Hello gentle readers,
Since I last saw you I have spent two weeks in a downtown neighborhood in SF, two weeks in Eastern Colorado, two weeks on the East Coast and a weekend in an enchanted forest. (Okay, okay...I was technically in 4 theaters in the Bay Area but I was kind of living in those worlds.) I've been busy with work and lost my motivation to follow the plan. I was doing fine till I had to work on two shows at the same time and I lost time to exercise and cook. Since then I have not really wanted to cook, since I remembered how good food that you don't cook tastes. And also when it has more fat in it than I am used to. I have also gained weight to prove that I have been eating out.
Let's get to the meat of it. I set a goal for myself around my sister's wedding. I realized how close I was and I freaked out. I think part of it had to do with how tired I was. I I've been down this road before. Very successfully loosing some weight, I freak out and then start gaining it again and normally I would keep gaining. This time I freaked out because I was looking at myself in the mirror and went down into the negative thinking place. "Even though I have lost so much weight and feel so much better, people who haven't seen me in a while will not even realize that I have lost any weight. They will just think I am fat." So I gave up. BUT, and this is a big but. I made myself go to Weight Watchers and weigh. I gained a bunch 2 weeks in a row.
And you know what, I didn't beat myself up about it. With the help of my roommate and my friend Leslie, I've bumped up my exercise and this week am tracking again. I lost a little bit this week, but I am so happy that I am going down and not up!! I'm hoping that with more exercise and tracking I can make these two weeks before the wedding super successful. I doubt that I will get to my "wedding goal" before the wedding but at least I'll be back on track.
Last week the topic of the meeting was summer goals and here are mine:
I want to loose 35 lbs total by Labor day.
I want to try a zoomba class and I want to swim a set in a lake.
wish me luck!
That's good! You can't beat yourself up about it. I think that every time you weigh yourself has to be kind of a starting point in a sense, because otherwise it becomes too easy to give up. If you've lost weight or remained where you wanted to be then you can celebrate, but if not then it is the start of a brand new day and looking forward instead of back is the best approach.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget that nature is against you. Our bodies are designed to store and restaurant foods do not help because they are so deceptively full of calories even for things that shouldn't be! I've discovered a great trick for cooking at home when I don't have time. I have a rice cooker/slow cooker combo and I prep whole freezer bags of food and stack those in the freezer. Then when I go out I can just stick on in the slow cooker and turn it on to low and when I get back the meal is ready! You can stuff a lot of veggies into those babies too. And I'm experimenting with freezing the leftovers for future lunches - I'm hoping it will come out tasty. Next I'm going to try making a batch of homemade frozen burritos. Having quick healthy meals is such a life saver.
Good luck! 35 pounds by Labor Day is roughly ~3 pounds a week, right? You can do it! I've been trying to lose 50 pounds before the end of September. I was doing really well, and managed to lose 20 pounds in 8 weeks since starting on May 1, but have been in a bit of a hole for the past few weeks. With 4th of July celebrations and camping, I had a hard time saying no to wine, beer, and carbs. I'm in week 11 now, and I've lost 21 pounds total. Considering I haven't been on the program for the past 3 weeks, I'm really happy that I still managed to lose one pound, because I had expected to gain at least 3.
ReplyDeleteI keep thinking "I'll go back to weigh in again when I lose 5 more pounds" and how I'll have to work really hard to make up for the other weeks, but I've been finding it so, so hard to stay motivated. Good job on sticking to it!
Does September still count as summer? Let's go swimming in the lake!! (you know... after my show opens but before labor day!)
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