Weight Loss is H-A-R-D...HARD!

As a lot of you may, or may not, know, I started a weight loss journey last year. It was also an attempt to get healthy.

I lost 15 pounds. Then I stopped.

I stopped losing.

I stopped keeping track of what I was eating (food diary).

And I stopped the limited working out I was doing.

As of last week, I had gained back most of what what I'd lost. Thankfully it took a year to gain it back. And thankfully I didn't gain all of it back.

But really got me was this:

It's a little dark (ok, it's a lot dark), but just look for the outline of the red shirt. That is my...in all my fat glory!

I feel so disgusting looking at this picture. I mean, I know my pants have been tighter...I can feel it. And some that fit me last year don't anymore.

But it's amazing what 15 pounds can do to you and your self image and self esteem.

So last Monday I got back on the band wagon with Weight Watchers. Thankfully I'm wasn't all the way back at the beginning...but I was close.

Last Monday, September 15, I weighed 246.3.

This Monday, September 22, I weighed 244.8. Down 1.5!

I worked out one day last week for about 25 minutes. And I kept a better food diary than I had in a while.

The hardest part is remember to write down, or keep track on the app, of what I eat every day. But, at the same time, it keeps me accountable to what goes in my mouth and mindful of how many points I have each week.

This week I've worked out one day for about 45 minutes - mixing it up with some stationary bike then some free weights, lunges, squats, and sit up. (My bootay is giving me grief for that, too!!) I hope to get in another work out before the work-week is over, cause I can pretty much guarantee it won't happen over the weekend.


I've also been working on my fruit intake. That has helped, too. Oh, and drinking water (which I hate to do) as much as possible. I even put a glass of ice water by my bed to drink in the morning before I leave the room for coffee or anything else.

I want to go back to keeping track of things with you, my viewers, here, too. I think that will help with the accountability, too. My plan is to go with Mondays, as that is my day to weigh in. But I just wanted to go ahead and get things started tonight while it was on my mind.

So, that's where that is. Thanks for bearing with me and my ups and downs.

Until the next time...

So What Wednesday

It's that time of the week again!!





So What If:

* this is the only post I did last week.  And it's looking to be the only post this week at the rate I'm going.

* I am just now getting around to buying some wedding pictures from our photographer. I have the rights to them, I can go anywhere for them. But I kind of feel obligated to buy some stuff from him since he gave us such a stellar deal on the photography itself. And his prices are pretty reasonable, compared to others!

* I officially started the 30 day/300 ab challenge Monday (also hosted by Shannon), but I've only done about half the work out over the past two days. They weren't kidding...the first few days are killer on the abs!! I'm taking it slow to work my EXTREMELY out of shape body into it...doing about 3 or 4 of the exercises a day. My goal is to start doing all 11 next week. Hopefully by then my abs will have "adjusted" to the trauma stretching/moving/crunching.

* aside from the ab work outs, I'm doing nothing to promote weight loss! But I do have a reason behind that:  Dr appointment tomorrow to find out why my thyroid levels are freaking out on me lately. Once that's taken care of, back to the treadmill!

Well, that's all I've got for today. Seriously, I thought there was more, but my brain just isn't working properly yet this morning.

Later...