Week 4

Well, it was my birthday this week, which means people want you to eat goodies. At work, a girl made this ice cream pie (with cookie tombstones since I keep saying I have one foot in the grave, lol) and I had to eat a piece of it because they bring you into the meeting room and everyone's in there- I mean, they sing to you. You can't really avoid it. So I did have a piece of that deliciousness. My boss went to a meeting yesterday, though, and the person he was meeting gave him cupcakes for the office. I passed. Go me! I was still afraid the ice cream was going to bring me down though, but it didn't.

I'm down 3.4 lbs this week! Which brings my total to 10.8! Isn't that crazy? I almost wanted to pad it on my weight loss spreadsheet and only put 2.4 because what if it's a fluke!?! I always think it's a fluke. I always assume a big loss like that will come back to haunt me next week. Let's hope it doesn't!

Yeah, that's not my bedroom :) It's a set up in Ikea, but I took a picture because that paint color will MOST DEFNITELY be in my bedroom. Love it. Anyway, so I missed last week. What was I thinking? I was probably thinking my weigh-in wasn't that fabulous so who cares? Well, I still need to update, darn it all. Last week I was down .6 (lame!) I know, I know... it's still a loss, but it sucked. Especially because it was week 2. Week 3 kind of made up for it though. I was down 2.8 lbs this week. Woot! I'll take it. I'm finally down to one full sugar soda a week, hopefully soon I'll be able to curb it entirely. I've suddenly developed an urge for Sweet Tea's again from McDonalds. It was a long road convincing myself to stop drinking those, so I need to get back on the wagon.

Well, in other news- I've been making a weekly list of what we're going to have for dinner and using it to buy groceries. It's nice to fly through the grocery store w/o browsing- also saves money. What else? Oh- duh, most importantly- my Aunt. My mom flew down to Florida a few days ago because my Aunt was in the hospital (she's doing better now- and she better do what she's supposed to from now because we're not letting her go anywhere!), but she won't be back until February 12th. :( I miss her already! Tomorrow I'm turning 30, so she sent me some beautiful pink roses that I have sitting on my table and she promised dinner when she returns. 30 is really frightening for me, so I think she's trying to make it a little easier, which is nice. I went shopping on Saturday w/o her and it was no fun. Kohl's had a huge 3 day sale and purses were 40% off! I almost grabbed a Ralph Lauren Chaps one which was really cute and only $28 but I ended up going with a Nine West bag that is more functional. I also bought a new scale! It was a steal at 1/2 off, and it's really fun and modern looking. It's glass and the display lights up blue. I love gadgets, and it's pretty much a new gadget.

As usual, I'm babbling, but tomorrow I turn 30 (did I mention this horror!?!), and I'm trying to console myself over here with talk of deals. Tonight is my last night in my 20's. That's a really hard thing to deal with. I won't let it derail me this week- although it really wants to. I'd really like to drown my sorrows in a fat pumpkin spice frapp from Starbucks and a hot fudge cake from Big Boy. Someone stop me.

Wk 1 Weigh-In Jan 9 09

So I officially started on a Monday but I wanted my weigh-in day to be on Friday, so I weighed in on January 9th. I was a little nervous because I'd found that just one soda per day was still not enough and I'd caved to 2 per day. A small on my way to work and a small to med w/ dinner.

That was kind of making me nervous, but food wise I did very well this week. My mom made us a home cooked dinner on Friday because my little sister spent the night (delicious, mom, thanks!) so I decided to do lunch out friday instead (as I normally do a friday freebie meal). Well, on Saturday we ended up going out to lunch during our shopping trip, too, but I still did very well thank you! 

I'm down 3.8 lbs this week. I have to say I'm happy with that. Of course I'd love if 30 lbs would just drop off overnight, but who wouldn't? They say that 1-2 lbs is average so I'll take the 3.8. Very excited and I think this week I'll be able to handle 1 soda per day. We'll see, I'm not making promises- almost 30 years of non-stop access to caffeine is a huge habit to break.

Lunches are kind of hard for me. I can eat Lean Cuisines w/ salads a couple days and then I'm flat out sick of it. Very bizarre because I could eat McDonald's chicken nuggets every day and not get sick of it. I think that's just crap my mind does to me, so instead of caving in, I brought peanut butter and jelly sandwiches one day last week and that worked well. I'll mix it up a bit next week, but keep a tight grip on my point intake.

Day One....So Far So Good

Well, it was good other than the fact that I could not make it through the day without a fountain soda. I seriously could not make it, it was headache city. I'd even had a cup of coffee and a Cherry Coke Zero on my lunch- no dice, I needed a regular coke. I finally succumbed and said -Okay, one a day for the first week to help the cravings. It was the craziest thing- I stopped at White Castle and got a small coke and actually shivered when I took the first drink. That's a freaking addiction people. Good gawd.

Food-wise, I did well though. I had what I wanted for dinner because I'm not eating anywhere near enough points for breakfast or lunch. I know that's not the healthiest way to do this, but that's what I want right now. But, dinner was something I made here- definitely not going for fast food.

Hopefully tomorrow will be just as good.

A New Year

I'm dieting again. Finally. I'm going to be 30 at the end of this month and I've got to get myself under control. This happens every new year. I get all motivated to get my diet on, go back to school, be more active and I fold after a few weeks (sometimes days). So I'm not making any promises here, ya know?

I wasn't going to blog about this here. I was going to start a whole new blog so people who might have this blog's address wouldn't be able to read about my dieting. But in all honesty, who really cares? If someone does happen to check this like once every six months and sees I'm dieting- who's it going to hurt? Why does it have to be some secret? So I'm not going through all the drama of creating a new blog. It's here and I don't really care what anyone thinks of that ;)

Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and do Weight Watchers again. I briefly considered South Beach Diet but changing the entire way we eat, having to get rid of all that we have in the pantry already and rebuying just isn't an option right now. I might change to it later if I find myself having sugar issues, but at my last test the Dr found my sugar levels were normal so that's awesome. She still wants me on Metformin, but I'm not starting that yet. Maybe next week.

Alrighty so wish me luck, my non-readers :)

**Oh, by the way- I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I read the first Twilight and figured I wouldn't bother with the others. It was okay, but some parts were kind of dumb and I figured it'd be a waste of my time. Well, someone convinced me to read #2 and here I am on #4 which was a gift from the hubs for Christmas. I'm 3/4 of the way through and I'm freaking out because there won't be another one for a while. I'm addicted to the story and characters now. I think I'm in love with Edward Cullen, by the way. Team Edward!