April 14, 2015

Weigh Day Vol. 3

Back for your friendly weight update!  The last two weeks have been interesting.  The week before last I was nearly perfect, which was great.  Unfortunately, my doctor's appointment last week kind of conflicted with my weight watchers meeting, so I don't know how much I lost that week, just over the last two weeks. Weighing in at the doctor's appointment was fun though (since the scale is different than my weight watchers' scale, I'm won't count that weight here).  The nurse who weighs me noticed I was down about 10 pounds since my last appointment and was really excited for me. That was nice, and good motivation to keep going.

Last week was, well, the start of a new cycle, so it didn't go as great.  I still tried and mostly stuck to the tracking, but there were definitely some comfort eating moments. There also may have been some half off Easter candy to blame for that.  All in all, it was one of those weeks where I was just happy if I tracked some to most of my food.

Luckily, the two weeks evened each other out or something, I was down 2.8 pounds, which brought me to having lost 5% of my weight so far. That's a good milestone in itself, as I've read that the health benefits of weight loss can start with losing as little as 5 to 10% of your body weight. I also keep noticing small changes in how my clothes fits.  Its probably not noticeable to anyone else, but its nice to me at least.

One hitch in the weight loss so far has been that I've been relying on processed, packaged, and fast food. Its just easier to keep track of points that way. Those aren't always the best or healthiest foods though, and last time around I had trouble with this same thing.  I have two weight watchers cook books and, you know, the whole internet at my disposal, so I'm hoping I can pick up cooking again.  Now if I could just figure out how to meal plan and keep it affordable too. Oh well, I have to start somewhere!

Here's hoping that the losing keeps going! Thanks for stopping in this week.

10 comments:

  1. Congrat's on the loss. I go thru phases of cooking at home really well & being organized, and then periods of time not having the "time" .. I try to be good & make better food choices when having to eat out..

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    1. Thank you. I go through the same phases too, though the phases of not having enough time definitely last longer, haha.

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  2. Great work! Reaching 5% so quickly is an awesome start. :) May I recommend skinnytaste's crock pot chicken enchilada soup. SO GOOD! And cheap! And easy! Hope you like Mexican food. :) But if not, you've got this!! I'm sure of it. If you ever want to post your meal planning here to hold yourself accountable, I'd totally eat that up... figuratively speaking, of course. :P But I love posts about food.

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    1. Thank you! That does sound good! I will have to try that out and report back :). I love mexican food, could not live without it, haha. I'll have to learn how to meal plan first, but if I do figure it out I'll definitely write a post on it!

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  3. Congratulations!! That is awesome. Time has always been my biggest obstacle to weight loss. Since we started Whole 30 there's a TON more cooking to do, but some weeks we make it easy by cooking something big on the weekend and eating it for a few days. Good luck with everything an keep up the awesome work! Sounds like you're doing great!

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    1. Thank you! Wow, yea I can imagine Whole 30 takes a lot of effort. When I tried paleo I was cooking so much all the time! (And I'm so bad at it, everything takes me 3x longer). Good idea about cooking on the weekends though, I should try that!

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  4. Good job girl! I think crock pot meals are going to be the way to go for meal planning if you are busy with a full time job. Then you can take the leftovers for lunch :)

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    1. Thanks! I definitely need to pull the crockpot out! Its funny, I rarely eat leftovers when we go out, but I love home cooked leftovers. That's definitely getting me motivated to cook!

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  5. If you figure out the affordable meal planning, let me know! My grocery bills are going to kill me. But I have enough food issues that not eating high quality food is also a problem. I will say that I do a lot better if I try to meal plan one or two meals a week (big enough for one or two extra meals for left overs) and then I usually have to do some sort of packaged foods as well.

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    1. If I figure it out I'll definitely post on it, though I haven't gotten anywhere with it this week. I like the way you do it, one or two meals a week sounds doable.

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