Close to reaching first small goal

I lost 4.8 lbs this week! WOO HOO!! I thought I'd be lucky to lose close to 3 lbs, but I nearly lost 5. I'm so relieved to be back on track and losing again.

My first small goal is losing 5% of my body weight, which would be 12.5 lbs. As of today I've lost 12 lbs. I'm hoping to lose that half-pound (and then some) next week. Then I'll focus on my 10% goal.

I bought a box of Fiber One cereal yesterday. I was looking to add more fiber in my diet. I was delighted to find out that 1/2 cup of Fiber One is zero points! 1/2 cup of skim milk is 1 point, so it turned out to be a really good choice for breakfast. And it tastes better than I thought it would. ;)

Back On Track

Tomorrow is weigh-in day and I'm happy to say I'm back on track this week. My home scale is showing loss, so I'm hopeful I'll have a really good morning at meeting tomorrow. If I can squeeze another 1/2 lb off me by tomorrow morning I'll reach my 5% goal, if not, then I'll reach it next week. ;)

Small Gain

After Jamie passed away, my diet flew out the window. For a day I wasn't interested in food, then I couldn't stop eating. And through it all I had stopped tracking. I finally skidded to a stop on Monday, but it was too late to undo the damage. Tuesday morning at weigh-in I showed an 8/10ths gain. Almost a full pound. It was expected, and it could have been worse. I'm not going to beat myself up over it. Tuesday was the start of a brand-new week. A clean slate. I bought a WW 3-month journal and I'm tracking very carefully now, and I'm exercising. Hopefully I'll see a BIG loss next week to make up for this past week's slip-up.

Meanwhile, here's a picture of me on my birthday last month (the big 5-0), posing with flowers a friend had sent me. Since it was taken about a week before joining WW, I'll call this somewhat blurry picture (taken by DH) my "before picture". I'll post another one when I've reached my 10% goal.

Boy I need a haircut! ;D

Lost Some Ground

Our 12-year-old cat was very ill the past two weeks and we had been working with the vet to help her bounce back, but Wednesday saw her take a serious turn for the worse, and Thursday morning she passed away. The stress and sadness from this bumped me off course and I haven't been tracking anything. I've actually been binging a bit. As of Wednesday I was down another 2 pounds (by my home scale) and now I'm 2 pounds up. It's time to stop this backsliding in it's tracks and get moving forward again. Today I'm back tracking again, and hoping I can lose that 2 pounds again before Tuesday morning weigh-in.

Goodbye, Jamie .... we'll miss you.

Tuesday Weigh-in

My sister-in-law & I went to meeting this morning. I lost 3.2 lbs this week and she lost 2.2 lbs. Last week she lost one pound more than I did, and this week I lost one more pound than she did. Now we're even steven. We both have lost 8 pounds so far. ;)

I got my first 5 pound star today. Wheeeeee!!! ;D
I'm now looking forward to getting my 5% star. I need to lose 4 more pounds to reach that goal. My sister-in-law only has 1 more pound to go to reach her 5% goal, so most likely she'll get it next week. If I really buckle down and exercise every day maybe we can reach that goal together.

I got my SIL's monthly pass set up yesterday. She had a migraine, so I got her to help me by phone with the info I needed to get it done. Now that we have passes we can bypass the payment desk and go straight to the scale. No waiting in long lines anymore. I like that. ;)

I was so hungry after meeting that I didn't want to wait to heat up a WW frozen meal (I hate microwaving so I always heat them up in the oven), so we stopped by Subway and picked up a 6-inch sub for each of us. I went with turkey on 9-grain wheat (6 pts) with fat-free honey mustard w/lettuce, tomato and black olives. She went with the turkey/ham w/ American cheese and extra mayo (which equaled the points of her sub!). Can't tell that girl is southern at all. ;) No veggies on her sub because she HATES veggies. I asked her if she was taking a vitamin because she never eats veggies and she said no. *rolling eyes* Next week we'll eat something sensible at my place. I'd love to cram a salad down her, but it would be easier to get my cat to swallow a pill.

We took our subs back to her place to eat, then we had a Smart One's dessert. The new mint chocolate chip sundae. It was really good! I'll have to buy some for myself!

Now I need to exercise it all off.

Lazy Sunday

I got my monthly pass activated, so I'm ready to go for meeting on Tuesday morning. I just need to get my sister-in-law's pass activated. I have to call her and tell her to come over and set it up. Her computer is on the fritz, so she'll have to use mine.

I went to bed earlier last night and slept in longer this morning, but I'm feeling tired and slow today. I had more energy when I got only 4 hours of sleep and woke up early to get to my appointments this past week. Maybe it's all catching up with me today. I don't anticipate doing much of anything except laundry and a quiet read.

It's almost noon here, so I need to figure out something for lunch. I do have some zero and one POINT Progresso soups in the cupboard. Maybe I'll just heat one up. I'm not really hungry, but I need to eat something. Slept through breakfast, so I better get something in me before hunger kicks in and makes me go crazy. ;)