WI Day / Disappointed But Ok with the maintain

Well today was my official WI day and although the news is disappointing I will NOT GIVE UP!! The good news is I did not gain but I maintained. This is my second week to maintain and I have stayed OP for both weeks so I am thinking that either I am in a serious plateau or I am consuming to many carbs. I know that this is normal and I can't lose every single week but it's still kind of disappointing!

But I do have an NSV to share :) The "OLD" me would have clearly given up and said the "hell with this" BUT the "NEW" me is NOT GIVING UP :) This is a great NSV breakthrough for me so I am very happy and proud of myself for this. I am in this for the long haul and I WILL get to goal but I do know that it's not going to come off overnight because I didn't get this heavy overnight.

On the upside my clothes do feel looser on so that is a plus! And my boyfriend gave me the best compliment ever and said that I looked thinner in the face and stomach so that made me SUPER happy to hear it coming from him :) So all in all even though I maintained again for the second week in a row I am UNUSUALLY HAPPY :) This just tells me that I am doing this right this time around and that is an accomplishment in itself :)

I hope everyone is having a GREAT weekend and let's all have a LOSER WEEK :)

Goals for this week:

* To break the 350 mark ...I know it will happen this week :)

* To watch my carb intake and eat higher protein choices :)

* To watch my salt intake , the less salt the better :)

HYC Update

I can't believe another week has already gone by ....it is going by fast! This year seems to be going by fast as well. I am already on week #5 with WW and I think I have done well :) I have NOT gained any weight in the five weeks of starting WW again and this past week I did't lose any weight but just stayed the same so I am happy with that :) With Hurricane Ike hitting us here in Houston I really thought that counting points was going to be near impossible but I did it and I am very proud of myself for that :) I am not sure why I didn't lose this week because I stayed within my points.

My goals for this week:

* To break the 350's and be under 350 lbs. :)

* To get more veggies in

* To maintain the amount of water I am drinking (100 oz. daily)

I just know that this is going to be a good week for us all :) Happy LOSER week to all!

Down some more...........WOOOHOOOOO!!

Well I am down some more and I am happy about this loss since this week has been the week from hell! I survived Hurricane Ike so I am alive and well and VERY thankful for that! I was determined to NOT go off WW during this whole ordeal and I think I am doing pretty well with that. The boyfriend and I evacuated AFTER hurricane Ike came through because of no power. As of today we still have NO POWER which really sucks but at least we are alive and well and no damage was caused to our home. We have alot to be thankful for :)

We are expected to get power back by Monday at the end of the day so that is good news as well. We have been staying with my parent's who got power back right after the storm so at least we have been staying cool and comfortable......it could be much worse! So things are kind of crazy but soon all will be back to normal and we will be back in our own routines. We both have been out of work for a week so it's been kind of like a mini vacation that we both needed. Things should be back to normal by next week so I am happy about that. This week has been very stressful and the one thing that has been the least stressful is my DIETING ....which is weird but it has been amazingly easy to stay OP.

I hope everyone is doing good ......and I promise I will catch up on reading others blogs and also next week I will sign into my christmas challenge as well as the healthy you challenge. Good to be back here :)

Take A Hike Ike

This is a bit off topic but I wanted to let everyone know that if you don't see me updating my weight loss for Saturday that it's because of Hurricane Ike coming my way :( It's not that I am ignoring my weight loss efforts or anything like that.

You would think that by now I am used to this Hurricane Season since I have been living in Houston since about the age of six years old. But I am NOT used to it and I don't think I ever will get used to it. I don't actually live right in the city of Houston although they are saying on the local news that this is a big hurricane and it will be effecting ALL of Houston. I live in a town called Spring, Texas which isn't far from the City of Houston and although I do live pretty far out from the gulf we still will feel the effects of this Hurricane big time!

Every year I try to prepare myself mentally for Hurricane season but every year when there is one headed our way I still get really nervous and it effects my work but since I run a home daycare I can't let the kids see that side of me because we all know that kids will feel the way your feeling so today has been tough trying to track the hurricane but not allow them to know I am feeling scared :( They are a cute bunch of kids but also very smart for thier ages so the older ones know what is going on but the younger ones of course have no idea. My parent's asked me this morning if I will be open tomorrow and I told them I would have an answer for them tonight at pick up time. I am not sure what to do on that because tomorrow we are supposed to start feeling Ike with lots of rain by mid afternoon but it's not supposed to get bad until late on Friday evening and then early Saturday morning it will hit landfall. All my parent's all have what they call "essential" jobs therefore they all HAVE to go to work tomorrow since the brunt of the hurricane isn't going to really start doing anything until early Saturday morning so I feel obligated to say I am going to be open for them. And since we are not in a ZONE that is supposed to evacuate I really feel that I should be open for the parents who have to work. Because of what happened during Hurricane Rita with all the chaos and people getting stuck on the freeways here they now have implemented an evacuation plan where only certain zipcodes are allowed to evacuate. So no one in my area is evacuating ....we are just all going to "HUNKER DOWN" (Texas term lol) and hope for the best.

But any ways I just wanted everyone to know that if you don't see me "blogging" as much on here or don't see a WI Day entry then Hurricane Ike would be the reason why. I am not sure what is going to happen as far as the winds in this area but if it gets bad our power will be out. The power here goes out in a normal thunderstorm every time so I know with this we DEFINANTLY will not have power at some point. We are prepared though which is something you get used to doing when you live in this State. I am always buying extra canned goods and bottled water each time I go to the grocery store so we are well stocked on that and I am determined NOT to go off WW during this storm so I will count each and every point and stay OP :) I am GOING TO LOSE THIS WEIGHT and NOTHING .....NOT even Hurricane Ike will STOP ME :)

Please, please keep everyone here in the Lone Star State in your thoughts and prayers and pray that IKE TAKES A HIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

HYC UPDATE

Just a quick HYC update! Well this past week I lost another 2 lbs. as I stated in an earlier post. I am happy that I have lost a total of 10 lbs. since my start with WW and I think that this is a good start. I am still VERY motivated which is a good thing and this time I just know I will make it to my goal weight because I have changed my way of thinking and my mind set is where it's supposed to be :)

This week's Goals:

Mini goal- at least 3 lbs. off :)

Try to get more veggies and fruits in my diet this week

I am still working on the excercise thing ....I just HATE excercise but I know it's an important part of suceeding in weight loss so I am going to implement some type of excercise I just don't know what yet.

Well I hope everyone has another great week and let's all make it another LOSER WEEK :)

WI Day # 2 ....WooooHooooo another loss :)

Another week gone and another 2 lbs. gone ......WOOOOHOOOO! I have lost a total of 10 lbs. in two weeks and it feels sooooooo GOOD :) I am very happy with this loss this week since I did have a couple of slip ups but I recognized those mistakes and I corrected them quickly and got right back OP. I am proud of myself for that because it's truly a breakthrough for me to do that. Before I would just say to myself "Oh well Michelle you have already messed up so why fix it" but NO MORE of that or those excuses because I am soooooooooo DETERMINED to get to GOAL :) I can't believe I have already completed two weeks on WW , it is just going so fast! So I am now 30 lbs. away from my Christmas Challenge goal weight .......WOOOOHOOOO!! I just know I am going to make that goal......my eye is definantly on the PRIZE :) The prize for me is just to have those 40 lbs. off my body!! I just wanted to share the good news with all my readers :) I hope everyone is have a wonderful weekend!! WE ALL CAN DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WI Day # 2 .......WOOOHOOOO another loss :)

Healthy You Challenge week # 35

Since starting back with my WW lifestyle change and the Healthy You Challenge I have really felt good about myself and what I am trying to achieve :) This weekend I kind of messed up but you know what I did differently? Instead of giving up just because I went over in points on a couple of days I said to myself , "No I am NOT going to give up" So I just picked myself back up and went back to counting my points today and have been on track all day :) This is a breakthrough for me because before I would have just said "The hell with it" but this time I TOOK CONTROL and it feels soooo GOOD :)

Well my first week back on WW and back with the Healthy You Challenge I lost 8.8 lbs. I was VERY happy with myself and with those results. Even though I know I won't get those results every week it is good to know that I can lose that much on some weeks. This week I am striving towards at least another 5 lbs. off but if it's only 1 or 2 lbs. off then I will be happy with that too. I am just so happy with all of the breakthroughs I am having. I am a big time emotional eater and that is what usually destroys my weight loss efforts and it is really frustrating to deal with. I have a certain mind set now and so far it's working , not perfect but it's working :)

My goals for this week are to:

* start excercising (this is a hard one for me )

* eat more fruits and veggies ( I find myself not eating as healthy as I should be only because it's easy to just count points on junk food as it is on healthy food but I want to get out of this bad habit)

I hope everyone is having a GREAT WEEK :) Let's make this another LOSER WEEK for us all!! I promise I will get up to date on reading as many blogs as I can and commenting , I am behind on that but I will get caught up :)