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I’ve been focusing a lot on scale victories because they’re something quantifiable. Measaurable. Speaking of which, I’m due to do my measurements. In the interim though, I’ve noticed a lot of other changes. NSVs. Non Scale Victories. * In addition to my collarbones, I also have knee caps and hip bones. The latter surprised me [...]

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I’m not calling it a 6lb loss, but I’ll certainly take the numbers. Brings me to 48.2 overall. Part of the reason last week’s gain was as bad as it was was that I knew the week was a lost one from half ass tracking and poor food choices, so what did I do on [...]

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I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited about a bone in my body before. I found my knee caps a couple months ago, but collar bones? I don’t think I’ve ever seen those before. Pathetically excited, but a huge NSV for me as I inch toward the next SV of 50 lbs gone. I [...]

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last week was a wonderful and well-earned vacation. I half ass tracked and got the WI I earned from doing so. Luckily it was partially salt/water as I’m now back down to a gain of only .5 which makes more sense. I knew I’d over eaten and under tracked, but I didn’t think it was [...]

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I know there’s a fair bit of anti-Biggest Loser sentiment on Weight Watchers. I agree and disagree with it. I agree in that BL does make some think/expect that big losses are the norm, but I disagree in that if it teaches people to eat well and responsibly, that’s a good thing. I only started [...]

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Weight Watchers is working for me. If you’d asked me in March whether I thought I could weigh 164 pounds in August, I’d ask you what you were smoking and whether I could have some. I was more than 200 pounds and didn’t really have any interest in losing the weight, until something clicked. My [...]

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had a not quite totally but still somewhat unexpected off track day yesterday. We went to Asia de Cuba for a friend’s birthday and not only did I not look at the menu beforehand, I also didn’t know it was family style. Double whammy. And I was drinking. I was good before hand with lunch [...]

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A real eye-opener. I’ve been reading a number of books on food and nutrition during my weight loss journey and this one struck me because it wasn’t proscribing a particular diet but rather encouraging education. I’ve seen any number of people back on WW for the 3rd, 4th, etc. times and I don’t want that [...]

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This HIDEOUS photo on the shores of the Galilee or the main photo on my blog are almost exactly a year ago during the trip to Israel and Jordan. No idea what my weight was then. This was March 2010 at ~ 209 when I joined WW. This photo is today. With Saturday’s WI I’m [...]

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HOLY CARP, I’m in the 160s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At 167.8 I’m closer to my “goal” (140) than I am to where I started (209) and I’m officially not obese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, little excited here I had no expectations for this week because it was pretty bad. I tracked it all, but there were: a 52.5 point day (technically [...]

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