Week # 7 with C.C. Christmas Challenge/ Week # 8 with WW

This is week # 7 with C.C. Christmas Challenge and I am down a total of - 16.8 lbs. and I feel GREAT :) I can't believe I am actually doing this and accomplishing it!!

I have 23.2 lbs. to go to get to my goal of losing 40 lbs. by Christmas Day and I KNOW I CAN DO IT :) I am DOING IT NOW!!!!

Back in Jan. 08 I had committed myself to WW and to losing this weight once and for all but six months into it I quit like a dummy :( So all summer I ate what I wanted and I gained a lot of weight back but finally I came to my senses and on August 22, 2008 I re-committed myself to WW and to losing this weight once and for all and I AM NOT LOOKING BACK!!!

My health is way to important to mess around with therefore I am LOSING ALL THIS WEIGHT and GETTING TO GOAL :) I feel sooooooooo GOOD!! I hope everyone has a great LOSER WEEK!! I am sorry I haven't been posting , life and work has just been busy but I am not QUITTING! I am on my way to VICTORY!!

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!!!!!!!!!!!!

I lost 8 inches total off my body :)

After much worrying about why I have maintained this week and last week instead of losing my nutritionist asked me if I had measured to see if I had lost any inches and of course I have not really been keeping up with inches lost because I just don't think about it. Before I started this lifestyle change I did take measurements of my waist, thighs, and bust and wrote them down so I decided to take his advice today and measure. Sure enough I have lost 3 inches in my waist, 3 inches in my thighs , and 2 inches in my bust which is a total 8 inches off my body :) I was very happy and excited to see this :) I knew my clothes definantly felt looser on me but I didn't think I had lost that much in inches.

I have to learn that the number on the scale isn't always the most important , although it's important for me to get this weight off but I know it's better for it to come off slowly so it will stay off once I get it all off. I am just glad that all the hard work these past two weeks have truly paid off ....if I don't lose weight then losing inches is just as important :) And my boyfriend had kept telling me that I looked thinner in my face and he kept telling me to measure as well , I just don't listen sometimes lol :) But I am happy with the end results and I just have to learn how to be patient and keep on doing what I am doing because as long as I do that the weight will come off!

Well like I said in my last post I did calculate how many calories I am taking in with WW because I was really curious as to how many calories WW had me on since I am going by just points with them I had to use http://www.sparkpeople.com/ to calculate the calories and I am taking in between 1550-1600 calories a day which my nutritionist told me is really good for my weight and that will give me about a 2-3 lb loss per week which is what he wants to see because if it comes off to quickly it's not healthy! So I am happy with that and I am going to stick with WW but I am also going to keep on calculating my calories with sparkpeople because I like to have that type of control :)

Today I found this new site where you can keep track of your weight , blood pressure, inches lost, and even WW points can be put into it and it's free. It's a really neat site and I like sites that offer things like that for free. It's at http://weighttracker.info/ and all you have to do is register and then it brings you to your own page where you can calculate calories, track your weight, track inches lost, track your blood pressure, and even journal about your experiences. You can even print or email the results in either graph form or text. I just thought I would share it here with all of you :) Well I am off to grocery shopping ...I hope everyone is having a great Sunday :)

A love/hate relationship with the scale!!

I definantly have a love/hate relationship with the "scale". I am literally obsessed with getting on the scale every single morning before I take my shower and this morning it bit me in the butt :( I got on the scale and it registered a gain of +3 lbs and boy was I upset :( I couldn't believe it because I have been OP , drinking my water, and I even worked out last nite which is something that I have been having a hard time doing because I am so tired when I get home from work but I forced myself to excercise last nite and I was so proud of myself!!

So this morning I wasn't happy and in the past I would have said the hell with this lifestyle change and I would have given up but instead of doing that I just told myself , "Michelle you can do this and you will do this , you have to lose this weight and your doing good so keep on doing what your doing" ....and that is what I am going to do!! I was so proud of myself for not saying the hell with it and giving it up :) I think that is a big time NSV for me!! I am not sure what is different about this year , but I know that I am going to lose this 100 pounds because I just have so much more drive and determination that I didn't have even six months ago.

Because of this +3 lb gain I decided to post a question on my WW boards and see what others thought. Alot of the responses I got were very encouraging and uplifting (what I like about those boards) and alot of them told me that I shouldn't do daily weigh in's because it's normal for your body weight to flucuate due to alot of things such as salt intake, excercise, or TOM (time of the month) ect.....so they all made me feel a little better about that. I have decided to only weigh myself on my WI days , which are Saturdays ....so NO MORE DAILY WEIGH IN"s for me :) The daily WI's could discourage me and set me up for failure in the future and I don't want to do that to myself! This time I was strong , but next time it could catch me at a bad moment and I don't want to even risk that.

I know WW works if you stay OP , and I am staying OP therefore I know I am going to lose, I just have to learn how to be patient and only weigh myself on Saturdays. I know that this Saturday I will have a good loss because I am doing everything right....question is can I be patient? LOL!! That is definantly something I have to work on , is patience :)