Patti's WL journal

1:07:07 AM EST
Feeling Loopy

I had my 2nd WI at curves last week.. I lost half a pound and a half an inch. It's really strange cause I feel different. Even since last months weigh and measure. Even tho I only lost half an inch, and that was in my bat wing area, I'm feeling way  more ribs then I could before and different area's I'm noticing changes in myself, but they didn't show up in the measure. But then I realized some of the places I'm feeling it, isn't an area they measure.

So I'm shooting for a good loss next month, I keep getting the pep talk..the muscle fat thing again... I'm not really believing that's the reason for the not so much of a loss. I think it's a combination of me and my body. Getting weight off now after 130 pounds seems impossible. But I'm going to keep chugging away at it.

 

That's it from here... I hope you all have a great weekend!

 

***Hugs***

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11:07:02 AM EST
Feeling Happy
Hearing Wiggles

Wellllllll so much for dusting off the old journal and keeping up with it.. :-D
And so much with maintaining my weight.. I gained about 10 pounds since my last entry. I can't even blame my birthday or Holidays on the gain. I decided to join curves in November, and when I WI'ed in there, I was up 10. I think I may have gained more over the holidays. I sure felt like I did. I got on the scales last week, first time since the Holidays, and I was back to 10 pounds, so I'm not sure how much I was up, but was back to the +10. Not great but now I can start from here, get back to where I was before, then hopefully continue down to 170.

I've had good results with Curves. My first month I did show a 1.5 pound gain. That wasn't so great, but I lost 5.5 inches and lost 6+ pounds of body fat. I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around a 6 pound body fat loss, and gaining 1.5 pounds, but they say it's normal, the muscle, fat thing. Of course all 5.5 inches I lost was upper body, I have the most stubborn ass in the world..lmao!! :D   But the past few days I've noticed my pants were fitting differently, not as tight in the can as before. (ALL 10 pounds I've gained has gone to my butt..booooo) I've also noticed my ribs the other day. I've been able to feel them, but the other day my side itched, and while scratching something took me by surprise, I can feel MORE of my ribs then before I guess.. I was feeling something that I'd never felt before. I kept telling everybody feel this!!..lmao  It was a great, it's been a LONG time since I"ve had a NSV!

I guess that's about it for an update...I really need to start keeping up with this. I'm glad to see a few others have come back to their journals. I need to get back to mine. I think it helps me alot. I need to get back in the swing of things, I need to! I know how easily a 10 pound gain can lead to 20, 30, 50+. I don't want that to happen.

That's it for now, back to work..lol

I hope you all have a great day!  **hugs**

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11:27:03 AM EDT

WOW, I can't believe it's been 6 months since I've posted anything here. I guess Linda's return to J-land has made me decide to dust off the old journal and try to get back into it some. So lets see, what have I been doing the past 6 months?..lol Working alot, playing some, had a great summer! Busy as hell, but still found time to enjoy it some. Weight wise, I'm still bouncing around on the scale some. I kind of took the summer off weight wise. I didn't want to have to think about it everyday, but I knew eating like I use to wasn't going to work for me either. I learned we can never really ever get away from it. When they say it's a life long journey, they weren't kidding. I did OK with my summer off. I watched what I ate, drank my water and walked. But I didn't freak out at BBQ's because they didn't have anything fat free, or there was no salad's. I was tired of worrying about it. I wanted to be able to enjoy myself without worrying. KWIM? But I also knew weighing 300 pounds again wasn't what I wanted either. I tried to find a happy medium. I didn't do to bad, I pretty much hung between 175-178 on the scales most of the summer. I did get on not long ago to see 184. That scared me, I was out of my weight comfort zone, and I got my ass back in gear ASAP. I did WI last week at 175.5, which is where I was before summer, so I'm happy about that. So I didn't lose any weight over the summer, but I ended it where I started, so I guess that's not bad. I did get in to size 14's! I do have 1 pair of size 12 shorts, I think this brand runs big, but I don't care the tag says 12, and I'm loving it. :)

So I guess that's pretty much my update. I hope everyone had a great summer, and I'm looking forward to getting back into journaling again!

 

**Hugs**

 

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8:46:50 PM EDT
Feeling Happy

Nothing to exciting to report about.. weight is about the same. I haven't gotten on the scales to WI for a few weeks. I did at the beginning of the month, and might wait until the end of it.. I think I'm making excuses..lol TOM is here, and I can feel that I'm holding on to a little extra baggage still. I figure no since in pissing myself off by getting ON the scale :) 

I just got done working out, I feel GREAT! I need to remind myself how good I feel after I get done exercising.. I easily give myself an excuse to not do it.. It's easy to do this time of year.  I so want to get out side to walk, but it's still to cold out, and I'm so tired of the treadmill, or working out inside.. I WANT OUT! :)  But, I have a 3 or 4 more weeks to go, then it should warm up enough to get out walking! I can't WAIT! Bring on SPRING!!!!!!!! :)  (it snowed today, hell, it snowed Friday & Saturday too)  LOL

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

***Hugs***

 

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12:31:03 AM EST
Feeling Chillin'

Today was WI day, and I didn't do it..lol  TOM arrived Thursday, which made Valentines day AWFUL. I was craving chocolate and sweets so bad.. I didn't have a perfect OP day that day, but I did OK.. I did a lot better then I would have done 2 or 3 years ago..  I did get on the scales Friday, even tho I told myself not to.. I knew it was going to show a gain, it usually does with the arrival to TOM, but I jumped on anyway to peak, and there was a gain..(someday I am going to learn to listen to myself..lol) So I decided to skip any official WI this week. But the good news is, (and it's a little TMI)  I have been running to the bathroom almost non-stop all day, so I'm hoping I've peed out the gain I saw on the scales Friday morning..ha!

I've been doing really well with my exercising still. I took today off, and I counted shoveling snow as my work out Thurs & Fri this week. That was more of a work out then I could have gotten on any treadmill or exercise machine. We got hit with the Valentine's Day snow storm. We had about 8-12 inches of snow, then sleet, then back to snow, then rain, then freezing cold temp's. So we had layers of snow and ice to get thru to shovel. It was heavy, and hard going. There was almost enough ice mixed in with the snow that when you stood on it, it would sometimes hold your weight, you'd be standing on top of it, and sometimes it wouldn't and you'd break thru. It was hard to shovel, and get around.  But I think we're all pretty much cleaned up from that mess, and getting ready for more snow tomorrow, this is just suppose to be light fluffy snow, and not a lot of it *My back is very happy about that* :)

So even tho I have not good or bad to "report" I'm trying to make an effort to get back into journaling, at least once a week!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

 

 

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4:19:39 PM EST
Hearing Still the pump
I can't remember the pictures I tried to put in my journal when AOL was being journal funky, and wasn't able to do it.. oh well, here are 2 pictures.. I'm way overdue for picture update! :)

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4:02:19 PM EST
Feeling Ecstatic
Hearing no music, but I can hear the water pump running :D

My Mid-week peak WI had me all set up to see a maintain this week, so what a awesome surprise to see a 2 pound loss this morning when I got on..WOOHOO! I must have been retaining water from PMS? I don't know, don't care.. I'm taking the 2 pounds and I'm running with it!..ha! So I'm now down to 174.5!  2 more pounds before I'm back to my lowest WI, and 4.5 pounds before I hit that 170 goal I made 2 years ago.. (before I knew I had to be 169 pounds to get off the over weight list) so 5.5 pounds before I'm not longer "over weight" :D  And then it's see how I feel time, decide if I'm happy where I'm at, or do I want to lose more.. but no since in getting to far ahead of myself... 1st step is to get back 172.5 pounds, :)

Hope you're all having a great weekend!

 

Patti

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5:53:09 PM EST

Been having an awesome week!! I think I've finally got myself back on the right track. I've been exercising 6 days a week, and really working it too, getting the old heart pumping. Even days when I am dead ass tired, I tell myself I have to jog at least 1 mile on the treadmill. Most days I keep going, but once or twice I've done the mile and stopped. I think I am going to have to wait a little before I see any results from my awesome week.. TOM is fast approaching. I got on the scale Wednesday for my "mid week peak" and I was maintaining. I was a little pissy at first, but realized with PMS, a maintain is nothing to be upset about.

I've done really well with the PMS cravings.. for some reason I've been craving PB & Crackers? Usually it's CHOCOLATE!!, but not this time. A couple nights this week I have given in, but only had a teaspoon of pb, didn't go for the crackers, and it was enough to kill the craving.. one night I was been sitting here  thinking about what was in the kitchen I could chow down on, and went to bed instead.. lol, like I was locking myself away from the food. I use to use the "go to bed" method often during PMS to stop myself from snacking when I first started out.. I'm trying to go back to a few basics that I know works for me.

I hope you all had a great OP Week, and if not, try harder tomorrow.. don't give up!

 

***Hugs***

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4:41:31 PM EST
Hearing Nickleback

Been a really LONG time since I've been here.. *dusting off the old journal, ready to go at it again* In my own defense, I did try to update, and add a few pictures a while back, but AOL was funky and wouldn't let me. Every time I tried to load the site up, there was no place to even type words, so I gave up, and never tried again.

 I've stalled, lost and gained the same 2.5 pounds over and over. Then I started gaining a little more. I went from bouncing between 172-175, up to 178! I was freaking out, I was exercising, eating normally, and still could not get back to even 175. And this may sound dumb, but I could feel it in my clothes. I swear my pants were tighter, especially across the old caboose. I was having nightmares of having to go shopping and buying bigger pants. So it was time to take a breather and think about what I was doing, or not doing. Exercise, check - food, check(was staying OP, not eating junk) - Water, check.. What the hell? Then a few days ago I realized my portions had gotten bigger. I was still eating the same foods, but more of it then I needed. That got me thinking about WW'ers. You're points change with your weight (I think) I don't think I need as much food as I did at 250 pounds.. It's time to trim it down some. And, I think I had gone above what I had normally be eating anyway. Sometimes with PMS, I'm starving all the time, and usually I will allow myself a little leeway, cause I'm hungry. I was still eating like that, "a little bit more is OK" It needed to stop. And it did stop. In a few days I dropped a pound and a half. Today I was down to 176.5! I have been on cloud 9 all day. I know you shouldn't base your day on what the scales read, and trust me, if I did that, for the past few weeks I would have spent my days bawling..lol  But it felt so good to see the scales go down. It's very frustrating to gain weight and you don't know why. Now I'm pumped and ready to go. Can't wait to get back to 172 pounds, and beyond!

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9:28:25 AM EST
Feeling Happy

Merry Christmas!!

I can't believe I haven't updated this for over a month.. Nothing to overly exciting to report. I have been busy as usual, and my weight has pretty consistently bounced between 172.5 (that's my all time lowest) to 174. My WI this week was 173, which is where it's been all month. So on the plus side, I haven't gained any weight over the holiday, but I haven't lost any either.. I didn't really plan on being on the losing side of the scale.. I wanted to get thru it without gaining.

One thing I did want to share you all is this..http://www.futureme.org  It's a web site where you can write an email to yourself, to be sent back to you in the future. It can be 1 day, a month, a year, whenever.  I had done this last year.. forgot about it, and was surprised when it showed up in my email last week. I just thought with the year coming to an end, you might want to send yourself a note to be read next year, or whenever you chose!

I hope you're all having a great Holiday! For those of you who have snow, I'm jealous! Christmas in Maine with no snow is almost depressing. Almost every kid in the state gets a sled for Christmas and we have grass.. <sigh> :-) The snow will come, I have to patient!

Merry Christmas everyone!

***Hugs***

Patti

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