Weekend musings

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Who's counting Points?!</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Yes! That would be ME! After two mediocre weigh-ins in a row, I decided it's seriously time to get my game on. Yesterday's weigh-in was a paltry 0.4 pound loss. I can do better than that!</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Not counting my Points for two weeks resulted in a total loss of 1.2 pounds. I weigh 163.6. I've been up and down a few pounds from this for years!</strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Well, actually my four months of traveling last fall had me with a gain of 25 pounds, and I was up to 180.4 January 9, 2010, so in five months I've lost 17 pounds. I'm happy about that, but still, I really should be at goal. </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Exactly one year ago on May 31, 2009 I weighed in at 155.2. I honestly don't know what I've been doing the past year. Gaining, losing, gaining, losing. Semi-maintenance. Not a terrible thing, but darn it, I'm not at goal! This means I really shouldn't be in maintenance mode yet. </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Big Results Require Big Changes</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>So this keeps popping back in my head. It's something my Weight Watcher leader has said over and over. If you want big results, you have to make big changes. I even read the same thing in a magazine lately (Shape, Women's Health or Weight Watchers - can't remember which). </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><strong><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>This means I need to change things up. What I'm doing simply isn't working. I haven't been tracking my Points with gusto for months. I start the day, then I give up. Mainly because I'm pretty limited on Points now. I get 20, and even though I eat all of my 35 weeklies, it just doesn't feel like much food. I think I don't track my food because then it makes it easier to cheat.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>I usually track my food on-line on line, at work and at home. I also carry the 3-month tracking journal in my purse, and I have the Weight Watchers mobile app on my Blackberry - there is simply no reason not to track. Other than I'm lazy, and I have a secret desire to cheat.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>So I have a new tactic. I'm eating almost all Filling Foods. This is the suggestion of my Weight Watcher leader, Janis (who I totally LOVE!). I'm still tracking, not quite ready to give that up, but when you look at my tracker, it's almost entirely green diamond foods. It's true what they say, they do help with a feeling of fullness.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><br /><strong><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">I'm still off added sugar 100%. I almost gave in after hearing about the new pretzel-chocolate-caramel 2-Point bars at Weight Watchers. How they're the best ever bar Weight Watchers has ever made. I was in line with a box in my hand, I glanced at the label. First ingredient, enriched wheat flour (bad, never eat anything with the word "enriched" in front of it), second ingredient, SUGAR. OH MY FREAK! NO! I quickly put the box back on the shelf and left. That stuff would be crack for me. Pure and simple, I'm a sugar addict. I can't have it in my possession.</span> </span></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Amp Up Your Activity!</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>This week's Weight Watcher topic was Amp Up Your Activity. Anyway who reads my blog knows I'm a gym rat. I hit the gym six days a week, every week unless I'm out out town. </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Lately though, my workouts have been kind of lackluster. My heart (literally) just hasn't been into working out. I go, I do my thing, but sometimes I don't give it my all. Sometimes I do it half-hearted. Sometimes I even leave the gym early, before my minimum required hour is completed.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Last week I made an effort to try swimming. That didn't work out too well for me. I kind of hated it. So that's off my list. </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Yesterday's workout was fabulous. I did an hour of cardio, a new weekend rule for me. An hour of cardio and 40 minutes of strength on the weekends. I have the time, and yesterday I had the desire. It was probably my best workout in weeks.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Preferably I'd like to be outside on my bike, but our weather here in the Northwest sucks lately. As soon as I see some sun, I'll be back on my bike. Right now it looks like it's going to downpour any second. It's been like this for weeks, and the forecast is more of the same. I'm so jealous reading every one's blogs about the great weather they're having. Even Fairbanks, Alaska is having weather in the high 70's with sun. What the heck?</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogging</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>I'm not sure why or when this happened, but I've kind stopped posting on my blog on a consistent basis. I know it's key and what's helped me keep on track for the past three years. It's essential I post something every day.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong> Not being accountable is my downfall. I can hide a 5-pound gain from my husband, but I can't hide it from you. Weird how that works, but that's just me. I feel the strange need to be 100% honest here about my struggles, my failures, my successes. People who only know me through this blog, know more about my daily struggles with weight than anyone in my non-blog world.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>My goal weight?</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Not sure why I'm wordier than normal today. Maybe because I'm hyped up that I'm determined to get to goal. I'm not even sure what my goal is going to be. It was 135 pounds when I started, but as I get closer and this gets harder, I'll have to see where I land. </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Technically at my height, 5' 6", Weight Watchers high end of the scale for a healthy weight is 155. That's tempting, but it's not where I want to be. My goal has always been a size 8, but truthfully, size 8's are a lot bigger these days than when I started trying to lose weight 30 years ago.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Truthfully, I love the idea of losing 100 pounds, which would be 139. I guess I'll have to see how it goes.</strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana;">**********</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Mickey, helping me enter my food into the online tracker. So cute. :)</strong></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;"></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHr-EUup65P78Hf266B9m3GU0tnjwQAgV1eSOCCHJUSn5yl_DQlMpPkOImqJuTcYl-jHspX-Qc945MtHcZQEVxxSkBIrNxbyT6DtnXY5c9nMs1I4DVeaudIkb9PpgtcO69Fkm95fdmNUWX/s1600/Mickey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHr-EUup65P78Hf266B9m3GU0tnjwQAgV1eSOCCHJUSn5yl_DQlMpPkOImqJuTcYl-jHspX-Qc945MtHcZQEVxxSkBIrNxbyT6DtnXY5c9nMs1I4DVeaudIkb9PpgtcO69Fkm95fdmNUWX/s320/Mickey.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></div>

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