Week Four 1/22/11

January 1:   208.6
January 15: 206.4
January 22: 205.2

I'm very pleased with my progress this month.  I'm doing very well with the no sugary treats.  Drinking lots of water and getting in my exercise.  After awhile it just becomes your way of life.  So glad my husband is going to the gym with me.  Should I have a day where I think "I don't want to go." he says, "We paid for it, we're going."

Last night we ate at Red Lobster.  My meal fit in with my calories and I even ate one of their "evil" Cheddar Bay Biscuits--just one!  Seriously, they are not a good choice because 1 has 150 calories.

Week Three 1/15/2011

206.4

I gained .8 from the week before but from the first of January I'm still down 2.2 lbs.  Then today (Sunday) I was back to 205.

Keeping up my hour (or very close to it)  a day of exercise.  Keeping track of my food eaten so all is well.

I weigh about 65 lbs. less than my highest weight and I have 2 areas that I still have the fat clinging to.  One, of course, it the belly.  When I read all those magazines that say "walk away the belly fat" I'm so so so unbelieving.  I've walked miles and done hundreds of abs workouts.  I have lost about 7 inches in my waist but I need to lose about 3 more to be in the healthy range.

I'm satisfied with my hips, legs, thighs and back.  But my knees are extremely fat.  Pouches of fat behind the knee--very, very unattractive.  I do a lot of exercises for my legs but I know of no exercise that targets the knees.  So it is my hope that if I lose an additional 25 to 30 lbs. that some of that fat will disappear.

Week Two 1/08/11

January 1:  208.6
January 8:  205.6

Hurray!  Loss of 3 lbs. for the week.

Changes I've made:
    more water
    not eating back all of my exercise calories
    giving up sugary treats for the month

I've got a new attitude!

Week One 1/1/11

208.6 lbs. 47.3% body fat


In 2009 I posted weekly my weight loss adventure and did well.  In 2010 I chose to not do this and I actually gained back just a bit over 3 lbs. during the year.

In 2011 I'm going to post here again weekly.

Goals:  Exercise an hour a day at least 6 days a week.
            Drink more water.
            Eat more fruit and vegetables.

Finishing Strong in 2010

Finally finally finally things are beginning to turn around for me.  I hope so much to at least end 2010 where I started...204.  I had been so sure that I would be at my goal long before this so it's been a difficult year.  But this week my faithfulness is beginning to pay off.  I'm doing one week without sugary treats.  Saturday I have two (yes, two) Christmas Teas to attend.  This will test my integrity and will power to the nth.

Time to change the title

This has been a disappointing year in my weight loss journey....up, down, up, down, maintain, up, up, up, down...etc.

I am in a challenge that will start on November 29, 2010 to lose 10 lbs. in 10 weeks. I have such doubts because I haven't even been able to lose 10 pounds in 48 weeks. And it isn't for lack of trying. I've exercised 5-6 days per week for most of the year. Vacation times were a bit of a problem. I'm not sure what else I can add to my program to get my body to release some weight. I'm still considered obese and that is not good.

Here's to getting past the holidays and start losing again.

I am tired of being a....

person who talks too much. Yep, that is what I was told. I talk too much and about unimportant things. I don't like silence. In the car I want talk radio on. At home I want the TV on or the radio. When in a group of people I'm very uncomfortable if no one is talking so I talk. I don't feel like it is a bad thing, but evidently I say stupid things...things that don't need to be said. I don't even know what I said that is wrong. To me it is just making conversation, but to others it is overbearing, and embarrassing. How do I change myself? I'm 62 and so I think it just might be too late for me.

fat person. I've regained 10 pounds and I wonder if it is worth the effort to lose it again, and again, and again, and again. It's too much and right now I cannot deal with it. I CANNOT DEAL WITH IT!

person with only a few friends. I miss having lots of friends. But maybe I didn't really have friends. Maybe I just thought I did.

person whose nephews hate me. What did I do to them besides speak? I'm so hurt by being hated when I have so much love in me. I guess what I said in the first paragraph applies here.

person who everyone thinks is happy.