October 19 - New You by New Years weigh-in

This for last week still...

Starting weight: 172
This week: 170
Change: 2

2nd goal: Tracked food up to Saturday (3/7 days) because Sunday to Wednesay I was at a conference and at the mercy of hotel food. Still I came through okay!

Hey All:

Start weight 248

Weight Last week 249

Weight this week 246

-3 for week/ -2 for Challenge! I'm heading the right way!

DID NOT meet my secondary goal of No Soda....I tried, again, started getting massive headaches, again, had 1 Sip of Pepsi Max (0 Calories) and headache was gone.  How can I quit smoking, but not quit soda???  WTF!!! Will try again starting today.

I did inspire others.

Biggest weakness during Holidays is Chocolate Chip cookies and my own nutritional lies.  I sometimes think it's okay to "Bank" calories.  For example, if they had Ice Cream sundaes at work and I really wanted one, but didn't..I fool myself into thinking it is now okay to have 4 cookies later since I didn't have the ice cream earlier.  I know it may sound weird, but I'm sure others have done this nutritional jerk-off as well.

Anyway, I look forward to checking everyones progress and beware the Ghouls and Goblins coming up soon!

Starting weight 225 (10/15/07)

Today's Weight 222.8 (10/19/07)

Goal weight 205 (1/1/08)

My secondary goal was to log my foods -- I did pretty well with logging 4 out of 5 days this week.  It is tough when I'm away from a computer but I have to get in the habit of writing it down and logging it on the cpu later.

My biggest weakness during holidays is grazing during large family parties.  My family is big so we have lots of large get together with lots of food.  Last weekend was a wedding.  This weekend is a birthday party.  I've really got to have a game plan going into these parties with what I'm going to eat/drink and how much.

Have an awesome weekend everyone! 

Start :  164.8

10/12:   160.2

10/19:    158.0

loss this week: -2.2lbs

Secondary goal:  (yes) Completed all food logs and calories counts for last week.

Question of the week:  Typically my biggest issue is going to family dinners where as the qoute goes "you are not allowed to be on a diet at a friends house" or refuse seconds or thirds.  Not really going to be able to do anything about it.  I just have to workout harder and make sure I work on the calorie out portion as much as possible and hope I maintain weight for those weeks.

I am at 179.5 which is the same as last week--I think the main thing that is keeping me on this plateau is lack of sleep--we have had a long stretch of sickness, both mine and the kids, and that always results in a huge sleep deficit for me.  I know there is research somewhere that sleep is necessary for weight loss....one day the kids will sleep though the night and I will wake up svelte!  I do have to admit that I binged on rice krispy treats yesterday--darn snack day for the kid at school--I was tired, had no sleep or willpower.  But now that I have admitted it I can move on.  I managed to exercise all week, so at least I have that!  Seems like sugar is my enemy lately, and I also have been skimping on water and drinking cofffee instead (the tiredness issue).

So, how'd we do this week? Did you meet your secondary goal? If you're not meeting it, how come? Do you need a different goal? Do you need some inspiration? Did you inspire others along the way?
My gym has a hydrostatic BF% test on Nov 4 so I am going to do that.    I did inspire a few people but didn't get to be online as much as I really wanted to.  I will try harder this week!
Question of the week: What's your biggest weakness over the holidays? What do you need to be on the lookout for? What is the biggest threat to your success?

Cookies are my weakness during the holidays.  I can say no to lots of things, and also learned from Weight Watchers how to just have a little bit of certain holiday foods and to eat more veggies......but cookies taunt me.  I stay away from cookie exchanges, and try not to find reasons to bake until the very last minute--if I try to plan ahead, I end up justifying way too many.  Halloween candy is also tempting.....so I generally buy stuff I don't like on the 31st and give that out.  Yukky Snickers and Butterfingers.  I won't eat those.  Then when the kids drag their catch home, I try to throw it out once they forget about it--usually a day or two--soon they will be itemizing it but for now they are too little to remember exactly what was in the bag!

Here is my check-in:

Start: 145.4

Last Week: 144.4

This Week: 140.0

Down .4 this week and down 1.4 overall in the challenge. .4-.6 is typical loss for me usually. This week I did 2 of the 3 second goal and I was a little low on my workouts this week. Will try to do better.

Leave tonight for Vegas (first time for me) back on Wed night so hopefully I can continue to be good and show a loss next week.

Stacie