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.
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