Weekly Weigh-in!

Finally! A loss on the scale. After a week of maintaining and then a tiny little gain, I finally had a loss this week! Phew! I was getting a little worried that I was on a plateau or something, but I'm not. I lost 2.6 pounds this week for a grand total of 83! Very cool!

In bigger (or smaller!) news today, I dropped another jean size!!! I'm wearing 14's today. I started in a size 24 almost a year ago!

Next week is my one year anniversary week with Weight Watchers. I joined April 29th, 2010! Hoping for another loss (maybe 2 pounds to reach 85?) to celebrate that anniversary. Either way, I have much to celebrate over the last year!

What It Looks Like To Lose 80 Pounds!

I had a three pound loss this week which brought my total loss to 80.6 pounds! I can't believe it. Today is my 11 month anniversary of starting Weight Watchers. I lost 8.6 pounds just in March. It feels SO good to say "80!"! Here is a slideshow of me and my starting weight and today:

My measurements where a huge NSV for me this week, too! I lost 2.25 inches this month. Here's the breakdown in inches:

Head - .5
Neck - 2.25
Chest -3
Bust -5
Ribcage -4
Waist -16
Hips -11.5
Thighs -8.75 (17.5 for two)
Calves -2 (4 for two)
Bicep -4.25 (8.5 for two)
Wrist -.75 (1.5 for two)
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Total inches lost = 73 1/4! My husband is 73 inches tall!

I'm so thankful for the blessing that Weight Watchers has been to me and for the progress that I have had so far. I'm not done by any means, but I'm feeling so great with how far I've come! WW works!

No More X's

Today I went shopping for a new pair of jeans. My current jeans were slightly big, so I knew I'd be in the next size down soon and wanted to have a pair on hand to work toward since all of my clothes in my closet are now the right size and I've run out of smaller sizes. I haven't been my current size since 2002 and certainly don't dress like I did then! Well, I got home and tried on the new pair of jeans to see how far I had to go before I'd fit into them and...they fit!! I couldn't believe it. TOM is due anytime so I'm feeling bloated and they fit! I also bought two shirts off of the clearance rack for only $2.97 each! Being a size down in my jeans and my shirts, means no more X's in my size!!! I can't believe it! I haven't been THIS new size since 2001! Ten years ago...WHOA! I'm celebrating this HUGE NSV today!

A Good Problem To Have

After being without them for four weeks to be re-sized and repaired, I finally got my wedding rings and my right hand right back today! They had to be re-sized because they were constantly falling off of my fingers, especially if I got a little cold, and I was afraid I was going to lose them. I hated being without them for so long, but it is a good problem to have to re-size my rings because my fingers are thinner! I got a Bravo! sticker today at my WW location when I stopped in to buy some snack bars and told them I had to get my rings re-sized. Another NSV to write down and celebrate!


What NSV's are you celebrating lately??


My next post will be my 100th post since starting this blog! I'll come up with something fun for that one!

Walking Out

I weighed in yesterday and lost 0.6 this past week. It is going down in the right direction, so I'm happy with it. I've been battling some kind of weird illness for about six weeks, on and off. I've wanted a lot of carbohydrates along with it, so it has been a challenge to take care of myself to get better and lose weight, too. Of course my focus has been on trying to get better over losing weight lately, so the small losses recently are okay with me.

I celebrated a NSV a few days ago and had to write about it here. I had to laugh at myself when I literally walked right out of my pajama pants! The walk from my bedroom to the bathroom is short, but down went the pants on the way! Thankfully Christmas is coming and hopefully some new PJ's, too! :-)

One

One is a lonely number, but I've been waiting to see it for quite a long time!! I haven't seen this specific "one" since about 2001! This "one" is not the first number of my weight just yet, but it is the first number in my jeans size! I bought a pair of jeans today in a size 18 to have them ready to go whenever I got there. My 20's were getting loose, but not so loose that I thought I'd be ready for the 18's. I tried on the 18's when I got home to see just how far I had to go before they'd fit and guess what?! They fit! I pulled them on with ease, zipped and buttoned them and I can sit in them and breathe at the same time! I know for so many of you out there a size 18 wouldn't be anything to celebrate, but when you start at a size 24, 18 feels pretty darn awesome!


OoooOOooooo....did you catch that?! I shared something specific about my size! I haven't done that yet on this weight-loss journey of mine with anyone other than my hubby, WW leader, and doctor!

Letting Go

Today a group of three of my friends and I did a walk for The Open Door Mission. The ODM is an amazing place for the homeless in the Omaha Metro area. We toured the facilities and enjoyed the walk together despite the misty rain and cool temperature. 

I brought along with me three grocery bags of clothes to donate. Skirts, sweaters, jeans, shorts, and dress clothes. 20 pounds of clothes that are now too big for me are going to help women in my area. Letting those clothes go meant so much to me. I carried them a mile and a half to the mission. Friends offered to help carry them, but I insisted on doing it myself. One of my friends brought up that there are so many homeless in the area that probably don't even have one grocery sack full of anything to their names or all they do have is one bag full that they carry around day after day, through all kinds of weather. I could certainly carry my donations a mile and a half in the cold misty rain. I needed to carry it myself to truly be able to let them go, too. Letting those clothes go means that I don't have them to fall back on should I, God forbid, gain the weight back. Without those clothes to fall back into, I'm more likely to stay on track and not need them. Carrying the clothes was carrying only half of the weight I've already lost and it felt heavy at times during that short one and a half mile walk to the mission. Letting them go was a relief and the walk back was much easier for me. Just four short months ago I was walking around with twice that weight all over my body.

Today I walked a mile for the homeless, but I think it was me who benefited from the walk and from...letting go.


If you're anywhere near the Omaha NE area, please help the homeless at the Open Door Mission. The work they do is Christian-based work and they're not only helping feed and clothe the homeless, but they're helping them gain GED's and get jobs and, most importantly, they're bringing them to Jesus through the Gospel. A program like that deserves to be supported! Click HERE to learn more about Open Door Mission.

That's More Like It!

I just got home from my WW meeting and I lost 2.4 pounds this week! That made up for last week plus .8 more. TOM just came yesterday, so I'm very pleased with 2.4 this week! I hope to make 45 pounds gone next week, I only need to lose 1.4 to get there. Then onward to my mini goal of 50 gone by Halloween!


NSV.........Today I'm wearing a pair of pants that I haven't worn for about six years! Yay!

I have now lost 174 sticks of butter. What would that look like in a grocery cart?! I bet 44 boxes of butter would more than fill one of the hand baskets, so a shopping cart would be needed!

One

Another pound lost this week! I'm now down 42.8. I can't believe how far I've come in such a short amount of time. Just four months ago I weighed 42.8 pounds more than I do right now! How crazy is that?! That one pound this week also helped me reach my goal of getting down into the next decade of weight by Labor Day, which is on Monday! I'm thrilled to have set, and reached, another goal. Another small celebration tonight is that I now weigh less than I have in the last 6 years!

My next goal is to simply get to my 50 pound mark. I have 7.2 pounds to lose to reach it. WW will award me another charm for my key chain at that point. I love that little key chain and the charms on it. I have it hanging on the front of my fridge so that I see it several times a day. It keeps me motivated to avoid those extra snacks and keep moving!

This evening after dinner I went for a quick walk. I walked my quickest mile yet! I just walked around my neighborhood tonight, which I hadn't done for quite some time and I surprised myself thinking about how easy it felt. Just four months ago, when I started this journey, I couldn't have walked that far (uphill on the way home) and it was a huge struggle for me. Tonight I walked it, quickly, and was smiling at people the entire way rather than huffing and puffing and feeling rotten. That is a NSV for me!

Seven

Today is four weeks from the last time I took my measurements so it was time to do it again. I was a little nervous, though now I know I had nothing to worry about! I have lost seven inches from head to toe in the last four weeks! Wow! My grand total since the end of April is 12 3/4"! I've been working hard at staying on point and have been doing really well with that, but I'm still surprised by the results. Weight Watchers really does work if you DO it!

NSV!

For those new to the blog, a NSV is a non-scale-victory, meaning something worth celebrating beyond the number on the scale.

I have a NSV today! I'm wearing pants that are two sizes smaller than what I was wearing back in April when I started attending WW meetings!

I can't believe that they fit! I went out to my garage to grab a pair of pants that were one size smaller and found two sets of capri pants two sizes smaller and grabbed them, too, in hopes to wear them on our vacation early August. Well, the pants one size smaller where a little big, so I tried on the capri's and they fit! They are a little bit snug, but not too snug to wear in public and I didn't have to do the crazy jumpy dance to get them on!

Awesome!!!

Loser

I'm proud to announce that I'm a loser! Another three pounds gone this week, a total of 18!

Wow! When I started going to WW meetings at the end of April, never did I think that I would be 18 pounds lighter in June. I thought it would take me much longer. So what is different this time around? Attending meetings. I've tried WW before and did it only online, and I had small success, but I never stuck with it. Now I look forward to my weekly meetings and getting the support from my leader and other ladies who are all working on weight-loss, too. I'm finding myself thinking less and less about the number on the scale and more on healthy choices and exercise. Already I'm thinking of those things and I've only gone to seven meetings so far! It makes me so excited to think about where I'll be a year from now. Will I be maintaining by then or at least close to my goal? Will I be walking 5K's every day? Could I possibly participate in a 10K or a half marathon by then? I have so many goals for next summer, so as long as I keep losing I'll be able to do it! I'm so motivated to just keep going with tracking my points, walking and keeping on the program. I can't wait for my next weigh-in next week! I hope to get to 20 pounds lost and earn another star sticker! That's my goal for this week. I have family coming into town next Friday, so to be able to say I've lost 20 pounds would be such a huge reward for me.

Here's to the following week!

Weigh-in Tonight!

I've had a good week! Looking back at my weekly points, I've had some high point days, some low point days, and one day right on point. I have used only 15 of my 35 weekly points and tonight is my weigh-in.

I'm feeling pretty good, too. I had my first compliment on my weight-loss this past weekend and it felt so good! I don't think I look any different, but then again I see myself every day and the person who complimented me hadn't seen me for a few weeks and she noticed. That is a NSV for me!

I'm looking forward to my weigh-in tonight. I've weighed myself at home and show a loss on my scale. Last week I weighed myself at home right before I went to my meeting and my home scale read 1.2 pounds heavier than the scale at the WW meeting, so if that is consistent, I've had a nice loss this week again! I'll do the same thing tonight before I go to see what kind of difference there is between my scale and the WW scale.

I'll check back in tonight!

NSV ~ Jeans

Today I'm wearing a pair of jeans that a month ago I could get on, but couldn't get buttoned without having to lay on the bed, suck it all in and still ended up with  a doozy of a muffin top hanging over. Today I put them on, zipped them right up and can breath!! I may not be losing the pounds that I was hoping to but these NSV's are helping me stay motivated!

Go me!

I just have to say that I'm so excited for Thursday's weigh-in this week! I'm drinking A LOT of water, walking, and am staying on point so well this week. I'm excited to see the results! I've also just "outed" myself on facebook and asked family and friends for support. I have some great friends already supporting me and now a few more. I really feel like this is it. I'm going to lose the weight and stick with it this time. This time is different and I've very excited about it!!

A NSV (non-scale victory) for me tonight, too: We ate dinner out and I cut my hamburger in half and took the other half home to have for lunch tomorrow. I so wanted to finish that burger, it was super good, but I resisted. I also resisted the bread that was brought out before our meal, well for the most part. I had a 1/2 slice where normally I'd have 3-4 slices. Another NSV! I'm a little nervous about taking my measurements, but even if I don't see big changes in inches, I know the scale is showing changes right now and I'm taking all of the right steps to see changes in inches soon, too!