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!

A treat!

I got myself a little treat yesterday......

I absolutely adore Dr Pepper! Unfortunately, I have to pay $2.50 for a can in the import shops and they never have the diet one. Bugger! So I buy one occassionally and share with my daughter. It's worth the 1 point for half a can IMO. (I always thought Dr Pepper was cherry. Seems I was wrong!).

I lost again this week. 0.7kg this time. The scales just keep going on down. I didn't do my planned exercise this week...only Monday & Tuesday. But I did wear the pedometer to the craft show & got about 2.5 pts each time so I suppose that all helps. I must get back into it this week though.

Another loss this week of .2kg. That makes a total of 13kg lost and I'm very happy. I just did my measurements and have lost quite a bit from my bust in the past month. I want those puppies to get below 100cm before the end of September. Then I will get myself a new bra cos I'm very overdue for one!!

Here are my pics. On the left is Oct last year when I weighed at least 104kg and on the right is today, at 92kg. Can you see any difference (well, besides my hair LOL)??

I've also done my menu planning for the week and it looks like this:

Wednesday: Ingham Chicken Medallions & oven fries

Thursday: Pork Strog from my new WW cookbook, Secrets of Success

Friday: Beef Pie from the WW cookbook

Saturday: McD's - I always have a lean beef burger and oven fries cooked at home

Sunday: Butter Chicken from the WW cookbook

Monday: Pizza Pasta Bake from STGTBT

Tuesday: Oriental Pork from STGTBT Book 4

Exercise plan is a 4km walk on Friday, Sunday & Monday. Blast class on Tuesday. Thursday and probably Saturday will be spent at the craft fair here in Sydney so I'll wear my pedometer and see how many pts I get from walking all day.

July has gone by & nothing has happened

I'm not sure if it's because I was away for a week (& then again for another weekend) but I hardly lost any weight in July. I started out with a 1.5kg loss that came out of nowhere only to be followed by .2kg coming on & going off again. So this week was a goodie. I got back into walking and walked for at least 30 mins for 6 out of 7 days and lost .8kg so I'm very happy with that.

Even though my weight hasn't moved much, my measurements sure have. This weight loss thing is a funny animal, isn't it? You can never tell what's gonna happen.

Satisfaction

I've been away for the past week doing some family history research. So that meant eating out every night. I've learnt something about myself and I think it's a biggie. You know that huge overfull feeling you get when you eat too much? So full that you can't even be enticed by a piece of choc or the like afterwards? So full you feel like you've got a lump of lead sitting in the top of your stomach? Well that's how I felt on Friday night. We had dinner at the RSL club in Inverell. I had Beef & Guiness pie with veg & chips. Yum. It was very yum. It had huge chunks of beef in a yummy gravy with gorgeous puff pastry. So I ate it all. Even though halfway through, I knew I was full. But I shovelled it all down. I sat in our hotel room later feeling like crap. Not wanting to even look at food.

So here's what I learnt. I don't have to feel like that. I could've stopped anytime but didn't. I had to clear the plate. For the first time in a week, I felt hungry yesterday. And you know what? I liked it! I felt it. I wanted to feel it. Because when I ate, I knew how much I could have to feel OK. Not overly full, not even full. Satisfied. That's the word. Satisfied. Wow.

So today I felt hungry at 4.00. I had a cup of coffee & a muesli bar. Normally I would've had 2 (I love them!). But today, in order to be satisfied, I only had 1. And I was satisfied.

I've cracked both the 10kg mark & 10%!!

Well, I absolutely blitzed it at weigh in today. I lost 1.5kg which is totally unheard of for me. I didn't even lose that much on my first week!! No idea how it happened but I'll still keep it thank you very much. I was pretty good all week except for a blow out on Saturday. I only walked 2 days but I did my Blast class yesterday. What I have curbed in the last couple of days is my late night eating. I'm inclined to have toast and honey at 11pm so I'm trying to break that little habit.

I didn't get fitted for a bra but I did try one on at Big W. I tried a 16E but it was too big in the cup and I couldn't be bothered getting dressed, going back out & getting a smaller size. So maybe next week. I should post an updated pic of myself too.