Another Successful Weight Loss Day

Okay, so I forgot to post yesterday. I did good yesterday with the exception of 1 little mishap. I was cleaning the living room and came across one of the kids bags of candy. I had popped 3 Mike and Ikes in my mouth before I even thought of it. As I was swallowing them, it dawned on me what I had done. Then, a revelation happened. How much of my eating is purely out of habit? How many times a day to I pop something into my mouth and don't think about it, don't really want it, or am not even hungry? I do this a lot and now I am conscience of it then I can keep my eye out for it.

On a good note, I have still been taking my coffee with Splenda and skim milk and I've kept my coffee down to 2 cups per day. Other than that, I have been drinking water. That isn't to say I didn't have a sip of my boyfriends mountain dew the other day but that was it. A SIP. Was so proud of myself. I know that I can't go on a fad diet and lose the weight and keep it off. I have to make lifelong choices. That doesn't mean that I am never going to have a bite of chocolate or never go to my favorite Mexican restaurant, I will be better able to make better choices when I do because I am learning about food and what is good for me and how to say enough is enough.

I stepped on the scales this morning and they said 179. From 186 to 179 is good, no matter what kind of weight it is. It is the incentive I need to keep working on making better choices.

Weighed in

So, yesterday when I weighed myself I weight 186, after watching what I ate and drinking 5 glasses of water yesterday, I have lost some water weight. 182.4 when I weighed a minute ago. I will take all weight loss, even water weight loss. WooHoo for me. That is significant for me. Still gotta take those before pics though.

I’m starting a new journey

Okay, so I decided that I would try to lose some weight. I haven’t been happy with my weight EVER. I have always been overweight. Let me share some history with you. The only in my life when I wasn’t overweight was when I was a kid, a little kid. Since my younger teenage years I have been overweight. I got pregnant when I was 16 (don’t judge, I’m a different person now) and I had children at the age of 17, 19 and 21, when I had my tubes tied. When I got pregnant the first time I was 164 pounds and 5 foot 5 inches. That time wasn’t the problem as I lost back down to 164 pounds. The other two times I didn’t lose the weight and added a little more to it. For about 10 years or so I suffered from depression off and on. At the beginning of 2007, my doctor put my on a combination of Wellbutrin and Celexa and I started to lose weight. The medicine had to be what did it because I wasn’t doing anything different except that I had a physically demanding job, but I had had that for a couple years already. In total I lost around 35 pounds. Man, I felt great about myself. I was still overweight but I still felt great. I had major problem with my menstrual cycle and finally had a partial hysterectomy in August of 2007.   In February of 08, I met my boyfriend, in March, I was laid off from work. I moved to a new city and still haven’t found a job. I have put all my weight back on. I know that it is a combination of not working and my hysterectomy. I just have to be motivated enough to do something about it. I weigh in at 186 now. A couple days ago, I decided to do something about it.

I have looked at a lot of weight loss programs, including Atkins, which I have tried before. I like weight watchers but with being unemployed I can’t afford the meetings. It isn’t a matter of not wanting it bad enough but feeding my family comes first and their isn’t any money left over. I have decided to see how weight watchers works for me, along with being more knowledgeable about what goes in my mouth. I know they just started the PointsPlus but I found 2 food companions at Goodwill that work with the FlexPoints system. I have figured out that I can have 23 points per day and 35 weekly points. Yesterday, I did good and didn’t go over my points.

I am trying to make small changes, like NOT drinking a pot of coffee a day with cream and sugar (lots of sugar). Yesterday, I had 2 cups of coffee with cream and not as much sugar. Today, I am having my coffee with Splenda and skim milk. See, small changes. I also drank 5 glasses of water yesterday, which is something I don’t ever do. I had a Honey Mustard Snack Wrap from McDonalds, instead of a Big Mac and I had no fries and no soda. For super, I had 1 cup of homemade vegetable beef soup, with a glass of water.

For breakfast this morning, I had 1 cup of Special K cereal (2 points) and 1/2 cup of skim milk (1 point) along with that cup of coffee. I’m gonna work really hard on eating breakfast since I know it is important for weight loss and I don’t normally do breakfast.

In a little while I will post some before pictures, as much as I hate myself in pictures, I believe it is important to have something to motivate myself and to see the progress. I don’t know if my blog will help anybody else out or if anyone will even follow it but it is to help keep me accountable to myself. If I have to write down everything I eat and be honest with myself, knowing someone else might read it, I hope it will help.

Hope you have a wonderful day. Be back later with my before pics.