Bad Week

Last week I had a bad week and gained weight. While under normal circumstances, I could have accounted that weight gain for something (like eating out or eating crap). I honestly cannot figure out what I did in order to gain weight. I exercised 2 extra times during the week and hardly dipped into my weekly bonus points. I drank lots more water and decreased my pop big time!!

Some people are telling me it was the fact that by adding more exercise, I should have eaten some of the bonus points. That my body needs more food (or points) because I am using more energy. Who knows. I only gained 0.4 pounds, but it hit me really hard!!

I think in my mind, I had wanted to lose a few pounds before vacation, so that if I induldge and happened to gain a few, I wouldn't feel guilty. Now what?!? Hopefully I'll have a good loss today and I can go back to not feeling guilty for the week.

I haven't tried on the capris yet. I'm bringing them down with me and we'll see how they look then. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed.

I'm going to weigh in today in about 45 minutes, but I don't know if I'll get a chance to jump on and post before I leave for my vacation!! So, lets keep our fingers crossed that it's a good one!!

And hopefully I won't induldge too much in ice cream, yummy homemade breakfasts, and eating dinner out too much next week!! Oh and the car ride down. I used to love snacking on car rides. That was the BEST part. Oh what will I do?!? LOL!

Weigh-In #12 & 13

My weight loss is now up to 31.2 lbs!! I've officially met my goal of hitting my first 10% AND hitting my goal of losing 7.2 pounds by vacation too!!!

When I went to last weeks WW meeting, the leader talked about Storyboarding.

"Storyboarding is a planning strategy used to create the consecutive steps that lead to your dream or outcome".

So, basically you make a goal and you write several steps underneath it that will help you get to your goal. You can make the storyboard for any time frame that you would like to see results in.

I created a storyboard. I started almost a week ago. My storyboard goal is to hopefully be met in time for vacation. (We leave Sept 16th). I had bought a pair of capris off of E-bay and they are not fitting the way I'd like them too. I can button them, but they are pretty tight. My storyboard is to fit comfortably in those pants before vacation!!

What I'm gonna do to get there...
1. Jazzercise 2 times a week (which I already do).
2. Walk on the treadmill at least 2 times a week. (which I don't do right now).
3. No fast food!!!
4. Not to eat past 9:00 pm.

For the last week I think I have done pretty well. I only walked on the treadmill one time, but I'm hoping to make up that extra time during this week. The eating past 9 one is the hard one for me, especially since I stay up pretty late. But, I've been trying to chug water if I feel that I'm hungry and that has been seeming to do the trick!! Lets keep our fingers crossed that I can hopefully lose the inches to feel good in those jean capris!!!