just can't when I feel so self-conscious. Maybe be this time next year I can go out dancing for my 32nd birthday. By the way, I will be 31 on Sunday! Ugh! I wish I could hit the rewind button to 29 and just push pause for a while.

Back to work and back on track!

Things are so much easier when I am at school working with no food to tempt me except cafeteria food (I am not that desperate yet). Today was a good day. I had graduate class tonight so I am just getting home and I am tired! I am hoping to motivate myself to do some walking tomorrow. I really, really want to lose at least 20 pounds by Christmas!!! That is my fist mini-goal which feels a lot more attainable than losing the total 108 that I want to lose all together. GOALS + FOCUS = SUCCESS

Labor Day Holiday

Back to work tomorrow... The Holiday weekend went by really fast and now I don't have another work holiday until my week off at Thanksgiving. I love my holidays, but they don't help my diet much because I eat too much at family get togethers and eat too much when I am home more. I hope I haven't done much damage this weekend. Tomorrow I will be back to no cheating whatsoever. I don't think it hurts to have free day here and and there, but the trick is not to let a free day turn into a free month....that's what happened this summer! I hope to be able to report a loss next week. I really want to lose at least 20 more pounds before Christmas and hopefully get below 200 by Spring Break.

Back online...computer problems solved

I haven't been online much lately since my computer decided it was going to go crazy. I called Gateway this week and they Fedexed me a restore disk and now I am up and running again. I missed being online! I have been watching what I eat the past month and have lost all the weight I gained May-July. I am now back to 244, which was my lowest weight of the year. Now, I would really like to break out of the 240's soon! Maybe I will get below 240 by my birthday, which is Sept. 10. I will be 31 this year. I just I really am in my 30's now...ugh! Where did my twenties go? They went so fast. Much of my 20's I was in college and working 2 and sometimes 3 jobs trying to make ends meet. I guess that's why they went so fast. Now I am trying to slow down and enjoy life because I don't want to wake up in what seems like a few day and wonder where my 30's went! I am going to try to committ myself to posting here at least 2-3 times a week because it really does help with my accountability and motivation. There are just 18-19 more weeks of this year and I want to see a significant difference between my last year's starting picture and this New Year's. I am down 22 pounds now and I would like to be down at least another 22 by then and maybe even more!!!