184.4

Down a pound.  finally lost 35.6 lbs.  Wished it were more, but i'll take it.  Just 5 till my 2nd 10%. 

There was a woman in our meeting tonite who said she's lost 140 lbs. in 9 months.  How does that happen?

We went to La Hacienda for dinner last nite, and I did pretty well. Drank diet Coke and they had a special Steak salad which I ordered. It was basically grilled steak, on salad, with some tomato and avocado. the only thing I shouldn't have had was some cheese that was shredded on top. I did, tho', have a fried ice cream and ate it all by myself.
I'm not sure how many points that would've been, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, the shell and some chocolate syrup. But i had almost 30 pts left for the week, so i figure i was ok.
This morning i skipped the toast for breakfast, saving a point. Never had lunch since we were working in the yard. I did make a "turkey ham", which turned out to not be core. Luckily, i only had 1 1/2 slices. I had a big salad and corn on the cob. I made potatoes, onion, peppers, wrapped in foil and cooked on the grill. Very good, included my olive oil for the day.
Anyway, the point of this post is that this morning the scale did not go up, and if i make it through today without changing the scale, I'm curious to see how i weigh in on tuesday. I usually do some damage on the weekends, and i don't think this weekend was too bad. We'll see....

Progress (?) pictures

May 2006                         Aug 2007 (220?)            April 2008 (185)           July 2008 (180)

I don't think I look that much different  But the clothes in the last picture are loose, and my butt is pretty much gone.  No wonder i don't get too many comments, I look the same..........

I am editing this page in July, with a new picture to see if there is much difference in appearance, even if there is not much change in weight.

185.4

Marie, my leader, weighed me in and looked at my chart and said it's a good, consistent loss.  I guess she's right.  If i hadn't blown it last week and gained almost a pound!  Tonite, down 1.6.  Just shy of the 35 lb. mark.  Geez, will i ever get there??  It just seems sooo slow. 

I was almost ready to switch back to flex if i didn't lose tonite.  So, maybe i should just try to limit my portions more.

I have 2 pair of jeans that I bought on sale at the Gap back when I was at my lowest, size 12. I never took the tags off, and i think it's because they were tight when i bought them. I almost returned them and I almost sold them to a friend of mine. It was our deal, whoever could fit into them first! I never thought I'd make it.
This morning I tried them both on. One pair fits! Snug, but i got them zipped and could definately wear them. The other pair, i could have probably gotten them zipped, just didn't try that hard. They were definately too tight to wear. But Yay! Even tho the scale is not moving very quickly, my 14's are loose, so thought i'd try those 12's again. Success! the body must be changing.

no surprises

After the weekend I had, I wasn't too surprised to weigh in .8 lbs. up, to 187.2.  It would've been nice to have lost or maintained, but I deserved to gain, I guess. 

Our meeting was about exercise and how it is a part of the weight loss picture.  I know that that is definately missing from my program, and maybe that's why my loss is so slow.  So, I've decided to try to do something each day.

tonite it was too late to take the bike out and walk Xena, because we had to shop for fruits.  So, at least I did get in a good walk.  Tomorrow it is going to be a nice day, in the 70's finally, so i will definately take the bike out for a ride.  maybe this will give my system a boost.  I need to do something differently!

off plan big time

I've been visiting my daughter since Friday nite for Mom's weekend at her school.  Unfortunately, we enjoy eating out.  I had good intentions this weekend, but they have pretty much flown out the window. 

I'm going to try to recap what i've eaten so far this weekend.

Friday all day I was good.  Even had a popcorn in the car on the way here.  However, we went to Olive Garden for dinner.  I had what I thought was not too bad, the mixed grill.  It was skewered chicken and steak with veggies and some 'tuscan potatoes'.  I also had 1 bread stick and the salad.  When i looked it up online that meal, probably because of the potatoes, was pretty high points.  However, potatoes are core... just whatever oils used to prepare and 3 pts for the breadstick. 

Saturday morning I started out fine.  Had oatmeal and a banana from the hotels free breakfast.  Avoided the muffins and bagels.  Lunch was a breaded chicken breast with angel hair pasta, veggies and a sauce.  I ate it all.  They had a small pecan roll instead of a dinner roll, and a chocolate mousse.  Ate it all. 

We went shopping and then had a late dinner at the TExas Roadhouse.  I had never been there.  I had a light beer, salad with light ranch dressing, ribeye steak and a sweet potato with butter.  At least i skipped the caramel and marshmallow they offered me for the potato!  Wow.  And I had one of the fresh rolls with the cinnamon honey butter.  Oink.  I ate a couple of my daughters fries because she didn't touch them.

This morning i am waiting for her to awake.  I've been down to the free breakfast 2x already.  i had a real bagel with a packet of peanut butter.  I went back and got a bowl of oatmeal which I am in the middle of now.  We are going to take her boyfriend to lunch, who knows what lies ahead for me there.  And husband is waiting for me to get home for dinner.  Lot's of eating planned for the rest of the day....

So far I've avoided having a blizzard, but maybe on my way home????

I'm wondering if i should skip weighing on tuesday, but i'm not sure of the purpose in that.   Just to keep me from being depressed?  Hmm.

My Weight Chart:

Core Weigh In #2

So, not to worry!  I was down 0.4, so total for the last 2 weeks on Core, 3.8.  Not bad!  Gonna stick with Core, try to maybe not eat as much this week.  Also, hopefully it is going to start warming up and I can start to get in some bike rides, maybe right after work/before dinner is the best time to do that.