So. I've been blog-hopping to other people doing this WWW thing, and have been pretty inspired. I really like that I'm not the only one doing this. It somehow adds to my accountability, because I know that I, for one, am excited to see others succeeding, and it motivates me to do the same.
So I'm going to be a copycat and throw up the icon on the side (compliments of Josey) and steal the layout (compliments of Michele.)
Here I go!
Weekly Wednesday Weigh-in (Start of week 3 we'll say? Because I've been working on this a teeny bit already, but am really starting this accountability thing here and now.)
1. Reiterate my goal and where I stand in reference to this goal. (BMI info from this website)
Starting weight: 169
Last Week's Weight: 170
Current Weight: 168 (-2 from last week, which I attribute to the stomach bug I got the night before weighing in.) 28 lbs to goal.
Goal Weight : 140-145
Starting BMI: 27.3 (overweight is 25-29.9)
Last Week's BMI: 27.4
Current BMI: 27.1
Goal BMI: 22.6-23.4 (in the normal range)
2. Discuss what I am going to do to achieve my goals.
Progress on last week's activities:
- Take small amounts of desserts:
I think I did well with this. Definitely not perfect, I can think of a couple times where I wasn't trying at all (can we say 1/2 a box of Pot of Gold for lunch on Sunday???) but I did try. I know there were times I could have had more junk than I did, I felt the pull of it, but I resisted, and resistance of any sort is great progress for me, where junk food is concerned. - Not taking seconds on main courses:
I only took seconds once, and it was for more apple sauce and a teeny bit of corn. - Take more meat and veggies than rolls and corn:
I really didn't remember to do this one. The end. - Drinking lots of water:
I HAVE to get better at this! I completely failed at this one too, especially over the last 2 days where all I've been drinking is powerade, to up my electrolites after the puke-capade that was yesterday. - Maybe, just maybe go for a run:
Nope.
So as anyone can see, this week was a pretty big failure to me. It probably would have reflected with my weight too, except that I got sick. Another benefit of getting sick and not wanted to eat anything, though, is that when I finally DID start wanting food this morning, it sure as heck wasn't junk food that my body was craving. In fact, the few times I've had chocolate today, my immediate thought after eating it has been, "Well that wasn't as good as I'd thought it would be. Totally wasted calories..." I'm trying to hold on to those feelings, and go tomorrow without any chocolate which, I'm sorry to say, will be quite an accomplishment for me. It'll be day one of my chocolate-free year (because I dream all big and unrealistically like that!)
Anyway, on to this week's goals.
- Go for a jog tomorrow or Saturday (before the temperature drops around here.) Jog around the country block here, which is around 4km, or 2.5m to American-minded folk.
- Go through my Zumba intro DVD just once, so that I know the 'moves' and feel like there isn't this barrier to me doing it during the day.
- Don't eat any sweets at all, as of tomorrow.
- Buy a water bottle, start using it to track my water drinkage.
- Find one healthy recipe and make it for dinner.
3. Try to motivate others to join in on trying to lose weight
I feel like this point is a little irrelevant to me. I don't comment on many blogs, and am pretty confident that I don't have many readers, so my sphere of influence is rather limited. For what it's worth, though, here are the blogs I've been reading that motivate me, and who are also doing this WWW thing:
Bloggers I follow that are participating:
Josey @ My Cheap Version of Therapy
Gee @ GeeBaby
Michele @ Greetings from Nowhere
4. Post a (reasonably healthy) recipe that I've tried, a cooking tip, a new idea for working out for people to try, a photo update of my weight loss, or anything else I feel like sharing.
For this week I'll post about my desire to cut sweets out entirely.
I've tried to do this in the past. I think the idea was born of a girl I met in my teenage years. She was a figure skater (like me, but probably much better than me. I was known to look like a squatting dog while trying to do a sit-spin, but that's neither here nor there...) and she had a great body, so it's not like she cut out sweets to lose weight. I just remember her saying that her mom promised her $500 if she could cut out sweets for one year. At the time I met her, she was already 7-8 months into this, and I was uber impressed. I don't think I ever saw the girl again, but her turning down my offer of some slushee or skittles or whatever it was that I had and was trying to share really struck me, and I've wanted to do it ever since.
Problem is, it's a lot harder than I had ever imagined. I've realized over the last few years that there are very very very few times that I turn down chocolate. If someone is offering, I almost always say 'yes' and I've come to admire and hold in awe those who say 'no.' They don't want a Hershey's Kiss? The last brownie? Seconds on that yummy cake for dessert? Some fuzzy peaches I stashed in my church bag? What on EARTH is going through their mind, where is this supernatural strength coming from, and can I get me a slice of it??
Really, though, it's hard for me to turn junk down. It's a little triumph to me, to say no on something I want but know I don't need.
So you can imagine how cutting out sweets for an entire year would be difficult. BUT I feel that it's necessary.
I have so little self-control. Sooooo little. Like, if I'm determined to not have any chocolate in the day, but justify it saying, "It's just one chocolate! I can surely go without most junk food, and just have this little bit...right?" then I will inevitably be back there within 15 minutes for another, because 2 is not that much more than one, and eventually it becomes, "Well, I've already blown today, so I might as well start trying to cut out junk tomorrow instead..." and it's all a downward spiral from there.
I know setting my sights at 1 year is rather lofty and unforgiving, but I need something that strict in order for me to stick to it.
Except...maybe a year IS too lofty. Ohh, I don't know! I've tried to do this before, and the longest I've gone is 45 days. I did that once, and another time I went 28 days, which I feel is an accomplishment both times, but the thing is, last year, when I went the 45 days, once I started eating junk food again, I did so with a reckless abandonment that I'm ashamed of. I became addicted to Junior Mints, and was starting to hide the boxes everywhere so I didn't have to let my husband know how many I ate. I'd buy the big box, because I'd want more later anyway, and then I'd go and eat it in one sitting. It was BAD (and, I suspect it's how I went from 158 after Elijah was born to 175, just 11.5 months later, when I got pregnant with Abigail.)
So anyway. My goal is to go for all of 2012 without sweets. It'll be my sweet-free year, with sweets including pop, candy, chocolate, cookies and hot chocolate, and not including apple sauce, fruit snacks, frozen yogurt and real fruit juice.
And just to make it more tempting, to keep me on the straight and narrow of my sweet-free life, Matt has agreed that I can either get the electric keyboard, camera, or new lens that I want at the end of it.
Anyway, I'm beat. I'm still recovering from whatever it was that I had yesterday, and I need to get some sleep in me. Good luck to all those on the same weight-loss journey, wherever you are! I'll push forward in my own way, you push forward in yours, and maybe, just maybe, we'll all be able to do this thing and look as smokin' hot as we all feel (or want to feel!)
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