OFFICAL "weigh in" thread

[shorthorsemom]

Hi Everybody. Just got in the house. Thought I would see if anyone posted after me today, than grab a snack! After seeing all the replies I am more motivated than ever. Thanks to all! I have made it 1 day. Now to make it 1 day tomorrow too. I have not had a chance to finish reading the earlier postings but did see all the tips you have just given me. I agree that it is a fine line... eating too little doesn't work. I do drink a lot of water, eat plenty of water/fiber filled fruits, lean meats, no fried foods, rarely eat at fast food places. That is all before 8:00 PM... I am a night time snacker!!! Chips, nuts, chocolate covered raisins, ice cream, left overs. I think I feel like I always need to be busy and eating is busy work. I have tried crafts but they just do not hold my attention. I can read a book, watch TV, and eat all at the same time. Going to bed early has not worked either. I just toss and turn, think about food. I realize I need help... so...

Thursday evening, there is a WT. Watchers meeting about 12 miles from me. I will try to go and see about the new system. Thanks again for the encouragement. Have a great week everyone!!! Melinda

Sounds great Melinda... the cool bonus about weight watchers is all the new friends I have. They root for you and they give you comfort when you are feeling low and you do the same right back. A whole group of people with a single struggle.

When I joined I didn't even wait for a new session to start, they pro rated it and I jumped in the middle. I admit that the money kept me at bay at first and I tried just reading everything and doing it on my own. Like this thread, there is strength in numbers.

I learned about power foods at weight watchers and how to make up your points with foods that fill you up. You get 29 points a day to start.. 45 extra points to use during the week as "over draft protection" and you can earn extra points by exercising. Me, I took the strict path.. only do my 29 points a day and don't dip into my overdraft and I don't take the points I earn by walking. But the cool part is that either way.. you lose and you can make it individual for what works for you.

My cravings for something sweet is satisfied by a fruit smoothie I make using frozen fruit, zero fat vanilla yogurt and I blend it into an icy slushy. Yum. You only charge for the yogurt points.. fruit is free. When I get a real bad craving for something chocolate, I splurge on a weight watchers ice cream treat for 2-3 points. They really tell you if you want something special... eat it, just count the points and everything will adjust. Most veggies are free. Lean meats are very low in points and breads and such are higher, but you can still count it in. I also pair my sweet things with a few almonds. I eat 5 almonds for 1 point when I have a sweet treat and I don't get the sugar rush followed by the low from the carb which makes you want to eat more.

I just hope I can keep up the energy to keep it going.... I want to get to my lifetime goal.. then you don't pay for meetings, you weigh in once a month and have to stay with in 2 lbs of your goal weight...

 

[heartkranch]

I don't remember what I weighed in last time, but I'm at 132. with 15 more pounds I want off!

 

[shorthorsemom]

I went about a week without budging the scale and I was getting that "is this where I hit the plateau" feeling and then I dropped a pound and a half in one day. I am the lowest I have been in quite a few years, but I still need to work hard to get to my goal of somewhere between 104 and 124 (according to weight watchers).

10 pounds would do it. I am going to try to achieve that by August 1st as my personal weight loss journey. I started the journey needing to lose at least 32 something pounds and now I am about 10 lbs away from my goal. I need to lose more than that to get back to my horse riding weight from the good old days, but when I think about how much I have been carrying around extra, getting it off is worth the struggle and resisting the temptation.

Cookies are my downfall and I baked 6 dozen yesterday and didn't eat any batter or any baked cookies and didn't want to either so that was a big day for me.

We had a brutally busy day at home yesterday and I took on the cleaning of the milk house chore. Lots of bending and scrubbing and I tried to create an all day work out. Two months ago I could'nt have done that much in one day. It seemed like a good idea at the time but I sure felt like I had been taken through the wringer twice by the time I got to bed last night but I did the happy dance on the scale and it was worth it this morning.

Now the challenge is to try to keep that weight off until Tuesday weigh in with a holiday in between. I am heading to the store for picnic food to take to my mother in laws house. Going to plan to take items to her picnic that I can count and eat and still stay on my plan. Some weight watchers icecream for dessert too. Gotta love those raspberry ice cream pops coated in dark chocolate for only 2 points. Thanks guys for giving me somewhere to talk

 

[LindaL]

1/2 lb down...slowly but surely...LOL!

I will tell you tho that that the reason it is slow is because I do not daily exercise and I have eaten some crap food during the week, but at home I do eat healthy foods, so I am not eating junk all the time...

 

[shorthorsemom]

1/2 lb down...slowly but surely...LOL!

I will tell you tho that that the reason it is slow is because I do not daily exercise and I have eaten some crap food during the week, but at home I do eat healthy foods, so I am not eating junk all the time...

That is great Linda! If you break even or even lose a tiny bit and more importantly eat healthier, then you are winning no matter what.

Ideal weight loss is in slow increments, they tell me if you lose slowly it is sustainable and you won't feel deprived and gain it back.. On exercise, I don't work out or do my exercise all at once. I put on a pedometer to remind me to move around more. Record your steps in a normal day and then try to get up and move around during the day and try to increase your step numbers during the day. It helps burn calories but not wear you out and easy to do. It may be as simple as parking farther out in a lot and walking into work from a farther distance.

My new "junk food" (not really junk ,but feels that way) is to make frozen fruit smoothies. I put in about 1 cup of no fat vanilla yogurt in the blender. Add a banana next, then fill the blender up with any combination of frozen strawberries, frozen raspberries, frozen peaches, frozen blueberries.. you get the picture. Blend well. It will make a yummy sorbet that you can eat with a spoon and I eat about two coffee mugs full of the stuff and share the rest with anybody who wants it. It really satisfies my sweet tooth along with the raspberry chocolate weight watchers bars... I have been able to resist so much more of the cookies when I eat one of the smoothies and stick with the ice cream bars.

 

[LindaL]

Yeah, I buy the light Vanilla yogurt and have a frozen package of fruit (has peaches, mango, pineapple and strawberries mixed) and eat that every morning. I also buy sugar free puddings and sugar free raspberry/chocolate ice cream bars (occasionally).

I eat a huge green salad (with oil/vinegar) daily and eat carrots, cherries and grapes (I know grapes are a "sugar fruit") for my "grazing".

 

[Mona]

I stayed exactly the same! No loss, no gain, and that's good enough for me.

 

[Melinda Dean]

Well... this was my first week. Stuck to my plan 5 out of the 7 days. Walked most days. So I feel I did alright. Scales say I am down 4 pounds since 10 days ago. Slow but sure will win my race . Have a good week every one!

 

[shorthorsemom]

Well... this was my first week. Stuck to my plan 5 out of the 7 days. Walked most days. So I feel I did alright. Scales say I am down 4 pounds since 10 days ago. Slow but sure will win my race . Have a good week every one!

:yeah That is terrific. If you are on weight watchers the plan is designed for you to lose 1-2 lbs a week so you are over that already. fantastic. You should be proud of yourself! Keep it up, rooting for you

. Just think .. at two pounds a week that equals 8 lbs a month and in 2.5 months you could be down 20 lbs... It really works, slow is good. Even at 1 pound a week you can lose 12 lbs in three months. Pick up a bag of sugar every time you lose 5 lbs.. look at the bag and say, oh my, I was wearing that!.

I weigh in tomorrow. I went to a picnic today and took enough food contributions that were countable and within my plan and I was able to do it. I always feel good when I stick with the plan when there are plenty of food temptations near by. Good luck, thanks for posting Melinda...

 

[LindaL]

I've been pretty lax lately with making good food choices when we go out to eat, but with only 1 week to go before my trip, I decided to step it up! When we went out to eat last night, they had a specific low carb menu and I picked from there! I am going to go back to no/low carbs this last week to see if it will jumpstart my weight loss again...I have a dress to fit into for my best friend's wedding while in Portland!!

Great job you guys!!!

 

[Melinda Dean]

Thanks for the cheering section! I did not start on Wt. Watchers yet. They met on Thurs. night . I had planned on going last week, but it turned out there was a yearly horse owners seminar at the feed store that same evening. Purina rep. gave a talk and then a couple of vets did Equine 1st. Aid demo. I was interested in the mini feed and had questions about that so I went there instead of WT. Watchers.

Wish I could just buy myself a bag of balanced human feed and know how many scoops a day to consume! I never have any problem controlling my horses' weight. Just cut them back a little when needed. Their exercise program is simple... I chase them around with a whip or make them pull me up and down the road in a cart. They have hay/grass salad to nibble on all the time. And their fluids are already limited to just water. Wish it was that simple for me! Melinda

 

[LindaL]

Wish I could just buy myself a bag of balanced human feed and know how many scoops a day to consume! I never have any problem controlling my horses' weight. Just cut them back a little when needed. Their exercise program is simple... I chase them around with a whip or make them pull me up and down the road in a cart. They have hay/grass salad to nibble on all the time. And their fluids are already limited to just water. Wish it was that simple for me! Melinda

LOL!!

 

[shorthorsemom]

Thanks for the cheering section! I did not start on Wt. Watchers yet. They met on Thurs. night . I had planned on going last week, but it turned out there was a yearly horse owners seminar at the feed store that same evening. Purina rep. gave a talk and then a couple of vets did Equine 1st. Aid demo. I was interested in the mini feed and had questions about that so I went there instead of WT. Watchers.

Wish I could just buy myself a bag of balanced human feed and know how many scoops a day to consume! I never have any problem controlling my horses' weight. Just cut them back a little when needed. Their exercise program is simple... I chase them around with a whip or make them pull me up and down the road in a cart. They have hay/grass salad to nibble on all the time. And their fluids are already limited to just water. Wish it was that simple for me! Melinda

LOL from me too. I love the balanced bag of human feed idea.

I always said that if I were a dog I would be the right weight.

I weighed in 1.6 lbs less this week. Thrilled the weight is coming off. 24 lbs off since March 1st. 10-15 more to go.

 

[Mona]

Yes Melinda...CONGRATULATIONS!! GREAT work!

When I started this diet last March, I avereaged about a 2 pound loss each week, and that was not on any special diet...just a change in eating habits (eating more sensibly in regards to food selection and quantity) and walking. I kind of fell off the wagon last fall, but have been able to maintain my loss fairly well. The lowest I got to was 169 and then after a rough Fall 2010 in my personal life, I gained back to 185. Have been watching things a bit better again after my "restart" in January, and I have managed to lose some of that again, and I am hovering around 175 now give or take a little each week for the past several weeks. Would love to shed another 10 pounds, but I am not going to make myself crazy trying to do so. I am at a decent weight for my size right now, and althought I wouldnlt mind shedding some more weight, I am not at all upset with my current weight.

 

[Melinda Dean]

It's Monday ... so here goes. I am down a bit more! 5.5 lbs. since I started posting here about 2 weeks ago. I finally joined Weight Watchers and have been trying to stay busy at night so I do not snack as much. The heat outside has limited my long walks but housework has kept me moving. Did some of my heavy Spring barn cleaning and trimmed some fence lines by hand. It is so hot, I think some of my weight loss is sweat! I am drinking lots of water too. Went to a open big horse fun show Sat. so that kept me out of the house most of the day. I just manned the gate for a couple of hours and helped with ribbons. It was put on by a club about 1.5 hrs. from me. Wish I could find some other mini folks that drive but, no luck there. I will keep trying. I know I would work harder driving my geldings if I had a buddy. Did get some exercise in Sunday taking Lil'Bit over the jumps. 3 circles around the jumps and I was pooped! He was just getting started.

Hope every one had a good week, and will have a great one coming up! Melinda

 

[Mona]

UP 2 lbs for me this week!

 

[Ashley]

I am still holding my same, which for me is excellent!!!!

 

[shorthorsemom]

I lost another pound this past week. I am now down about 26 pounds since March 1st. My clothes are looking really funny so I think it is time to get some smaller clothes now. I was afraid to shop new clothes, still am and scared to try on bathing suits... anybody feel that way? Last year I didn't go swimming once. Maybe this year I will take the leap.. I am enjoying showing my kids how my clothes that were painted on last fall are starting to get huge, you could get a second set of legs in my pants...

. I'll take it. I am using our farm as an exercise program. My husband loves it and I am getting enough exercise to make the diet work faster.

Hey everybody, thanks for checking in!!! Keep up the good work of keeping the thread going. Good luck for another week folks!

Adair

 

[Melinda Dean]

Well, well. Weight Watcher's is working for me! Official weigh in is not until Thurs. night, but my scales show 8 lbs. in 2 weeks. Of course, that is naked as a Jay Bird and before breakfast this morning. I think the lack of salty chips, nuts and crackers is responsible for less water retention. I have really been enjoying the frozen fruits and non- fat vanilla yogurt smoothies mentioned here. Thanks! They are my special treat after getting so hot doing my evening barn work. In the past, it would have been a bowl of rich ice cream. I was surprised by my scales this morning because I have been out to lunch twice, dinner once, and to a wedding this past week. I tried to make good choices but knew I had some really rich foods too. I tried to limit the portions of those.

It has been just too hot to do much walking. You know it's bad when your dogs look at you, turn around and head home to the shade and kiddie pool, abandoning you to a long, lonely, dusty walk!

I hope every one had a good week and is feeling great. Thanks for being here! Melinda

 

[Mona]

Down one pound here too this week. Congrats ladies!