Hello, Temptation!

Almost a week in and I have been staying true to Weight Watchers.  I have avoided fresh brownies at my parent's house.  I cancelled my standing pizza order at work and sat and ate my lunch while all the kids in my class took bites of their delicious pizza! Today, I'm at a crop (a scrap booking event) that usually is synonymous with an all day food fest.  Everyone brings a dish and you eat off of those all day long.  You can see how this would be hard for a newbie Weight Watcher!  I brought my own Weight Watchers friendly meal consisting of rice, black beans, chicken, lime and cilantro! It proved to be very filling and very helpful in keeping me on target for my day! 

You and my meetings are keeping me on track!  So much so, that I feel I will go ahead and share my "Before" Picture.  It's not pretty, I know that.  I know this isn't something I have to do, but it's something I want to do.  I am proud that I am taking this step and I'm not ashamed that this is the current version of me, cause she won't be around for too long!

I've learned that I need to not just focus on eating free foods, like fruits and veggies.  They are filling and delicious, but they also don't seem to keep me full for long.  I need to make sure I'm getting my protein in each day and then add the fruits and veggies on top of that.  I have had an off work schedule this week and that has halted much of my activity goals.  I am hoping to get into a better fitness routine to go along with my eating to just increase these results exponentially! 

I logged in to my Weight Watchers online and it showed me the last milestone I hit.  It was a loss of 25 lbs. I was confused, because I have only have had one weigh which would have set my baseline, so how could this be?  Remember how I said I had done Weight Watchers before?  I don't remember much about it, but that it was awhile ago and I did it online only.  Apparently I was successful then.  I tried to pull  more stats, but was unable to.  I'm not even sure what my starting weight was in 2006.  I'm happy to see that this has worked before.  It gives me confidence with the greater support group I have now, I can be that much more successful! 

Goals for this week: 

1.  Talk at my Weight Watchers meeting.  

2. Walk at least 5 days next week for at least 60 minutes. 

3. Take time Sunday to plan out meals for the week and prep as much as possible. 

I can't wait to get to my next meeting to see what my official weight is.  Unofficially, my scale is saying I'm down 6 lbs.  That's certainly been motivation to stay on track. 

Losing it,

Lisa