A loss!

Finally....after weeks of fiddling around, losing & gaining the same .1 or .2, I had a loss of .7kg this week. Very happy with that. It takes me to an all time low of 89.2kg. I haven't been this weight since before I had my daughter (she's 14). Now I just have to focus and keep myself in check for the Christmas season.

I think I may attempt to up my exercise somewhat. I've been doing a 4km walk & adding 4 laps of a local park which takes it to 5km and takes me an hour. Problem is, I've only been doing it twice a week if I'm lucky. So this week I will make a goal of doing that walk 4 times. Thursday, Friday, Sunday & Monday. I'll report back.

Damn hormonal weight gain!

I hate my hormones! After last week being reasonable and losing .4 to get back under 90kg, this week my body has decided it likes fluid & has given me that .4 back. Well, it was only .3 but still. After going away for the weekend, having dinner out & being good by selecting the grilled fish & vegies, I'm a bit annoyed. More so when I went out this morning to a parent/teacher thing, ate some fruit, had some water & came home. I then jumped back on the scales only to discover I was .4 LESS than earlier. Hmph. I could've cheated & changed my weight on-line but I figure that I wouldn't have been able to do that if I was at a meeting so I left it.

Now I have to suck it in & continue on. This week will be challenging because I'm going out to dinner tonight and to a party on Sat night. I always try to be good at parties but the sight of all that food sitting on a table sends my head into a spin & I just tuck on in. Ergh.

Going well so far this week

I'm very happy with how I'm going this week. I've clocked up 10,000 steps on my pedometer every day except for today. Today I'm sewing. I just made a Tshirt in a size 14! Now if any of you sew, you'll know that sewing pattern sizes mean nothing compared to RTW. But for me to get into a size 14 with minimum adjustments is a real motivator.

I've also been doing well with my eating. Tonight is a challenge though as our family traditionally have McDonalds for dinner. My DH goes out to the drive-through and brings the food back but last week we got the bad news that McD's have decided in their infinite wisdom to stop making the Lean Beef Burger. That's what I usually have....it's 4.5 points and a good choice. Now they've got rid of it. I'm not happy. DH brought me home a Quarter Pounder last week! Eek...it's 11 pts. I won't be having that tonight so have told him to get food for himself & DD....I will have something else.

I just wanted to pop in & do a quick catch-up. Since being an on-line WW-er, I've lost the grand total of 300g. Yeah, not very good. I don't know what's going on but I'm only just getting back into my routine that was shattered when I went to Perth in September. So I've been really good for the past 3 days & am now working on the 'one day at a time' mentality.

To answer Tammy's question (well, it wasn't really a question but still), a kilo is equal to 2.2lbs so just multiply my weight or loss to get the imperial. My weight is currently 90.1kg which is around 198lbs. I don't think I like the pounds number much!! It's very big.

Anyway, this week will be better. I will take each day as it comes, trying to avoid snacking or changing my snacks from point snacks to carrots or fruit. I also need to stop eating after dinner which I have managed to do for 3 days. It's a key thing for me.

Well...I've done it

I rang WW today & cancelled my unlimited membership. I've now changed to being an on-line member so I don't have to suffer that damn ww woman anymore. Yeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! It's like a load has been lifted. I've been a bit restless in the past few weeks. Couldn't concentrate on anything. I'd pick up my stitching, do 2 stitches & put it down. I'd prowl the house looking for food. I'd sit at my sewing machine and just look at it. I couldn't settle to anything. Let's hope that's all behind me now.

Today was a pretty good day food-wise except for the Baskin Robbins ice cream I had. 6 points! Ergh. So I tracked it and have gone over my pts today by a couple. But I have 2 pts on my pedometer. Tomorrow is another day & I must do my walk in the morning. I'll be out all day Sat so no walk there & Monday I'm going to a friend's breast cancer fund raising morning tea. I'm making a strawberry cake worth 14 pts per slice. I'm thinking I won't be eating any of it!

I am so over my WW leader

I'm back from my trip to Perth & didn't weigh for 2 weeks. I finally bit the bullet this week & weighed in with a .6 gain. That's OK. However, our meeting on Wednesday was the most bizarre thing I've seen and I am so over this leader.

Our leader is reasonably new to our meeting. From the beginning she's been a rule stickler and the meeting has been fairly boring. We don't get much of a chance to interact - she always cuts people off. She lost me fairly early on in the piece when she said that she'd lost her 14kg & had never had a gain! Eye roll. How the heck could she ever know how people like me (with more than 30kg to lose) feel? Never had a gain? Crap. What a crock. Anyway, this week we had the new area manager & some other woman there. Then 2 other leaders came in & joined in on the meeting. They all knew each other but didn't sit together. Did they really expect us to think they were 'normal' members? But the biggest crock of all was our leader who was all sweetness & light & really played to them. I couldn't really work out what was going on. Usually when the area manager comes to the meeting, they sit up the back, don't contribute & take notes. This didn't happen here. The whole meeting was a complete waste of time for me. But then I'm finding that is happening a lot for me. I'm ready to find another meeting. Or do I really need a meeting at all? Maybe I should just leave WW altogether.

I'm not over losing weight. I'm still motivated. I just got myself together today to start over after pizza last  night LOL. But obviously it wasn't the meeting that helped me do that. So do I really need it?

I'm under 90kg!

A loss of 1.1kg this week has got me under the 90kg mark. Woot! I haven't been particularly good in the past few weeks so this week I got stuck in, did my walking for 3 days plus my gym class. I had a strange sensation of not wanting to eat this week too. Hmm. Not sure where that's coming from LOL. But it all seems to have done the trick.

I also got fitted for a new very expensive bra this week! I ended up with a Panache Tango II bra , size...wait for it....12H! I was very surprised to be in a 12, but a H?? I didn't even know they existed. This bra is an amazing feat of engineering. Not only does it sit on my chest (which no other bra has ever done, even in my youth) but it squashes down the rolls under my arms. A miracle!

So I'm off on Sunday to Perth for the Australian Sewing Guild annual convention. Should be fun! I usually always lose weight at these mostly due to no snacking between meals so I'm pretty confident I'll not gain while I'm away. I've also mapped a 3km walk on mapmyrun.com and printed it out so I can take it with me. I'm hoping to walk every day. It's just the liquor at night I have to watch but I'm taking Tia Maria & will have that with diet coke. I think that's a better idea than wine for me. I'm also taking some fruit snack packs & WW cookies for morning tea so let's just hope my plans all work. See you all when I get back!