Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Tools For Success
There are many tools out there to set yourself up for weight loss success. Motivation, support systems, tips, and actual hands on tools.
Over the years I've been a Weight Watchers member one of my most valuable tools has been my scale! Not the one in the bathroom or the evil big black box I step on once a week at my meeting. I'm referring to my food scale.
Weighing and measuring your food is such an important portion of learning to eat properly and weight loss. As I've often heard Maryanne, my meeting leader say eyeballing it leads to "portion distortion" over time your servings start to get bigger and bigger again. Often we eat much larger servings of foods than we should.
For years I've had one of the old WW digital scales, it was based on the old Points/Momentum program. It was great because I could get it to not only give me a weight but the points value of the foods I was eating, very accurate when every point counts. Since the switch over to Points Plus I've been just using the scale to weigh my food servings, not to its full potential since the point systems don't march up.
So here it is my new wand improved Weight Watchers Points Plus Digital scale. It was such a valuable tool for me in the past that I finally felt it was worth investing in a new one. Now, here in Ontario I know they are on sale this week for $36.50 after taxes. I know I can use a standard scale but having the scale calculate the points for you is super handy!!!
What can this scale do?
- weighs in grams & pounds/ounces
- max capacity 3kg/6lbs, 9.8 oz
- you can tare/zero out the weight of your plate/dish/container before adding your food
- has a database of 450 foods entered to calculate PP Value
- has a recipe builder to calculate PP Value for a recipe
- can calculate PP Value of any food with nutritional information
- can save up to 10 of your favourite foods you calculated the PP Value for
We need to use every tool available to us to be successful!
- thanks for reading!
Over the years I've been a Weight Watchers member one of my most valuable tools has been my scale! Not the one in the bathroom or the evil big black box I step on once a week at my meeting. I'm referring to my food scale.
Weighing and measuring your food is such an important portion of learning to eat properly and weight loss. As I've often heard Maryanne, my meeting leader say eyeballing it leads to "portion distortion" over time your servings start to get bigger and bigger again. Often we eat much larger servings of foods than we should.
For years I've had one of the old WW digital scales, it was based on the old Points/Momentum program. It was great because I could get it to not only give me a weight but the points value of the foods I was eating, very accurate when every point counts. Since the switch over to Points Plus I've been just using the scale to weigh my food servings, not to its full potential since the point systems don't march up.
So here it is my new wand improved Weight Watchers Points Plus Digital scale. It was such a valuable tool for me in the past that I finally felt it was worth investing in a new one. Now, here in Ontario I know they are on sale this week for $36.50 after taxes. I know I can use a standard scale but having the scale calculate the points for you is super handy!!!
What can this scale do?
- weighs in grams & pounds/ounces
- max capacity 3kg/6lbs, 9.8 oz
- you can tare/zero out the weight of your plate/dish/container before adding your food
- has a database of 450 foods entered to calculate PP Value
- has a recipe builder to calculate PP Value for a recipe
- can calculate PP Value of any food with nutritional information
- can save up to 10 of your favourite foods you calculated the PP Value for
We need to use every tool available to us to be successful!
- thanks for reading!
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Doing Well!
I think I'm finally in the right "mental space" to do this weight loss thing. I shouldn't call it a "thing" should I because this is VERY serious and I am taking it seriously, finally!
I saw this little gem on Facebook back at the beginning of the year and saved it, I knew it was going to come in handy, I knew that this was it... the year to shed the pounds I've gained in the last two years!
Not only am I going to kick 2013's ASS I'm going to kick this weight to the curb finally!
Like I said things are going well! I'm still maintaining my positive metal attitude that I had back when I initially lost my weight (something that was missing the last two years). What has the result been of this positive attitude? While I was in the DR I managed to come home 1.8 lbs lighter! Then the following week I didn't bounce back, but lost another 0.6 (last week). So that's a total of 2.4 lbs gone! Yay me!
I'm hoping for positive results again this week! I've done really well so far this week in terms food choices, even while out and about with friends! I'm on March Break and socializing means food and lunches out. I have also earned Activity Points 8 days in a row!!!!! Fingers crossed that this hard work is going to pay off this week, and if it doesn't I'm okay with that because I know sometimes things take a little longer to show up on the scale.
Yesterday saw my first road run of 2013!! The weather has warmed up (we had a huge snow storm almost two weeks ago now), and the roads are clear enough in my area I'm not going to kill myself. I stopped running back in the summer because of foot pain which has finally been diagnosed with Sinus Tarsus Syndrome. So in the last month or so I've decided its time to start running again... I am having to start from square one! Running on the treadmill has been okay, I can't run non-stop or as fast as I used to but I was doing well on the treadmill. I forgot how road running is a completely different affair, it was almost hard to do my 5:5 intervals (5 min. run:5 min walk). But I toughed it out and felt great for doing it!!!!
Keep working hard!!!
I saw this little gem on Facebook back at the beginning of the year and saved it, I knew it was going to come in handy, I knew that this was it... the year to shed the pounds I've gained in the last two years!
Not only am I going to kick 2013's ASS I'm going to kick this weight to the curb finally!
Like I said things are going well! I'm still maintaining my positive metal attitude that I had back when I initially lost my weight (something that was missing the last two years). What has the result been of this positive attitude? While I was in the DR I managed to come home 1.8 lbs lighter! Then the following week I didn't bounce back, but lost another 0.6 (last week). So that's a total of 2.4 lbs gone! Yay me!
I'm hoping for positive results again this week! I've done really well so far this week in terms food choices, even while out and about with friends! I'm on March Break and socializing means food and lunches out. I have also earned Activity Points 8 days in a row!!!!! Fingers crossed that this hard work is going to pay off this week, and if it doesn't I'm okay with that because I know sometimes things take a little longer to show up on the scale.
Yesterday saw my first road run of 2013!! The weather has warmed up (we had a huge snow storm almost two weeks ago now), and the roads are clear enough in my area I'm not going to kill myself. I stopped running back in the summer because of foot pain which has finally been diagnosed with Sinus Tarsus Syndrome. So in the last month or so I've decided its time to start running again... I am having to start from square one! Running on the treadmill has been okay, I can't run non-stop or as fast as I used to but I was doing well on the treadmill. I forgot how road running is a completely different affair, it was almost hard to do my 5:5 intervals (5 min. run:5 min walk). But I toughed it out and felt great for doing it!!!!
Keep working hard!!!
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Remember Me?
Remember me? I've been meaning to make an appearance here for the last month or two. I've been thinking a lot and I've been wanting to blog here again. The problem has been what to say? So I think I'll just let the words flow. I think I need this to start moving in the right direction. To get things off of my chest, air the laundry so to speak.
I seem to have forgotten myself over the last two years. I have forgotten how hard I worked to get from 207lbs to 142lbs, loosing over 60lbs and achieving my Weight Watchers Lifetime status. How over that time period, I started to walk, which turned into running (even did a half marathon). I became a gym rat, and eventually returned to Taekwon-Do thinner, stronger, and focused achieving my 3rd degree Black Belt.
In April of 2011, almost two years ago now something in my head snapped and slowly but surely I have put back on just over 25lbs. I slowly started making more bad choices, I stopped working as hard, I stopped going to the gym. Then this last summer I started having pain in my left foot. Which meant I stopped running, going to Taekwon-Do, I gave up on a lot of things. I have been in constant pain, and the every day being on my feet at work was hurting. It just became a excuse in my arsenal of self destruction. (More about my foot another day)
I have also forgotten how AWESOME I felt at goal. I felt healthy, I felt thin, I felt strong, I felt beautiful, I felt sexy, I felt powerful. I walked into a room and I was like, "yeah look at me". I don't feel all of that anymore and I've started I MISS those feelings and I want them back.
I've found myself wearing looser clothes again to hide the bulges that have come back. I have been forced to put over half of my wonderful, sexy, slim fitting wardrobe away into a big bin because they just don't fit anymore. I can't even squeeze my behind into a pair of jeans I could wear at goal. I've had to buy bigger clothes, and I really miss my girlie concert T's that just hug your curves. I feel like I'm starting to loose my waist again!!!
Last week I was on my annual Dominican Experience trip for work. I had an ah-ha moment, when I realized ... I didn't want my picture taken, and when I was, I was trying to hide my body behind other people. Before I lost my weight and when I was at goal I always loved having my picture taken, always put myself in the front row. When did things change that I am now ashamed of my appearance, my body? I had a long chat with my best friend Christin before I went away, she's known me BWW (before Weight Watchers) and AWW. She pointed out that when I was over 200lbs I was never ashamed of my body, I never felt fat or ugly.
Wow.
- thanks for reading!
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Weigh In
Just a quick post...
Tonight I weighed in, its not quite been a week since I've stepped on the scale (last weighed in on Saturday, 4 days ago). I do prefer if I can, to weigh in on Saturday mornings, its first thing out of bed, no food in my belly, etc. You know the excuses. Wednesday night weigh ins means I've had breakfast, and lunch, and stopped drinking water after lunchtime. Of course I'd have better results on Saturday.
Unfortunately my weigh in wasn't exactly what I wanted (see excuses above) but not a disaster either, I stayed the same this week.
I have to keep things positive! Otherwise I'll end up just giving up again, and putting on another 10 lbs.
Tonight I weighed in, its not quite been a week since I've stepped on the scale (last weighed in on Saturday, 4 days ago). I do prefer if I can, to weigh in on Saturday mornings, its first thing out of bed, no food in my belly, etc. You know the excuses. Wednesday night weigh ins means I've had breakfast, and lunch, and stopped drinking water after lunchtime. Of course I'd have better results on Saturday.
Unfortunately my weigh in wasn't exactly what I wanted (see excuses above) but not a disaster either, I stayed the same this week.
I have to keep things positive! Otherwise I'll end up just giving up again, and putting on another 10 lbs.
- I've been to my 4th WW meeting in a row
- I didn't gain any weight
- I've been working hard this week and I'm feeling good for it
- I'm eating much better than I have in over 6 months.
- I feel like my clothes are starting to fit a little better.
Positive right????
This weekend I have a lot of food challenges and temptations to face and overcome. I hope I can handle them well, I'd hate to ruin all the hard work I've put in this week!
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Thank You Joe Fresh!
Tonight I experienced on of my first non-scale victories in a long time!
I've been really making an effort to do some kind of physical activity daily. Today's grand master plan was to go to my meeting at another school after work, which happened to be in the area of town I go to my stitching group. So last night I packed my gym bag, I knew I'd have time to get in a workout, grab a bite to eat and get to stitching in time. The Goodlife location I went to wasn't my usual one, but that's the convenience of belonging to a franchise gym. I got into the change room started unpacking my bag to change into my workout clothes. I went through my bag twice, no sports bra! Crap! Double crap!
At first I thought about keeping on the one I was wearing. Not a good idea since I was't going right home... well it also wouldn't do the job. So I thought about it for a second... I could just skip my workout. That was the easy route. Then I remembered the grocery store downstairs had a Joe Fresh clothing section... just maybe....
I was able to buy a sports bra, get back up to the gym and get in a 40 minute workout!!!
I'd say that's a non-scale victory worth celebrating!
- thanks for reading!
I've been really making an effort to do some kind of physical activity daily. Today's grand master plan was to go to my meeting at another school after work, which happened to be in the area of town I go to my stitching group. So last night I packed my gym bag, I knew I'd have time to get in a workout, grab a bite to eat and get to stitching in time. The Goodlife location I went to wasn't my usual one, but that's the convenience of belonging to a franchise gym. I got into the change room started unpacking my bag to change into my workout clothes. I went through my bag twice, no sports bra! Crap! Double crap!
At first I thought about keeping on the one I was wearing. Not a good idea since I was't going right home... well it also wouldn't do the job. So I thought about it for a second... I could just skip my workout. That was the easy route. Then I remembered the grocery store downstairs had a Joe Fresh clothing section... just maybe....
I was able to buy a sports bra, get back up to the gym and get in a 40 minute workout!!!
I'd say that's a non-scale victory worth celebrating!
- thanks for reading!
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Weigh In Day
This week I decided to put off weighing in at Weight Watchers until Saturday. I'm lucky, my leader does meetings on Wednesdays and Saturdays. So if I can't make it to a meeting there's always a second day I can choose from. From time to time I've gone to meetings in other locations with other leaders because I couldn't make my regular meetings and I keep finding no one compares to Marianne. She's just so dynamic and makes any topic interesting.
I think a good leader is a huge key to success to the members. From time to time its been nice to pop into different meetings and see how other WW leaders conduct their meetings. Almost every time it makes me realize just how lucky I am to have the leader I do! This summer I had gone back to WW yet again and Marianne was on holidays, the woman who was filling in was such a horrible speaker and so flat... that first I almost walked out of the meeting (if it hadn't been rude to do so) the end result... I didn't go back until three weeks ago! Its amazing how the right person can motivate you and the wrong person can make you walk out the door.
I had a GREAT weigh in this week, much better than I could hope for! I am very proud of myself that I've now been going to meetings for three weeks in a row. The first half of the week was a little sketchy with my food choices. I did start it off right on Monday night. Despite going to an after work meeting, an impromptu road trip to Ogdensburg, N.Y with my friend Tracey (you can read about the reason for this road trip on my other blog on Tuesday) and not getting home until after 8PM I jumped on my treadmill! This set me on the road to a good week with activity! Monday I walked/ran on my treadmill, Wednesday and Friday I went to the gym. I know when I'm active I'm more conscience about my food choices, just seems easier. I wasn't perfect, I wasn't great, but I was good this week. This resulted in a 1.5lb loss! That is two pounds down, and better yet I dropped into the 160's! I'm just into them but its such a morale boost its amazing!
I've started my day off right, a walk/run on my treadmill, I've gone to WW, put my laundry away, and had a healthy brunch. Now to keep this up for another week and maybe see another loss next week!
I think a good leader is a huge key to success to the members. From time to time its been nice to pop into different meetings and see how other WW leaders conduct their meetings. Almost every time it makes me realize just how lucky I am to have the leader I do! This summer I had gone back to WW yet again and Marianne was on holidays, the woman who was filling in was such a horrible speaker and so flat... that first I almost walked out of the meeting (if it hadn't been rude to do so) the end result... I didn't go back until three weeks ago! Its amazing how the right person can motivate you and the wrong person can make you walk out the door.
I had a GREAT weigh in this week, much better than I could hope for! I am very proud of myself that I've now been going to meetings for three weeks in a row. The first half of the week was a little sketchy with my food choices. I did start it off right on Monday night. Despite going to an after work meeting, an impromptu road trip to Ogdensburg, N.Y with my friend Tracey (you can read about the reason for this road trip on my other blog on Tuesday) and not getting home until after 8PM I jumped on my treadmill! This set me on the road to a good week with activity! Monday I walked/ran on my treadmill, Wednesday and Friday I went to the gym. I know when I'm active I'm more conscience about my food choices, just seems easier. I wasn't perfect, I wasn't great, but I was good this week. This resulted in a 1.5lb loss! That is two pounds down, and better yet I dropped into the 160's! I'm just into them but its such a morale boost its amazing!
I've started my day off right, a walk/run on my treadmill, I've gone to WW, put my laundry away, and had a healthy brunch. Now to keep this up for another week and maybe see another loss next week!
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