Well I know its been a while since I've post but let me tell this blog is worth reading!!!!
Lets start by what the weeks immediately following my last post looked like. I was 3lbs away from hitting the big 4-0 and I was excited to get there. I was eating right, walking about 2 days a week for an hour or so, staying away from too many bad things and limiting and finding ways to shave off points from bad things I did eat. I was so stoked to see my weight drop.....but it didn't. not at all. not one ounce. not any day. not any night. I. Was. Stuck. and FRUSTRATED!!!!! I said "surely I wouldn't plateau 3lbs before my 40 and 7lbs before I reached 199?!?!?!?!" But the scale didn't change....except...TO GO UP!!!! nonononononononono this cannot be right! I am doing everything I know to do. I am eating fruit, protein, lean meats, salads, diet sodas, waters, teas, avoided breads, avoided fast food, avoided my soy lattes!!!!!!! All to have the scale go up?!?!?!? So I sat down one night and said to myself "what would Martha tell me?" (Martha being my WW leader) I had missed my last meeting-I was apparently not feeling well and exhausted and literally slept through three alarms. I missed WW and couldn't wait to get back there. So after thinking it though on Monday, the only change that I could come up with to make was to start eating a bigger breakfast. I am used to eating between a 2-6 point breakfast (the 2 points consisted of coffee and creamer and I noted that I had made a bit of a habit making that my only breakfast mos days). I thought-may be if I eat a bigger breakfast my body's metabolism will boost, I'll least less points at lunch and dinner, and may be the scale will drop. Meanwhile at work, my co-worker had asked me if I wanted to go to an impromptu WW meeting since we'd both missed and felt the need to go, so we went. IT WAS SOOOOO PAINFUL!!!! Not only did I have my very first weigh-in gain, but the leader was no where near at relatable as my awesome Martha. However, the topic of conversation this week happened to be on the importance of breakfast--hmmmmm, I was just saying the same thing myself. So my co-worker and I got pumped about breakfast and over the next week we ate it up! I moved my breakfast points to an average of 8 points each and every day (11 on Sunday--cuz I had my latte!). Finally the scale moved back down to the plateau level, and then slightly passed, and yesterday morning after three long weeks I hit my 40lbs! Even after eating cookies on Saturday and two catered meals on Sunday I still hit my 40 again this morning! Breakfast did it, I truly think that is making a world of difference. My body is happy again, I feel like I overcame a huge obstacle and now am ready for the next leg of my journey.
I am now looking back at my next landmark goals, in case you don't remember from way back in March I'll fill you in:
At 194.2lbs I will
1.be below 200 for the first time since my junior year of highschool
2.have lost 20% of my weight
3.be at my 50lbs loss
4.post some new before and after pictures (including the one that was a wake up call to my weight)
5.be working out 2-3 days a week
6.be in a size 14-16
7.set my ultimate goal
All that to say these next 10lbs are very important to me because it is the closing of one chapter of my "get healthy" theme, and into the next one.
BTW....I LOOK GOOOOOOOOOOOOD! ;) hahahahaha
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