I can see I’m finally putting that ugly plateau behind me as I stepped on the scale this morning and I’m 179 lbs. I have lost a total of 16 lbs. I need to start losing better. I’m in 2nd place at work for the biggest loser competition. The person in front of me has lost 18.4 lbs as of May 1st and I was only at a 13 lb loss. But I think they weigh a little more than me. I can do this. I can work my butt off this month and see myself in first place when we weigh in on June 1st!
A while ago I started a blog just for me to keep my healthy articles that I found so I could go back to them easily. I thought I’d share it with you incase you’d like to see some of the great tips and info that I find!
http://jensweightblog.blogspot.com/
Enjoy and remember to leave me comments about the articles I post. I always make sure to include the link from the place that I found it too. Thanks!
YAY! Finally I made it to the 15 lb mark. Woo Hoo! I’m thrilled! One more ounce and I’ll be in the 170’s! haha. I’m half tempted to go to the gym (which I am this morning) but the temptation to weigh myself when I get home is pretty great. LOL…I’ve worked out and lost a little bit before. Hmm… I want to be in the 170’s so bad! hehehehe!
I’m finally over my 181 slump. I weighed this morning and I’m 180.6. YAY! The only bad part is is that this site doesn’t do half pounds or anything. I think they need to do .2 intervals on their trackers! Ugh!
I weighed this morning and I’m 182. Just one pound away from my pre-Disney weigh. Not to mention I started my period yesterday too. So I’m sure that’s adding a little bit to the mix there! haha… so I’m very proud of myself. I’ve been eating lean meats. I grilled me some chicken on my hamilton griller thing the other day and I’ve been eating that throughout the week for lunch before I go to my midshift job. I have that with a baked potato. Yum!!! And I found Jimmy Dean’s D-Light breakfast bowls that are YUMMY! It has Turkey Sausage in it and egg whites (with yellow food coloring). It tastes great and VERY filling and its only 5 WW points! YAY! So that helps me get some good protein in my diet too!
Well when I weighed Monday after getting back from Disney I was 4.6 lbs up. Fun fun… but! Now I’m only 2 lbs up. I’m back down to 183 lbs instead of 185.6. YAY! Just two lbs more to go and I’ll be back to my weight before I left for Disney. I plan on getting into the 170’s in 2 weeks… that includes the rest of this week and next week. I think if I push myself I can lose the 2 lbs I still have extra and then maybe 2 lbs more to put me at at least 179 lbs. *crosses fingers*. Hehe!
Well I had a blast at Disney and there really weren’t a lot of healthy food choice options for me to eat at every place that I would have liked. I’m not a salad person or anything. I just got back from a week long trip to Disney at I weighed myself when I got home, but it was AFTER I had already eaten breakfast this morning and I had clothes on. I was 188.8, but we’ll have to wait until the morning to see what the exact damage is *crosses fingers* Hopefully I can get it off and back down to the 181 I was before I left.
I found an interesting article yesterday and thought I would share. I can’t believe McDonalds made the list. Blech!
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/25787/americas-healthiest-restaurants/
I’ve decided since I’ve hit a plateau to go back to a plan I did a while back. Has anyone ever heard of the Wendie Plan? Its a modified weight watchers. Here is the neat info I found. After reading this, if you’d like info let me know:
Your body has this wonderful little thermostat inside of it. It regulates everything you do. If you feed it lots of food, it turns the thermostat up and burns it as efficiently as possible. This is why you have been able to eat as much fast food before WW and didn’t gain the amount of weight that you should have. Your body became more efficient and was able to burn off much of the excess amount of calories. Otherwise, with the amount of food we porked in pre-WW, we should have been gaining 2-3 pounds per day!
If you are on WW, or even just counting calories, and you stick with a set amount of calories per day, such as 1400 or say, 27 points per day, your body will adjust to that. It will become extremely efficient at using just the amount of calories (energy) that you are giving it. You may lose fairly well at first, but after the first week or so, you will find that your losses may slow … way… down, and even stop. Isn’t it nice to have such an energy efficient body? However, the body isn’t extremely fast. If you give it the same amount of food every day, it will adjust itself. But if you change the amount of food it gets every day, it doesn’t have time to adjust itself! Which means on that day that you eat 10 points over your highest, it tries to adjust by turning up your thermostat, but it is unable to turn it down for the low points the next day. What you are doing, in essence, is keeping your body guessing. It doesn’t have time to adjust the thermostat down, before it needs to turn it back up. What eventually happens is your body will never again feel as though it is going to starve to death, and it will never again try to shut down the thermostat, so you will continue to lose at a more rapid loss. This also means fewer plateaus.
So I’m going to use the Wendie Plan again to help me lose weight better. I get 24 points on weight watchers for my weight so my week will look like this:
POINTS TARGET - 24 (Weigh 175 - 199 lbs)
• Day 1 - 24 points
• Day 2 - 29 points
• Day 3 - 25 points
• Day 4 - 39 points Super High Day (SHD)
• Day 5 - 24 points
• Day 6 - 28 points
• Day 7 - 26 points
But I’m going to modify that so my SHD is on Saturday and I’m going to start weighing in on Saturday morning instead of Mondays. So Its going to be like this:
POINTS TARGET - 24 (Weigh 175 - 199 lbs)
• Sun - 24 points
• Mon - 28 points
• Tues - 26 points
• Wed - 24 points
• Thur - 29 points
• Fri - 25 points
• Sat - 39 points Super High Day (SHD)
Tada! So tomorrow I get 39 points. Wow… it blows my mind. But the plan says to make sure you do eat all your points. And it says that exercising on your high points day is helpful too since you have eaten more fuel it’ll give you fuel to burn while you exercise. I’ll let you all know next Saturday how much I’ve lost for the week and see if its made a difference like it did a few years ago when I did it.
I think I’m at a plateau. I guess I’ll have to wait things out. I’m kinda stuck in the 182’s right now… *sighs*… I won’t lose focus though… I just need to keep doing what I’m doing… dont’t starve myself, eat all of my points, and everything will be fine. I hit a small plateau at 190 trying to get over that hump into the 180’s and I did it… I can do this too!
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