10 Years...really!?!?!

Today is my 10 year wedding anniversary. It doesn't seem like it's been that long! (most of the time...sometimes it feels longer! LOL) Love you hunny!!! We went to La Fiesta (a Mexican resturant for those of you who don't know) and ate out on the patio while enjoying some good music played by a friend of ours. I'm proud of myself for my dinner choice too...I had Pollo Con Queso (with the queso on the side), basically it was a peice of grilled chicken on a bed of rice. I ate some chips and salsa, the chicken with very little queso, an not even half of the rice and beans!!! Normally, I would have eaten everything on my plate! The meal even comes with tortillas...and I didn't eat ANY!!!!!!!!

Joy, my diet buddy at work told me today that she's really proud of me. She's done the Weight Watchers Point thing for over a year and lost nearly 70 lbs. She said she can see how determined I am! I've made myself a spreadsheet that I use to keep track of everything I eat and the points. It's also tracking my weight. One of these days I might post it for ya'll to see...if you want me too. I have to say...overall, I'm proud of myself too! I'm doing better at making smarter choices at resturants...which has always been the most difficult part for me. I even had Taco Bell for lunch the other day (thanks to Natalie forcing me to eat something besides my normal lunch of tuna and crackers) and I ordered off the Fresco Menu (at the suggestion of my sister!)...it was actually good! I couldn't wrap my head around the thought of Mexican food without cheese...but it was good! It was 13 points, which is a little high for lunch...I had 1 burrito and 2 tacos, the burrito was 7 points, so next time I'll stick with just 3 tacos (9 points total)!

I had been slacking a bit on the "exercising" part of this journey...but tonight I started up again. I went for a 30 minute walk around the complex again. The weather was georgous tonight! I'm planning on going again Friday...maybe even tomrrow...I don't know that I'll be up to going EVERY night, but I will do my best to go at least 3 times a week from now on! It's good "me time" too, I just turn on the Ipod and take off!

I have people telling me to weigh daily, and people telling me not to. I like to weigh daily because I can see that even if I don't loose that much as a total weekly loss, I can see the lowest point I was in the week (ya know what I mean?). I forgot to weigh this morning though, but yesterday I was down another 1/2 pound! Hopefully after my "workout" tonight I will see it drop again in the morning. I'm gonna do my best to not let it get me down again if it doesn't!

Sad day...softball is over (for a couple of weeks)

So tonight was sad...we played our last game of the Spring Session. We lost, but the team we played is completely undefeted, I think we have 2nd place for the season, but it might be 3rd...I'll find out for sure in a couple of days. Summer 1 session starts soon...I can't wait! I hate not having games to go to...I'd say not playing, but to be honest I coach more than I play! We have some kick-ass players so it's better for the team if I let them play and I coach!!

My official weight-loss for Week One was 2 lbs...I would have liked for it to be more than that, but at least it's a loss and not a gain!

Not much to post tonight, so...goodnight!

Frustrated

So, this morning I get up to weigh (like I do every morning) and I'm not seeing any results! I hate the waiting...I know there wont be instant results, but I feel like I'm damn near starving myself (I'm not though, I promise) and would like to see more than just a 1 pound loss in a week! GGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Today could be difficult...

I did it...I bought a scale yesterday...I can't believe I own one of those evil, evil things!!! :) Well I guess this mornings weight can be my official starting weight...290.0! That's actually less than I was at my dr. appt two weeks ago!

I also went to 3 different websites yesterday to try and find out what my actual daily point limit should be, and according to all 3 it should be 34 pts. I was going with 29, so I'm probably gonna try to stick to 29, but if I go over I'm not gonna freak...I'm just not gonna do it everyday! Plus, your supposed to get 35 extra points a week! I try to never think about those though, I don't wanna use them!

I started walking again yesterday. When I was walking before, I was up to 30-45 minutes and at least 6 laps in the apartment parking lot. Last night, I only did 20 minutes - 4 laps. My legs were on fire when I started lap 4, I think I was walking a little faster than before (thanks to the songs I was listening to on the ipod). I feel good this morning, and will continue to walk every other day (maybe every day if I feel up to it).

So, now on to why today is gonna be difficult...I'm going to a BBQ this afternoon. I think I might just stick to brisket and no extras...maybe some beans. It sucks though, there's always soooooo much good food at Chris' BBQ's...brisket, sausage, white wings, potato salad, beans, pies, cakes, banana pudding, chips and dip...I could go on! I will deffinately be using www.calorieking.com today! Wish me luck...I'll let ya know how it goes!!!

Blog - Day one..."Diet" - Day 2

OK, so I decided to start this blog to go along with my "diet". I really hate that word...it's always been a bad word to me. No "diet" has ever worked for me before. This time, I'm doing the Weight Watcher's Points...kind of...I'm counting points, but not doing the meetings and all that.

My plan for this...lets call it a "change" rather than a "diet"...is to loose enough weight to go down in clothing size enough to be able to shop in the "normal" section of a clothing store. To be honest, I don't even care if I'm the biggest size in that section. I just want to be able to walk into basically any store in the mall and be able to buy clothes. I don't want to have to go clear to the back of the store, if I'm lucky enough for them to have a "plus-size" section. It would be nice to be able to wear an XL t-shirt!!!

I haven't weighed yet since starting this change but I'm going to go buy a scale tomorrow. I have never in my life owned a scale. I hate the scale! It's always been an evil thing to me...EVIL! But, I'm gonna bite the bullet and buy one. My sister says its the only way she's stayed on her change so I have to give in! :) Miranda's lost over 30 pounds since January, and to be honest, she's part of the motivation for this change.

The other motivation for me is medical. I've always said "I may be fat, but at least I'm healthy" but that changed with my last 2 lady-doctor appointments. It's nothing major at this point, but I have high(ish) blood pressure. It's not in the dangerous range or anything like that, but it's enough that my doctor said I need to go see my regular doctor about getting put on blood pressure medicine. If you know me at all, you know I'm not a huge fan of doctors or medicine...so I decided I'd try to fix the problem by loosing weight.

I've been told over and over I need a "tangible goal" with a time-line and all that fun stuff. I don't have a specific weight in mind (like I said earlier) but my goal is to be shopping in the "normal" size clothes by the end of the year. If I see that I'm dropping sizes quicker than that, then I'll amend my goal. I'm starting in a size 22-24, I don't even know for sure what the normal size stores go up to...but I'm thinking getting down to a 12-14 (or 10-12) would be good. I'll find out my semi-starting weight tomorrow.

I'm planning on starting my walking regimen again this weekend. That consists of me walking for 30-45 minutes at least three nights a week. I might change it up a bit and start walking in the mornings before work though, we'll have to see how that all works out. I also play softball one night a week, I normally don't play as much as I coach but I'm gonna change that up too. I'm gonna do my best to play more.

I won't bore you all with my actual food diary...but I will try to blog on here at least once a week with a weight update. I'm gonna put my weight on the Internet...what the hell am I thinking?!?!?!? :) I guess I need this as another motivational tool...

Good night for now, I'll update tomorrow with my starting weight...blech!!!!