New Hope.

Weighed in today at Weight Watchers and lost 2.2 pounds!!! Im SO happy to have actually lost a significant amount!! I feel like Im finally in a good place with weight loss. It seems like it took me forever though. Anyway, I dont want to mess this up, so Im going to be doing MUCH better this week with my eats and whatnot.
Im still doing well with my 21 day challenge. No crispy chicken sanwiches for me!! haha.

Anyway, if you wanna check out my weigh in video here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/LindseyBrooke27?feature=mhw4

Thanks for reading!!

No Fast Food 21 Day Challenge!

Im starting a 21 day challenge for myself to not eat fast food for 21 days. Im on my second day and I think it is going to be easier than I originally thought it would be. The worst part is going to be on the weekends when Im not at my house most of the time.

Anyway, I have a video up on youtube (LindseyBrooke27) explaining everything. Join if you want to!

Also, my weight this week is down 2 lbs so far!! Yay! Im not going to get too excited though because Saturdays seem to be a weird day for me. Anyway, Im happy to see the numbers go down. Im feeling thinner and I really love it!

Some eats from the week

 

3 pancakes with a tiny bit of margarine with fruit on top. I added some sugar to the berries to make a syrup of sorts. They were thawed frozen berries and I honestly thought they tasted odd. It was overall pretty good, but next time Im going to just use fresh strawberries.

Lettuce with shredded chicken on top that I heated up in the skillet and seasoned a bit. it was actually just the canned kind. This was really really good. Also tomato. I <3 Tomato. Cant wait till summer when they are better. And, yes, that is a Disney Princess plate =D

OKay. This looks gross and it was gross. Its whole wheat penne with marinara with a little mozzarella. I like whole wheat spaghetti, but this was nasty. The texture of the pasta was horrible. Ughhh. I was sooo disappointed. From now on, Im splurging on points when it comes to penne. I couldnt even finish it.

Yummy grapes and yogurt.

 

These are just pics of what I actually remembered to take pictures of this week. I want to get into the habit of posting pics of most of my meals.

Anyway, byes for now. Weigh in Tomorrow =)

Weigh In #I have no idea

Went to weight watchers today and lost .8
Im happy about it, but Id be more excited if I had made up for what I gained last week. Anyway, Im headed in the right direction, so that's good.
Tonight I am going to try and work on a meal plan for the next week so that I know what I need to get at the grocery.
Anyway, not much else to say other than that. Perhaps I will post an entry with my youtube weigh in later when I feel more talkative

Update

Sorry its been so long since I last posted! I am on Spring Break this week (it's almost over =(( ) and was in KY for a few days and had no internet.

Anyway, last week I weighed in and gained 1.6 lbs.

Okay, honestly, Im not making excuses, but Im pretty sure it wasnt a real gain. I weighed in on my scale at home that morning too and I was at 167 and the next day when I weighed I was 165 (my scale is about 2 lbs more than the WW scale).
So, I dont know why that happened, or what I ate, but it was off. I didnt eat badly enough that week to gain and I honestly think I at least maintained. My weigh in just happened to land on the wrong day, lol.

Anyway, moving on from that, THIS week is the week I should gain. I havent eaten badly, but I havent eaten well either. Since I was in Kentucky I was eating out almost every meal. There are a couple places there that I never get to eat at, so I treated myself to things I would not have treated myself to otherwise.
Even though I will be disappointed if I gain, I will understand why.

This week, Anna (my WW friend and fellow blogger) blogged about eating non processed foods all week and I may challenge myself to do this starting this Monday. I want to start eating less processed foods anyway, and I know it will help with my weight loss.

For the past month or so, my weight loss has sucked. I know why and I know what I need to do to fix it. It really sucks that being a broke ass college student makes it so hard to stay on track. Im going to sacrifice all the money I have left from my paycheck to get good foods for next week.

I just have to start seeing results. Im beginning to start have negative feelings about myself and my weight loss journey and that is not going to help me. I find myself constantly trying to be positive, because I know that beating myself up about things will not do anything for me. I am not quitting this time. Im just not. I have to do this for myself. I have to be completely selfish and only think of me when it comes to this. I have to take care of myself because no one else can! This is important. I am important. Sometimes I have a hard time remembering that I am doing this for myself and that I want this. I want this more than anything I have ever wanted in my life.
I need this to work this time, and it will. If it takes me 5 years to get this stupid weight off of me, I will wait 5 damn years.

Anyway, enough rambling. I definitely feel good about this next week. I will LOSE at my weigh in after this one. I may lose this Saturday, but I dont want to set myself up for disappointment.
I can do this, and to anyone who is reading this; You can too. So, let's do this...

Okay Day

Today was an alright day. I didnt have a fabulous day but I didnt have a terrible one either. I did not track AGAIN, but I dont believe I went over my points by much if I went over them at all. Karissa and I went to McCallister's and I had an awesome sandwich, which probably wasnt terrible by itself, but it came with a mound of chips. I could have picked a different side, but I wasnt expecting so many chips and thought I would just splurge a little. I dont control myself very well around any kind of potato. lol. I think my semi-irish blood has something to do with it.
Anyway, they also had amazing sweet tea and I had two huge cups of it. The only other thing I ate today was a big bowl of chicken veggie soup when I got home with some bread. And later in the night a fiber one bar. Anyway, it wasnt a good example of how to appropriately use your points, but it is what it is. Every day is not going to be perfect. This is not a diet. This is how I plan on living the REST of my life. One day at a time.
Sure, I could eat salads and veggies all day long and eat "diet" foods, but that is NOT realistic. That is setting yourself up for failure. Sure, I could lose a lot of weight quickly, but I would gain it right back. There will always be good days and bad days and I am prepared to continue on this journey for the rest of my life. The day I hit goal will not be the end of it, but simply another chapter.

This next week is Spring Break and will be a challenge because most of the time I will be out of state and at the mercy of the family I am staying with and the restaurants we decide to go to. Im going to try and focus and do the best I can. I dont know how much exercise I will be able to fit it, but I will at least try to go on a couple of walks. Kentucky is pretty in some areas so perhaps I will convince my mom to go walk around the neighborhood with me.


Anyway, sorry to blabber. I guess that is what this thing is for. More soon!

Over Due ....

Sorry I suck at updating!

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Anyway, this past Saturday I went to my usual weight watcher meeting and lost 1.6 pounds. I was pretty excited to have a more significant loss than I have been getting in the past few weeks. I have now lost about 4 lbs, which doesnt seem like a lot, but I already feel my jeans fitting differently. I really want to get a 5 lb sticker at my next meeting, haha. Im a dork. =)

But anyway, I feel like my weight loss is finally starting to take off again. I am now 10 pounds lighter than I was last year, which is cool to think about. I wish it were more, but if I think about it that way rather than 4 lbs, then it motivates me more.

Anyway, I went to the gym tonight with my roommate, Karissa and we kicked some ass. I did 3.25 miles on the treadmill in 50 min, which isnt that fast I dont suppose, but my heart rate was between 165-180 throughout the whole workout and I was sweating like crazy.

I left feeling like I had had a great workout and I still feel awesome about it.

I really think that I am headed in the right direction and that I am going to start seeing better results on and off the scale.

Until next time, Byes!