Weight Watchers Meeting

I haven't lost any weight lost week, so says the scale at my Weight Watchers meeting!  I wondered if that was correct, because my scale at home says I lost another 3lbs!  Then again, my scale is a regular analog one and theirs is a digital! Maybe I should get me a digital scale and get with the Century!

The good thing is I didn't gain any and that's better news for me!  I'm still busy, cycling, doing exercise dvd and walking! So I'm keeping active and that's always good for my body!

Constant Hunger

The one thing that bothers me though is that somehow I'm always hungry!  There are certain times when I feel like a raging lunatic who could eat any and everything! I do snack in between meals but I don't do that often because sometimes I get really busy whether at home or work.  So I think I had better do better at keeping up with my snacks, that is eating more regularly otherwise I will be defeating myself.

"My Mom is Skinny!"

My daughter threw her arms around me and yell, "mommy you're so skinny!"  I told her thank you and smiled down at her.  I said to her, well, I had better be getting skinny because I've been working hard at getting fit.  She laughed and said she knows!  Then she did it again as we were walking to the pool yesterday!  I appreciate her enthusiasm for me but then thought to myself boy I must have been looking really bad!  That's my self-doubting voice talking!  My son also made a comment too.  He doesn't mince words he tells it like he sees it, no fluffing over, just plain talk.  "Hey mom you're looking so much better!"  Then he points out my hips for emphasis and said, "Yea mom much smaller here" then points to my tummy and goes, "But you need to work on this part too because now that you're smaller your tummy is showing more"!   Yes, my 13 year old son, thanks honey, I love you too!lol!

Keeping up the workout and not quitting

So, my goal is to not quit.  Last year I had lost about the same amount, then life intruded and I kind of gave up!  Then it was almost the holidays and decided not to bother with working out at all until afterwards. This year I won't do that.  I'll keep on doing what I'm doing without the gaining the weight I've lost.  While I'm not at the point of throwing out all of my clothing yet, because I've got such a long way to go, I'm not going to give up!

Somehow the task seems so daunting!  I wonder to myself that although I wasn't looking like a sack of potatoes, the little extra inches and pounds eventually added up to a colossal weight gain that I became very comfortable with.  Carrying around an extra 20 - 50 pounds is a lot to have on a person's body!  And if I were to be totally honest, I could do with losing more than 50 pounds, but that would be really making too much of a drastic move so quickly.

So far, I've lost four to five inches off my hips, two to three off my waist, three off my chest, one and a half off my arms and two off my thighs!

I'm sticking to the goal of 20% of my body weight and then I'll continue from there.  Let me tell you it is hard.  But the good thing is that I've started, I'm doing it and I will get fit for life!  And even better, my family is joining in and we're making the time to spend more time doing things together!