240. It's probably not a loss that will stick, but it was nice to see the scale go down a bit this morning!
Eating was hit or miss again yesterday. The job I'm covering this week leaves me very little time to even go upstairs for ten minutes and try to eat something. Dinner was good though, baked tilapia with steamed vegetables and rice. Yum!
Ticker Time
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Wednesday Weigh-in
241 without the radio again this morning.
I hardly ate anything yesterday, which was completely not on purpose. I didn't get a chance to eat breakfast, and I was kept busy enough at work that I didn't really have time to eat. So when I got home for dinner, I was starving!
I tried to be good though. We had mini subs, and I had two, with ham, a slice of provolone cheese, some lettuce, and a small amount of mayo. Then I had some potato salad and a couple of handfuls of Doritos.
So far today I've had a chocolate chip granola bar. I have some salad with a bit of shredded cheese and some ranch dressing for lunch, and another granola bar and a 100-calorie pack of wheat thins for a snack. I've got a 20 oz of Diet Coke for caffeine purposes, and a 2-liter of Coke Zero to refill it with for the rest of the week.
So far, so good! :) Except for my sense of time, apparently. It's Wednesday, not Tuesday! XD
I hardly ate anything yesterday, which was completely not on purpose. I didn't get a chance to eat breakfast, and I was kept busy enough at work that I didn't really have time to eat. So when I got home for dinner, I was starving!
I tried to be good though. We had mini subs, and I had two, with ham, a slice of provolone cheese, some lettuce, and a small amount of mayo. Then I had some potato salad and a couple of handfuls of Doritos.
So far today I've had a chocolate chip granola bar. I have some salad with a bit of shredded cheese and some ranch dressing for lunch, and another granola bar and a 100-calorie pack of wheat thins for a snack. I've got a 20 oz of Diet Coke for caffeine purposes, and a 2-liter of Coke Zero to refill it with for the rest of the week.
So far, so good! :) Except for my sense of time, apparently. It's Wednesday, not Tuesday! XD
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Tuesday Addendum
I just hopped back on the scale at work without my walkie-talkie radio thing on. As it turns out, it weighs about two pounds, and without it I'm at 241. So that's where my ticker is going, and I am going to try to stick to checking it every day. I feel that some sort of constant reassurance is the only way I'm going to be able to keep up with what I'm doing. If I stop checking, I'll lose focus, and then before you know it, a few months have gone by and anything I've lost has returned and brought a few friends along for the ride.
I can do this, gosh darnit!!
I can do this, gosh darnit!!
Morning Weigh-in
The scale at work today read 243. Yesterday it was actually 245, not 249. I'm debating whether or not to change my ticker, because it would look like I've lost quite a bit, when really I don't feel like I've done anything different. I don't know how much my work scale is affected by things like my radio or my clothes in general, since I often wear multiple layers at different times of day. Ideally I should be weighing myself at home when I get up in the morning, but we don't have a scale since our last one broke. So I'm stuck with work. At least if I use the same scale every day, it should remain consistent to itself, right? Let's hope so.
Last night was my first step toward eating better. I stopped at Burger King to get dinner, but I got myself a salad. It was smaller than the picture on the menu made it look, but I wasn't hungry when I finished it, which is the goal anyway, right? And I got grilled chicken on it instead of fried. Of course, it came with a huge packet of ranch dressing, and I used the whole thing, which I probably shouldn't have done. But I can't nitpick myself too much right now, or I'll get discouraged. I'll just settle with being happy I had salad, and that I ate the whole thing, including the tomatoes, which I would usually not eat. Yay for me!
Last night was my first step toward eating better. I stopped at Burger King to get dinner, but I got myself a salad. It was smaller than the picture on the menu made it look, but I wasn't hungry when I finished it, which is the goal anyway, right? And I got grilled chicken on it instead of fried. Of course, it came with a huge packet of ranch dressing, and I used the whole thing, which I probably shouldn't have done. But I can't nitpick myself too much right now, or I'll get discouraged. I'll just settle with being happy I had salad, and that I ate the whole thing, including the tomatoes, which I would usually not eat. Yay for me!
Monday, January 4, 2010
I have returned!
It's a new year... did I really stop posting here two years ago? Sigh.
Things have taken a turn for the worse in the weight department in those two years. I'm skirting around 250 now (according to work scales), and that really needs to stop. The name of the game now is portion control. Dinner will be smaller (one serving spoon of dinner and two of veggies and that's it), and I will watch more carefully what I put in my lunch box.
Of course, nothing will work perfectly without a bit of exercise, so I've decided that my weekends will include at least one YBB workout. I still have the DVD's, and there is no excuse for me to not use them. I'd like a Wii Fit, but without a Wii, well, that can't happen. And there's no way we're getting a Wii when we already have so many video game things that we don't use.
So... here we go again. With luck and a bit of stick-to-it-iveness, this time next year will see a much happier and healthier me!
Things have taken a turn for the worse in the weight department in those two years. I'm skirting around 250 now (according to work scales), and that really needs to stop. The name of the game now is portion control. Dinner will be smaller (one serving spoon of dinner and two of veggies and that's it), and I will watch more carefully what I put in my lunch box.
Of course, nothing will work perfectly without a bit of exercise, so I've decided that my weekends will include at least one YBB workout. I still have the DVD's, and there is no excuse for me to not use them. I'd like a Wii Fit, but without a Wii, well, that can't happen. And there's no way we're getting a Wii when we already have so many video game things that we don't use.
So... here we go again. With luck and a bit of stick-to-it-iveness, this time next year will see a much happier and healthier me!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Danger Will Robinson!
I'm not in a good mood today. I snack like a fiend when I'm in this sort of a mood, and that is NOT going to be good for what I'm trying to do. I hope I can snap myself out of it soon, because I would really be down on myself if I start gaining weight back. :(
Monday, March 3, 2008
Stickin' to it!
I am doing pretty well on this slim-fast thing. Even yesterday I managed to have one shake for breakfast. Lunch was PBJ, but I just had the one sandwich. It's still difficult to maintain portion sizes, and to resist snacking in between mealtimes. Midmorning is the worst, I tend to run out of things to do work-wise around then, and the draw to just go take a break and have a snack is especially strong.
Random interjection - the guy I work with just got some chemical on his finger or something and he stuck it in his mouth BEFORE he rinsed it off. Stupid.
Anyway, here's another difficulty.. apparently the floor scales where I work.. they suck. I went to the doctor last week for a shoulder problem, and the scale there said I weigh 219. The next morning at work, the floor scale said 228. Now I KNOW I didn't gain 9 pounds overnight, and that's a bit more than I'd give myself credit for due to the weight of my boots, radio, etc. So I want to invest in a scale. The problem is that they don't tend to last long, and also we don't really have a place to put one without having to get it out of the cupboard every time I want to weigh myself. Still, it might be a nice way to track my weight, if I put a piece of paper on the wall and record it every time I weigh myself. I can see a bit better how quickly I'm losing, or even if I'm losing at all, and maybe give me a little more motivation to exercise. We'll see what I can work out. :)
Random interjection - the guy I work with just got some chemical on his finger or something and he stuck it in his mouth BEFORE he rinsed it off. Stupid.
Anyway, here's another difficulty.. apparently the floor scales where I work.. they suck. I went to the doctor last week for a shoulder problem, and the scale there said I weigh 219. The next morning at work, the floor scale said 228. Now I KNOW I didn't gain 9 pounds overnight, and that's a bit more than I'd give myself credit for due to the weight of my boots, radio, etc. So I want to invest in a scale. The problem is that they don't tend to last long, and also we don't really have a place to put one without having to get it out of the cupboard every time I want to weigh myself. Still, it might be a nice way to track my weight, if I put a piece of paper on the wall and record it every time I weigh myself. I can see a bit better how quickly I'm losing, or even if I'm losing at all, and maybe give me a little more motivation to exercise. We'll see what I can work out. :)
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