The Skinny Jean Experiment... Part Two

It's been almost three weeks since I tried on my "skinny" jeans.  Last night, they were hanging there in the bathroom and I decided to try again.  I knew there was no way they were going on because 1.  I've only lost 7 pounds, 2.  it was night and I was feeling bloated, and 3.  this week has not been my best effort (mainly because all I've done is sit on my butt).  But there they were and so I decided to try....

To my immense surprise, not only did I get them up but they button and zipped and I didn't even have to suck in.  I'm still not ready to wear them in public as they are still a bit snug in the thighs but I was thrilled that I got them up and done!

So, this lovely little story has a couple of happy outcomes... 1.  I now know that definite progress has been made and 2.  it motivates me to keep going.  Who knows, if January goes as well as December, I might need to go shopping for new "skinny" jeans to hang in the bathroom!!!

Love/Hate

I love vacations but I hate them too.  On one hand, I'm feeling extremely rested and not stressed. On the other, I feel like I'm accomplishing nothing.  It also makes eating hard for me.  When I'm home and not doing a lot, it's really easy for me to eat because I'm bored or because I have time to actually think about food.  I have a slew of sweets in the kitchen that have thus far been pretty easy for me to resist because there's been a ton going on.  Now, I'm just sitting here.  Christmas is over, the gifts have all been wrapped and opened and all the big meals have been eaten.  I had a 3 pt breakfast today and the massive salad I had for lunch was only 4 pts but then I ate a serving of snack mix for a whopping 3 pts.  Not horrible, I realize, but it opens me up to more "what the hell" moments that I'm trying to avoid.

I really should clean the house...

Sick....

If things continue on the path that I am on now and have been on for the last couple of days I will lose another 5 lbs by thursday. I thought I had a sinus infection, but it turns out that I have the dreaded "flu"....Of course, I never get a flu shot, because I have never had the flu in 34 years! I went to the Doctor and it is too late to give me tamiflu or any other anti-viral so she said I should start to feel better in 2-3 days, REALLY?!?!?!?!?, I haven't felt well since Tuesday Night!!!!!!! Oh well, I am on antibiotics that make me nauseous so I am not eating really, plus running a fever and feeling pretty much like hell, so weight loss will be easy this week :) Trying to see the glass "half-full"....The good news of it is that I am already on antibiotics which she wants me to continue to ward off the side effects of the flu like pnuemonia or other nasty infections, but since I have been working out and eating right the Doc says that it should run a shorter course, so there is the silver lining!!!

I Feel Like I Cheated

At least a bit.  I weighed yesterday morning because I knew that yesterday would be a big eating day.  The good news is that I lost 1.4 pounds from last week... but the bad news is that I feel like I cheated.  I didn't weigh this morning at all but I am back on plan so at least I only "cheated" for one day.  Hopefully by next Friday I'll have more good news.  The best part is that since December 1 I'm down 7.2 pounds--that's pretty cool.  My goal is to be able to say I lost 8 pounds in December instead of gaining like the majority of the world!!

Hope everyone's Christmas was beyond fabulous!!

Well, the worst is over....

So, I made it through Christmas pretty much unscathed. I weighed this morning, and I was down almost 4 lbs (198.5) but I went with my weight from Tuesday as I don't think that this mornings WI was accurate due to me running a fever and being sick/not eating for the last 36 hours. So when all is said and done, from my start weight of 209, I weigh 200.5 Down 8.5, not what I wanted it to be but I feel great about it! The rest of this break should come fairly easily, I will be home mostly. New Years Eve will kill me though as I am going to Charleston SC with a dear old friend of mine and I know there will be plenty of food and drink to go around to blow all of my points! Good thing I can save all my extra points for that!!!!

Finally done.

Christmas Eve... which for a Moravian translates into 7 hours at church... is about to give way into Christmas and I am finally done!  Done wrapping, done playing, done singing, done worrying that my 3 year old will burn the church down with his candle. 

I am not however, done worrying about the dreaded weigh-in.  I'm going to do it in the morning, rather than on Friday for obvious reasons.  And quite frankly, if I can weigh tomorrow and not have gained anything from last week then I will count that as a major accomplishment.  I actually didn't eat too much today--2.5 pts for breakfast, 2 pts at lunch and then came dinner at church... soup and a sandwich--not bad but then (as it always does) came the birthday cake which was lovely and huge and of which I ate too much.  I truly felt ill by the time I'd finished my piece which is good news on one hand but I just wish I could've stopped before that.

I'm hoping that all the running around and up and down stairs helped to counter-balance the cake!

Merry Christmas everybody!!!!

T'was

T'was the night before weigh in and all through my house, not a creature was eating, not even a mouse. The stockings are hung by the chimney with no room to err, in hopes that St. Weight loss would soon be there. The cookies are hidden inside of the shed while dances of sugarfree candies dance in my head. I in my jammies and millie in her cap had just settled down for a short nights nap. When in my stomach arose such a clatter, I jumped out of bed to see what was the matter, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a tiny red cookie and 8 peppermint spears.
Ok, so that is as far as my creativity goes....I am sick and tired, literally and spent the 2nd Christmas Eve EVER without going to church w/my parents....That is what a fever will do to you....