Weigh In: Weeks 8 & 9

In case you missed it, I gained 2 lbs. last week.  I expected it, but I wasn’t happy about it AT ALL.  I buck­led down and stayed pretty much on plan this week…and I lost SEVEN POUNDS!! 

Oh..and in case you missed it, I picked the bot­tom 3 on Idol cor­rectly this week, though I was wrong about which one went home. But I am not dis­ap­pointed that David H. got the boot. Now..to see if Kristy can sing Lennon/McCartney AGAIN with­out over­load­ing us with coun­try.

Weigh In: Weeks 6 & 7

I didn’t weigh in last week. The weather was too bad.  Then my son got sick for 5 days, zapped me of my energy. I ate OK, but I def­i­nitely went off plan way more than I should have.  So today, I was SCURRED to get on the scale.

I STILL LOST A POUND! 

Man..if you only knew how badly I messed up (at least it seemed that way to me), and didn’t exercise..you would have been afraid for me.  So..while nor­mally a pound over 2 weeks would make me mad, this time, I’m quite happy with it!

Weigh In: Week 5

4.6 pounds gone! Chang­ing what I was eat­ing really helped!

I haven’t posted a progress pic­ture yet, because my cam­era is on the fritz. I’m get­ting a new one on Friday…then the shots will begin!

Weigh In: Week 4

Loss: 0.4 lbs. Total: 8.8 lbs. My jeans are def­i­nitely fit­ting looser, and my black dress pants are too. I’m actu­ally going to have to buy a belt for the first time in YEARS!

This week was a lit­tle rough. Not to get into graphic detail, but it was the wrong time of month. Blah. That wasn’t the worst part though. I tried the first of my Firm Trans­FIR­Ma­tion videos: Hi-Def Sculpt, on Sat­ur­day. WHEW! It was a true work­out! After that, I pro­ceeded to go about my day. Took my son bowl­ing, as I do every Sat­ur­day, then I had to walk to my church for a meet­ing. Walked home after that, stayed home about 3 hours, then walked back to the church for a rehearsal. By the time I got to rehearsal, my knees were SCREAMING. I guess I had done too much. Anyhoo..my knees kept hurt­ing all day Sun­day AND Mon­day. So..I didn’t do any exer­cise after Sat­ur­day.

I guess I should feel blessed that I lost the lit­tle that I did. The recep­tion­ist at my WW meet­ing told me that eat­ing the same things all the time can get your body into a rut, also. Of course..cuz I get real com­fort­able eat­ing the same things. It was work­ing for me. Now I have to change up. I don’t wanna change. Change gives me too many choices! But I lis­tened to her, and after the meet­ing, I went to the store and bought dif­fer­ent foods.

My knees feel bet­ter now, so tomor­row is def­i­nitely an exer­cise day. With that..and the changeup in diet, hope­fully I can see at least a pound gone next week!

OH.…for those of you who are doing WW or any kind of diet, go to fat​se​cret​.com . It’s like myspace for dieters! LOL! I love it! I’m MsRikki on there..add me as a buddy!

Weigh In: Week 3

Lost 1.2 lbs.…for a total of 8.4 lost in 3 weeks!

I will admit, I felt a twinge of dis­ap­point­ment. Dis­ap­point­ment, NOT dis­cour­age­ment. Noth­ing is going to make me quit. As I said last week, as long as the weight is going down, I’m happy.

I went back to the 2 mile walk, BUT I added the weights to it. Yes, I fixed my DVD. Tooth­paste works won­ders! I knew I could not do 3 miles with weights and I want to use the weights go build up mus­cle as I lose the weight. I’ll get to the 3 mile again soon!

I ordered The Firm’s Trans­FIR­Ma­tion sys­tem on Over​stock​.com at a GREAT price! I want to build up a library of exer­cise videos so that I don’t get bored. And as I said.…build up mus­cle as I lose weight. The Firm is a lit­tle more dif­fi­cult, so we’ll see how that goes.

Any­body heard of Zumba? It’s an exer­cise rou­tine, but more like Latin danc­ing than straight up work­ing out. I want to get that one next…but my wal­let says NO.

My new addic­tion: Air popped pop­corn! The pic­ture above is the air pop­per that I have, thanks to my daddy! Air popped pop­corn is a great snack on the WW pro­gram. Now…ain’t no way I can eat taste­less pop­corn. I found a great com­pany that offers a lot of dif­fer­ent sea­son­ings for pop­corn: No More Naked Pop­corn.

I bought White Ched­dar, Ket­tle Corn, Apple Cin­na­mon, Parme­san & Gar­lic, and Choco­late Marsh­mal­low. They have a spe­cial: Buy 4, get one free. You can get them at Wal-Mart and some gro­cery stores, but the selec­tion is lim­ited. My store had the White Ched­dar, Parm & Gar­lic, and Butter..but none of the oth­ers. All in all, I paid $21 for 5 bot­tles of sea­son­ing that will last me quite a while. Don’t even THINK about order­ing it from Ama­zon: The ship­ping isn’t worth it!

I tried the Ket­tle Corn this afternoon..it was pretty good, a nice touch of sweet. I said I’m addicted to popcorn..so I may just make more before I go to bed. LOL!

Another new item: Diet Choco­late Cherry Dr. Pep­per. YUM! And it goes with my pop­corn just fine!

Weigh In: Week 2

I lost 1.8 pounds!

I thought I’d lose more because of the amount of exer­cise I did this week. BUT, I am in no way unhappy. As long as the num­ber keeps going DOWN, I’m a happy camper!

I did get up and do the 3 mile again today, and plan on doing it tomor­row.

Last week, my meet­ing leader, Joanne, asked us to come up with a way to moti­vate us to stay on plan for those days when we want to throw in the towel. What I did was cre­ate a photo album. It holds 4x6 pho­tos, so I can carry it with me every­where. I put a few pic­tures of my son first, since it was his inno­cent request that got me started on this jour­ney. After those, I put the pic­tures that I’ve taken recently that I hate the way I look in (see Before Pics and Gallery). I left lots of room to add pic­tures as I lose. So, every month I’ll add a new pic­ture to it. Although I don’t fore­see a day when I won’t want to do this, just in case, it’s INSTANT moti­va­tion!

Alright..off to have a snack (fat free/sugar free choco­late pud­ding: It’s good, really it is!) and then off to bed…after I fin­ish laugh­ing at Amer­i­can Idol. Oh yes. I’m a huge fan! 

I did it. Yep.

Had to do the 3 mile.  I made it!  And at 5:40AM to boot!

Keep on movin!

I forced myself to get up this morn­ing and begin exer­cis­ing.  I just couldn’t get out of the bed to start before work this week, so I told myself that doing it today (Sat­ur­day) was a MUST.  I dusted off my Walk Away The Pounds DVD and got started. I haven’t done it in almost 4 years, but it came back to me quickly.  I started with the 1-mile walk since it’s been a long time since I’ve exer­cised any­thing.  I actu­ally got through it eas­ier than I thought. I didn’t even break a sweat until the very end!

I think I’ll do this for about a month, then I’ll switch to the 2-mile.  My goal is to get up and do this EVERY morn­ing, week­ends included.   I am SO seri­ous about tak­ing the remain­ing 95 lbs. OFF!

Some­time this week, I’m going to add a gallery with cur­rent pic­tures, which I’ll upgrade as I lose weight.

A new me.

Last year some­time, my son and I were dis­cussing something..and I don’t recall what. What I do recall is that at the end of that con­ver­sa­tion, my son looked up at me with his big brown eyes (think about the cat from Shrek LOL) and inno­cently said, “Mommy, can you do some exer­cise? I don’t want you to be fat.”

WOW.

I told him sure, we’ll see, some­thing like that. But what he said stuck with me. For the last half of 2007, I’d been very dis­pleased with how I look. I nor­mally like pic­tures of me, but I haven’t liked one in at least 6 months. I don’t like what I see in the mir­ror. It’s not like I sud­denly gained weight. I sup­pose it’s that I FINALLY am see­ing what’s in the mir­ror ver­sus the self-image I have in my mind. It didn’t help that I have Type 2 dia­betes that was not being eas­ily con­trolled. On top of THAT, my doc­tor has me tak­ing Zocor for my cho­les­terol, which he says is “not bad”, but he wants to get it in check now.

I am 36 (soon to be 37) years old. And I felt like an old lady. I have to take a pill and a shot for my dia­betes, both twice a day. Gotta take the Zocor at bed­time. I had no energy, and I hated look­ing in the mir­ror. Some­thing had to be done!

On Jan­u­ary 10, I walked (yes, walked!) right on down to Weight Watch­ers and signed up. I had done it before and lost 30 lbs., so I knew it would work for me. Back then, I did the Flex plan and counted points. This time, I didn’t have the desire to count, so I chose the Core plan. Eat what I want of foods that are Core foods. Works for me. I started the plan on Jan­u­ary 12. I didn’t exer­cise that week…I can only do one change at a time. Core isn’t that hard to do, it just takes some get­ting used to, as it was a com­plete change from the way I had been eat­ing.

Fast for­ward to yes­ter­day, Jan­u­ary 16: I went to my meet­ing a day early because I had a Dr. appt. today. How bout I lost 5.4 pounds!!! That’s in 5 days! With­out exer­cise! I couldn’t believe it! When I went home and told my son how much I lost, you would have thought I’d just bought him a Wii or some­thing. He was so happy and excited! Now he checks up on me: “Mommy, did you take your pill? Your shot? What are you eat­ing?” I don’t mind though.

Today, I went to the Dr. I knew he’d check my blood sugar lev­els. In the past 3 months, it’s been com­ing down, but it still wasn’t down low enough. Still over 200. Last month, he said he’d check again this month and increase the dosage of my shot if nec­es­sary. So..the nurse sticks my fin­ger, and the glu­cose mon­i­tor read: 97!!!!

97? Say who? Say what? That’s NORMAL! I was SO excited! Need­less to say, my shot dosage was not increased. In fact, I now have to mon­i­tor by blood sugar to make sure it’s not too LOW!

I decided that it was time for me to take this weight off. But if I needed any more incen­tive, this week was IT! The look on my son’s face ALONE would keep me going for months. He has no idea how much he pushes me.

5.4 down, 94.6 to go!