So, It's been awhile...

Well...I've now lost just over 33 pounds  My Weight Watchers at Work group ended and I now go to the Weight Watchers Center in Bryan.

I'm GRADUATING on Friday!  Whoop for my Masters!  I can't believe it.  I've got a sassy little black dress to wear :)

Last night I actually just eeked into the 160's last night!  Instead of a 20 my weigh beings with a 16.  Lordy Mercy I am excited about that.

I've been a little lax in the workouts and the tracking - I've got to get back on that...hardcore.  I've got another 15 pounds to lose.  My goal now is 155.  Wow...that would be great.  And maybe I'll shoot for 150.  I'm right at a size 12 - I'd love to end this at a size 10 and keep the weight off for good! 

What a journey...I'll try to keep blogging more now that I have some free time :) 

Week 12 Weigh In

Well folks - I'm trying to get my Master's paper done so that I can graduate so that's why there aren't hardly any posts - look for them to pick up mid Nov. again.

BUTTTT....remember how I got my 10 percent keychain last week???  WELLLL  This week I got a 25lb charm to put on that keychain!  I had lost another 3 pounds - I couldn't beleive it!!

And that was after I snaked some of HSSH's french fries - I was eating edammae - please HSSH "LAY OFF ME I'M STARVING." - Name that SNL skit please?  Anyone?? Bonus points if you can name two of the actors... :)

So I am thrilled - 25.8 pounds GONE.....YES! I am already a new woman.  I'm now at 178.2 pounds - from 202.2...YES!  I'm loving being a smaller me.  I need to lose about 30 more pounds but I got it covered I can do it - then I'll be in the mid-weight range for my height and I'm going to go nuts buying new clothes...sorry HSSH but I gotta show of this slinky new body when it's complete!

Instead of the girl that buys french bread, crutons, ranch dressing, brownies, ice cream, 8 kinds of crackers and cheese, cream sauce, white pasta and all that other bad crap I realized yesterday after a trip to HEB that I had COMPLETLY changed my eating habits...

Instead in my cart I had:
 - bottled water
 - whole grain pasta
 - flax and wheat frozen waffles and light syrup
 - TONS of frozen veggies
 - Edammae
 - Fresh fruit
 - 3 kinds of super healthy low cal. juice
 - fat free milk
 - fat free soups
 - black beans
 - canned corn
 - low fat sandwhich meat
 - 40 calorie per slice bread - thank you Nature's Own I LOVE your LIGHT bread...
 - fresh veggies

I've done it - I've changed the way I eat and what I put into my body - thanks weight-watchers for teaching me what to put into my body!!! 

Loving the ever emerging new me :)  Thanks for reading...Remember YOU TOO CAN DO IT!! Just commit and and you will get everything back that you put into it...except of course, the weight!

Week 11 Weigh-In

As I mentioned yesterday - totally DREADING weigh-in today.  Becuase I KNEW the tears would flow when the scale said I gained weight...

I get to Emily and step on the scale...telling her this won't be good. 

And then she frowns...shakes her head and writes the number down...

And I almost start to cry and she says, "Well clearly you did alright-YOU LOST 3.2 POUNDS!"

Shut the door lady!!?!! Is your scale broken?  Seriously...3.2 pounds?  Um...thanks stress.

I got my 10% keychain today!! Which means I have lost 10 percent of my starting weight - and I'm now at 181.2 pounds!!

I think I love this keychain more than HSSH.  Maybe.  It's shiny and copper and I heart it BIG!

Ah...this day was awesome.

Falling Down the Rabbit Hole

As my friend Mandy would say "I fell of the wagon and then proceeded to eat the horse."

It will be a MIRACLE of MIRACLES if I have not gained weight tomorrow.  I have not worked out in four days - FOUR.  AHHHHH...

And I've eaten a ton of junk.

Well and one amazing lunch from Christopher's in College Station.  Shrimp and grits and an audouille, mushroom cream sauce.  Oh my heavens I understand shrimp and grits - I LOVE shrimp and grits.

Should I mention the chocolate cake filled with melted chocolate fudge?  Probably not.  My boss made me do it, and she ate half.  Thank you Jesus. 

Then there was a family emergency.  A huge one.  The biggest one there ever has been.  And I split to the hometown.  And I ate perfeclty and worked out on Thursday.

Then on Friday...Oh...I cleaned for 5 plus hours and ate way less than I was supposed to...good job me.  A happy face for Friday. 

Saturday.   I threw down on a plate of migas for breakfast/lunch. 
Dinner was fajitas.

Should I tell you about the margarita machine and that swear to God I drank a gallon of rum marg's?

I really ought not.  But did I mention famil emergency?  Stress, etc.??  Did I??

Sunday...yeessh.  A day of rest.  Ate a tiny bit of chinease food for lunch, then THREW down on some red beans and rice, french fries, a biscut and fried chicken from popeyes.  I know, I know...bad girl, nonononono.

Monday...a plate of BBQ ribs, pinto's and green beans - not a bad lunch.  Lots of protien. 
Ha.  Then I had a "broken spoke" which consisted of funnel cake fingers and a scoop of vanilla blue bell and chocolate syrup.  BURP.  Sorry, thighs.
Red barron pizza for dinner....

I'm hoping beyond hope that the stress and the nervous energy has kept the weight off and that I didn't gain and that I MIGHT have lost the .4 lbs necessary to get to the 10% goal.

Am I hopeful for this?  No.  Why?  I'm eating a 5 course meal and Johnny Carino's tonight.

Crap in a bucket this week went down the toilet for me.

Better luck this week. 

HSSH is on a boat.  In the Gulf.  I am worried. 

Week Ten (last week)

Everyone - sorry for my absence.

Last week I lost another 1.4 pounds for a total of 19.6 - so close to the 20 lb mark and having lost 10 percent of my starting weight - at which point I'll get a keychain!! Yeah!!!! 

Pure Exhaustion & Krispy Kreme

Hello Everyone...

I'm quite tired today.  And my back hurts...ugh.  After an 8 hour workday I'll grab a bite to eat then head over to campus to put in at least two hours of work on my final paper...then home to run 10 miles...shower, etc.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

No HSSH this weekend...sad. 

Instead I was a co-hostess for HSSH's sister-in-law's baby shower.  I made the decorations and several dips -I finally got to play with the red Kitchen Aid food processor that I got for my birthday...

I made crostini's out of 4 loafs of french bread - toasted with olive oil, sea salt and feshly ground pepper - the pepper is the secret...amazing.  But bad for me so I only had a few...

I also made a !fat free! cream cheese, smoked salmon and caper dip with a little butter and lemon mixed in.  Basically everything you would assemble onto a crostini all mixed together in an easy spread. 

Then I made a !fat free! cream cheese dip that inlcuded garlic, chives, marjoram, oregano and fresh lemon juice. 

These both tasted great with the crostini's.  I also made my signature dip of drained and rinsed black beans, H.E.B. pico de gallo, drained and rinsed whole kernel corn, various seasonings and lime juice - this is quite healthy - till you start digging into it with a bazzillion Frito's scoops...(10 scoops = 3 pts).  I did snack at the shower - but not too much.  I didn't feel all that guilty about it - came home and had a Red Barron French Bread Pizza - at 8 points a pizza its a bit much but soooo good! 

Everyone love the diaper cake, banner and food that I made for the shower - it was a fantastic time and I can't wait to meet the little guy in late October.  Best of all I made HSSH mom take home ALL of the food I made so there would be NO temptations at home for me. 

I only ran three miles Friday and none on Saturday - I got back from Huntsville & the shower at 6pm and cleaned house and did laundry till midnight.  Sunday morning I got up and ran 7 miles - and danced while running on the elliptical becuase I was watching Dirty Dancing...

One of my favorite scenes...Hey Sylvia, Yes Mickey?  How do you call your lover boy? 

I LOVE that movie...RIP Patrick Swayze...Anyways its a wonder that I didn't fall off the elliptical as I gyrated along with the music although there was a close call when I nearly put my flailing arm into the ceiling fan...oh well.  I never said I was coordinated - or that I could dance.  Feeling great after my run I went out to my grandparents house in Somerville...

And my aunt - who is also doing Weight Watchers - showed up with Krisy Kreme donuts imported from San Antonio.  What a  &%$^#.  Seriosuly...Krispy Freaking Kreme...6 pts a donut.  And I ate two.  Shoot me.  They were flipping awesome - even if they weren't hot.  It happens. 

I had a BBQ sandwhich on whole wheat bread as a late afternoon meal and then snacked on fritos, a slice of cheese and 1/2 cup of fat free re-fried beans that night. 

Today, I've had a WW chocolate shake and I'm thinking Pei Wei for dinner :) Lettuce Wraps are 5 pts (minus the crispy noodles) and the sauce is 2 pts. 

Beginning Week 9

Well, despite the fact that I ate the ten point cookie yesterday...and it was good...

I lost 2.2 pounds this week!! I got another 5lb star sticker for my bookmark - which marks 15 lbs...

My total weight loss?  16.8lbs!!  I am on my way to the 20lb mark and I will be THRILLED to say I've lost 20 lbs.  We have 8 more weeks to go on the program & I am hopeful that I will be able to lose an additional 15 before it is over.  I'd like to be between 150 & 160 - which means I would need to lose a total of 40-45 lbs, total...but I am confident!

I am contemplating re-upping in the program becuase I want to stay on track over the DREADED holidays...divorced parents and my boyfriends huge family make for about 7 Thanksgivings and Christmases...which is tasty but packs on the pounds.  The plan?  EXERCISE.  I even bought a winter work out top at Old Navy yesterday...in a LARGE.  Yippie! 

This weekend it should be relativley easy to stay on Target - the only pitfall will be a baby shower on Saturday...but I can manage. 

Until next time!