This is really hard for me to admit, but I’ve been in kind of a bad place the past few weeks. I’ve done my best to hide it from you all – maybe I succeeded, maybe I didn’t. Maybe it shone through anyway.
There are many reasons for it – some measurable, that I can pinpoint to a specific cause, and some not.
Based on the subject of this post, you may choose to believe that it is solely based on the weight that I’ve regained. Part of it is. Maybe part of it is [ ... ]
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01
Apr 2010
This is really hard for me to admit, but I’ve been in kind of a bad place the past few weeks. I’ve done my best to hide it from you all – maybe I succeeded, maybe I didn’t. Maybe it shone through anyway.
There are many reasons for it – some measurable, that I can pinpoint to a specific cause, and some not.
Based on the subject of this post, you may choose to believe that it is solely based on the weight that I’ve regained. Part of it is. Maybe part of it is [ ... ]
25
Mar 2010
Oh the irony of it all. When I posted last night, I hadn’t actually eaten the cake yet. But I ate it, and have really had no desire to eat more. I have no desire at all to go home from work and eat the entire pan. The ironic part is, is that it wasn’t the pure bliss that I thought it would be. I barely tasted the chocolate – all I tasted was sugar. Maybe I’m too addicted to my Hershey 100 calorie chocolate covered pretzels or something (a fave of mine). But this cake, one of my old [ ... ]
Category: Food, Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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07
Dec 2009
I feel so accomplished right now! I had a busy bee weekend.
I tried to go to bed much earlier than usual on Friday night, so that I could get up on Saturday and work on my Christmas shopping. I believe I got most of it done. I have my dad to shop for, and a couple of things to pick up for my mom, but I think that’s all that’s left. My mom and I went out to lunch – Applebee’s – and then ran to K-Mart to get some thermal underwear. Yes, you read [ ... ]
14
Nov 2009
I had a bit of a sad moment earlier when I was upgrading my WordPress and otherwise tweaking my blog a bit. I stumbled across my “Photos” page and forced myself to look at it. The sad part was when I saw my pics from my lowest weight. Ah, kind of depressing. But I know I can get there again.
I’ve been doing better the past few days. Been feeling a bit better physically (finally getting rid of the aftereffects of the swine flu). Been feeling a bit better mentally. So have been eating a bit better. No serious counting yet, [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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20
Sep 2009
My weekend wasn’t the best, yet I still consider it a major victory for me.
Saturday was mixed. On one hand, I ate like a starving woman at an all-you-can-eat buffet. On the other hand, I took advantage of the beautiful weather and got back out to my favorite hiking location for the first time in months (I’m not a hot-weather kind of girl).
Not only did I get out and walk, but I also walked at least two miles and did the intermediate trail instead of the easy one! I was pretty proud of myself. It was a gorgeous day. Perfect [ ... ]
28
Aug 2009
Holy cow! Two posts from me in one day!
Now, as I was saying, not to be premature, but I think I’m almost BACK!
You may have noticed that I’ve started blogging a bit more this week – okay, even one post could be considered “more.” I’ve not been back on plan completely and am still eating FAR too much, but I’m eating a bunch of lower calorie items instead of a bunch of higher calorie items. Progress, right?
But tonight, after spending an hour and a half trying to get my e-mail inbox down from over 1900 e-mails to about [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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11
Jun 2009
I have to admit that I’m feeling like somewhat of a hypocrite. For three years, I’ve been touting Weight Watchers as the greatest thing since..well, whatever your greatest thing is. The best thing about it, I claimed, was that it wasn’t a diet. It allows you to continue eating the foods you love as long as you watch your portion sizes and count your points (I follow the old flex plan).
This was, of course, true for me at the beginning. When I started, I had somewhere in the neighborhood of 30+ points. I could eat an entire Totino’s pizza and still [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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10
Jun 2009
Sorry for the long posting silence. For those of you still checking in with me, I appreciate your support and I have to thank Diana especially for trying to talk me down off the ledge. Okay, it’s not really a ledge, but a buffet table covered with every yummy goodness that you can possibly imagine. I’ve fallen hard. But I WILL get back up. I keep saying that, so now I need to actually DO it.
I think I’ve been trying to avoid the whole Weight Watchers/weight loss/blogging world lately because it just seemed to reinforce how far into [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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06
May 2009
Just a quicky tonight. I’m taking a break from the Excel project from hell. Imagine 170,000+ rows spread over four worksheets.
My company’s intranet has a “Word of the Day” definition on its homepage. Today’s word and definition was this:
embonpoint
\ahng-bohng-PWANG (the “ng” is never pronounced, but the vowels are nasalized)\noun
: plumpness of person : stoutness
You learn something new every day. I was embonpoint all these years and didn’t know it.
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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05
May 2009
According to Weight Watchers, I was technically supposed to have only 26 points this past week. In trying to get myself back on track, I bumped it up to 29 every day. I also had the 35 flex points, of course.
I ate out three times over the weekend. Four, actually, if you count leftovers. On Saturday, we went to Burger King and Taco Bell. On Sunday, we celebrated Mother’s Day and went to a family restaurant that specializes in fried chicken. I got a house salad with fat free ranch on the side, helped my mom eat some fried cauliflower [ ... ]
Category: Biggest Loser, Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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03
May 2009
I hope everyone is having a good weekend. Mine has been pretty decent. Yesterday, I got up early and went walking with my mom at our favorite place. It was too muddy to do the hiking trails, but there are plenty of concrete walkways to trudge along. Then we ran errands and did some shopping.
I’m still on the hunt for jeans. I’m telling you, it’s a sad sad world when the only place that I’m able to find jeans that somewhat fit are at Wal-Mart. Everywhere else I’m in-between sizes. One size is way too small, the next size is [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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27
Apr 2009
I’m doing better, everybody! Not only am I slowly, but surely, getting over my cold – I still have a scratchy throat and a bit of a stuffy nose, but it’s getting better – but I am also slowly, but surely, getting back on track. I did much better over this past weekend. I only went a little bit over on Saturday and was actually a point under my target on Sunday. Today, I’m a couple of points over, but I counted them and it wasn’t completely out of control. Progress! I think seeing my progress chart really put things [ ... ]
Category: Food, Life in General, Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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08
Apr 2009
I actually opened my points tracker (progress!) and then plotted the outline of my food for the day. While I didn’t get absolutely everything on there that I ate, there were only a couple of variations that really weren’t by more than five extra points. So yes, I would say major progress.
Even beyond that, I actually got out of bed early and went for a walk! Yes! Me! It’d been a while. Of course, I had a raging sinus headache by the time I got home, but it was worth it. It was a gorgeous day. A sunny 60 degrees Fahrenheit with [ ... ]
01
Apr 2009
You know what they say when people disappear or stop posting in the weight-loss blogging world – that things are not going well or that they’ve fallen off the wagon.
In my case, both would be true.
I really don’t know what my deal is lately. I’ve completely gone back to my old ways. Granted, my old binging ways are tempered a teensy bit and involve a great deal more fruits and veggies, but they still consist of consuming massive quantities of calories without thinking about it first.
I think I’ve been a little depressed lately, too, for some reason – hence the not [ ... ]
02
Mar 2009
Along with Pamela, Pam, or any other number of nicknames (which I, of course, will not list here), I will now answer to the name “The Count.” (I do see somewhat of a resemblance…)
I have gotten so far off plan that I shudder in thought of weigh-in tomorrow. Heck, I may even skip it, because today is a new day (to use a well over-used cliche), and I’m forgetting about the past. Well, the last few weeks anyway.
Party’s over. Enough’s enough. Though I’ve been trying, it’s just not physically possible for me to eat all of the pizza and [ ... ]
Category: Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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