Oh yummy chocolate..

Thank goodness for Hershey's Sticks Dark Chocolate, only 1 point!!! So, feeling kinda tired today. I got up at 5:15 this morning and actually made it to the gym. I have not gone since I hurt my foot and once you get into that lull, its very hard to dig yourself out of it. But I knew that I would not be able to go back to sleep, once I am up, I am up. So I yelled at myself to get my butt off the bed and get to the gym. I basically pulled a Jullian on myself (Biggest Loser reference). So I got dressed and headed to the gym. I worked myself really hard this morning. I started off with a slow walk, then faster, added an incline, then faster and faster, more incline til I got to the point where I was running at 5.0 on a 3.0 incline. I felt the burn, let me tell you... But at the same time I knew that I had done good. I took it a little easy on myself since its been a while and my body has to get back into the routine of going every morning like I had been. When I got to work I figured out how many activity points I earned, 5!!! I am not going to eat them tho. I am going to enjoy the fact that I have them available but use self control not to use them. I will, however, be using all my activity points when we are in Yosemite next week. I want S'mores!!! I am going to keep track of everything I eat so that when I get back into town I can enter everything on my eTools. I am sad that I am going to miss the Monday weigh in/meeting tho. I actually look forward to getting weighed in. Its so nice to finally find something that works after all these years. I was watching the Biggest Loser last night and there is a girl on there that has the same disease I have. She was not losing very much weight and I totally feel her pain. I hate this, but the only way to really get rid of it is by weight loss, talk about a catch 22. Well my day is almost over here at work. Elizabeth and I are going to go to the gym together after work tonight, I am really looking forward to it, even tho I really need to do laundry. I can always do that tomorrow night. So peoples have an awesome night and I will talk to you tomorrow sometime...

P.S. Here is a picture of where I will be on Saturday and for the entire week...

Monday Weigh In

Well here we are... its Monday again, I have never been so freaking excited to step on a scale in my life. At the same time I was a little nervous. I mean, I have been really good with my points, minus the occasional dip into the allowance, but thats why its there, right??? I think I was just psyching myself out. I mean if I gain, its not like I get kicked out of the weight losing club, I just have to work a little harder. I was skeptical when I started this program and after my first week I got on the scale and got ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSE from the lady that was checking me in. Did I lose? Oh crap, did I stay the same?? Or worse, did I gain??? As she finished packing up the items I had purchased: starter kit, points calculator, monthly membership, she handed me back my WW registration card thing. As you already know, I walked away and almost fell over when I saw that I had lost 4.2 pounds. So I was hoping it would only get better... Well here we are:
"Please step onto the scale."
"AHHHHHHHHH, (intense moment...)"
"Oh, look at that, you lost 5 pounds. That brings you to a total of 9.2!"
I almost fell over again, I was so excited I was shaking. I have never had anything work like this before. Once again, it has motivated me to just 'keep on truckin' with the program. It's so encouraging to go to the meeting and have my cousin, her hubby, my best friend, her mom and now a sister from the Spanish congregation started tonight too. There were 5 of us sitting there in a row together. It's so wonderful to have such an awesome support group. And congrats to everyone that went to the meeting tonight in our group, we all lost something. Except for the two that started tonight, you have gained a support group of friends who love you and an awesome program that will do amazing things... Keep up the great work everyone, its so encouraging to see us all losing. Love you all,
Chrissy

A good day...

So today was a good day. Elizabeth & Barry came over , we had breakfast, watched The Biggest Loser and then studied our Watchtower. I made eggs and bacon and we had tortillas with this yummy salsa that ended up being 0 points. I didnt have lunch so before the meeting I had a Fiber One bar. On the WW website everyone was talking about these things. Then when my roommate and I went to Target yesterday, I found them. They are SUPER good and only 2 points per bar.

So we went to meeting and the talk was really good, it was on survivng this system if things. It was really encouraging. The Watchtower was on covetousness, really good subget since the society we live in is so materialistic. It was really encouraging with such good cousel for us in this day and age.

After meeting we were going to come home and make some Chicken Tikka Masala but a friend of ours called and said that they were going to go out to dinner and wanted to see if we wanted to go too. I asked the girls if they wanted to go, they asked where we would be going and the couple said Hooleys, this really great Irish Pub. I got nothing but screams so after a unanymous answer, we headed out to Rancho. I knew that I had only eaten like 13 points today, I still had 25 to go. So I decided to order what I want and eat it all cause I was starving. In the old days I probably would have ordered something like Fish and Chips or a steak but since I was being conscious of my points values, I ordered a BBQ chicken sandwhich. It was a grilled chicken breast with lettuce and tomato. It was quite yummy if I do say so myself. I even ate the fries which are like slices of potato. Oh man was it yummy. I ended up coming home and entering all my points online and found out that I still had 11 points to eat for the rest of the day. Yesterday I had bought some sugarfree ice cream and some yogurt, really low points values. So I decided to have a whole cup instead of a 1/2 cup which is the serving size. I am eating a cup of the Yogurt Blends Carmel Pralene Crunch, oh man is it good. I still have 5.5 points left but since tomorrow is weigh in, I think I will lay those 5.5 points to rest.

Speaking of a weigh in, I have never been so excited to be weighed. I am anxious to see what happened over the last week. After losing the first 4.2 pounds, I was so motivated to stick with the program. So we will see tomorrow how I did. Well gonna get back to the game, GO CHARGERS!!! Will let ya know tomorrow night how weigh in goes.

Alright, I'll give Weight Watchers a try...

So I joined Weight Watchers on Tuesday September 4th 2007. My cousin and her husband had started a week earlier and I expressed a want to join them. So when they were going to thier next meeting I wanted them to let me know so I could go too. They came over, whisked me away from my house and off we went. I got all registered and weighed. My starting weight: 307.2. I have been overweight my whole life, but never like I am now. I have tried for years to lose weight, everything from Redux/Phen Phen back in like 1994 to bunches of diets, even a personal trainer along with a meal plan. The results: NOTHING. Two years ago I was taken to the hospital with the symptoms of a heart attack. It ended up being a chest infection that had gone into the walls of my heart, thus mimicking a heart attack. At that time they did a cat scan to see what was going on. The doctor told me that they had found a lump. My first thought was breast cancer since cancer run in both my parents sides of the family. But he said that it was in my neck. I made an appointment to see my doctor who then ordered a ultrasound on my neck. Come to find out: I have 9 tumors in my next, thyroid tumors. After years of having my thyroid checked and having it be fine, here I am faced with tumors. The doctor told me that we were going to try to shrink them with medication rather than surgery. So for 2 years now I have been on meds to try to shrink them, its working, slowly but surely. In the meantime, now that things are starting to work, maybe that will afford me the opportunity to lose weight since the doc said that the tumors were preventing that. So here we are 2 years later and I started Weight Watchers. I started counting my points on Wedesday the 5th and from the 5th to the 10th, which was a Monday, the regular nights for my meetings, I lost 4.2 pounds. I was so excited that I almost fell out of my chair. Wow, in less than a week 4.2 pounds??? Holy Cow!!! So it made me so happy to know that it actually worked. It also motivated me to continue with the program. So I will be updating at least weekly with my weight progress maybe some times will be daily. This is just something for me to put it out there so I can have accountability. I am allowed 38 points a day and will try to maintain, so far, so good. I actually find myself having to eat something at night to make up for the still outstanding points. This will be a new path in life for me. It will be quite a change. Possibly a challenge. But I can do this... I have to...