Pizza

After eating an entire small brick oven pizza (and most of the crust) and some chocolate what a surprise I had this morning. I weighted in on Friday morning before leaving for the weekend. I had several challenges on Friday, Sat, and Sunday. I admitt I gave in to the couple mentioned above but ate really well the rest of the time. I weighted myself this morning and am 1/2 pound less than Friday. I am really pleased since that means I did balance eating well with allowing myslef to enjoy a special meal and desert and did not gain weight. Go Me!!!!

Progress

Well, a huge CONGRATULATIONS to the daughter! Way to go! I wish the mother had been more successful but I am still hanging in there. This Monday will make 5 weeks on the program and I am down a total of 9 pounds. It's harder to be happy about a 9 pound loss when 4 1/2 pounds were in the first week but I am making progress. The good news is I know what I am still doing wrong - picking up a cookie now and then and throwing on a little more feta and olives on my salads pretty regularly. So I am going to tighten things up and look for a good loss by the end of next week! The first challenge I have for the upcoming week is I will be at a cta show this weekend. At shows you hurry up then you wait and waiting is hard especially when they only have junk food available at shows. So I am bringing my own foods and plan to drink plenty of waer. The daughter will be there too so hopefully we will help each other. After that there should be no major challenges the rest of the week. BTW - Good Luck to Raya's Clearly MzUndrstod Callie at the show!

Broke a 0 number

The Daughter Here:
In every weightloss program the weights that end with a 0 somehow seem more significant. For example saying you weigh in the 150s or 160s. When you get below that 0 number it's a bit of a milestone. This morning I broke through one and it felt great!!! So far I'm down 7.6 pounds. When I'm hungry I eat, and when I have social plans I'm careful but I enjoy what everyone else is having. So far so good!!!

Week 3 Results

The Daughter Here:
Today marks the start of week 4. My official weigh in has me down 5.4 pounds. The first couple weeks usual have the largest drops. I hope that that isn’t the case here. While 5 pounds is good it’s not major. I must confess that while we spent a week together, Mum and I went to visit my Grandmother for some home cooking. While it was delicious, and I did eat leftovers the next days, I’m not sure either of us enjoyed it enough to justify not loosing any weight for the next few days. I think the lesson is that we can eat high carb meals but they need to be small and they need to include 2 servings of veggies. They shouldn’t be hog-wild indulgences that last for days. Nobody feels good when they’re on carb overload. Now that’s behind us and I’m on to week 4! This week, I’m going to walk 5 days!

Week 1 completed

The Daughter Here:

Sunday marked the end of week one. I officially lost 2 pounds. I had expected a drastic drop the first week. But if the plan is supposed to be a steady weight loss that is maintainable then 2 pounds a week is good. Sunday itself was a hard day, food wise. We spent the day at a college graduation and dinner party. I had breakfast according to plan but that was it. I tried to keep my portions small, only eating what I needed and not pushing it. I did have a glass of wine and eat a small piece of the graduation cake, but not the frosting, it wasn’t worth the calories. I’m pleased with myself.

I am on a meal plan, and I do want to lose weight but I don’t want to stop living life and enjoying special occasions. If I want an alcoholic drink I’m going to have one. I’m going to go for the salad instead of the pizza but I’m still going to go out to dinner when I want. After all that is part of life, and when I’m finished losing weight I don’t want to go all crazy from lack of experience in those situations.
In food news, I find that if I have an after dinner Diet Coke that satisfies my need for something sweet.

A Salad is a Salad is a Salad? NO

So, I love my lettuce covered with all kinds of goodies including green olives or greek olives, feta cheese, pickled beets and slivers of roasted almonds and I do not mind having one for lunch and one for dinner. Well, not such a good idea no matter how good they taste. Week one I did great. The pounds fell off easily, week two 1 pound??? What the heck?? So I decided to figure out the calories I am adding to my salads to see how many extra I am actually getting. Believe it or not it came to 215 extra calories for one salad with all my extras. It's the feta and the almonds that really drive the calories up. So two salads a day is over 400 extra calories and when you are on a 1200 calorie program well........ So am going to limit to one salad a day with the olives and beets as the only extras. That will increase my salad by 50 calories which I am willing to do. I guess I could probably give up a protien during the day if I really wanted either the feta or the almonds. So off an running on week three with the intention to do more than 1 pound this week!

Walking

The Daughter:
I just went for a quick 20 minute walk. Physical activity is the hardest part for me. I follow the program and drink big glasses of water like a champ, but putting on those sneakers is a giant hurdle for me. I’ve spent the morning doing not so much fun work while the bright sunny day called to me. SO as a little reward, I picked up my Ipod loaded with my favorite knitting podcast, The Knitmore Girls, and headed outside. I didn’t run or try to over exert myself. Just a little walk to clear my head and make me smile. Instead of thinking of it as a chore I enjoyed it as a reward.

Now I’m back and eating some string cheese. I’m supposed to eat 4 fruits, and 4 dairy/protein servings a day, because I’m a vegetarian I guess. I’m good with the fruit but the last two days I’ve been a dairy/protein short at the end of the day. So I need to really force myself to eat it in the mornings since that seems to be when I’m skipping it.