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Well I’ve finished my day with 1 point to spare. This is much better than what I ended up with yesterday. I really need to figure out what fills me up though because I find myself still a little hungry.

Today’s food:

Breakfast – Scrambled egg whites, bell peppers & a little chicken breast with a tiny corner of a cheese slice, sourdough toast.

Snack #1 – Peach smoothie (frozen peaches, greek yogurt, spenda and a half serving of Designer wey.

Lunch – Turkey & cheese sandwich w/ hummus spread, cottage cheese double and baby carrots

Snack #2 – 100 calorie brownie bites pack

Dinner – Chicken fajitas with only 1 flour tortilla and 3 onion rings

This really doesn’t seem like a lot of food to me at all. I’m worried that I’m not eating enough but I’ve stayed within points and have gotten my veggies, protein and dairy in. Now I need to go hunt me down a 1 point snack that i can have closer to bedtime that will keep me from being starved in the morning.

I’d love to hear any advice from anyone on Weight Watchers as to what your daily food looks like.

When I started this weight loss journey I had decided that counting calories was what i was going to do. I struggled with the math. Even doing the counting on an iPhone app was hard for me to do. The app didn’t have the foods I was eating and all this crap just started to frustrate me.

I decided after thinking long and hard about it that joining Weight Watchers was what I needed to do. I didn’t join the meetings I am doing the online. I would love the support of a meeting but they’re all at churches and I am NOT a church goer. Last time I tried WW I found that everyone who went to the meetings was and it was pretty uncomfortable for me.

So how’d I do today? Not good.

I didn’t eat breakfast because the electricity went out at my place.

Lunch was 2 Jack in the Box Tacos and a small fries

Happy hour with mom I had 2 veggie taquitos and 3 glasses of wine.

I was hungry when dinnertime rolled around and ate 2 Del Taco Burritos.

Yeah I know that this is NOT good. The skipping breakfast and the eating out all day was horrible. It couldn’t be avoided given the electricity situation. I went 4 points over my daily points (taking a few from the weekly extras.) I did however gain 3 activity points from all the walking I did today. I walked for a combined 30 minutes at a pretty brisk pace, which is what you tend to do when catching buses!

Tomorrow will be better as long as everything in the fridge is still good.

Today’s question!

How do you handle happy hours?

Honestly?

I got sick, fell off and never got back on. I just started tracking on LoseIt! again earlier this week and went to the gym after work last week. I don’t know what happened. It’s the same thing that happens each time. But, this time I’m going to take the advice of all my fellow shrinkers and put that BS behind me.

So here’s the deal. I’ve gained back all of the weight I lost. I have slipped back into my old eating habits and got lazy. So I’m going to turn each one of these things around.

I will be hitting the gym at least 3 times a week. I will be tracking my intake on my iPhone and I will not give up!

I’m going to try an experiment that I’ve seen on other blogs as well. I am going to post here what I ate each day for a week. This is going to include when I’m with friends and at parties since it’s the 4th of July weekend coming up. Am i nervous? Hell yes! But I know I can do it.  I need to do it as my first step back to holding myself accountable. At the end of the week I will re-evaluate how I feel about doing the food blogging and see if i want to continue.

Another thing I am considering is joining Weight Watchers online. I’d love to hear some thoughts from anyone who is or has been on it.

Until next time (which will be a shorter next time!)

I’m back up to 245 this week and I am OK with it. I expected a gain with the TOM starting soon and the weird almost sick but not feeling I have had as of late.

I do notice myself slipping back into old habits so I am starting fresh. I brought an apple and a string cheese to snack on at break instead of the hot pocket i had been bringing.

I’ve also been eating a lot of fast food for breakfast because I am waking up late. I feel tired and drained and it’s directly linked to what I’m putting into the body so I am going to be eating oatmeal even if it’s hot in the house (we’re warming up here in Cali, not so much hot cereal weather at all.)

I am going to the gym BEFORE work since I don’t have time after with school. I am not waiting until I find an appropriate gym bag like I tried to tell myself today. That’s an EXCUSE and I really don’t like excuses.

I just wanted to give a lil update. I am still reading all of your blogs. I may not comment as much lately (it’s FINALS TIME!) but I am still reading. THank you for all of the wonderful comments you’ve been leaving me. They mean so much!

I didn’t weigh today but I am still noticing that I’m feeling healthier. I notice my clothes fitting looser and my stomach not being able to handle large quantities of food anymore. This is good.

After the events and upsets of the past couple weeks I decided to take all of your advice. I am just getting back to it. Yes I screwed up! It is done and over with. I am no longer sick and am ready to get back to the gym.

I haven’t been tracking my food regularly and i need to get back on that. So, my question for the day is how do you track things you’re unsure of? An example is this weekend I stayed with some of my friends who are Vegan. They made me dinner or we went out to eat. How the heck do you count a Vegan philly sandwich? It had dairy free cheese, meatless (but very meatlike) beef stuff then the bread peppers and onions. I know I shouldn’t count it like a real philly because the meat substitutes have less calories in them and aren’t as greasy as the meat used to make a meat filled philly.

What are your thoughts?

Right now I am trying to figure out how being sick affected my efforts to lose weight. Before i got sick I was really excited about getting healthy. I was going to the gym, eating healthy portions (not always healthy food but my portion size was healthy,) and doing things that would put me in a place where it would be easy to lose the weight.

I was even losing!

Forward to now where I haven’t been doing so hot. Not tracking my food, eating large portions and haven’t been to the gym yesterday OR today.

What clicked off in my head when I was sick to make me go back to what I was doing before I started this? I am truly at a loss. At first I thought it was that i wanted to eat and get my strength back after not eating hardly anything while sick. Well, that’s over now so now why? I went camping. OK that’s done too now what? I spent most of my money on this camping trip and can’t afford healthy food. YEah but i could find SOMETHING.

I just don’t know how to get motivated again.

So I’m asking for all of your healthy wisdom right now. How the heck do you get back on after something like what I’ve been through? How do you manage when you realize you’ve gained all of your weight back? How do you just get back to it and not dwell on the fact that you were 10 pounds lighter a week ago?

Back up to 246

I have no words right now. I know I was sick but before that I was at 242. I got better, went camping and now I’m back to where I started.

I was in tears this morning when I got on the scale. I got off and got back on 3 times to make sure that was right. How is this POSSIBLE? I knew I’d gain some weight back after being sick. I know I didn’t go to the gym while I was sick but I did hike and run around at the campsite.

This weekend was pretty healthy actually as i ate mostly Vegetarian/Vegan foods while camping. When I did eat at a restaurant on the road it was grilled chicken fajita or something and I didn’t even use all of the sour cream etc.

I don’t want to give up but this is more discouragement than I have ever felt. I feel like I totally did everything for nothing. I don’t normally get this emotional over a gain. I get a bit ticked, then I get over it and move on. This one though, no this is serious.

So I’m hitting the gym tomorrow. I can use the bike even though I have an effed up ankle. I think the eliptical will be put to use as well since I won’t put too much strain on the ankle. I fell right before leaving for camping and twisted my ankle pretty good. Doesn’t hurt much anymore but is still swollen.

I can’t think of a question for the day. I’m off to do homework and make some jewelry.

I’m sitting at my desk finishing off a cup of Throat Care tea while I write this quick update. Yes, I’m still alive and will be replying to comments most likely Sunday.  I have been dealing with  THE COLD OF DOOM this week since Tuesday. This has derailed any gym plans, tracking meals etc. I haven’t eaten more than a can of soup in 2 days it’s been so bad. Tonight was the first full meal I ate and it was a HUGE grilled chicken sandwich and french fries. No, this wasn’t the best choice and I know it but at the time I was SO HUNGRY I couldn’t stop myself.

I have been off work, not blogging and trying to get healthy so I can attend a friend’s costume birthday party tomorrow. If I do go i will not be in my skimpy Goddess costume like I had planned.

I am worried about weigh day on Monday because I don’t even know if i should count it this time around. I mean if i did lose weight it was from being sick. That could result in what would look like a huge gain the next week if I record it. What are your thoughts?

I want to thank you all for your support and kind words via Twitter and my blog. You all are helping me through this more than you could imagine. This community is so supportive it makes me want to keep going even when I’m all emo and dealing with the COLD OF DOOM.

I’ll be back on Monday with more recipes and more randomness. Hopefully I’ll be back at the gym too! I have a challenge to meet after all!

Well I am back up to 245 and for the life of me I cannot figure out why!

I stayed within my calories except Saturday and last tuesday. I worked out 3 days last week burning over 200 calories. I ate fruits and veggies instead of processed foods for the most part. I was GOOD!

I measured myself and no inches have been lost either. I want to blame it on my TOM but i know that’s not the case. I know that I shouldn’t have THAT much water weight a day and a half after it goes away.  The only thing I can figure is Saturday night REALLY effed up my whole week.

I’ve been super discouraged since weighing myself today. I feel like everything I am going through is for nothing. This is exactly the point I always get to in my weight loss where I say ëff this it’s not working.” I need to get past it. I need to keep going but it’s so hard when results just aren’t happening.

The problem is I know that I shouldn’t let the number on the scale tell me weather I should keep going. I know that just because I am not seeing results that doesn’t mean I’m not healthier. But when you weigh yourself and see a gain, then measure yourself and see you’ve not lost anything that way either, what are you supposed to do?

I’m sure many of you have gone through this and I’m wondering how you deal? Comment and let me know!

I’ll be back tomorrow with a better and much more uplifting (or at least less whiny) post.

I was going to make this a wordless Wednesday post but I can’t shut up long enough to do that. So here’s what I did today

Yep that’s right! The coolest thing ever though? If I hadn’t had to go catch my ride I would have done that same thing for another 45 minutes! It’s the random hill setting and i did it on level 7!!! The calorie burn was decent but I’m going to try a different setting to see if that makes a difference tomorrow.

I’m also going to jump on a treadmill and pray that I don’t fall off!

So what do you like to do at the gym?