I weighed in on Monday night and I lost 1.6 pounds!
I made it through my birthday and stayed on track - cake and all!!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
My Birthday
It was my birthday Saturday.
The cake does NOT have a carrot for every year of my age.
I'm really 22!!!!
The cake does NOT have a carrot for every year of my age.
I'm really 22!!!!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Prodigal Weight Watcher Update
I lost 1.6 pounds this week. My efforts are paying off and I didn't even have to suffer this week!!!
I realize part of my problem was boredom - boredom of eating the same foods all the time and not mixing it up a little. This makes you wander across the fence into the danger zone of unhealthy foods.
I'm like that. I find something I like and I eat it so frequently that I get bored with it and move on to something else. I tried a few new things and ate a few things I haven't eaten in a while (Because I got bored of them).
Boredom can be very dangerous in any aspect of life!
I realize part of my problem was boredom - boredom of eating the same foods all the time and not mixing it up a little. This makes you wander across the fence into the danger zone of unhealthy foods.
I'm like that. I find something I like and I eat it so frequently that I get bored with it and move on to something else. I tried a few new things and ate a few things I haven't eaten in a while (Because I got bored of them).
Boredom can be very dangerous in any aspect of life!
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Healthy Lifestyle
One thing that some of you may or may not know is that I'm a member of Weight Watchers.
Lately I've been the prodigal weight watcher.
I've been attending meetings for 3 years and have made it really close to being a lifetime member. In fact, I came so close it makes me want to cry!
A lifetime member is someone who made their goal weight and then maintains it for 6 weeks. After reaching lifetime status, you are able to attend meetings for free as long as you stay within two points of your goal weight. Going to the meetings will give you the accountability and motivation to stay on track. They're usually really good meetings if you get a good Weight Watchers leader (I have two really good ones! Thank God for Silmara and Courtney!)
I love the program because its not a diet as much as it teaches you to transform your lifestyle into a healthy eater - not a lifetime dieter with pent up hunger waiting to be unleashed.
Now that I'm in my 30's, I have to take my eating habits seriously and eat healthy to avoid potential health problems. Also exercise.
I've lost 25 pounds (depending on what week you ask me, it could be 20-22 pounds lost) but my total at my goal will be 29-30 pounds total weight loss. I've been at a plateau and stuck for almost 2 years.
Yes. Really sad isn't it? I made it to goal and was on my 5th week of maintenance (after your 6th week you turn into a Lifetime member) - then boom. Up a pound. Then up half a pound and stayed there. Then up another pound. I never made it to my 6th week to become a lifetime member.
I still haven't made it. In fact I was hovering just above the goal line for 2 years until last November I started to slowly cave in.
Now what was 5 pounds left to go is now 12 pounds! Yikes.
Most people would've quit, but not me. I'm determined to go all the way this time.
I want to be a lifetime member.
I want to make it and transform this area of my life.
Diet and exercise are key in your well being here on earth, outside of your walk with God
I'm trying to get back my motivation. My increasingly tight clothes and scale disappointments are starting to sink in.
Yesterday and today I tracked my points carefully.
I drank my all water as usual.
I dusted off my gym lock and went to the gym. I ran 1.5 miles. Its a start for someone who hasn't been in several months (good thing my gym membership is insanely cheap!).
I ate my vegetables!
Oh please pray for me!
Lately I've been the prodigal weight watcher.
I've been attending meetings for 3 years and have made it really close to being a lifetime member. In fact, I came so close it makes me want to cry!
A lifetime member is someone who made their goal weight and then maintains it for 6 weeks. After reaching lifetime status, you are able to attend meetings for free as long as you stay within two points of your goal weight. Going to the meetings will give you the accountability and motivation to stay on track. They're usually really good meetings if you get a good Weight Watchers leader (I have two really good ones! Thank God for Silmara and Courtney!)
I love the program because its not a diet as much as it teaches you to transform your lifestyle into a healthy eater - not a lifetime dieter with pent up hunger waiting to be unleashed.
Now that I'm in my 30's, I have to take my eating habits seriously and eat healthy to avoid potential health problems. Also exercise.
I've lost 25 pounds (depending on what week you ask me, it could be 20-22 pounds lost) but my total at my goal will be 29-30 pounds total weight loss. I've been at a plateau and stuck for almost 2 years.
Yes. Really sad isn't it? I made it to goal and was on my 5th week of maintenance (after your 6th week you turn into a Lifetime member) - then boom. Up a pound. Then up half a pound and stayed there. Then up another pound. I never made it to my 6th week to become a lifetime member.
I still haven't made it. In fact I was hovering just above the goal line for 2 years until last November I started to slowly cave in.
Now what was 5 pounds left to go is now 12 pounds! Yikes.
Most people would've quit, but not me. I'm determined to go all the way this time.
I want to be a lifetime member.
I want to make it and transform this area of my life.
Diet and exercise are key in your well being here on earth, outside of your walk with God
I'm trying to get back my motivation. My increasingly tight clothes and scale disappointments are starting to sink in.
Yesterday and today I tracked my points carefully.
I drank my all water as usual.
I dusted off my gym lock and went to the gym. I ran 1.5 miles. Its a start for someone who hasn't been in several months (good thing my gym membership is insanely cheap!).
I ate my vegetables!
Oh please pray for me!
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
New Years Eve
One of my good friends and former roommate, Diana came to visit us from Louisiana. She's living in the New Orleans area nowadays, teaching school.
After work, I met Diana and Peck near my job and we went to Chinatown for dinner. We tried what is called "Shabu Shabu". Its the Asian version of fondue. Instead of dipping things in a cheese pot, you have vegetables, noodles and meat that you put in your own personal temperature controlled soup pot full of savory broth. You customize it to your taste, adding oyster sauce, peppers, soy sauce, eggs and a wide assortment of condiments. The name "Shabu Shabu" derives from the swish-swish sound the soup makes while your making and eating it. Here is a link that explains the origins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabu_shabu
It was delicious, as you can tell by our pictures and really fun!
Afterwards, we headed back to my place for tea and coffee. We prayed together for the New Year and all thing things we anticipate in 2008. We had a beautiful time of prayer for one another and thanking God for what He did in 2007 and what He's going to do in 2008.
Just before the "Happy New Year" hour, we drove to the Church and celebrated with our Harvest Church family. We have some new additions to our family and it was a blessing to come together for a New Years celebration.
This is going to be a great year! Still with its challenges and trials that we can't avoid, they come with a victorious outcome, more so than we could have anticipated - all because God is with us and His promises are yes and amen! We will look back and say "It was worth it. Thank You Jesus!" Because we are promised to be more than conquerers through Him who loved us.
Happy 2008!
After work, I met Diana and Peck near my job and we went to Chinatown for dinner. We tried what is called "Shabu Shabu". Its the Asian version of fondue. Instead of dipping things in a cheese pot, you have vegetables, noodles and meat that you put in your own personal temperature controlled soup pot full of savory broth. You customize it to your taste, adding oyster sauce, peppers, soy sauce, eggs and a wide assortment of condiments. The name "Shabu Shabu" derives from the swish-swish sound the soup makes while your making and eating it. Here is a link that explains the origins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabu_shabu
It was delicious, as you can tell by our pictures and really fun!
Afterwards, we headed back to my place for tea and coffee. We prayed together for the New Year and all thing things we anticipate in 2008. We had a beautiful time of prayer for one another and thanking God for what He did in 2007 and what He's going to do in 2008.
Just before the "Happy New Year" hour, we drove to the Church and celebrated with our Harvest Church family. We have some new additions to our family and it was a blessing to come together for a New Years celebration.
This is going to be a great year! Still with its challenges and trials that we can't avoid, they come with a victorious outcome, more so than we could have anticipated - all because God is with us and His promises are yes and amen! We will look back and say "It was worth it. Thank You Jesus!" Because we are promised to be more than conquerers through Him who loved us.
Happy 2008!
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