These are the amazing words I heard this week at my meeting. This is even the focus for our entire month's worth of conversations. Wow, is all I can say. If you know me even a little bit, you will know that I LOVE to sleep. I can sleep in a car, on a plane. I learned when Lucas was a baby to sleep holding him, using my shoulder as a pillow. I look for any point in a day when I can nap. I feel that my naps yield the best sleep. Why? It's a choice. Plain and simple. I get to choose to lay down, so my mind isn't running thinking about how I can hit the snooze until 520 if I just do my "crunchy hairstyle." I can just lay my head down and nap. no worries about what the next day will bring. I still have plenty of time left for that in my day once I wake from my nap.
I hit the snooze button an average of 60 minutes each morning. I can't help it. I don't just pop up out of bed. I never have. I used to use my Mom as a human alarm clock in high school. To hear sleep can help me lose weight, I'm on board!
The studies said you need 7-8 hours of quality sleep each night. Typically this is not an issue for me, though I do start hitting snooze at 4 am these days so going to bed at 9 gets me just 7 hours of quality sleep. This is all assuming I'm able to turn my brain off in order to fall asleep shortly after hitting the pillow. This is a goal I'm going to work on, but I also only get about 2 hours of non-kid time a day assuming Lucas is in bed by 8 and I'm in bed by 10. Sometimes less or more for each of us! I do think that I will be able to sleep better if I feel I have gotten some me time in for my day. We'll see. Maybe I snooze less in order to make up for a later bed time. YIKES!
In the next couple days, I'm going to write a new post about my "silent partner" in this whole weight loss journey. I feel that I haven't given it as much attention as I should and so for now I will leave you at that.
Thanks so much for your continued support! I owe my success to you all as well. The thought of letting y'all down keeps me going as much as letting myself down. I'm making a change and for the most part, I'm having fun with it. Sure, there are days when I want to just eat what and how much of what I want, but there is plenty of time in life for that. For now, the goal is weight loss and I'm here to prove I can do it!
Losing it,
Lisa
Please pardon any typos. I did not proofread, just typed this one and called it a day!
8.07.2013
8.04.2013
Was it worth it?
Hey! It's been too long! What a busy week in the Russell Household! I had a few challenges put in front of me this week and here's how I dealt with them!
My first big challenge since I started Weight Watchers was going to my my in-laws for the day. I was very nervous for a couple reasons. I knew we were going to a beach house to meet some of his family, but I had no idea what that meant for me keeping on plan. I thought about packing snacks, and I did. I packed a bag of grapes and brought a plum. no points, semi-filling. Good right? They would have been better if I actually ate them.
I ended up at a restaurant, Wicked Tuna (yum!) and after looking over the menu, decided to as healthy as I could. I got a most delicious crab cake sandwich. They didn't have any sides that weren't smothered in butter, so I just kept it with the side of fries it came with. A stronger person may have dissected their crab cake to eat, just the crab cake, no bread, and also just leave the fries alone. That would have saved me points, but my fear was, I had no idea when I would eat next. Had I remembered my snacks, then really that would have been a non-issue, but I didn't. They were at the bottom of my beach bag and out of sight out of mind. I also, assumed we would be leaving and stopping at Chick fil a on the way home, so I knew I could eat a low point dinner and still be OK.
We ended up staying longer and staying for dinner. They had quite a spread out, and I tried to eat as best as I could. I ended up eating a hamburger with ketchup and mustard (again on a bun...) and then some oven roasted potatoes. There was some Quinoa and rice that I tried too. It was pretty good. I had been wanting to try Quinoa so that was nice. I tried my best, and I guess that's all I can really do.
Yesterday was challenge 2 on Weight Watchers. I helped out at my school to paint the classrooms. I started the day off right with my cereal, but when lunch time came, I chose the best smelling pizza, Chicken barbecue. I ate two pieces, not horrible, but in the end cost me 21 of my 29 points for the day.....
In just writing this, it is coming off very negative and I'm judging myself very harshly for making decent decisions. Were they the best, no. But come on, I'm human.
Here's some positives, I DID earn 11 activity points for all of my hard work yesterday. Had I eaten like that and sat on the couch then I could understand being so mean above, but I didn't. I worked hard yesterday. I DID think about everything I ate. I easily could have eaten another slice of pizza or a piece of cake for Joe's birthday, but I didn't. I DID wake up in the mindset that I need to make sure I'm on plan and get in some extra activity today so that I can still be hopeful for good results on Tuesday. Should I not have good results, I know where things went wrong and I know better now how to avoid this type of situation again. It's one week and really it's only 2 days in that week. I got this!
Losing it,
Lisa
My first big challenge since I started Weight Watchers was going to my my in-laws for the day. I was very nervous for a couple reasons. I knew we were going to a beach house to meet some of his family, but I had no idea what that meant for me keeping on plan. I thought about packing snacks, and I did. I packed a bag of grapes and brought a plum. no points, semi-filling. Good right? They would have been better if I actually ate them.
I ended up at a restaurant, Wicked Tuna (yum!) and after looking over the menu, decided to as healthy as I could. I got a most delicious crab cake sandwich. They didn't have any sides that weren't smothered in butter, so I just kept it with the side of fries it came with. A stronger person may have dissected their crab cake to eat, just the crab cake, no bread, and also just leave the fries alone. That would have saved me points, but my fear was, I had no idea when I would eat next. Had I remembered my snacks, then really that would have been a non-issue, but I didn't. They were at the bottom of my beach bag and out of sight out of mind. I also, assumed we would be leaving and stopping at Chick fil a on the way home, so I knew I could eat a low point dinner and still be OK.
We ended up staying longer and staying for dinner. They had quite a spread out, and I tried to eat as best as I could. I ended up eating a hamburger with ketchup and mustard (again on a bun...) and then some oven roasted potatoes. There was some Quinoa and rice that I tried too. It was pretty good. I had been wanting to try Quinoa so that was nice. I tried my best, and I guess that's all I can really do.
Yesterday was challenge 2 on Weight Watchers. I helped out at my school to paint the classrooms. I started the day off right with my cereal, but when lunch time came, I chose the best smelling pizza, Chicken barbecue. I ate two pieces, not horrible, but in the end cost me 21 of my 29 points for the day.....
In just writing this, it is coming off very negative and I'm judging myself very harshly for making decent decisions. Were they the best, no. But come on, I'm human.
Here's some positives, I DID earn 11 activity points for all of my hard work yesterday. Had I eaten like that and sat on the couch then I could understand being so mean above, but I didn't. I worked hard yesterday. I DID think about everything I ate. I easily could have eaten another slice of pizza or a piece of cake for Joe's birthday, but I didn't. I DID wake up in the mindset that I need to make sure I'm on plan and get in some extra activity today so that I can still be hopeful for good results on Tuesday. Should I not have good results, I know where things went wrong and I know better now how to avoid this type of situation again. It's one week and really it's only 2 days in that week. I got this!
Losing it,
Lisa
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