Tomorrow's Weigh In

Kind of worried about tomorrow.  I've been using some of the weekly points the last few days.  Actually, we went to dinner for my birthday on Friday and that got me started.  Told myself I wouldn't use anymore of the wp's.  Today I had a 2 pt. chex snack mix.  After that I was ravenous! 

Tonite for dinner I had this mediterranean chicken that I like at Sams.  It is a chicken breast covered with tomato sauce with black olives and feta cheese.  Yummy, but i'm afraid it was too salty and will affect weigh in, too.  Then after dinner, hunger came again!   I made myself a bowl of oatmeal to try to hold me.  Weird, I don't usually get hungry after dinner.  Trying to drink extra water tonite and will try tomorrow, too.  Weigh in is at 4.  I don't eat or drink anything after 1:30... 

Maybe I should try to stick to fruit tomorrow.

175

I checked the journal I kept when I did low-carb.  The last entry was in July 2005, and I was at 175 and a size 12.  That is when I was wearing the white outfit.

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My Weight Chart:

First Core Weigh In

I had been stalled.  190.2 for 3 weigh ins.  I wanted to get to that -30 mark, just 0.2 lbs. short and I just couldn't do it!  So last week I decided i would try core.  I noticed that alot of the foods I was eating were core anyway.  As long as i could have a piece of fruit or a popcorn whenever I wanted, I figured I could stick it out.

Turned out I really like polenta!  The first day I made it from scratch, having the mushy cornmeal in a bowl for breakfast and putting the rest in a pan in the fridge for later.  I love cornbread so it figures I would like the polenta and cornmeal mush.  The rest I had with eggs and canadian bacon for breakfast.  Just slice it and fry it in the pan.  Like it with pineapple salsa on top!  Yummy!  I found the premade polenta at World Market, it is more solid than what I made and easier to slice.  I will try making it again from scratch, maybe it needs to be cooked longer or something.  I can also have potatoes for b'fast if i want.  I've been having my potato at dinner, I'm loving baked potatoes or tonite, I had a baked sweet potato.  I'd like to try to make fries with both the regular and sweet potatoes, too. 

Tonite at the meeting, Marie figured out my next 10%.  I said, I think that's a ways away.  Turns out it is 179, which is only a little over 7 lbs.  Doable.  I think maybe I should change my stg to that, I now have it at 175.  That is the lowest I was last time I did lowcarb, in 2005, I think.  Need to check my other journal I kept at the time. 

Shopping

I stopped in at Chico's today to check out the sale rack.  I have not wanted to shop there since gaining weight.  There was a pair of jeans on sale, light gray, cute, but size 2.5.  I decided to try them on, even tho the 2s I have fit pretty good.  They were TOO BIG!!!!  I can't really say I was disappointed, except that I would've liked to have been able to buy them, they were on sale for $20 - another 30%.  Originally around 58, so would've been a good deal.  But, they were baggy, lol!

Since my size 14's don't quite fit right, i thought i'd look through my closet this morning. I'm in the process right now of trying on jeans. I have a pair size 2 Chicos. I looked at them and said, no way. They fit! Snug, and probably because they hae a littel bit of stretch, but they look good! For going out only right now. ok, gonna look for a regular size 12, but i don't think i'll make it into those.
Well, that was a mixed bag. I found a 12 and 2 14s that fit, a couple 14's didn't zip. i guess it depends on how they're cut. I made 2 separate piles so i can wear the ones that fit and test the ones that don't!

My Weight Chart:

Vacation results

Happy to report that I weighed in at 190.2 tonite, that's a loss of 1.2 from 2 weeks ago, before Maui! 

I tried to be careful in Maui, but was definately not on plan and did not track.  I only had 2 tropical drinks while we were there, having wine instead with my dinners.  however, i did have deserts some nites, most of the time shared, but at least once all to myself.  I had macadamia nut pancakes, french toast, maui omelette (eggs, swiss cheese, ham and pineapple, yum), toast, you name it.  Even a piece of sausage one day, and I think I had an omelette with meat another day.  Saturday nite, we were already home, and i had prime rib for dinner and probably 3/4 of a slice of cheesecake. 

So, vacation is over.  I'm back on plan. 

I've been packing a baggie of baby carrots with my lunch, munching on them help to fill me up on just a yogurt and a fruit. 

Happy about weigh in!

Weight Watchers Journey

I had always believed that WW was not for me.  I thought I'd be starving.  I didn't want to have to measure everything.  But one night my girlfriend invited me to meet her for dinner and pie at Bakers Square.  Over dinner, she told me that she was starting ww the next day and asked if I wanted to join her.  I figured why not.  I knew I had to do something about my weight, I had recently taken my blood pressure at one of those machines at Sams Club, and it was 140/something.  I never had high blood pressure before.  I figured that low carb was probably not in my best interest if i had high bp.  So, I said yes. 

We went the next day, Sept. 18th, and signed up for the monthly plan.  I loved the e-tools.  Makes it easy to journal.  My first week I lost over 5 lbs.  Wanted more, but not a bad start.

Last week we went to Maui.  Here are pictures, I am around 192, so 28 down.  Can you tell a difference?

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Before pictures

I'm doing this journal for my fellow dieters here on aol.  i want to be able to post some pictures and get some feedback, but don't know how else to do this.  So here we go:

 

  Here I am in 2004 and 2005, doing Atkins and at my lowest weight, 175.  I was wearing a size 12 jeans and pants, mostly size small for tops.

I don't know why after this picture in the white outfit I decided to balloon up.  But here I am just 10 months later, in 2006:

all i can say is "yuk".

here i am that fall, Oct. 2006

  Am i even bigger?  I wasn't weighing at all by this time, I knew it would be too depressing.

Here are pictures from August 2007.  I assume I was around 220.  I started weight watchers Sept. 19, and that is what my starting weight was.

Triple yuk!