I haven’t been blogging lately, mostly due to being pressed for time. I have the kids in school, work, workOUTs, etc….

So here I am at 234… On track exactly with the goals I have set. Sure there have been weeks where I only lost one pound, but then there were a few that I lost 4….then my vacation week, the only week that I gained…and I lost it right back, so all is well. I am down to only 110 left to lose. ONLY 110?you may ask…but when I started, I had 185 to lose. so yeah, I am doing very well.

The most interesting part has been learning to exercise and push myself. I used to only be able to stand like, 5 minutes on the elliptical. Now, if I get on it is for an hour.

I can cross my legs again, I can sit tailor-style, I can use the small restroom stall instead of only the big one, I can get into a size 14 (although I am more or less a 16)…I am almost to the half-way point of my weight loss, and time has flown.

If any of you reading this are just starting out, please believe me it can be done. If I can do it, anyone can.  I have no special powers… All I have is the desire to do it and the motivation to see past the hurdles.

I feel in some ways my weight loss has slowed down, but it is still consistant, at least a pound a week, most often two… I have been working out alot so much that I HATE to miss a day, and I have stayed within my WW points every week also. I have come to realize weight loss is just a state of mind, once you decide to do it and stick on the program, the weight can’t help but to come off.

I hate that i havent been online as much but I hope all my friends here are happy and healthy and doing well!!

I hit 275 today. I have now lost 35lbs since mid-January, averaging about 10lbs a month. I am so happy!! I love seeing the results.  For example, I was waiting to get back in this one pair of jeans. Yesterday I thought they would finally fit, and I tried them on…and they were actually a little loose!

I have gone from a 24 or 26 waist to a 22 (in some pants, a 20). I have gone from a 3x top to a 2x(sometimes 1x). I have gone from being out of breath after climbing stairs to walking 2.5 miles daily with no problem. 

If I continue losing at a rate of 10lbs per month, I should weigh 270 by may first,

5/1/08=goal 270

6/1/08=goal 260

7/1/08=goal 250

8/1/08=goal 240

9/1/08=goal 230

10/1/08=goal 220

11/1/08=goal 210

12/1/08=goal 200

1/1/09=goal 190

2/1/09=goal 180

3/1/09=goal 170

4/1/09=goal 160

5/1/09=goal 150

6/1/09=goal 140

7/1/09=goal 130

8/1/09=goal 120

last night i was carrying a handful of  HEAVY clothes on hangers into the closet, and i passed my my scale.  I thought, “hmmmm I wonder what I weigh with all these heavy clothes on my hands….” so i stepped on, and know what I weighed while carrying the clothes? 295. My start weight was 310. Now I am at 280.4. In other words, all those heavy clothes weren’t even as heavy as all the weight I have lost!  That really made me smile. Now for the next 30 to lose!

I have had a few slower weeks with just one or 2 lb losses. I have had a bday celebration and gone to a wedding, so that was part of it. But I am as committed as ever and really enjoying the process. It looks like I will make the 25lbs gone in 2 months goal…that means i need to be down to 278 by march 28th. i can do it!

Saturday is my weigh-in day and I had a pretty good week. This time last week I was at 292.3 and now I am at 287.8 so around 4lbs lost! I have worked HARD, getting my walking in every day (okay, so yesterday it was in the mall in heels carrying shopping bags, but it was still over an hour and I got some new clothes at the same time!!)

Overall it has been fun, sometimes it seems slow but now I see the overall progress, I notice differences in my body, (the distance from my stomach to the steering wheel in my car, for example)…. basically this rocks.

Here is what I don’t understand. Before I started my weight loss plan, I was eating fast food 3 or 4 times a week. I was eating 10 tortillas with almost every meal. Tons of cheese.  Cookies, soda…and rarely drinking water.

Now I walk 2 miles every single day.  I drink 72oz of water and NO OTHER DRINKS every day.  I stay with in my WW plan guidelines.

WHY AM I NOT LOSING INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS OF WEIGHT? I have only lost one single lb since what, 9 days ago? How could I have TOTALLY MODIFIED MY EATING AND EXERCISE BEHAVIOR AND NOT BE SEEING MORE RESULTS???

This was my first week (well starting last tuesday) doing theWW point system…and my loss slowed down drastically.  I guess it could have been an adjusting period, but still it discourages me.  I can’t decide if it would be better to keep trying the WW or to go back to what I was doing origionally.  My way got the weight off faster, but the WW way is supposedly healthier.

It just seems like I shoud have lost more cause this past week I walked 2 miles religiously every day, drank a MINIMUM of 64 oz of water every day, didn’t cheat……Oh well, I guess I can keep trying.  What I want is an expert to sit by me and say “do exactly this and it will definately work and be healthy.” I am great at following instructions, but I want results, dammit.

So I am willing to do anything that helps or works, and I have heard so much good feedback about weight watchers. So I joined online, and entered all the info, and it told me I should eat 35 points a day. Well I calculated what I have been eating and I eat about 15 to 20 points a day. But they say I need to eat 35 as a minimum. I don’t get it, because that is probably how much I was eating before, and all I got was fat.

Any other weight watchers people able to offer words of wisdom here?

Just to keep myself honest I will blog about it. Today was my cousin’s wedding shower at an italian place,  so I knew I was going to cheat a little, but here is what I ate. There was bread, lots of bread. I only had 2 small pieces. i had a salad (lettuce only). A chicken breast (it came on pasta, I gave the pasta to my kids and didn’t TOUCH it.) I drank 3 glasses of water…here comes the cheat…I had a WHOLE tiramisu.

BUT..this morning I walked for 30 minutes, and this afternoon I walked for 45 more. Plus I plan to exercise more than before this week.

We will see how it works, if I just lose less, or stay the same, or gain a tiny bit… but I think I can keep it under control. I never said no cheating, in fact when I started the diet in mid january, I pre-planned 3 cheat days.. feb 9th, march 2nd, and march 5th.(more wedding stuff and a bday). But I will cheat in moderation and get right back on plan.

My cousin had a tiramisu, too, and she weighs like 110 so I am not too scared.