Weight Watchers
Weight: 364.6 pounds
Loss since 8/12/14 (366 days): 51.4 pounds
Loss since top weight (423.6 on 9/13/10): 59.0 pounds
Percentage of goal lost: 25.70%
Caloric limit: 2080 per day
✓ Next Milestone: Lose 76 pounds (making it the biggest weight loss I have had in my life) Next Milestone (Goal): Repeat past milestone of losing 76 pounds (target date: 9/13/15)
Target Date Using Overall Daily Average: 8/21/2018 (1093 more days)
Target Date Using Daily Average Since 8/5/15: 12/20/2015 (118 more days)
Yesterdays food log is NON-EXISTENT
Quick update… I am counting my calories and staying focused on the goal.. I am seeing progress and will continue as I have been. Didn’t do so well on my weekly goals… I did count all my calories… and I’m not as depressed.. other than that no goals were met.. so I will repeat them this next 7 days
My goals for the next 7 days are:
- Weight myself daily and log into the chart
- Count every calorie, EVERY day on MyFitnessPal.com
- Work out in some way daily (walking, exercise bike, elliptical, working with weights will be the approved workouts)
- Drink at least 56 oz of plain water daily
- Write here at least once a day (small, quick posts are okay)
- Work on being less depressed
- At the end of the week: Lose 7 pounds
My planned short term goals and rewards:
- Goal: Exercise 30+ days and lose over 75 pounds
- Reward: Buy Season 2 of Bates Motel DVD’s
- Goal #2: Track calories for 90+ days and 100 pounds lost
- Reward: Buy myself some sort of fitbit type device to wear that will monitor my activity and sleep patterns (one that will integrate with MyFitnessPal.com)
- Goal #3: Drink water for 120+ days and lose 125 pounds
- Reward: As much as I hate using food as a reward, I will go to Fogo de Chão
This article from Zen Habits (a great blog) really made sense to me.
In other news.. Day 4 of back on WW plan… going well with 9.6 pounds lost! Trending in the right direction again and plan on making this stretch a long loss!
So I took a break from weight watchers… I shouldn’t have… I was doing so well… Then I started cheating… tracking less and less… Then finally not at all… And I gained weight… Funny how it always comes back on faster than you can lose it… Well I’m not laughing.
It was a 7 week break… And I gained 17 pounds back…
Today is the second day back fully focused and back on plan… Tracking 100% and well under my points… Lots of fruit… Water… So far so good.
Yesterday I was trying my best to be way under on points.. so when it came to dinner I had some decisions to make… it was just me and 2 of my sons (Cece was out with the girls) and I thought of a few choices… Chipotle.. I hadn’t been in awhile and the Weight Watches guide had some choices that didn’t look too bad… then I thought East Buffet.. East Buffet is one of those all you can eat chinese/americanized buffets… no real way of knowing the points and could be dangerous with lots of fried items… a few other places went through my mind… but they all seemed like poor choices… but Souplantation kept coming to mind…
I love souplantation and I figured that I could make some decent choices there… so that is where we went… Continue reading
9/13/10: 423.6 pounds (all time high)
8/16/11: 358.2 pounds (lowest since May, 2009)
65.4 pounds lost in 11 months
An accomplishment to be proud of… and just a drop in the bucket… almost 1/3 of my goal…
It’s interesting that I weighed 410.0 on 6/13/11… so I lost 51.8 pounds in the last 63 days!
The majority of the weight loss (37.0 pounds to be exact) has been lost in the last 42 days (since I started on Weight Watchers) and partially due to my recent hospital stay for Gall Bladder removal. Other than that I really don’t know what to attribute the second most dramatic weight loss I have ever had (I lost 73 pounds in one year back in 1982) to… Continue reading
Yesterday was my first Weight Watchers meeting since signing up last week and I lost 7.6 pounds for the week (very pleased with that)… earned my 5 pounds lost star… I realize now that I really can’t say how my buddies did… don’t want to say anything that they might not want said.. so I will just say that it was great to see them and that having each other for support is going to be a great help to all of us.
Staying on the program was pretty easy.. it is a lot of work to track and plan and prepare foods… I was able to stay under my daily points everyday and not use and weekly points.
The most challenging and by far the worst meal experience was on Saturday night… Continue reading
First, let me explain my week… last Monday (6/27/11) I weighed 405.4… I started watching my foods and trying to cut way down on my intake and on what I ate… it was hard sometimes like when my family and I went to a Chinese place for dinner… I stuck to my plan and had steamed fish and veggies.. I took a bite of 2 of the dishes floating around the table… but only a bite… anyway today I weighed in at 394.0… that is a loss of 11.4 pounds in a week… my goal was 10 pounds so I am very happy!
On top of that my two best friends in the world (Stuart and Joe) contacted me and said that they were both going to be at Weight Watchers this week.. Stuart has been going and he talked Joe into going… they asked me to join too… at first my immediate response was to say no thank you.. but then I started thinking… Stuart and Joe have been my best friends since Kindergarten… that is 42 years ago.. they have always been there through thick and thin… and have always been very supportive to me.. how could I pass up the opportunity to get and give support from these two? I couldn’t.. so I sucked it up and got up on a Sunday morning and signed up for Weight Watchers.
Now I have never been involved with Weight Watchers, but I have heard good things about it… and I know that even when I have success with my own weight loss efforts they are usually short lived… the meeting was good.. the instructor was nice and knowledgeable… after the main meeting we had an orientation and the system was explained… pretty much like I figured.. instead of counting the way you do for the Richard Simmons plan you count with Points… there is an easy way to calculate points from nutritional facts.. there are a bunch of tools on the website for members to use that seem very cool… So I dove in! Started right then and there.. my official WW weight was 400.6 which with my gender and age gave me 71 points per day…
During the orientation the lady mentions that the points go from 29 to 71 max.. so that hit me too that I am at the max allowed points for their system.. at first I thought ‘cool’ but then it started to bother me… It is very cool that everything is totally anonymous.. unless I tell someone my weight or points allowed they have no idea and it is never mentioned… I like that.
So after the meeting we stood around and talked for a little while, then I went home and started learning about the WW plan.. I stuck to it with really no issue… we had a BBQ planned for dinner and decided to try a new place out here for lunch… I chose to have 6 buffalo wing appetizer and a side order of sauteed veggies and a fruit cup… It was all very good… and it was hard to watch my youngest eat a cheeseburger that had grilled cheese sandwiches on the top and bottom in place of the buns… and my middle son eating a sausage and chili omelet… but I survived… then at the BBQ dinner I was able to have a rib eye steak, grilled Portabella mushroom, baked potato with sour cream and butter, corn on the cob with butter and a hot dog (no bun) for dinner… note these were all smaller portions than I would normally have… the rib eye was a thinner cut so it was only about 8 oz where I would normally be 16 oz or more…
After all was said and done I had used 66 points so I was under my allowance by 5 points.. and it wasn’t ‘that’ hard.
So now I have a specific plan and I am going to be doing it with my buddies.. I am using the momentum of the successful week and spring boarding into another 2 digit loss week… my goal this week is 10 pounds lost.