I'm Back

I cant believe it has almost been a MONTH since my last post!!!

I am still attending my Weight Watchers meetings regularly and exercising as usual. I hit a bit of a rough patch in the middle of October. I went on vacation for 5 days and it totally ruined my momentum. I ate poorly, drank way too much and didn't exercise while I was gone. As a result I gained around 2 lbs. I was devastated but not surprised. My vacation also broke my rhythm so to speak and it was very hard to get back into the routine of working out and eating right.
The 2 lb gain was hard to handle considering it took me about three weeks to lose those pounds prior to leaving. I am happy to report that I was able to get back on track and as a result I have lost 5lbs. I am really excited and hope I can keep up this level of loss. My progress has been so slow; it is very discouraging. I look at my goal weight and how far I have to go and it is hard to imagine that I will ever cross that bridge. I will keep on chugging along in the hopes that eventually I will lose all this weight! Ugh!

HELP

Well I knew it would happen eventually but I am surprised it took so long. I haven't posted in 3 weeks!! I'm going to contribute that fact to my struggles with losing these past weeks. I have no desire to taut my accomplishments, mainly because I don't feel that I have accomplished anything. I have lost .2 lbs three weeks in a row. WTF! I know we have a tendency to over estimate how much "work" we put into something but I think I've been working pretty hard these past weeks. I wake up at 4:00am every weekday so I can go to the gym before work. When I get home from work I spend a good hour making dinner and all my meals/snacks for the next day. I don't go over my DPT or use many of my weekly points. I just don't understand why I am not losing significant amounts of weight. I am so frustrated and I want to quit! What good is all of this work if it reaps no benefits. I am human after all. I HATE waking up so damn early, but I do it because I know I need to exercise.  I am determined to make this my last "attempt" at weight loss. I want the extra weight to be gone forever. These "setbacks" are NOT HELPING!! I am lost, I don't know what to do.

Victory

I have FINALLY made my 5% goal!!!! I'm down 15lbs! It has taken me 15weeks. It feels like it has taken forever! I'm really excited and just can't wait for more of this weight to fall off!!
I'm still working out 5x a week and think that has helped a lot. I need to spend more time preparing my food this upcoming week.

Im back

These last few weeks I have been fed up with how slowly my weight loss has been going. I have been working out religiously and eating right but my weight still won't budge. I'm down 0.4lbs since my last weigh in two weeks ago.

Week wrap up

I gained .2lbs this week!!!!! What the hell!

Weekly wrap up

Well I was a little disappointed with this weeks weigh in. I was really trying to make my 5% goal. I ended up being .6lbs away. I lost a total of 1.4lbs. This past week I worked out 6 days and went to the gym before my meeting. I'm going to do that again this week and see if I get similar results.
It's been three months and I'm down a total of 12lbs. I wish it was more but hey I would rather lose instead of gain.

Weekly Wrap up

This week was crazy! I had two visitors! My friend came to town midweek and my mom visited this past weekend. Visitors usually means eating out and not exercising. I decided that wasn't going to happen this time around! I went to the gym at the crack of dawn to get it out of the way and eliminate ALL EXCUSES!  The eating out was another story. I drank about 4 beers too many and made horrible food choices. I ate a 31point dessert at Fridays. I had the points available but still 31!! Looking back I would have rather eaten more chicken wings. My mom and I went to a really nice seafood place, I ate fried everything! Luckily it was Saturday and the beginning of a new WW week so I had my extra points to use!

With all this I still lost .02 at weigh in. Its not much but it could have been waaaaay worse!