90 Day Challenge!

Here I am again and instead of focusing on the negative and thinking about how many starts I have had, I am just going to look forward.

Today I started the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge!! My weight today was 181.8 BUT I did just do a cleanse on Monday for a colonoscopy yesterday so I think I lost some weight there. Maybe it's a good time to start because of that! Anyway, Body by Vi are shakes that are chock-full of nutrients!! They say that one shake is the equivalent to a TON of food in terms of nutritional value!! I am very bad about eating properly, and not just by eating good or bad foods. I often don't eat enough, don't eat breakfast, etc. Having two shakes a day should help with that. And they are
DELICIOUS!!


Anyway, I was going to start a new blog to document my 90 day challenge, but then I decided to come back to this one because it IS a journey and as you can see, 3 years later I am pretty much back where I started. Sigh. But today is once again a new day!!

I have been good the last week+. I've been eating healthy, watching my portion control. I have even been working out every week day. And the result?

Today's Weight: 174

YAY!! I am ready to do this ONE LAST TIME!!!

Back again

Another Monday in a lifetime of Mondays. Good thing I am the only one who reads this so-called Weight Loss Blog or I'd be mighty embarrassed!! Well, not really I guess. It is a journey after all.

So, after taking off most of December, I gained a few pounds over the holidays.

Today's Weight: 180.5

Today The Watts Family all started a new healthier-living challenge. Sadly we could all afford to lose a few pounds - or more. I have gained back all but 8 pounds of the 25 I lost. I swore I wouldn't let this happen, yet here I am. Now, to be fair to myself, I struggled with those 25 pounds for a LONG time and I am still not sure why I struggle so much to lose the weight, even when I feel like I am doing so well. In the Fall I did the program at the Y and I was working out every single weekday for 8 weeks, with no weight loss on the scale. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to have my measurements done at the end, so I am not sure how that would have compared.

Anyway, I am starting anew, it doesn't matter that it is for the umpteenth time!! My goal is to lose at least 15 pounds by the time I go to the Epicure Conference in the beginning of April. And I want to be at goal by my 40th birthday - March 13, 2011. I am back to the gym, 5 days a week, and watching my calories and portion control. I know I can do this on my own!!!

Here is a picture of me from this past Christmas, so about 180 pounds.

I suck.

That's it.

Weigh-in Day

I have had a pretty good week. I didn't quite stick with logging everything on my Calorie Count page, but I still tried to watch what I was eating. I didn't do any exercise this week either and knowing me I won't until I start back with the Y Not Shrink It class at the YMCA the first week of October. Anyway, I am down a pound this week!! Funny how at Weight Watchers that would have seemed huge, but at home it's like, OK a pound, hmm. Anyway, it's a start!!

Today's weight: 174.5

So far so good

Being back on track is going OK. I am hungry. Which is kinda weird because part of my problem when I am being "bad" is that I don't eat enough, don't eat proper meals. Sometimes I don't eat at all until late in the afternoon (bad bad bad, I know). So it's interesting to me that on those days I can go without eating, but as soon as I have eaten something for breakfast, then I am starving all day. I am sure smart food people know why, probably something about metabolism or protein or something.

Anyway, I have been eating pretty well yesterday and today, staying around my calorie goal. Haven't exercised yet though.

Weigh-in Day

Dreams do come true!!! And apparently, so do nightmares.

I weighed in today and wouldn't you know it? I am up 12 pounds, just like in my "dream". Ugh. Now to be fair to myself, I am weighing in now on my home scale and not at Weight Watchers, so I don't really know how accurate it is and whether I *really* gained 12 pounds. But this is the scale I will be weighing in on, so it is what it is. And it said:

Today's weight: 175.5