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Well, I am off to weigh in tonight! I don't want to go, but I will anyways! I know I will gain, but I am not sure how much. I could get on my scale at home, but sometimes it is right and sometimes it is wrong. Last night I put in a good work out at the gym. I did 33 min on the bike at level 11, 15 minutes on the elliptical at level 12 and a 42 minute cardio kickboxing class. I hate the first few days of getting back to my routine after I had a few bad eating days. I am always thinking, while I am at the gym, why am I even here? There is no point, I am going to gain anyways and all the food I ate will cancel out my work out! But I can not let that get to me and I didn't. If I did I never would have started to work out and eat well to begin with and I would still be 217lbs!
So, yesterday was a fresh start and a new plan. I am going to try and focus on eating healthy while eating my points and not just eating my points. I remember reading on the weight watchers forum one time a woman was complaining that weight watchers did not work because she ate her 30 points a day and nothing more and was not losing…. Someone asked her what she was eating for her points and she said she ate a bag of Oreos every day! Now that is the extreme and no I don't eat all my points in cookies, but I find I waste a lot of points on unnecessary stuff that does not much nutritional value. For example, ketchup, anything tastes good with ketchup on it! I found myself sitting down to a nice healthy meal and then covering it in ketchup! Ketchup is no points if you only have a little, but I am talking tons of Ketchup and it is mostly sugar. So last night I made an omelet with 1 egg and 2 whites and had some veggies with cheese sauce (low fat, frozen in a bag and delish, I will check what they are and put them on here!), cut up tomatoes, canned mushrooms fried in non fat cooking spray. Well normally everything in this meal would have been covered in Ketchup (except the veggies with cheese) and then more ketchup. But last night I tried putting 2 triangle of the Low Fat Laughing Cow Cheese (in little pieces) in the eggs before I cooked them and then made an omelet and topped it with the tomatoes and mushrooms and ate it with the veggies, with no Ketchup! Just a little pepper, because I cut salt out of my diet over a year ago. It was delicious!!! It looks like it is on the menu again tonight! This is a good step!
I am actually starting to feel better mood wise. I started taking more vitamins! I take a multi vitamin plus B6, Calcium, Magnesium, and Vitamin E. Apparently all these vitamins can help with a slight case of the winter blues. I feel better already. I don't care if it is a placebo affect, I feel better!
I wish the weather was better here! I always seem to get the running bug around this time of year, but the treadmill is sickening, even with my trusty Lyra MP3 player! I have completed the Couch 2 5K program about 4 times now. For those of you who have never heard of the Couch 2 5k (C25K), it is a 10 week program on coolrunning.com that begins with sets of running and walking until you work your way up to 30 minutes of running. I usually get up to about 40 minutes of solid running and then I get sick of it and try something else for cardio. I love running but any cardio starts to get boring after a while! The only problem I find is that in the first few weeks you do more walking that running and I want a harder work out than that, but I do not want to push myself to an injury. Maybe after Christmas I will start again or even while I am away at my in-laws for Christmas! Not likely during Christmas but it was a good thought!
Oh ya, I started reading some more new journals, these girls visited my site and posted on my guestbook, thanks girls! Go to my links page to check them out at the bottom of the list with the word "New" beside them : Sue and Michelle. Sorry I have not posted on anyones journal in a wee while. I have been a busy girl! I'll be back soon!
Well it looks like that huge snow storm that was going to stop me from going to weigh in, is not going to happen, so I am off to face the music!
10 more days and I am off for Holidays!!! (woops I must have miscounted yesterday!)
Good night!
Wendy
I had a bad weekend for eating. I have not had a weekend like that in a long time. I refuse to feel guilty though. I decided to have a weekend off from counting my points. Sometimes it is just nice to not have to ay no to every little thing that people offer me or to buy that new chocolate bar that has been calling my name since it came out! So, I will gain this week, I am not sure how much but it will be a gain. But I got it out of my system. I have to do this every now and then so I do not feel deprived. It does get kind of sickening having to say no to every thing that people offer or to myself when I would like to try something new that I know I should not have. So, this weekend I had some of my favorite foods and tried some new ones. I ate way too much and most of it made me feel sick. I also like to resort to my old ways every now and then for a few days to remind myself how crappy it makes me feel and how much better I feel when I am eating well.
I do feel a little wee bit guilty and angry with myself, but mostly because I do not want to disappoint all the people who read my journal and I realize that I will now have what ever weight I gained to loss on top of my few pound left to get to my Christmas goal. But I was really not in the mood this weekend to be focusing on eating healthy and I am back on track today and am off to the gym tonight for a good work out! I am back on track until Christmas….. Last week my wws leader said that over Christmas you have three options; you can gain, stay the same or loose. That is what it all boils down to. My first thought was well I guess I will gain like I did last year! Last year in 2 weeks I gained 6.5 pounds and then it took me until March to lose them! Then I go to thinking that maybe I would like to lose over Christmas which I had in my head for a few days and then decided that I am setting myself up for failure there! My leader also said that you should still enjoy yourself and not go around moping and saying no to every little treat that crosses your path! So my plan is, now that I got this weekend out of my system, to try and maintain or only gain a few pounds. From now until Christmas I will try and loose as much as I can by staying on program and doing lots of exercise and then I will allow myself complete freedom Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Christmas Day #2 (27Dec) and New years eve. During these days I will try and get in as much exercise as possible but I will not be going to the gym the week of the 24th to the 1st. We will be away most of that week, so I will bring my weights and my running shoes with me but I am not promising anything! I can have an amazing week where I eat nothing but my points, but if I do not go to the gym I gain a lot! Last year I pulled my back and could not work out for a week but I ate only points and I gained 3 pounds!!! My body is so used to exercise now!
Is it just me or does anyone else experience a bad case of the blahs this time of year? I usually take most of my holidays around Christmas because I find this time of year I feel kind of  sad and blah and like I need a break. I spend my entire month of December counting down the days until I am on holidays. 10 days and counting! I am tired….. I am tired of working all the time, tired of working out 5 hours a week, tired of cleaning my apartment, etc… I am just tired! I find I always get like this around this time of year. It must be the winter blues everyone speaks of! But I always feel better in the New Year!
Anyways enough of my whining! Don't get me wrong, I also love this time of year! I love Christmas!! I love the parties and shopping, the lights, the spirit of Christmas and spending time with family and friends! I hate to see Christmas end!
Speaking of Christmas I am running out of time to do my shopping. I bought Trevor's gift this weekend and he is going to love it!! I can't say on here what it is because he takes a notion to read this! At least I have that done now, but I still have most of my family left to do! I guess that is what this weekend will consist of Christmas shopping and two Christmas parties!
Alrighty then, I have a busy day ahead of me so I best get it started! I hope everyone had a better on program weekend than me! It is Monday and I am off to a fresh start and it is a beautiful sunny day! I feel good today!
Take Care,
Wendy
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