Day 1

Well, Day 1 went.......ok. I logged my food in at school that I had before I came home and quickly learned that one of my favorite "healthy" snacks is not so healthy. FYI Smart popcorn is 7 points! Let me break it down. On Weight Watchers Online (WWO) you get a certain amount of "points" to use every day and then you have what I call "savings" points that you can use throughout the week here and there as backup. Personally, I don't like to dip into savings, even if it's just points for food. You can also earn extra points when you work out.

So, after logging my breakfast, snack, lunch, and snack, I had 8 points left for the day. Now....to me, this doesnt seem like a lot, but when you try to figure out what you wanna eat for dinner it's not much. Anyways, I would say for Day 1, it went ok. I was going to plan a menu for the week, but I am going to use this week as a see what I can do kind of week. As in, see what my favorite things to eat will cost me if I eat them on this points system and start to regulate portions with those if I want to continue to taste those things. So, my plan is to work on a menu that I can start with on Sunday.

I played basketball with my kids today and mowed the yard for an hour, so I count that as some exercise. My goal is to also start sloooooowly getting my body back in the habit of regular exercise and build up to what I used to be doing. Tomorrow I'm going to Zumba, which makes me happy and nervous all at the same time because I really don't want my fat jiggling everywhere, BUT I know that going helps that fat jiggle right off, so that's good.

Wow, this is a boring blog tonight, but it's a start.

Starting over

I've REALLY fallen off the bandwagon. I worked so hard for a year to lose 50 pounds and I'm embarassed to say how much of that 50 I've gained back. It's not all of it, but it's enough to make me upset with myself. BUT the good news is that I am not letting myself gain it all back and am getting myself back in the mindset of losing weight and getting healthy.

I joined Weight Watchers online. I think part of my problem with Jenny Craig, was that they never taught me how to eat the food I would normally eat. All of it was frozen food. I'm not knocking it, but when you have eaten the same things for over a year, it gets old. So with the WW online deal, I eat what I want but just keep track of the "points" for each item all day. Tonight I worked on updating my info with the sight. Tomorrow, I will work on mapping out a week's menu that I can stick with. I went and got some groceries tonight that I know (from my experience with Jenny Craig) are good things to have in stock when you are trying to lose weight.

Wednesday's goal is to hit the gym and go to Zumba again. Slow and steady steps to get back in the groove of sticking to eating healthy and working out. I reset my ticker to go along with the suggested small goals on WW online, so I'm focusing on 12 pounds to start with. I have my weigh in days set for Fridays b/c I usually do better during the week and feel it's more accurate. I'm also going to look up some 5ks to set as goals to work toward in my workouts.

I'm ready! I'm set! Here I go!