I fell down but

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

victory was mine this weigh-in!!! I blogged about the Girl Scout cookies attacking me. I weighed in for my at work BL challenge and I'm down another pound and took 5 points off my body fat!!!! I celebrate my one pound loss - at this point in my journey where I've been at a plateau or bouncing back and forth - I'm happy! Especially with the body fat loss. That's waaaayyy better than a pound.

Now yesterday for my weigh-in I decided to dawn a new outfit. I brought the sweater shrug after Christmas sale. It's fuschia and has grey stripes in it. I never wore it while looking for some grey pants or skirt and a tank top/cami to wear with it. Well I found everything and got dressed yesterday. Thought the pants fit well, but my mid day I realized they're a little too big. These were an 18 (my new size) and I think I might have fit into a 16 - but they might have been snug. Anyways.... I got so many comments on my apparent weight loss from loads of folks . It happens when I wear pants as I lose the majority of my weight in my lower half before the gut and arm flab goes. I don't think it's that noticeable in my face either, but definitely the bottom. That felt good. I felt I looked good and the compliments just made it better. However.... I did pray really hard and I continue to do so today, that God will keep me focused on my ultimate goals. I've been on this path before, where folks start to notice and I get all big headed and lose my focus. Not this time baby!

The 6 week point in the challenge is in 2 weeks. The winner for this is the person that's loss the most weight. I'm around the 7-9th place in that category. The one with the greatest amount of body fat loss is the ultimate winner in 12 weeks. I'll take a shot at that but I'm in it to lose weight not the prize money. Although it would be nice - I just know that losing the weight is worth way more than cash moolah!!! I can save about $100 a month if I lose the weight and then be taken off my HBP meds and stomach meds, that right there is priceless.

Well ladies and gents, until next time. Have a truly blessed day!

Girl Scout Cookies ....

Friday, February 05, 2010

The Girl Scout cookied are winning. I went so far as to write all over the box - don't eat, don't eat, keep away.

Well I finally caved after a few days and threw the box out .... after taking the 2 rolls of cookies out. Self sabotage is my problem. I'm like 3#s away from my 2 week goal of losing 5#s. 3#s away from rolling over into the 240s. But nooooooooo, staying focus isn't on my agenda today. It all started yesterday. We had a Black History breakfast sale grits, eggs, sausage and crossiants. I had that about 11:30 or so. Ate McDonalds #1 Big Mac meal around 3:30 and around 9 last night I had a crispy snack wrap and apple pie.

So far today, I've eaten toast, a foot long chicken bacon ranch and a roll of lemon Girl Scout cookies. What am I going through? Pray for me, I need to be delivered. This is ridiculous. Weigh-in is just 3 days away also. I dropped from 7th place to 9th place this week. Some folks had a really good week. I only loss a 1# for a total of 3.4 for 2 weeks. It's good but have to get better. I loss body fat though. I'll do better this weekend, I hope. I know I got to do some serious working out this weekend if I expect the scale to smile on Monday.

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Healing Nicely and losing

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Hi all, I've missed you!!! My hand is still in recovery and I'm quite able to get back to typing, so here I am. I still have bandages and stitches but it's much, much better. Thanks for all of your kind words and threats

I'm into the 3rd week of our at work BL contest. I'm down 3.4 pounds in 2 weeks (I joined late). I was in 7th place after last weeks weigh-in, so I'll see how I line up this week. I'm not sure how I'm running in the greatest percentage of body fat loss rankings, but I loss quite a bit this week. I'll share when the stats come out this week. A bit surprised with the body fat loss, although I've never done that measurement before, but its encouraging.

I had on the same outfit that I always get compliments about my weight loss. I rarely wear pants but this was a paid that I brought when I was losing weight before and their like black with a hint of grey and I had on a black button shirt tucked in. I'm sure it showed that I had some shape to my body instead of the clothes I typically wear that shows my tummy more pronounced and my frumpy arms. So now I get a pretty good idea about what type of clothes to buy to accenuate my flaws as I lose. I heard things like: "you're shrinking down to nothing" yeah right "it's really showing - your weight loss that is"! A boost to my ego, but I pray to remain humble daily.

I'm watching what I eat, getting some exercise in several times a week. I started back walking so that's a positive for me. I set my goal on the Wii to lose 5#s in 2 weeks. I have a little over a week to go and less than 2#s to lose to meet that goal. I set it low because I'm curious to see how the Wii responds when you hit a goal. This goal will also take me into the 240's so I'm pressing my way towards it.

That's about it for me, so how are you doing today? I think I may go around the blogs and check up on my sparkfriends.

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Good

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

60 calories chocolate pudding cup, yummie. So its a new day. This will be short today. Made the mistake of using my left hand to type while its still recovering from the surgery. Yep... ouch But I had to stop by and see how everyone is doing. I think I'll take a lunch siesta now. Got a headache so Im hoping it'll go away so I can get my workout on.

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Whose scale will I believe

Monday, January 25, 2010

whateva I'm happy regardless!!!! Truly I am. I say this, because I weighed on my scale at home and I was up to 260.0 OMG!!!! Then I got on my Wii for my daily check there and I gained .04 up to 255.4. There's always a 4# difference with those. So this morning was my first weigh-in in my at work Biggest Loser contest. I was worried that I was going to gain because of what the scales at home showed. But drum roll...... I loss 2.4 according to their scale. My first official weigh in to begin the contest was on 1/20 at 255.0 in which I weighed in the afternoon around 2:30. This morning I weighed in only 5 days later at 10:30am after I had coffee and water only. So perhaps the many trips to the bathroom dropped the pounds.

I did do WATP yesterday 3 mile walk. I did 2 miles Friday and my Wii Active training for 20 minutes Saturday. I won't feel comfortable in the work weigh-in untill I see the house scale moving in the right direction as well. What shocked me is that I only need to lose 3#s to be in my dream 240s goal AT WORK but 10+ to reach it for real!!! I know

10# goal - 2.4= 7.6#s to go to meet my BL goal!!!!

Now I'm going to work on my schedule for this week to get some workouts in.

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