Welcome to our weight loss challenge! We are collectively trying to lose 14 lbs by Bastille Day (July 14)! We are Weight Watchers members and we began counting from May 12. We will also be challenging each other to accomplish fitness or nutritional goals during these weeks. This is a never-ending journey for both of us and we welcome as much support as possible!
Ok, So. Now that we live in the same city, we need a new plan. I haven't been losing weight in a while. Something I blame entirely on law school and the French. But now I have to start eating real food again. Good food again. And I need to exercise. So i was thinking that since our poundage-off attempts have been less than successful, that we need some sort of exercise challenge to get ourselves moving again (or at least myself anyway.) What do you think?
So the one good thing about being sick is that I don't feel like eating anything. The bad thing is that I also don't feel like journaling anything. I forced myself to journal this week anyway, but I don't know if I'll make it to the meeting tonight - depends on if the doctor gives me some miracle drugs.
Bored are you? We can't have that. Do you own a frisbee? Can you make Todd play frisbee with you? It's a boredom cure...
So I had a WW leader who once told us, "If you spilled some red wine on your carpet, would you run to clean it up, or would you dump the rest of the bottle onto the carpet?" I basically dumped the entire metaphoric bottle of wine over the weekend since my brilliant plan to not go to the meeting but be good the next week was not-so-brilliant.
So over the last 2 miserable weeks, I gained 3 lbs. That said, I'm also sick, and bloated and am now back on track. But I'm afraid it does not bode well for our challenge
...and not go to WW tonight. I was pretty phenomonally bad this week. One of my friends left for Moldova Monday morning, so Sunday we just *had* to get Indian food... well I didn't have to, but I did, and I am now afraid of the consequences. I'm so tired. I just want to not go tonight. But I know I should...
So I lost 1.2 this week - Putting us at a collective total of 7.4 lbs lost! Halfway there!
Abby, hang in there. First of all, the Easter candy issue - I would do one of two things. Option 1 is throw it out. Now obviously, if it's Todd's and he wants it you can't do that. But if it's Todd's candy, and he wants to eat it, then I would decide that the candy is Todd's and therefore off limits. I have been known to decide that a bag of chips (even one I bought) is really Michael's bag of chips (since he's the person in the house not worried about weight). Then I don't eat it, because they are Michael's chips and he's not sharing. Pretend it's Todd's candy and you can't have it. Buy some fat free chocolate pudding or something so you can satisfy the chocolate craving if you suddenly want the candy, or if it's some sort of jelly bean like thing, buy something WW friendly and not chocolate. Then you have your sweets and he has his and you can't eat his. As for the beer (which you can't throw out 'cause it's Leinenkugel, For every day you have a beer, make sure you do 2 pts worth of exercise to cancel it out.
Mini-goal. How about journaling (completely journaling, none of this quick track stuff) every day this week? That's what it took to get me back on track. Don't make the mini-goal a lb amount - make it smaller, like "I will journal every day this week," or "I will drink 6 glasses of water every day." Just some ideas.
This week can still be saved! Really! I think I can still eat dinner tonight and only use 4 flex points! I used about 9 flex points last night in random eating and the all you-can-eat sushi bar- what happens when I wait until after the fact to write everything down. Tomorrow and Sunday should be (theoretically) easier to control, same with Tuesday. Monday I'll be at my Aunt's house, so we'll see.
I finished workout #1 of the 15 min. challenge. One day down.
Sadly, I am in the best shape of my life. Why on Earth am I so winded from walking briskly from the 2nd floor to the 10th and down again? 5 minutes of stairs should not wind me this much.
5 minutes of office excersise #1 done.
Ok. I can't do the part where I pull myself in to the desk on my rolly chair. I discovered this through trial and error- instead of pulling myself in across the carpet, I pulled the crappy table I use as a desk toward me, computer and all. But I shall do at least 15 minutes of silly office excercises at least 3 times this week.
So, Ms. Abigail. Your challenge should you choose to accept it, sounds simple... perhaps too simple. When you are watching television this week as you are prone to do, I challenge you to either do 5 sit-ups and 5 pushups for every half an hour of television that you watch. This will either make you do a lot of pushups and situps or watch less television (in which case you'll presumably have to do something more active than sitting in front of the tv would have been). Or you'll just read a book and my challenge will be for naught. But there it is. Plus, I got to use the word "naught" in a sentence.
Yesterday was definitely way over my points. I weighed in yesterday and was exactly the same- neither up nor down. Since I lost 3.8 lbs last week, I figure it's me balancing out. My normal weight loss pattern is bigger loss, no loss, little loss, etc. At least that's the way it was last time I was following program religiously, so I see no reason why it should be different this time. My main goal now is to keep journaling and to find a way to fit excercise into my new work schedule.
