25 pounds FINALLY!!

Well I finally lost 25 pounds. I thought I would never get there. There is one thing I can say about my weight loss and that is "Slow and Steady". My hope is that I will be able to keep it off. I also don't do everything I should do ALL the time. Take last weekend we hosted a football party and I blew it all day. But I still as soon as I can get right back on watching what I'm eating. I still tend to emotional eat, whether I'm happy, sad, stressed or just about any other emotion I want to eat. Old habits die hard.

BOO HOO

No it's not because of Halloween it is because I did gain. I knew I was going to gain I was going to be happy if it was under 2 pounds....well I gained .6 not even a full pound. So this is going to motivate me to do better at the things that I know I need to do. I had gotten lazy about journeling and I know I need to get back to doing consistently. I also need to remember that just because I'm walking daily that doesn't give me free will to eat all the junk I want. I always knew this but I was very lenient this last week. ALTHOUGH I made rice crispie treats I didn't eat the whole pan, I think I only had 2. I also made snicker doodle cookies I had 4 instead of 40. So even though they weren't the best of choices I did much better then I have normally. I'm not trying to make excuses:) Ok maybe just a few excuses.

OK enough about me and my troubles. At todays meeting we talked about Soup and different recipes. How we can mix and dump all kinds of ingredients and make tasty soups. I love soup and this is something that during the winter I make a lot of. Soup is a very healthy very filling staple to have on hand. So thankfully cooler wheather is upon us so get out your crockpots and cook up a good old fashioned pot of soup.

A little frustrated

After my great last week I've had a BAD girl week. I guess I thought that I had done so well I could take a week and now I may have to pay for it. I go for weigh in tomorrow and for the first time in 17 weeks I just know I'm going to gain. My hubby scuffs and says you've said this before. But I made snickerdoodle cookies and rice krispie treats. That can't be good!!! But I'm still going to go and take my medicine like a big girl. No pun intended. I have started walking and I go with my hubby or with my boys during the day for their PE time. I do enjoy it but I'm not sure if it was enough to offset my sweet tooth this week. So I will drop back in tomorrow and up date you how I did.

Another loss

I went today knowing that I was going to gain and to my surprise I lost 1.6. I was totally surprised. That brings my total to 23.6. I hope that I can continue on and reach my 25 this next week. That would be AWESOME!!!! I did start walking this last week with 2-2pound weights. My hubby has been walking with me and the first night we did this we hadn't gone very far when I told him that my arms were killing me. My hubby told me to think of it like this I've lost almost 12 of those 2 pound weights. When I thought of it like that I had a bit more pep in my step.

Today at meeting we talked about how we can learn from our past mistakes. If we are honest with ourselves we have made many mistakes that hopefully we can learn from.
Some of the ones mentioned were:

• stick with it- even if you have a bad week stick it out.
• put yourselves 1st- I think this is one that women have the most trouble with. We take care of everyone else and forget about ourselves.
• portion control- I had no idea the amount of food I thought were normal portions. MEASURE!!!!
• Doesn't come off all at once- I didn't gain it all in one day so it isn't going to come off overnight.
• Forgive yourself- you are only human you will mess up so forgive and go on. Life Happens!
• choose your support wisely- If you have people who don't encourage you don't hang around these people. Not that they can't be your friends, but if they are going to encourage you to constantly go off your plan then limit the time that you are around them while eating.
• BUDDY- Have some sort of buddy, someone that you can turn to when you are feeling down or discouraged.
• Be prepared- rehearse what you are going to do in a situation. When you are going to a restaurant look up the menu know ahead of time what you are going to order. Practice saying it out loud for when it is time to order.
• Don't starve yourself- You have to put fuel in your body. If you don't your body will turn on you. Instead of losing it will hold on knowing that you are starving it. You have to do this in a healthy way.
• Lifestyle- This is a lifestyle change, don't do this for just a season, do this knowing that this is going to be a different way of living forever.
• You Can Do it- stamp this on your forehead. Don't give up..
• Good food- take time to learn what the good foods are,you might be surprised and find out you like things that you've never tried.

These were just a few of the things that were suggested. If I can look back on these I should be able to learn from my past. When I do this my future looks a lot brighter:)

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