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By Cari, on March 3rd, 2012 Friday is my two-year Weight Watchers anniversary. Am I where I wanted to be? No, but I’m a lot closer to that than I was when I started in March 2009. Best of all, I recently recaptured that epiphany / drive I had when I first started and I’m really hoping to ride that to goal. Yes, I believe that I will hit GOAL in 2012.
I realized recently that between March 24, 2010 and February 4, 2012 I went to the gym at least 200 times. Five weeks after joining Weight Watchers I was impressed with my ability to stick to the gym and while the 15 of 19 days pace hasn’t held up, I’ve remained committed to the gym. GoTheDist has been a huge part of that as has the Back to Basics challenge I’m doing with a few former WeWa buddies. While my eating has been somewhat off track leading to a recent gain, I’m proud that I’ve stuck with the gym.
I’m human. I’m not perfect. There are some things, read
guacamole, where I’m still weak but I’m getting better.
Step 1, mini goal 1: track food for one full week.
I can do this.
By Cari, on January 10th, 2012 Not shopping for gym clothes or sneakers or anything, for a gym.
I’m coming up on two years at Boom Fitness and while I like it, I don’t love it. So I decided to see what’s out there. Figured it can’t hurt to be a diligent shopper so I hit NYSC & Equinox
Putting it as a pros and cons to help myself decide even though I think I’ve already made my decision.
Continue reading So today I went gym shopping
By Cari, on January 7th, 2012 and I’m mostly still on track.
I had a slower start to exercise then I wanted because I started off the year sick. Still, I made myself go to the gym on both Sunday and Monday and even a short workout is better than none at all.
So far, I’m in a good place for #GoTheDist. 21.41 miles out of a goal of 750 for the year and 175 for Q1. I think I can do it even when I switch to more walks over bikes when the weather is nicer. Speaking of nice weather, it was 13F when I left the house on Weds. AM & today when I was walking home from the gym it was 55F. Same city. Wish I’d had more time for an outdoor workout today. Maybe I’ll walk home one day this week if it stays nice.
After a few missed weekends in the fall due to other commitments, I’m back on track for 50 gym visits in this 6 month window. It’s good for fitness, it’s even better my wallet.
Food choices were mostly good too. I’m in my usual winter challenge of a lack of fresh fruit & veg & it being too cold for smoothies, but I’m making better choices.
So let’s see where the rest of 2012 goes.
By Cari, on December 31st, 2011 no, not involving blogging more. I randomly have the best of intentions which then fade fast.
Challenges of the activity variety. Back in February I mentioned a challenge that seemed interesting. Of course, I did nothing with it. Lately, I’ve been watching Fat Girl vs. World’s #GoTheDist challenge and I decided if I didn’t join I wouldn’t do it. So I signed up. I tracked nearly 520 miles this yr. of exercise from April to December. I think I can do 750 next year. Maybe my knee will even strengthen to the point where I can get past the first day of C2K.
Additional GOALS:
My next goal is 149.9 (aka below 150) and after that, 139.9. I’m not sure I’ve ever been below 140 since I was a kid. I think big G goal is going to be 134. Why the odd number? It would be a total of 75 lbs lost and gives me some wiggle room to gain a bit but still be a healthy weight (141 is the top end for my height). I hope to be able to tell as I get closer whether that’s attainable or maintainable.
If they look familiar, it’s because they’re the same ones from a year ago today. In 2012 I will hit them. Between #GoTheDist and Back to Basics (grew out of the 30s board on the Weight Watchers’ site) this *will* be the last year I start overweight. #NoExcuses is my favorite hashtag for gym checkins on FourSquare. Time to apply it to everything else.
By Cari, on December 31st, 2011 activity miles logged since I began tracking on MapMyFitness in April 2011. That’s pretty impressive. 104.3 of that was in July and I petered off in the fall when work was crazy but got back on track with 61.81 miles in December. I’m hoping to carry that motivation into 2012.
Some additional information about that 519.29 miles:
79.66 total hours
131 workouts
22,728 calories.
Now I didn’t hit either my mini weight goals in 2011 but those numbers are pretty powerful. Imagine where I’d been if I hadn’t logged that mileage?
It’s true that most of my on Pinterest is weight loss but I’m taking this one to heart in 2012
I probably still won’t blog worth shit, but I’m going to be accountable to myself.
By Cari, on April 30th, 2011 I have no idea. Blogging and I don’t seem to get along. But I’m officially back OP. Maybe. I’m still on the yo-yo that I was in October. On the plus side, I haven’t gained back a lot of weight despite some atrocious food choices. On the down side? I haven’t lost anything either.
I think I’ve found some of the motivation I had last Spring which is a good thing. Now I’m trying to harness it. Step 1? Go back to the tracking I did. Not just food tracking but weight tracking. And accountability. I still weight myself daily multiple times a day but don’t do anything with it. I’m bringing back this chart. I’ll clean it up and tweak it some as I’m no longer doing WW, but I think there’s some good data in there. Looking now, when I quit that is when I, essentially, quit losing. I haven’t been lower than that. It’s time to get back on track.
Now let’s see if I can do it over a weekend.
By Cari, on February 5th, 2011 so I’m back to online only. I wasn’t going to continue to pay $39.99 for a new program that wasn’t really working for me and for meetings I rarely made it to any more. Work is kicking my ass and I’m back to sleeping in on Saturdays so this was the best decision for me. I’m actually technically subscribed as eTools only which is cheaper than WW online was, but I have yet to figure out the difference. With this first WI, I lost 6 lbs of water weight. Yes, it’s not real weight, but it’s off. Gone. Had been hanging around and I couldn’t get rid of it. It actually could/would have been better if I hadn’t fallen into a vat of pickles last night. They are my undoing.
What did I do? I went back to the old points program and am using a hybrid of that and SparkPeople, which I’m finally getting the hanging of tracking with. There are days where I go way over points when I’m well within my calorie range, and then there are days where I’m not making the best food choices, but at least I can find the patterns. I’m curious to see how this goes and how it works for me.
Overall I’m still down 51.2 lbs from last March. Could it be a lot better if I wasn’t in a holding pattern since September? Sure. But it could be a lot worse. It’s still an average of 1.1 lbs/week and I’ll take that.
I started reading over The Girl Who Could (Formerly) Eat Anything, a blog from someone who posts on the WW boards and I realized that while I’ll never manage to post daily, I like how she does. I like her October challenge and I’m thinking about something similar for myself. I like the accountability. I’ve never been the world’s best blogger, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the period in which I was blogging the most is the one where I was losing.
food for thought.
By Cari, on December 31st, 2010  what a difference a year makes
I was thinking a lot today about why I’ve been struggling since September. Well maybe struggling isn’t the word, but losing focus. I’m still basically where I was in September but there has been a lot of up and down and a lot of crap food choices causing the ups in that up and down . Where on earth is the focus and commitment I had from March to September? And what can I do to get it back?
While at the gym on the recumbent bike and watching Notre Dame play Miami I realized that 50 lbs lost was the last goal I set that I was passionate about. Maybe I need goals to keep me going? I talked briefly about mini goals but they weren’t ones I was as committed to as the “magic” 50, so it’s back to goals.
My next goal is 149.9 (aka below 150) and after that, 139.9. I’m not sure I’ve ever been below 140 since I was a kid. I think big G goal is going to be 134. Why the odd number? It would be a total of 75 lbs lost and gives me some wiggle room to gain a bit but still be a healthy weight (141 is the top end for my height). I hope to be able to tell as I get closer whether that’s attainable or maintainable.
I’m not assigning a date to any of those. I want to stabilize and get headed consistently down before I worry abut when but I’d really like to be 140 at my next follow up with my doctor. That would be obese – normal in a year a and a half in doc time, and about 15 months, Weight Watchers time.
I’m committed that 2011 will be the last year I begin overweight.
I think I can do it.
By Cari, on December 30th, 2010 really tried to get back on track with tracking from Monday this week. Didn’t track Christmas weekend so much for not wanting to see what I ate so much as tracking the amounts would be hard (i.e two olives, one slice of prosciutto, some italian wedding soup). So I vowed to start over on Monday and have been pretty good. My neuroses are still there though.
I used to see it most with bacon. I didn’t like the points for 3 slices so I’d change it to 2 as if that would matter to my body. As if the calories followed what I wrote vs. what I ate. I’ve gotten better with that, but it’s still there.
I’d seen it with APs but it’s even more now that I’m tracking calories burned on SparkPeople. I was doing errands this evening and not wearing my HRM because I never do when I’m just doing errands. My logic in that I was doing these errands pre: WW so I shouldn’t count the calories/APs now. Ended up going further then planned this evening in search of a store with diet cream soda in stock for a total of a little over a mile, round trip. And all of a sudden I was thinking I wouldn’t get “credit” for the calories burned.
Ooof. I really need to get my head around this.
By Cari, on December 27th, 2010 that’s what my doctor said to me this morning after entering my weight and looking at what I’d lost in the last six months/one year. It really made my day/week. I’ve heard that from immediate family but I don’ t think I’ve heard it from anyone else. Coming from a medical professional especially. Now I just hope my numbers are good. BP was 112/78 which I think is good. Don’t really know.
We also had an interesting discussion about my goal and whether it’s doable. It’s going to be an interesting six months for sure.
I was also happy at the appointment because his scale showed me up only .5 from Friday’s weigh in. That’s especially good because I was definitely not OP this weekend. I’m back on track food wise today and activity as well, thanks to the snowpocalypse. I’m down 3.8 lbs since I got back on track and I’ll take it.
So far, I’m a fan of Points Plus progress even i I’m not following it 100% yet
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