It's been another good day. Sitting here drinking my 2nd glass of green tea for the day. We had breakfast at the diner and it was the first time I've gone there since I started the 17 DD. I ordered 2 eggs over medium with a side of tomato slices and half a grapefruit. I also had an iced coffee. This was the first time I have ever gone and passed up the delicious potatoes and toast that always comes standard with my eggs. Ya know what? I didn't perish. I am still here to tell the tale and it was pretty delicious anyway. So there carbs, TAKE THAT! I met a girlfriend for lunch with the kids and had my favorite salad and an unsweetened tea and came home to have my 2nd fruit serving of the day. I have to have it before 2. I am trying to debate whether I should weigh in tonight as planned or wait till Saturday. Reason being, I weighed in last Saturday and that will be a full week. Plus Sat am I had no food or drink in my system and at 5:30 tonight I will have 2 meals and I don't know how much water. I just am not sure it's the best indication of my progress. Does that sound like an excuse? I am still hopping on the scale at home daily and it's definitely slowed down from the weight I lost in week 1 but that is to be expected. If I lost 8.8 pounds in a week I would be done in less than 3 months. I sorta wish that was the case, I just want to be there in a new body in a new wardrobe and a new me. But I think the only people who lose weight like that are on the biggest loser exercising 4 hours a day and eating next to nothing to survive. That's not reality with kids, that's for sure. So I have babysitting this afternoon and have a variety of errands to run including a fantastic trip to the DMV among other things...
OK updating now as I ran out of time earlier. I ran my errands and decided to bite the bullet and go. Thursday night is the best time right now for me to attend a local meeting because I have childcare built in weekly so there's no excuse whereas on Saturday at 8 am I can think of about 100 other places I'd rather be. So anyway, I stood in line and a very nice man weighed in before me. I watched him go up to the scale and he took everything out of his pockets, his belt, coins, phone, I mean everything then he got on the scale with a look of trepidation. He knew he'd gone up yet when he got on that scale he was so angry with himself. I don't know how much or his number. Great thing about WW is it's anonymous in that regard so it takes away any anxiety about other people knowing your weight. He looked like he was about to cry and I had a remembrance of the last time way back when I was at WW and went up for the 1st time after having gone down consistently for a while. It was completely devastating and I began to cry. I walked out of that meeting and never went back. That was probably 9 years ago. I am not going to do that again. Hindsight's a bitch, I thought screw this place, what's the point of even coming anymore and I walked off. Then over the course of all those years gained all the weight I worked so damn hard to lose back again. I was proud of the man, despite him being upset he stayed for the meeting and hopefully feels renewed and hopeful that next week will be better. I had to tell that story because in weight loss, every week isn't always a loss but as long as you''re being honest with yourself and staying on track for the most part it's a success. Just showing up and being accountable is being successful. I think that if I had just not walked off and stayed all those years ago, things might be different today. I really have no way of knowing I suppose and it doesn't matter. It's a fresh start this time and I have all of this wonderful experience to help me from making the same mistakes I have made in the past.
So onto my news: I lost another 1.4 pounds which is fantastic considering last time I weighed in was last Saturday less than a week ago and it was 1st thing in the morning before I had anything in my stomach whereas tonight was after 2 meals and more water than you can imagine. This loss brings the total since my journey began to 10.2 pounds in just 2 weeks and just 11 days on the 17 DD. I feel good, strong and happy that I went. Sure Saturday the number would have been a bit lower but there is something so satisfying about a round number like 10 and also that even though I was nervous getting on at a different time of day etc, I still did well.
I think that's pretty much it for today. I plan to take a stroller strides class tomorrow morning with some friends and then hit the beach after with the kids. Should be a happy Friday indeed. I continue 10.2 pounds lighter one meal and one day at a time.
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