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I gained a pound. I effin gained a pound! I am pissed off. I continue to do the same things that sabotage my weight loss, and I don’t understand why! I am so sick of myself right now! I wonder if I really want this? Or do I just want to be unhealthy and die early of a heart attack!?! Apparently I have a death sentence because, even though I am not in the “obese” category anymore, I still have high blood pressure and cholesterol, and  I am too young to have this crap! I am just so annoyed with myself! I have been screwing around since February! I am wasting my money by paying for Weight Watchers if I am just going to half-ass it! I know I can’t always be perfect, but if I mess up 9 out of every 10 weeks, I am gonna get nowhere!

All that said, I haven’t given up. I went out and walked after my meeting, and still have 4 points left and it’s 9pm! I just hope this keeps me motivated. I hope I can have a few weeks where I actually give 100%. I mean, hell, even last week when I lost weight, I only gave what I estimated to be 95%!  I need a few weeks of 100% in order to allow a few bad weeks. I am just taking this “I can’t be perfect” to the extreme. As they say, no pain, no gain, right? Giving 100% a few weeks in a row is really very little “pain” so I need to get over it and get with the program!

ok, enough of my bitchin! … and on with the program!

Weight: 171.2 lbs
Change This Week: +1 lbs
Overall: -16.4 lbs (-3.2 lbs from the first time) = -19.6 lbs

You can see all my weight loss progress without having to go through all the posts too!

original photo by Lee Carson

I did it! I did it! I did what I said I was going to do! I did make that scale my bitch (see week 33 update)! And that is because I finally gave it more than 50%… I’d say more like I gave it 95% this week, and it paid off in a 4.2 pound loss!!!

How’d I do it, you ask?…

(1) I tried every day to meet those good health guidelines as close as possible. I say ”as close as possible” because (guess what?) I was not perfect! But at least I attempted to meet them every day and got close to the goal.

(2) I focused on eating lower point foods than I usually choose. For instance, I was eating frozen dinner entrees for lunch that came in at 5 to 7 points, where as I could have tuna salad I made for about 3 to 4 points and use the other points for fruits and veggies.

(3) I stopped eating frozen meals for just about every breakfast and dinner. Seriously, I was eating a Smart Ones Breakfast Sandwich every morning and had a lean cuisine or a smart ones entree for lunch at work. Those things are packed with sodium, and being that I have high blood pressure, it was time to stop!

(4) I focused on eating lean protein (in the form of egg substitute, fish, some chicken, and vegetarian “meats”), vegetables, fruits, low fat dairy, and healthy fats (I can no longer let myself buy real butter! ). I probably had only one serving of any bread-type (a.k.a. carbs!) products on most days, and it was either light bread or crackers made with whole grain… sometimes a whole grain snack bar, like Kashi. Come to think of it, I didn’t have very much refined sugar either. Both are residual habits from my low carb days, I suppose!

(5) I wore my pedometer every day, making sure I took extra steps at work by getting up almost every hour and walking around the hallway or around the outside of the building, and I got outside and walked after work when I could (even walking to the store once again!). That resulted in 1 to 2 activity points almost every day (a few days I did not fair so well!).

(6) I even had some splurges on the weekend, but kept my promise to track EVERYTHING, even when I thought I “messed up” or wasn’t sure how much I had. Turns out, I even went about 2 points over for the week, even after swapping out my activity points (and I still lost 4 pounds, people!).

To sum it up, it’s gotta be the better food choices and the walking. Even though I went over my points allotment, I barely went over, and the majority of the foods were good for me because I followed the good health guidelines.  I also think another key was that I was not afraid to use my extra points, and a lot of people seem to be. (It’s not an exact science, folks!) Before, I was sort of half-assed walking, and I would only be good for 3 days, and then stop caring what I put in my mouth for the other 4 days of the week! (Simple mathematics should tell me that is never going to work out!)

I am so totally proud of myself! And the good thing is, that it has given me some of that motivation back that I have been so painfully missing! It’s like, yeah, I CAN do this!!!

Weight: 170.2 lbs
Change This Week: -4.2 lbs
Overall: -17.4 lbs (-3.2 lbs from the first time) = -20.6 lbs

You can see all my weight loss progress without having to go through all the posts too!