Long time, no post

Wow! It sure has been awhile.

A lot has happened since this year started.

I am no longer employed so I no longer have the option to attend the At Work meetings. I cannot attend regular meetings either for that matter. However….I have been doing Weight Watchers since I was twelve so I really should know what I need to do to lose weight. I have finally figured out that I am just plain lazy!

When I worked I always told myself I did not have the time, and honestly, I did not have the time. But now that I have been home. I have not even tried to exercise. I have WRITTEN it down on my to-do list – but I have not done it yet. :(

The one good thing about not working is that I am eating a lot less fast-food. I have been eating at home now, but DH does not like low-fat food so I have to figure out a way to get low-fat meals on the table without him knowing.

Does anyone have any ideas on some good low-calorie dinner ideas? Something that my DH would not know was low-calorie?

~*~ Happy New Year!! ~*~

I hope you all have a wonderful New Year!

Finally, an update!

I know that I have had a lack of updates to this site (posting and even template wise). That will soon be changing. I have noticed a lot of hits to the blog lately and I am so sorry for the boring content. I had wanted to wait to post once I updated the template but if I did that, I would never get around to posting. Maybe I just did not want to talk about my weight and what I was not doing to lose it. That must be it because I have no problem posting almost daily on my regular blog.

The At-work program that I signed up for has ended. Well this session anyways. I only got to go to two meetings I think, so it really was a waste of money that I don’t have. I ended up being pretty disappointed with the At-work session as it really was not ‘at work’ and I had to drive to get there. If I wanted to drive I could have joined a regular meeting. Since I never had a car on meeting days either we only had one car for the two of us and some days we had none (read this and this to see why), I never got to go. Either that or I was in a work meeting. It was very inconvenient. I decided not to sign up for anymore At-work sessions.

So for right now I am on a hiatus aka back to eating the way I usually do. Money is tight so I don’t have the luxury of buying anything low-calorie. DH will not eat anything low-fat either. So I have to buy what we can both eat.

I had dinner with an old friend the other day. I was surprised to see that She has lost a lot of weight. She says she kind of was following W/W but mostly just eating regular meals and walking and she gave up soda. So I decided I needed to do something. I need to start small so I can reach the goals I set.

I decided not to drink anymore soda. Not even diet soda. So far I am on day #3 of no soda. (YAY! Go ME!) I don’t miss it but I have to remind myself not to go to the vending machine. I have been a bit tired yesterday and today even though I have been drinking tea and coffee. Ummmm maybe I should have weighed myself too before I started. Maybe I will remember the next time I see the scale.

Week #54

I woke up this morning not feeling well enough to go to work. Since I had a project I had to finish I came into work late. I was only at work for 45 minutes when the W/W meeting reminder popped up. Since I had just gotten to work I did not want to get in the car and drive over to the meeting. I did not feel well either. The At-work program is supposed to be convinient but it appears that it is not since I have to drive a few miles away to attend.

This last week was not good for being on program either. It is really hard to follow program when money is tight and the food we can afford is not program friendly. For example, today I ate a cookie leftover from lunch that my boss had delievered yesterday. I also had a cup of coffee and 2 diet sodas....oh and a small bag of pretzels. That's it. No wonder I am starving!

Here's hoping this next week is much better. :)

Week #53

I did not get a chance to make it to the other building for the meeting. This past week has not been good. I did not follow program and I am worried what the scale will say.

Week #52

I had an awesome past week. I am determined to make this session of the program really work for me.

I did not have that much to work with as DH and I have not been grocery shopping but I managed to do okay with what we had and a few items I picked up at the store just for me. DH hates when I buy diet stuff so I just bought a few frozen meals (some for DH too), some salad (he will eat that) and some fruit. Last Sunday we had a friend cook us dinner and I STILL did okay.

Weigh-in for this first week back was today. I lost 3.4 pounds this past week! That is wonderful! I was so afraid that I would be back to only losing .2 as is the norm for me. I hope I can keep this up next week as well.

As is typical with me and weigh-in days......I am not eating very well on program today. But tomorrow I am back at writing it all down and watching what I stuff in my mouth.

I have been keeping this blog for a year now, I believe it has been a year if I am on Week #52 of my journey to lose this weight. I started this blog to keep me accountable to myself and to remind me because sadly I can forget that I am trying to watch what I eat. I may start out good in the morning but by the afternoon I totally forget that I am trying to lose weight. Not so much this past year. I have totally remembered even though I may not have been following program the entire year. My total weight loss for the past year has only been 11.2 pounds but I am very happy that I have LOST those pounds and not GAINED them as I probably do each year.

Here is to an even greater New Year on my weight loss journey!

Week #51

Today was the start of a new At-Work session. I went. I weighed-in. I stayed for the meeting (such as it was). The new leader seems as if she will be good. I like her already. I was not too happy that all of our paperwork with our previous weigh-ins had been thrown away though. Good thing I had my previous weigh-in book so I could give her my correct starting weight. I gained a couple of pounds since my last weigh-in but that is okay. I am looking forward to starting off tomorrow morning the Weight Watcher way. If only I had food that I could eat. DH does not like for me to go grocery shopping without him and he never seems to want to go so food choices are limited and often end up being fast food. I think I may stop by Trader Joe's tonight and grab a few things just for me. :)

Week #44 ~ Week #50

No news is good news right? I sure do hope so.

There have been no At-work meetings. I find that if there are no meetings and no weigh-ins then I do not follow program at all. I cannot believe it has been over a month since we last had a Weight Watcher meeting. I am happy to say that the At-Work meetings will be starting up again on the 19th of this month. I am looking forward to it actually. I want to see where my weight stands. Meetings will now be on Wednesdays instead of Tuesdays and we will have yet again a new leader.

I cannot believe it will be almost a year since I started Weight Watchers (again) and started this blog. I am sad to say though that I am not at where I thought I would be weight wise. I did not lose very much weight this past year and the weight I did lose was the same pounds over and over again. My goal this time around is to really be diligent and actually follow the program again.

Week #43

Today was the last day in this session of the At-work program. I have missed alot so I knew no matter what I needed to go. I was debating on whether I wanted to even continue the At-work meetings but after speaking to the leader I have decided to continue.

I thought I had totally gone wild with not watching what I was eating but even after missing all these weeks and not following program at all I have maintained. I am very happy with that.

Week #39 ~ Week #42

One bad thing about doing the At-Work program is that if I am at home sick then I miss the meeting. Not that I ever stayed for a meeting as it seems to have turned into a weigh-in session only. I don't think that the leader is even holding the meetings anymore. The few days I did come into work on a weigh-in day I either did not have any gas to get to the other building or I had meetings scheduled.

Week #38

Not much to report. Only down .2 this week.

Week #37

I don’t know what I was expecting for this week but the outcome was not as exciting as I thought it would be. This past week I did it, I journaled. I was pretty good at writing it all down except for the weekend. Weekends are usually hard for me to follow program so I just really concentrate on it during the weekdays. My goals this past week were (the outcomes are in pink):

1. Write down everything I eat even if it is not on program (what I meant was even if I don’t know the points) ~ I did not follow plan on Fri-Sat-Sun- Mon

2. Be mindful of what I eat ~ I ate way too much candy this week even if I did not cover over my points ~ too much sugar

3. Drink water ~ Weekdays were great for me drinking all my water and even extra. I drank more water this week then I think I have drank the entire past month.

I had expected a great loss but after reviewing my weekly goals I can see why I only lost .2 of a pound. Next week will be much better!

Thanks to all of you that leave comments. They really do go a long way to motivating me :-)

Week #36

I actually made it over to the other building to weigh-in today. Today is super busy and I had to go to a later session but I made it. I think I may end up going to the later session as everyone seems to go at 11am and when I went at noon only one other person was there before me. I had a wonderful talk (probably about 30 minutes) with my leader.

As you know (if you have been reading my posts) I have not been following program for quite awhile. It shows too. Even though I was down this week (.4 of a pound) it is not because of anything good that I have done.

I have been using the free journals to journal my food. Today I went ahead and bought the bound journal that has 12 weeks in it. I hope that carrying it around and even (yes this is the shocker) USING it, will really help me get out of this rut.

Also DH and I are maybe getting a membership to a gym. I say maybe because it is a special family plan and my dad has to put us on it. If not then I will have to get one on my own.

There will be some changes to this here blog! No more downer posts!!!!!

Week #35

No weigh-in today.

It is really hard sometimes to attend as I have to go to another building and I can only go if work is not busy. That is one of the downsides to the At-Work program. I will be happy when tax season is over and I will have more time and less work during the work day. I am ready for a change.

This blog has gotten too depressing.

Sorry about that.