Still the same ....

Well for the last 4 weeks, I've been doing nothing. I haven't been working very hard at this weight loss thing. I certainly have been maintaining and that is a good thing. I've been up a few pounds and down a few but I'm still the same. This morning the scales said 258.8. I'm happy with that. I really want to see the 40's by July 1st. I don't know if I can get 9 pounds off in 10 days. I think if I really work at it I might just be able to. I'm going to give it all I've got this week. I need to get into the 40's badly. I'm hoping that once I get there, I might be a little more motivated. When you have so much weight to lose, it's almost as if "why bother, I'll never be able to do it". The main thing is that I'm not gaining. My clothes are all feeling much loser. In fact, the other day I went out shopping to replace some of my faded things and ended up buying as size smaller in everything.

Anyway, just wanted to check in and let you know I'm still alive. I hope everyone is well and enjoying their summer.

Crossing over!

Finally after so long I have finally crossed over the 260's and into the 250's. Yesterday morning I got up and weighed in at 259.8. Today for my official weigh in, I weighed in at 259.4. I am so excited because it's taken me so damn long to get there. It seemed that no matter what I did I couldn't get through that barrier. After I had lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks at WW, I had visitors. With that came lots of bad food choices. A relative came to see the nation's capital for the first time in her 65 years. You can't not go through life without ever having tasted Beavertails and poutine. Of course, I indulged as well. Two beavertails at that, but not on the same day. :) I never went to WW last week to weigh in because her last night we had Chinese Buffet. MSG is totally my enemy. I felt I didn't want to waste my time by driving all the way into the city to get weighed for a gain. Sure, it would keep me accountable, but since then I have been totally on track. Actually, I'm very excited for my weigh in on Thursday at WW. I'm hoping to at least see 258 that day.

Anyway, I'll continue to my very best and see where that leads. Tomorrow I'm heading down to the U.S. to do some shopping. My son and husband went down to see the Atlantis blast off for the final time. I will meet them and will do some shopping. Then when we return through Customs, they have been there for a week so they can bring lots home without paying duty/taxes. I'm hoping to find a few things to wear to work, but the best part is the groceries at Super Walmart. I get so excited because there's lots of things I can take to work for lunch.

Must run and get on with my day.

Monday morning weigh in!

Well,  I decided to weigh in this morning. 264.9 ... again! I saw this number on the scales a couple of weeks ago. I joined WW on Thursday afternoon. I have a few friends at work that have just joined as well, so there will be lots of support there. I'm happy about that! I have done exactly as I'm supposed to from Friday morning on. Counted and weighed absolutely everything. I'm hoping for a really good loss this week. The scales were higher at WW than they are at home. I have some WW scales at home but of course, all scales weigh different. I will continue to use my weigh from home for my weigh ins on here. I will have lost the same amount of weight, just the numbers are lower at home.

I need to weigh in for the final weigh in of Tammy's Summer Challenge on Friday. I know that I haven't lost my 10 pounds but I'm OK with that. I'll let you know how that goes.

Is it easier or not! Day 17

This post is no way meant to be critical of anyone. This is just an observation of mine.

I read a lot of weight loss blogs .... lots! Too many actually. I spend far too much time reading when I could be doing something else ... like maybe exercise! lol! Anyway, my observation is a lot of these people do not work. Yes, there are a few that do, but on the most part I find a lot don't. Is it any easier when you don't have to go to work everyday. I think it might be. I'm out the door a 6:15 in the morning after getting up at 5:15 to get ready. I either work 8 or 12 hour shifts. By the time I get home I am done! Sometimes even making supper is such a chore. It's easier to make something quick. Exercise is another matter altogether. I have no energy to even go for a walk. I think that if I was home I'd go out for a walk more, be able to make healthier meals and look after me more.

I need some suggestions on how I can set some sort of routine so that I can get in my exercise and have healthy meals! My days off are usually quite busy and it goes on and on! Blah blah blah ... I'm sure you've heard it all! These are just excuses I know but I need some help in routine. I'm a very organized person in every way except in my own personal issues. I need time for ME!

Do I or Do I Not? Weigh in -- Day 15

Do I or Do I not weigh in??? I do not!!! I've had a horrible weekend. After a nearly perfect week last week and a gain of .3 in the TSC I was so totally frustrated that I basically binged all weekend. I ate everything and anything that I wanted. This is not good. I am not weighing in this morning!!! If I do, I know in this crooked mind of mine that I will continue to eat because the scales can't help but be UP!!! I know that I need to be accountable to myself, but I know myself and I think I just need to be good all week and hopefully, I might see a bit of a loss by Friday. I sure don't need to worry about getting a tacky Florida souvenir (even though I requested none). I'll be lucky to lose anything at the rate I'm going. I still have almost 2 weeks, so I'm hoping I at least get the scales to budge a little bit in the right direction.

Monday weigh in -- Day 8

Today is really my official weigh in but since I'm doing TSC I also weigh in on Friday's. So for now I have two weigh ins. Today I weighed 266.1 which is up 1 from Friday. I'm not really impressed by that. I had a decent weekend. I probably went over my calories by a few but really not enough to gain a pound. I'm chalking it up to fluid gain. Hopefully, it will be gone soon. I'm not getting all stressed about it and completely falling off the wagon. I will continue to do well this week. I'm looking forward to my Friday weigh in for the challenge.

I'm working evenings this week. Sometimes I find that this is easier while I'm trying to lose weight because I get up later in the morning so I don't have to spread the food out over so long. I can get all the calories in in a shorter length of time and I feel more satisfied. I'm still fighting hunger every day. Does this ever go away? lol!!

Fri -- Day 5

Well, today was the first weigh in day for Tammy's Summer Challenge. I was so excited to jump on the scales this morning because I knew I had done well. Well last Friday I weighed in at 268.8 and I never really got started until Monday of this week after a horrible weekend of drinking and eating bad choices. lol!!! Anyway, I was super excited to see 265.1. That's a loss of 3.7 in just 4 days. I'm already looking forward to next weeks weigh in.

I didn't have a good today eating though. I didn't plan and ended up eating a bunch of crap. I'm not even going to bother recording everything here as it's almost an embarrassment. Let's just say it included Breakfast sandwich from Tim Horton's for breakfast, 1 slice pizza for lunch, poutine after work and then around 9 p.m. when I was making some pancakes for my husband I had one along with 1 slice of bacon. Oops! I just told you what I ate. I'm OK with that. I need to be accountable to myself as well as anyone who follows along. Tomorrow is another day.

My official weigh in day is Monday so hopefully, I will be down. I just need to be good all weekend so that I stay down. I plan on doing just that!!!!

I was in a real funk this past week, but I think I've got the problem sorted out and I'm feeling pretty happy right now so that can only mean good things. I'm hoping to get in a bunch of exercise this weekend as well as good eating.

Anyway, have a good weekend everyone!