There is less of me today...

I woke up this morning feeling a rumble in my tummy, and a little ache.  My legs ache too, and my shoulders.

I crawled out of bed, went to the bathroom, then right back to my bedroom where I pulled my scale out from under the dresser, where it stays, waiting for me to unveil it every morning.

I've been weighing myself EVERY morning.  It lets me know when I get stuck and need to work a little harder, or when that number starts climbing and I need to work a LOT harder.

For a couple of weeks I was stuck on a plateau that kept me between 219 and 220.  No higher but no lower either.  Then, after the time change, I added a walk after supper every day to my routine and it started going down again.

For two days that scale has told me 216, and I was determined yesterday to bring it down to 215 by this morning.

I guzzled water.  I didn't eat a brownie even though I REALLY wanted to.  I walked 1/2 a mile, did 30 mintues  of aerobic games on the wii fit, and did 3 minutes on my gazelle.  (That machine kicks my tush...but that is fodder for a different post)

This morning when I stepped on that scale with my grumbly tumbly It didn't give me the 215 I had hoped for.

No, it gave me a 214.0

TWO MORE POUNDS!!!

And to make it even more astounding, I had a little red visitor, lets call him TOM shall we, show up this morning, and that usually weighs me 5 pounds heavy.  So maybe a week from now I'll suddenly drop 5 pound.

But as of right now I am 16 pounds lighter than I was at the start of the year.

As usual, my announcement of this to my husband was met with little to no response, but thats okay, I know my internet family is out there cheering me on.

Monday Weigh In - This Weeks Goals

Weighed in at 219 this morning!

This weeks goals:

1.  Drink no less than 36 oz of water a day.
2.  Go for a walk every day.

THIS MONTHS WEIGHT GOAL:

To be 199 by the end of the month.

Grocery Day and Future Plans

The good news is that I am still shed of that entire bag of taters.

The bad news is that I've not lost any more.  I keep dipping down to 219, then back up to 220.

This morning was 219 again.  I have a feeling (due to a junk food binge tonight) that it will be right back to 220, maybe even 221.  (I ate a LOT of pringles)

Today was grocery day, and I shopped pretty good for myself.  Lots of yogurt.  Some cottage cheese.  Some fruit.  Canned beans and veggies.  Canned tuna.

I did buy a pack of sandwich meat, which was bad, and some peperoni, also bad.  Hubby slipped in a can of my favorite pringles (honey mustard) probably to keep me out of his, and I've eaten at least half the can tonight.

Even though I weigh myself in every day, I think I need to set a specific weigh in day, which will be Mondays.  Maybe knowing I'm weighing in on Monday will keep me on track over weekends.  Work weekends are not that hard, but home weekends are a challenge.

So, tomorrow I'll weigh in with my "official" weight to start the week.

I'm also going to list my specific goals for the week.

And, the first weigh in of each month I'm going to start sharing a photo of my current progress and body measurements as well as weighing in.

I need to work on vlogs too, but still have no idea what to say in them.  I've always been better at typing than talking.  lol

Motivation....I Lack it

I was very sick yesterday.  Not a pretty kind of sick either, not that any kind of sick is pretty.

But I weighed in this morning at 223.0.

So, while puking my guts up I managed to fain 3 pounds.  Leave it to me.

Weight Loss Vlog?

A friend of mine has put up a vlog entry on youtube, and I told her now that she decided to do it I just HAD to do it as well.  I've toyed around with the idea of a vlog for a while, but never got around to doing one.  I keep finding excuses not to.

I pose a question to you though.

What would you like to see in a diet/weight loss vlog?

Bag of Taters

Go to your grocery store and pick up a 10 pound bag of potatoes.  Hold it in one hand and heft it up and down a few times.  Get a real good feel for it.

Now, strap it to your waist and carry it around with you all day?

You don't want to do that?

Well, I don't either. I don't think anyone in their right mind would.

Now, that 10 pound bag is what I've shed myself of in the past couple of weeks.  That's right, the scale has FINALLY started moving.  I went from dropping a pound every 2 weeks, to droping 1 to 2 pounds a day.

I am a realist.  I realize I'm not going to keep up this amazing poundage outage for very long, and it will probably screech to a halt very soon, but its still an amazing feeling to wake up, step on that scale, and have the number be smaller every day.

10 pounds.  Its amazing.

My gut hates me.  Right now it is growing at me, and I just ate lunch.  It is saying, "Is that ALL? C'mon woman I'm still hungry!"

Now, I've made HUGE steps in changing my diet, mostly in the past 2 weeks.

The next step is making changes in my lifestyle, namely in my exercise.

Right now the weather is PERFECT for getting outdoors and going for a walk.  Walking is good.

BUT, before too my longer its going to be hotter than Satan's Sauna out there and I would really like to have a treadmill before that  happens.

So, who wants to help me FUND MY FITNESS?  Keep eyes peeled to find out how you can help a fat chick out.

Did my belt strech?

I've lost 7 pounds since the start of the year.  Even though no one has yet said to me, "Are you losing weight?" I can notice it on myself when I look in the mirror.  My second chin is receding.  Its a wonderful feeling.

I'm also horribly disappointed because I've ONLY lost 7 pounds since the start of the year.  Once upon a time I could have whipped off 15 pounds by now.   I could never KEEP it off, but I could get it off quick.

Goes to show that it really can be harder to drop the weight as you get older.

Meanwhile, I've had to put another hole in my belt, but I don't seem to have dropped any actual pant sizes.  My size 20's are still the same amount of too small for me even though my 22's are falling off.  And that doesn't seem to make any sense to me at all.