Current weight: 309.4
Difference from last entry: +0.2
Difference from 2009 starting weight (316.6): -7.2
Bad food choices counteract good portion control.
Up a minimal amount of weight.
Remembering the basics, including drinking lotsa water.
A new anchor! And worry about my next vacation
Current weight: 306.6
Difference from last entry: -2
Difference from 2009 starting weight (316.6): -10
Show notes:
Down a total of 10 pounds so far this year. Yay me! This is an important milestone to me.
Summertime heat is here. I hate summer. Too damned hot, makes my lunchtime walk almost impossible. So I am changing things up, taking a different train in the morning so I have to walk 20 minutes to get to the office.
Watch out for liquid calories! It’s easy to wreck one’s diet and not even realize it by drinking sugar-sweetened drinks. Via Our Lady of Weight Loss:
Liquid Calories: Evil, Alluring and Dangerous – Our Lady of Weight
Do you find it impossible to stop snacking? Here are 50 activities to do instead of snacking. Note that having sex is suspicously absent from the list. Hmmm…
theworldaccordingtoeggface: 50 Things to do instead of snacking
Tip of the week: Put things back! When grocery shopping, stop every couple of aisles and see if there’s anything in your cart which isn’t conducive to your new life style. If there is, put it back on the shelf. 
That’s it for this week. Remember to follow us on Twitter, @weightjournal.
Current weight: 298.6
Previous entry: 303.8
Difference from last entry: -5.2
Difference from 2008 starting weight (290.5): +8.1
I haven’t updated here lately, but this time it doesn’t mean that I’ve been gaining. I know, I am surprised too! I’ve actually done okay lately, as you can see either by my recorded weight up there, or by taking a look at my weight charts. Either way, you can see a definite weight loss over the last couple of weeks. Which is very cool to see.
We are, of course, heading into the holiday season. Actually, we are right in the middle of it. And some of my weaknesses are coming to the forefront. The worst is egg nog. I don’t know why, but every year I say I’m not going to have much egg nog over the season, and every year I end up drinking pints and pints. I have a profound weakness for it, and I have not figured out a way to get past that. And I need to: 1 pint = 17 points. Can you say HOLY CRAP!!! This is basically taking up all of the exercise Points I earn through a week, which means that I would have to really stick to the plan throughout the rest of the week to balance that out. And I haven’t exactly been doing that.
My other weakness? Cookies. And we have had a TON of them here at work. It started last Monday, with a cookie competition. Since then, people have been bringing in more and more home-made cookies. And I have to try each one. y’know, to be polite and stuff.
I know, I know, that’s cheating. 
Current weight: 311
Difference from last entry: -3.5
Difference from 2007 starting weight (335.5): 24.5
I am all grins and smiles right now. I’m down another three pounds or so (mebbe a little less; we had to switch scales this week). I’ll know for certain when I weigh in at WW@W tomorrow. But I am fairly confident that I lost weight. And I am fairly confident that it is because of my dedication to the plan.
As silly as it can be sometimes, Weight Watchers has given me something that I’ve been lacking: structure. Between knowing how many points I have to eat in a day and having to be accountable to it – both on the daily food log and in the weekly meetings – I have found that I can no longer just wing it. I need to think about meals (I spent a good five minutes trying to figure out what to order when I had to make a stop at KFC this weekend). I need to decide what is worth the points, and what isn’t. I need to choose to drink water, even though I might want something sweeter. I have to be accountable.
I don’t know if I really learned anything important this week. Maybe it was learning that, after a really bad day, I can still recover and move on. One splurge won’t throw off anyone’s program, as long as they learn from it, and make plans to make sure that they don’t repeat it.
Actually, I guess that is pretty important.
One other thing, and I keep harping on this: the importance of an anchor. I wear my TARDIS key necklace every day, and Erin has noticed how much I rely on it nowadays. When I am tempted, I actually grab ahold of the necklace and hold on until that craving passes. It’s my way of remembering the promise I made, both to myself and my family. I will get to a healthy weight. I will make permanent changes to my lifestyle. I will fix what I have done to myself.
I will!
Current weight: 323.5
Difference from last entry: +1
Difference from 2007 starting weight (335.5): -12
Oops! I didn’t mean to miss a week – well, almost a week. The last few days just sorta got past me. Not quite sure how that happened. I still can’t believe it is Thursday! So that probably explains everything.
I gained a pound last week, and I already know why: alcohol. Alcohol is high-calorie, concentrated carbohydrates. Drinking alcohol does not go well with losing weight. It’s critical than one adjusts what they are eating to compensate for the extra calories. And I simply didn’t do that. I had three mojitos one night, and then three Sprite-and-Mango-Malibu the next night. All told, that’s like an extra 1,200 calories (including the mixers).
Add along with that the fact that we ate out a lot that week. And I made some poor choices for breakfast once or twice. It could’ve been worse.
Oh, I actually wanted to write about that. It could’ve been worse. The only reason it wasn’t is because I actually forced myself up onto the treadmill a couple of nights and got some exercise in. 40 minutes one night, 30 minutes another… It all adds up, and it helped counter my poor choices.
So I know what I need to do now. Don’t drink anywhere near as much as I was. Don’t eat out as often as I did. And stick with the exercise.
Or: eat less and exercise.
Here’s one of the main reasons I gained so much weight over the holiday season: A venti Starbucks eggnog latte has 630 calories per serving. And I was drinking these things like water! There were a few days when I had two egg nog lattes in the same day. That’s 1260 extra calories, on top of the other bad stuff that I was eating.
My goal for this year is to find a way to kick my egg nog habit. I’m addicted to the stuff, and I really cannot afford to be. Between my lack of will power and my slow metabolism, I am doomed during the holidays!
Anyone know the number to egg nog drinkers anonymous?
On the plus side, a Grande nonfat cinnamon latte from Starbucks weighs in at 200 calories. I am so down with that! The grande latte has 14g of protein, so it’s actually a fairly nutritious drink, too. I am altering my meal plan specifically to allow one of these beasties a day. Yummy!
