Keeping On Keeping On

Well...I'm still at it!  Been increasing my walking...and last night, even ran/jog some of the route!  That is huge for me!  Didn't matter that my inspiration was due to it being nearly dark out side and I was crossing 2 dam's where snakes are known to come crawling up onto the asphalt to absorb some of the sun's heat at nightfall!  It was lighter when I crossed them the first time and then to recross them it was almost pure dark...except for the full moon!  (Which by the way, was shear amazing...tangerine colored....very inspiring!)  I walked about 3.5 miles yesterday and today I have walked 2.5 miles already.  I'm am seriously trying to see how much I can lose this week on WW.  I did go way over my daily points yesterday but still have the weekly points I can dip into.  3lbs would be super duper...5 lbs would be magical...but I will settle for 2!

Yes, I have lofty goals...always have.  I strive to be above average.  My goal.  Sometimes I fail, so I just get back up and try again.  It's me.  

Guess that is not a bad way to be.  Kinda like as a Christian and trying to walk the "Christian Walk".  We stumble, we fall, but God is the God of second chances.  So off we go again....trying to get it right.  God is so good to us!

This weight loss thing is going well.  13lbs in 7 weeks may seem slow...it does to me.  But it sure feels good I must say!  I even bought some new jean Capri's in a smaller size this week.  Now that was good.  I can see it on my body everyday.  No one else may see it yet, but I do.  I love it.  

My goal is to get addicted to exercise again.  I was a few years ago and loved it!  I couldn't go to bed at night if I hadn't walked.  My brain just wouldn't allow it.  I had many a 10:00pm walks that year.   We all have addictions to something, might as well be to something good!  AGREED???!

Well, gonna get home and change clothes.  Rest a little first and then maybe log a few miles....yeah...that sounds like a plan...now let's just see if I do it!

Sue Ellen

Whew!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

I had a "killer" day yesterday. Started out with our AC still broken and it staying between 84-89 degrees upstairs in our bedroom.

Then took hubby to MD about an hour away to schedule surgery on his foot from an old injury, then home long enough to grab my stuff and head out the door to get my hair did!

Then from there to Fayetteville...another hour, to be with my daguhter for her school open house. It is tradition that I help her out the first week of school sometime, and this was the only time I was available. I loved it! Meeting her children and seeing her classroom! She is amazing. Anyway, then left and went to her current house and ate and then to her new house to see the renovations in progress...then hours and 15 minutes back home. Got in around 9:45 about the time my hubby was coming in from a Deacon's meeting at church and he was starved! So fixed him a little something to eat, sat and talked a bout 20 minutes and then I crashed! Got up 3 times during the night and finally decided I couldn't sleep in the heat so I went downstairs to the guest room....again! I'm tired this morning! But ready for 4 meetings today! ttyl!

LATER......


Well, I survived today...went to WW Weigh In tonight...and....LOSS 2.6!!! Whoopie!!!  Met my goal for this week.  7.4 lbs to go for next 4 weeks!


YEA!

GOAL: 5 Weeks = -10

OK...today is 5 weeks away from a "Sisters Week to Hilton Head Island". We went together last year for the first time and had a blast just being together. On one particular day, we sat on a swing near the beach and a passerby offered to snap a picture of us...we were thrilled...that is until we saw it! YIKES! What happened to us! Our egos were deflated and we declared that next year, we would go back, sit on that same bench and reshoot the picture.




Well, we had a year to do this transformation. We have talked about it, dreamed about it, discussed about it ...but haven't done it! So, about 2 months ago, we started. Different diet plans, but nonetheless, trying. So now we have 5 weeks until that great week and I find myself slipping. I have lost 11 lbs, but am slipping on my diet. So I have decided that I will blog daily to make myself be even more accountable.

I chose to follow Weight Watchers.



Today, I have had my daily points: 21. Yea!






Then I walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes...FAST!




Today, I feel good about my choices. Not the most active day in my life, but not a total couch potato either!



I have succeeded today!

time is passing....

Well,  it has been a while since I last posted.   A month or so to be exact.  I have been super busy with "stuff".  But I think the most exciting, positive thing I have done is lose some weight! Yea Me!!! I was inspired by a fellow blogger Beth in NC.  She is been heading toward her Destiny and I asked her once how she was doing this and she said WW.  Tried and true....just WW.

I was intrigued.  I have been a Weight Watcher member many times.  Yes, plural.  I have NEVER had success on it no matter what year I did it.  Mainly...b/c of my lack of following it.  It was too restrictive for me and much too slow.  I want instant results.  Seriously. I expect no less than 5-10 lbs a week.  Sad I know.

I had been getting emails from the last time I joined a few years ago.  Usually I deleted them without reading.  But I was "pondering" what diet plan I would comply to and decided to give it some thought.  Beth said she was on the Core Plan from WW.  I had never done the Core Plan and wondered if maybe that was the ticket for me.  When I researched the site, there was no option for the Core Plan. Hmmm....instead, there was the Momentum Plan.  So I made the decision.

I KNOW me well.  I'm visual.  I'm sneaky.  I cheat.  I'm non-compliant in the long range of things.  So the first thing was to go to a meeting + join on-line and use the tools.  I need the accountability to go face-to-face and weigh in...even as much as I hate it.  I need to "sit" through the meeting....even if just to hear what is being said or seeing someone reach their goal.   So that is what I've done.

It has been 7 weeks now.  The last 3 have been "ify" at best.  Which means I have eaten my daily points plus all my extra weekly points.  But that is ok...and considered OP in the weekly realm. 

I've lost 11 lbs.  My beautiful daughter, (see picutre at right), after my 1st week and losing only 3 lbs., said, "Go by Food Lion, go to the meat section, and look at 3 lbs of meat.   I was stunned!!!  That has been my routine each week now.  It gives me a visual.  Big time!!!  I picked up hamburger packets...All  11 lbs of it....it's heavy and a lot of mass!!!  WOW!!!  Even when I lost .2 of a lb.  I went through the same exercise and looked at the big picture.

Now, I can FEEL the loss.  My clothes fit great...meaning that they are loose or no longer cutting me in half.  I love it!

Oh, don't get me wrong. I have a long way to go...I don't even know my goal yet.  But that's ok.  I'm eating lots, enjoying the new feeling of ME again, and living the plan.  And, by the way, the Momentum Plan is amazing.  You can eat ANYTHING you want....just count it!  "If you bit it...write it"!  Everyone that I have seen reach their goal says you must write it down!!!  Otherwise, you forget and the extras add up!

Can't wait to show you the end result!

Sue