Weight Watchers - week 2

Totally got another "Bravo!" sticker today folks. I lost 1.8 pounds this past week so I'm down 7.4 pounds since starting Weight Watchers 2 weeks ago. I must say that I'm really happy with my weight loss this past week because it is healthy. Last year when I lost 70 pounds in 7 months I was going to the gym, you guessed it... 7 days a week. On average I would lose 2.5 pounds a week, which for me then was a healthy weight loss of 2-3 pounds a week. I mentioned it in my last blog but I want to lose between 1-2 pounds a week while I'm nursing.

Weight Watchers has incentives to keep you coming back each week. Once you lose your first 5 pounds, you get a 5 pound sticker for your book. Once you loose your first 10 pounds you get a bookmark that says "I lost 10 pounds!". You can put all your stickers on that going forward. You also get a really nice silver keyring when you lose your first 10% and then after that you get adorable little charms to put on the keyring that say "25 pounds", "50 pounds" "100 pounds". My goal is to lose 40 pounds so I will only get the one charm, but who knows? maybe I will strive for the 50 pound charm too!

Last week and this week I got in 2 walks. Our mornings are never the same, but if she is happy and fed and I'm not overly tired from being up in the night then we usually head out for at least 45 minutes. Sometimes I walk around my neighborhood, 1 lap is .5 miles, and I usually walk 4 laps. IF the little gal in the stroller I'm pushing is cooperating. Other times I will walk up to Wal-Mart or Walgreens or Starbucks, all of which are less than 1 mile one way. We have to go pretty early, about 7:00 or 8:00am because anytime close to 9:00 or 10:00 and it's far too hot for the baby to be out. I'm looking forward to when it gets cooler and maybe we can walk in the evenings instead.

Also, I have tracked every single point I've put in my mouth since I started. I use an application on my phone and it works great. Of course WW doesn't have an app for the Android yet but I've emailed them and I'm using a different one that I found in the meantime. I used 10 of my "extra points" the first week because we went to a dinner party at a friends house and I only used 2 of my "extra points" this past week (you get 35 extra points per week). I find that I can pretty much eat anything I want at home and still have to cram more in as the day wears on but if I eat something away from home, the points sure do add up fast. Although, this past week, I did a bad job planning one day and I still had about 20 points to eat still and it was dinner time. So I stopped and got my husband and I Arby's. He wanted two small plain roast beef sandwiches and I got a small roast beef sandwich and CURLY FRIES!! :) I was looking up the calories on my phone in the drive through to make sure I definitely had enough points left though.

That's one thing that I love about WW, you can eat whatever you want as long as you're smart about it. No, I'm not going to eat curly fries from Arby's everyday, but this one day I had enough points left and it was a special treat. I firmly believe that if you deprive yourself then your brain will play tricks on you and you will set yourself up for failure. Everyone is entitled to eat what they want and that's where self control comes in.

To me, losing weight is 80% mental and 20% physical.

Bravo!

Is it just me or do those cheesy "Bravo" and "5 pound" stickers AND the round of applause that you get at Weight Watchers meetings motivate you? I'm not going to lie... I was beaming this morning when I announced that I'd lost 5.6 pounds since last week and everyone cheered and clapped and I got to put my awesome stickers in my awesome little book. I'm just sayin'... :)

Yes, it's true. I lost 5.6 pounds in a week but honestly, it was my first real week back at it post baby, so of course it was going to be a lot. My plans are to stay healthy for me AND Brianna (nursing) and loose 1 pound a week maaaaaybe 2. Will it be a slow journey? Yes. Will I keep at it? Yes. Will it get easier as she gets older to eat less and go to the gym more? Yes.

On that note... for now, I am enjoying my baby and realizing that she's not going to be a baby forever. So, while I'm eager to continue on my shape-up journey I must re-iterate again, not at the expense of jeopardizing my milk supply. If it meant I had to eat In-N-Out burgers every day to keep up my milk supply I would (and you wouldn't even have to twist my arm, lol). But in all seriousness... I just gained 30 pounds to make a baby, and that took 9 months. So, I'm in no hurry and realize that I will get there eventually.

Also, I had a reality check this morning. I have 45 more pounds to go to get to my original goal that I set a million years ago back in February 2009. BUT, including today, I have lost 61 pounds total so I'm still more than halfway to my goal and that 61 was the hard part! Now, I know what I need to do, I've tasted success, and wore the jeans to prove it!

Step 1: lose 10 more pounds to get to what I was the day I found out I was pregnant
Step 2: lose 25 more pounds to get to what I was at the end of my 1st trimester (if you recall, I lost 15 pounds in my 1st trimester due to gallstones)
Step 3: lose 45 more pounds to get my ultimate goal that I haven't seen since HS

Ready? Set? Go!

Weight Watchers

tap, tap, tap... are you still there? Not sure if I have any readers left (I guess a 12 month hiatus will do that to a blog) but in case there are a couple of you still hanging around, I thought I may as well update this thing.


As you well know I had to jump ship from the weight loss boat this time last year. It was then that I found out I was expecting a little one. Well, that little one is here and getting to be not so little anymore. I have been hesitant to get back into the swing of things weight loss wise for the simple fact that I am breastfeeding. That can be a whole 'nother post on it's own but for simplicities sake: I haven't wanted to "diet" and jeopardize my breastmilk supply.


I did some research and found that the 2 safest ways to lose weight while nursing is 1. Weight Watchers or 2. Body For Life. I've followed the BFL program in the past and not looking for a repeat so WW is the winner.


I found that they were running a special right now and for the same price that 1 month of my vitamin B12 shot used to cost me, I can go to the meetings for 3 months. AND since I have aforementioned "little one" I discovered that they have special meeting times for "mommy and me" all over town. Score!


So, today is day 5. You get extra points if you're exclusively nursing (10) which is the category I fall into right now. Then you get extra points (5) if you're nursing AND supplementing with formula or solid food.


I've done really well so far eating my exact points every day. I'm excited to weigh in this week. My meeting day/time is Friday morning.


So, I'm looking forward to getting back in shape AND finally getting to my original goal weight. Also, here's to fitting into last years winter clothes in time for winter!