21 pounds down

I am feeling much better today though this dry hacky cough is driving me nuts... chewing gum a lot.

I was up early this am and went to the store to buy the supplies I needed to make a cake for a client, and came home nad did that. I got to use my new kitchenaid for the first time making a cake and it was nice :) was fast and easy and clean up was a breeze :)

then we headed out to the flea market with MIL. This was a plan DH had for us and not something I really wanted to do , I would have rathered stay home and clean a bit, I'm actually in the mood, so I usualy strike while the iron is hot. so instead I went and got a pair of flip flops for swimming nights . I hate walking on my bare feet on the locker room floor, you never know what fungus is growing under foot literally , so I feel good getting them out of season :)

I tried to eat my 25 points max this week but had a hard time doing so due to this being my first week with the less 2 points a week. With feeling miserable all week this is literally the first day I have had any energy to speak of.

I didn't count the points I ate in sugared cough drops, or medacine in a sugar base, but i tried todrink lots of water and even though I did not really swim but onlty walked the lengths of the pool, I went swimming 5 timnes this week. I managed to get in only 80 sit ups this week, rather then a 150 to 200 i do weekly, but that is ok.

Still I thought with these slow downs and all I would stay the same, nbut I actually showed a loss of 3 pounds. Now I am down to 171 pounds and 21 poubnds lost since January 5th when I went back on plan, it feels really good to have this loss so far and the clothes I wear now are just falling off of my I need to get a belt for my jeans :)

I bought sugar free gum to chew on when I make cakes as well so I won;t be tempted todip my fngers and tast the icing. I of course do do a small taste test to see I have mixed it roght but after that I gowent and brushed my teeth and stuck to gum.

Chocolate covered cherries

Feb 14th 2004

I had two chocolate covered cherries to day for valentines day ( 2 points each they were small) and have been on points all week.though it took some doing, I had some things that were not points friendly that took activity points to cover but that si ok, I made it... I am thinking about having diet coke and rum to loosen my neck and count the points for the rum.

I don't usually drink, but I have tried everything for my neck,so maybe this will work.

I stretched before I got out of bed this morning and heard a few pops in my neck that sounded like popcorn and have been unable to move my neck at all today since, I did something to a muscles in my left side, and it hurts :(

I have lost two pounds this week,so I am now down by 16 pounds since January 1st. :) I'm feeling pretty good about that. all my clothes are looser and it feels nice to be able to see the difference. I keep getting fearful though that I am going to hit a plateau soon... but when I look back at my week and see how much different I am doing now,I see that I am doing a lot of things right now that I wasn't before.

I'm still trying to get in as much water an possible in a day... I have 12 bottles now that I refill every day and try to get john and I to drink them all. I really feel different if I don;t get my water in.
Feb 20th 2004

18 pounds total lost now :)
My official weight in is tomorrow, but I weighed in today and have lost another 2 pounds :) I'm down into the next points range now, 20-25 points a day. sometimes it feels strange to go down the next points range,I hope I am not hungry.. have to work the Ap points if I do, cause some days it felt like I needed the whole 27 and an extra 2 Ap's to feel not hungry.

That weight loss this week was with dinner out to restaurants twice, two nights in a row.. so am doing well with my most dangerous sabotage areas of my weight loss, the choices on a menu. But obviously I am learning to make the right choices and enjoying the challenge of eating within points while out at a restaurant and enjoying more the social part of the experience.

Emotional Week

I only swam for exercisethis week, I did not do any ball Pilates, like I have been dong. But that is ok, I think I needed the break, I was dealing with a lot of emotional stuff this week ( PMS, MIL, PWS ( pissed off wife syndrome))

I had an argument with a Collegue that required a lot of my attention due to her public accusations etc, and also required me to leave the group she and I were a part of,I did a lot of grieving over that until yesterday when my neighbour had a chat and she said "I think you already know what you need to do , you're just sad that you have to" and that made me do what I needed to do, and now I feel much better,more at peace.

This week I learned though that even though I was completely stressed about it all I didn't let food comfort me. I got hugs from some great friends ;) and was able to talk it out with my circle of support,and now I feel much better and able to start a fresh new week.

I lost two pounds and I am learning that it is not about the show of loss on the scale but about feeling better about myself, and knowing I am worth it, and I have value in this world.

Next week I would like to continue to improve on my water intake, and get in some ball Pilates as well, since I miss it.