back to tracking...

Okay, so I gained this week. It's not a total shocker, I used the excuse of not counting points so that I could splurge on peanut butter, and trail mix. Oh, I had a piece of cake this week, too. I only worked out Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. I'm still trying to find balance between everything, but I have the sweetest husband ever! Thursdays I have late class, so Chuck does laundry, feeds himself, and usually whatever other chores he can find. This is after he works a 10 hour day, outside, in the 95 degree DC heat. When I came home last night, he rearranged the furniture in the living room and put the desk in there so that I have a desk to do my homework on. He also bought me flowers! And they were pink - my favorite color! He's such a great guy, and I have no idea how I snatched him before someone else did.

Anyways, back to weight loss. After seeing that I DO need something keeping me accountable, that just wanting to loose weight doesn't magically make you loose that weight. With that said, I'm back to tracking. It was nice to not have to track for a few weeks. I didn't do terrible, I have my normal foods, I still got recipes off of WW and ate my veggies and such, but as I mentioned before, my downfall was peanut butter and trail mix.

After weighing myself this morning, I was determined to plan out everything, and I mean everything, that I'm going to put in my mouth in the next week. Okay, not everything, I'm still having trouble with weekends. This weekend I'll be at my cousin's house in PA, and we have a wedding to go to tomorrow, but I'm going to try to make healthy choices, really, I am. So I planned out what I'm going to eat for Tues - Fri of next week. I'm hoping that I can see the scale go down a few pounds, but we'll see.

Once I was done for next week, I decided that I was having fun, and that I really wanted to use a couple good recipes that I found, so I planned out the following week, too (not including weekends). Next weekend we're home, and I usually do really good at home. I have a lot of reading to do, and homework, so hopefully that will keep me on track. We might go out shopping on Saturday, so I'll have to watch myself if we go out to eat. I'm so sick of being stuck only having lost 10 lbs. since MAY! I should be down 20 lbs. I know it's my own fault, I'm just not staying on track. As others have said, "if you kind of do WW, it only kind of works".

Especially with me not working out as much as I would have liked, and I don't have the time to now, so I need to make sure I stick to my points and the weight will come off.

Another thing I did: I deleted all my previous history on the WI tracker on e-tools. Now when I had the idea, I thought it was going to be like starting fresh, like restarting WW on September 1. Nope, not so, it still has where I was when I started LAST YEAR! So now I just have a straight line for 15 months saying that I was stuck at 169.6 for those 15 months. Oh well, I'm just glad I can kind of start with a clean slate. All my food is planned out, and I CAN do this! I WILL do this!

"I can do all things through Him, who gives me strength."
- Phil. 4:13