Day 76 0 Cheese, Cheese, and Cheese

Well, I am in America's Dairyland and we have taken full advantage. Definitely not having an on plan week this week. It is pretty bad but hopefully all the walking will help. I did weight myself last Friday morning and hadn't gained anything so my plan of maintaining while on the road is working. Now, I will in town for several weeks (until December minus one week) after vacation so that should help tremendously with the actual loss part...the maintain I seem to have down.

Anyway, I will not be able to weigh in on Sunday but will on Monday....I hope the damage is not too bad. It is hard to find anything healthy when you have two places (sometimes just one) to choose from.....

Day 70- Improvements?

This week I have really stayed on the WW plan. I think that signing up for the online tracking and website was probably a good move for me. I never thought that I would be the type who would need that website to lose weight. The last time I did WW I just did it on my own using an excel spreadsheet, but for some reason this time I needed to sign up.

Another development is that I actually exercised twice this week. I know, I know....I really need to do it more often but it just hasn't happened in the last few weeks. After doing the exercise I realized that I really like how I feel when I am done and I need to do it more often.

I also worked on my travel schedule for work and it looks like after this week of vacation I will only be out of town one week between now and December. I think that this will go a long way in helping me to get a good start on my weight loss. I truly think that I can maintain on the road if I could just lose the weight.

Also, since I wasn't able to weigh in last week, won't be home this Sunday or next Sunday, I am going to weigh in this Friday, just to check the progress. I hope that flying will not skew it...we shall see.

Day 68

Yesterday was supposed to be my weigh in day but since I am in Atlanta with no scale, you will have to wait. The bad part is that I will not be in town this Sunday with my scale or next Sunday either. That makes it a little hard for me to know how I am doing. Since I signed up for the WW website again I feel like I am tracking better and hope that will help me to lose even if I can't weigh myself. Maybe I will be really surprised when I get back from vacation. Wouldn't that be nice?

The thing that I am enjoying the most about my WW online thing is that it works on my blackberry so I can look up points anytime. Lord knows that I always have that with me so hopefully this will help me even more and I can really stick with it for a few months. I really think that if I could just lose that I would be able to maintain because I feel like I have gotten that part of being out of town down.

Day 63

I have struggled this week. I already know I need to just suck it up and be good but I just find it so hard lately. I decided that I should go ahead and sign up for the WW website. They have a get one month free thing right now and I did well the last time I actually signed up for it. The thing is, since I have been eating healthier, I haven't gained anything and I have at least maintained (and lost a little) so I am thinking that if I can just jump start it and lose a bit then I will be able to maintain after that. Here is to hoping. I haven't really used up all my points for the week but I am not feeling like I am doing a good job on the road this week at all (though still eating lots of salads and stuff to get my veggies in).

Day 61- 1.4 down

Yay! I weighed in yesterday and was not sure I would be down. I ate within my points all week (stats later, I am on my bb) but when I did a couple of sneak peak weigh ins the scale had not moved so I wasn't super confident. I was glad to be done with the plateau and/or gains (at least I hope). The next few weeks will be hard because I am on the road all three weeks. This week I am sort of on my own (or can at least make excuses to be) next week I am in Atlanta and not really "on the road" so as long as I can be careful when meeting friends, I should be good. The third week is a different story and is vacation! I am just going to have a goal of not gaining anything on that trip :-)

More later but right now I am going to nap on the plane. I had to get up at 3:45am today. Yuck!

Day 57 - Ode to Brita Filter

How I love thee!! It makes the yucky water taste perfect and I am drinking away. So happy to have water back in the routine. The only complaint I have is that the lid doesn't stay on the pitcher too well...anyone else with that problem? Did I get a defective one?

I have been really good with my points this week and have barely used any of the extra ones...that is really good for me since last week I used twice as many as you get. I did step on the scale this morning for a peak and it wasn't any different but maybe that will change by the official weigh in date. Out of town for the next two weeks so I need to make sure to stay on track!


Here are my stats for Sunday:
Daily pts: 21/21 (remained counted in weekly pts used up)
Activity pts: 0
Weekly pts used up (running total):0/35
Veggies: 2/5
Milk: 2/2
Water: 8/8

Here are my stats for Monday:
Daily pts: 23/21 (remained counted in weekly pts used up)
Activity pts: 5
Weekly pts used up (running total):2/35
Veggies: 1/5
Milk: 2/2
Water: 5/8

Here are my stats for Tuesday:
Daily pts: 26/21 (remained counted in weekly pts used up)
Activity pts: 5
Weekly pts used up (running total):7/35
Veggies: 1/5
Milk: 2/2
Water: 5/8

Day 55- Weigh In Day

I weighed in this morning and have relost the few pounds I had gained in the last few weeks. That was good news. I sort of wish that I had lost some more but I will take a loss and then today is the start of a new week. I went over my points last week by 35.5 pts which is almost a whole extra week's worth of points. That isn't good but it is still better than in other weeks.

I decided yesterday that I was going to try to plan out my meals for the week somewhat. I went to the grocery store and shopped all at once instead of going a few days a week. I thought that maybe I would try to plan out what we would have a few nights this week so it would be easier to stay in my points. I also bought some stuff for me for lunch during the week that is low in points. The one problem that I ran into is that the grocery store (at least the one closest to use) is already really low on vegetables that are fresh. No green beans or snap peas or a few other things that I was going to buy. That is a bit disappointing but I am hoping it is just that Kroger and I will be able to find some at another Kroger because I haven't done that well with fruits and veggies the last few days.




Here are my stats for Thursday:
Daily pts: 31/21 (remainer counted in weekly pts used up)
Activity pts: 0
Weekly pts used up (running total): 37/35
Veggies: 4/5
Milk: 2/2
Water: 8/8

Here are my stats for Friday:
Daily pts:44/21 (remainer counted in weekly pts used up)
Activity pts: 0
Weekly pts used up (running total): 58/35
Veggies: 2/5
Milk: 2/2
Water: 4/8

Here are my stats for Saturday:
Daily pts: 33.5/21 (remained counted in weekly pts used up)
Activity pts: 0
Weekly pts used up (running total): 70.5/35
Veggies: 0/5
Milk: 1/2
Water: 8/8