Posted by Mel:

 

So I had looked to the new year as a time that I would get back on track with my wieght loss and start losing again instead of gaining.  I tend to be goal oriented so I had written down my target weight for each week and  list of things I would have to do to meet that target each week. I look at the list everyday and try to remind myself that I can do this and that I just need to stick to these simple rules. Here are my goals for each week:

- Stay within my points ( Weight Watchers) everyday

- drink at least 64 oz ( 2 nalgene bottles) of water everyday

- Excercize hard 5x per week

- If eating out only eat half the portion I am given.

I write down my points everyday and keep track of everything I eat. I do ok during the day at work, when i get home at night it is harder to stay on track but I have been trying hard to find healthy things to eat. I got the flu the first week of the month and it was frustrating for me beucase I didnt eat as healthy I should have and I wasnt able to go to the gym like I had planned.  But, when I weighed myself I had lost 4lbs, which put me back at where I wanted to be to keep to my weight loss goals/schedule.

 

I have already lost about 35lbs over the past year or so, but I am lookign to really make it all the way to my goal now that the holidays are over and find a way to maintain that wieght. I read somewhere that in the medical field, when you lose weight, they dont consider that your new body weight for 5 yrs, beucase most poeple will gain back all the weight they lose within 5 yrs. I dont want to be one of those people. I know I will have to work hard to not be one of them, beucase just in the last 4 months or so I lost focus and gained back 20lbs. So I just have to be diligent about it and keep on track.

 

I calculated it out today and if I can stick to my schedule of losing 2 lbs per week I have 19 weeks to go and 38lbs to lose. I know I can do it, I just have to commit myself to it and keep motivated. Hopefully this website will help me with those things. So far things seem to be going ok, I will have to see what this week hold for me on the scale.

 

-Mel