WW update

[whispercricket]

I just barely met my goal of the week (reach -10 pounds) at Weight Watchers last night. The people running the meeting don't get very excited about less than 1 pound losses - neither do I, really - but as long as the number keeps going down, it's okay with me (plus I figure that with weight training, I'm hopefully adding muscle).

With these 10 pounds gone (wow), I'm 33% of the way to my personal goal and about 6 pounds from my first 10%. Yay! I've noticed a huge difference already - I can bounce and run up the stairs more easily, some clothing fits again, things like that. It feels a little odd that I can't remember exactly how I let it get this bad (I put all this weight and probably a little more on since sophomore year of college). I should have noticed something. Maybe I was just so down on myself and stressed that I didn't care anymore, or forced myself not to see, and also once I stopped playing softball, I wasn't getting much exercise.

I'm struggling a bit (okay, a lot) with the new points range that I'm in. For people who aren't familiar with WW, a slice of pizza is usually about 6 points. I get 18-23 points a day (not counting exercise - but now I get fewer exercise points than I did before for the same amount of time :( ). So if I'm hungry and have 2 slices of pizza for dinner, I've used up about 2/3rds of my points and I better hope I haven't had too much earlier in the day. This is not working that well. Evil fridge = hard to keep fresh veggies around.

I guess that's enough blathering, but getting myself into better shape is really important to me right now, for so many reasons.

Comments

[autumnesquirrel.livejournal.com]

So, what are these meetings like? I'm a lot leery of having someone else judging how well I'm losing weight. On the other hand I don't feel like it's something I have any idea of how to do on my own. I don't think I really know the last time that I was within a healthy weight range, but it was definitely sometime during childhood.

[doozer4200.livejournal.com]

just wanted to say congrats! glad that you're doing well with it, you sound really enthusiastic and I'm glad it's going well :-)

[mindways]

I'm 33% of the way to my personal goal

Go, you! [cheering]