The first month is down and the results are in.
First I'll start with the bad news which is that this is the 1st week where I have gained some weight instead of losing some weight. That sucks, blows and a host of other words as well.
Whatever, one week is not the big picture and gains and loses are all on a fluctuating scale. Next week I will be down again and that is all that matters.
The good news is that for this first month I have dropped 10 pounds and that is good and reasonable within the confines of a month.
If I am able to drop 10 pounds every month for the next couple of months then I'll be a happy camper and achieve one of my big goals by the end of September.
I have off of work until Thursday and when I'm not working it's harder to keep to my diet, but I'm prepared for that. Today I really think is going to be quite a bad day for me as I'm craving Pizza and I'm going to give in to this craving. I will over indulge and then come Monday I'll be back on my wagon and striving towards a more perfect me (hard to believe, I know).
Last night at the poker table I broke out my bikini and while technically it did fit I do realize that I've gotta get down to that September weight goal in order to make it fight the way it did when I first moved to Vegas. Operation "fit into your old clothes that you've refused to throw away for the last decade" is in effect SIR YES SIR!
I've got two other posts that I'm working on - one about the joy of breakups and one about shit said at poker tables. Hopefully those will both be completed and up by the end of the day or the end of tomorrow.
Now that the 1st month is done and I've lost a few I really need to work on adding some of the exercise in. This will be easier when I live on the North Side as I've got quite a few people over there who hit up the gym regularly and will help keep me motivated. Where I'm at now I do not have that strong supporting cast and it's left to my desire and motivation which.... well... like I said, I'm eating Pizza today :)
Showing posts with label Weight Watchers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weight Watchers. Show all posts
Sunday, July 08, 2012
Sunday, July 01, 2012
Weight Loss Day 21
While I am not doing as many of these random updates as I would like to lately I am at least forcing myself to stick to updating where I am once a week. That day being Sunday as it's fat ass on a scale day.
This completes my third week of kinda sorta following Weight Watchers and yesterday I had my first major cheat day which was not planned but just kind of happened.
Went to the Farmers Market with a friend and had a good time looking at all the fruits and vegetables while noticing a few things that I want to go back and check out at a later day because I didn't really come prepared with any money. The main thing being the Beef Jerky stand - O.M.F.D do I want to go back there and taste some of the wares.
After a bit of walking around and exploring we ended up at a Frozen Yogurt store was which misspoken to me as an Ice Cream shop. I kind of have a love hate relationship with Frozen Yogurt as I consider it the bastard son of the Faux Ice Cream shops. I've tried it once or twice and every time has been a pretty big disappointment. The flavor has been lacking and it usually leaves me wanting actual Ice Cream. This is in stark contrast to Frozen Custard which I've had mostly good experiences with and now actually crave over Ice Cream (from one spot that is, not just in general).
So, we stop into the Frozen Custard shop and they do have an assortment of flavors that I am willing to try. They let you get your own out of self serving machines into a cup which you end up paying something like 36 cents per ounce for. I started off with the Birthday Cake, added in some Peanut Butter, threw in a bit of Red Velvet Cake and finished it off with NY Cheese Cake. I then put on some Reese's Pieces, Chocolate Chips, White Chocolate Chips and a single Gummy Worm. Swirled it all into one gigantic mess and proceeded to eat it in the 100+ degree Las Vegas heat and I will admit that this shop has done it right. I actually enjoyed it and the flavors were pretty good unlike some of the other places I have gone too.
After finishing that excursion I went home for a bit until it was time for my monthly home poker game which ended up being a whole bunch of non excitement. We had 12 people (a little larger than normal) and I ended up lasting near 3 hours. The table I was at was horrible and boring and no one ever got any hands. We pushed chips back and forth until we finally combined tables and at hour 2.5 with the blinds starting to make a real difference I was still sitting with about the starting stack which meant that I had one real raise and a flop push in me. At my first table I could never get anything going even though I was playing in a ton of pots. I'd take down a bunch to start gaining momentum and then I'd get hammered back down by making a hand I couldn't fold against something better. Trips went down to a flopped straight. I doubled up a short stack with KQs when he limp-called with ATs. I just kept giving away big pots to people who were getting short only to have to come back and recover it all over again.
When getting to the Final Table it folded to me and I raised with 57s and got one caller. The flop came down 68T giving me an open ended draw and a back door flush draw. I pushed and got auto called by someone who flopped the NFD, for 1/3rd of her chips. I did not hit any of my 10 outs and was sent packing.
Also during this tournament I had 3 people comment on the fact that it looks like I have dropped some pounds and that right there is probably the best feeling in the world when losing weight - having someone else notice and point it out. Being that this is not the first time in the past week that someone has asked me if I had been losing weight I'll chalk this up as "not a coincidence" and believe that I'm actually starting to look slightly thinner. The people who asked me had no prior knowledge to me actually attempting to eat better and look better!
During the tournament, however, I ate two donuts and a piece of pizza - more junk for my trunk!
Knowing that Sunday is a weigh in day it kind of sucks to have Saturday as a day that I do not work but instead go out and have fun. It's a day full of temptations and because of the way the world works it could easily break all of the progress that I made for the week leading up to it. Oh well, thems the breaks kiddo, right?
That leads me to this morning and the hour of Judgement. Last week I was at 270.4 I believe (not going to go back and check). My whole goal for this week was to survive it and be below 270 for the first time in multiple years. Today I came in at 269.2 - BOO YA!
Yeah - I only lost 1 pound but dammit that was a very very important pound. It's probably been 3 years since I dipped below 270. My next goal is to be able to have that scale dip below 260 by the end of July which is going to require more work and effort than I have put in over the course of the last week and a half and a whole hell of a lot less cheating.
I've got one more bad day coming up and that is Tuesday. Tuesday is going to be a combination 4th of July celebration and the Old Man's birthday celebration dinner. I'm bringing home some Tasty Ribs and going to eat more than my recommended 1 serving. Oh, it's going to be divine!
So, to everyone who supports me on a regular basis I really want to thank you. You guys make it so much easier to actually mostly stick to this whole eating better thing and continue to lose weight. Especially the ones at work who ask me about it consistently. It's so hard to grab a bag of chips after I've just had two people ask me what day I'm on and how it's going. It also made it so much easier to ignore all of that crap in the break room on Friday and just eat a sandwich instead! Y'all Rock!!!
This completes my third week of kinda sorta following Weight Watchers and yesterday I had my first major cheat day which was not planned but just kind of happened.
Went to the Farmers Market with a friend and had a good time looking at all the fruits and vegetables while noticing a few things that I want to go back and check out at a later day because I didn't really come prepared with any money. The main thing being the Beef Jerky stand - O.M.F.D do I want to go back there and taste some of the wares.
After a bit of walking around and exploring we ended up at a Frozen Yogurt store was which misspoken to me as an Ice Cream shop. I kind of have a love hate relationship with Frozen Yogurt as I consider it the bastard son of the Faux Ice Cream shops. I've tried it once or twice and every time has been a pretty big disappointment. The flavor has been lacking and it usually leaves me wanting actual Ice Cream. This is in stark contrast to Frozen Custard which I've had mostly good experiences with and now actually crave over Ice Cream (from one spot that is, not just in general).
So, we stop into the Frozen Custard shop and they do have an assortment of flavors that I am willing to try. They let you get your own out of self serving machines into a cup which you end up paying something like 36 cents per ounce for. I started off with the Birthday Cake, added in some Peanut Butter, threw in a bit of Red Velvet Cake and finished it off with NY Cheese Cake. I then put on some Reese's Pieces, Chocolate Chips, White Chocolate Chips and a single Gummy Worm. Swirled it all into one gigantic mess and proceeded to eat it in the 100+ degree Las Vegas heat and I will admit that this shop has done it right. I actually enjoyed it and the flavors were pretty good unlike some of the other places I have gone too.
After finishing that excursion I went home for a bit until it was time for my monthly home poker game which ended up being a whole bunch of non excitement. We had 12 people (a little larger than normal) and I ended up lasting near 3 hours. The table I was at was horrible and boring and no one ever got any hands. We pushed chips back and forth until we finally combined tables and at hour 2.5 with the blinds starting to make a real difference I was still sitting with about the starting stack which meant that I had one real raise and a flop push in me. At my first table I could never get anything going even though I was playing in a ton of pots. I'd take down a bunch to start gaining momentum and then I'd get hammered back down by making a hand I couldn't fold against something better. Trips went down to a flopped straight. I doubled up a short stack with KQs when he limp-called with ATs. I just kept giving away big pots to people who were getting short only to have to come back and recover it all over again.
When getting to the Final Table it folded to me and I raised with 57s and got one caller. The flop came down 68T giving me an open ended draw and a back door flush draw. I pushed and got auto called by someone who flopped the NFD, for 1/3rd of her chips. I did not hit any of my 10 outs and was sent packing.
Also during this tournament I had 3 people comment on the fact that it looks like I have dropped some pounds and that right there is probably the best feeling in the world when losing weight - having someone else notice and point it out. Being that this is not the first time in the past week that someone has asked me if I had been losing weight I'll chalk this up as "not a coincidence" and believe that I'm actually starting to look slightly thinner. The people who asked me had no prior knowledge to me actually attempting to eat better and look better!
During the tournament, however, I ate two donuts and a piece of pizza - more junk for my trunk!
Knowing that Sunday is a weigh in day it kind of sucks to have Saturday as a day that I do not work but instead go out and have fun. It's a day full of temptations and because of the way the world works it could easily break all of the progress that I made for the week leading up to it. Oh well, thems the breaks kiddo, right?
That leads me to this morning and the hour of Judgement. Last week I was at 270.4 I believe (not going to go back and check). My whole goal for this week was to survive it and be below 270 for the first time in multiple years. Today I came in at 269.2 - BOO YA!
Yeah - I only lost 1 pound but dammit that was a very very important pound. It's probably been 3 years since I dipped below 270. My next goal is to be able to have that scale dip below 260 by the end of July which is going to require more work and effort than I have put in over the course of the last week and a half and a whole hell of a lot less cheating.
I've got one more bad day coming up and that is Tuesday. Tuesday is going to be a combination 4th of July celebration and the Old Man's birthday celebration dinner. I'm bringing home some Tasty Ribs and going to eat more than my recommended 1 serving. Oh, it's going to be divine!
So, to everyone who supports me on a regular basis I really want to thank you. You guys make it so much easier to actually mostly stick to this whole eating better thing and continue to lose weight. Especially the ones at work who ask me about it consistently. It's so hard to grab a bag of chips after I've just had two people ask me what day I'm on and how it's going. It also made it so much easier to ignore all of that crap in the break room on Friday and just eat a sandwich instead! Y'all Rock!!!
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Weight Loss Day 7
The end of my first week has hit and the results are in and good.
I'm down to 273 from 277 last Sunday, a 4 pound loss and nearly 10 pounds since I signed up for Weight Watchers maybe 10 days ago.
I cannot give myself all the praise in this as there were a couple of days that I didn't even track because I was too busy being angry and vile towards my apartment complex and all of that sitting and roasting in the heat didn't do any good for me other than remind me not to eat because it's too bloody hot to put food in the system. The real challenge over the course of this next week is going to be losing a couple more pounds or at the very least maintaining my current weight once the A/C is fixed and I'm not more focused on my impending doom. I will end up eating dinner more consistently.
So, Baby Step 1 is out of the way and I have dropped below 275. My next mini-goal is to get below 270 which I think I've only really seen once since moving to Las Vegas and that was over three years ago when I was hitting the gym every day for 3 months straight.
I've been scouring the internet lately looking for good low point recipes that actually look good and tasty and would be easy to make in a pinch. Of course I get turned off pretty easy when I see prep times or cook times that go over 15 minutes lol. I'm a "oh, I just decided I'm hungry right this instance and I really want to put food in my mouth right bloody hell now!!!" That, obviously, has not worked well for me over the course of my 72 years on this planet. (There is a lie in that last sentence).
I like how the points gradually step down as you drop a few pounds even though I knew it would happen, I was curious at what rate they would drop. Down nearly 10 pounds and the points have gone from 58 to 55 which is not too bad. 3 points is one of the cheese sticks that I eat on an almost daily basis so it's very easy to cut back a bit there.
I'm down to 273 from 277 last Sunday, a 4 pound loss and nearly 10 pounds since I signed up for Weight Watchers maybe 10 days ago.
I cannot give myself all the praise in this as there were a couple of days that I didn't even track because I was too busy being angry and vile towards my apartment complex and all of that sitting and roasting in the heat didn't do any good for me other than remind me not to eat because it's too bloody hot to put food in the system. The real challenge over the course of this next week is going to be losing a couple more pounds or at the very least maintaining my current weight once the A/C is fixed and I'm not more focused on my impending doom. I will end up eating dinner more consistently.
So, Baby Step 1 is out of the way and I have dropped below 275. My next mini-goal is to get below 270 which I think I've only really seen once since moving to Las Vegas and that was over three years ago when I was hitting the gym every day for 3 months straight.
I've been scouring the internet lately looking for good low point recipes that actually look good and tasty and would be easy to make in a pinch. Of course I get turned off pretty easy when I see prep times or cook times that go over 15 minutes lol. I'm a "oh, I just decided I'm hungry right this instance and I really want to put food in my mouth right bloody hell now!!!" That, obviously, has not worked well for me over the course of my 72 years on this planet. (There is a lie in that last sentence).
I like how the points gradually step down as you drop a few pounds even though I knew it would happen, I was curious at what rate they would drop. Down nearly 10 pounds and the points have gone from 58 to 55 which is not too bad. 3 points is one of the cheese sticks that I eat on an almost daily basis so it's very easy to cut back a bit there.
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Day Negative One
Tomorrow is Day Zero which is the official first weigh in before actually beginning this Journey!
The other day I wrote about how I have been slowly making some changes to my food intake in order to be healthier and maybe have a weight loss side effect and much to Josie's dismay I have shed a good chunk of pounds in the past two months (and Josie - it's not all from cutting out non diet soda which I rarely drank at that point anyway :)
I'm not going to over do these posts but I'm going to at least try to do them once a week to update my progress and how much I am struggling to meet my goals.
Last night, as my last "crappy" dinner before starting my actual challenge I went out and had a nice huge plate of Chicken Chow Mein semi-spicy. It was bloody tasty and while it wasn't as bad as something like a rack of ribs it still hit the spot quite well. I'll be planning on doing a bad meal or day at least once a month depending on how everything else is going.
That being said - my current packed lunch fits almost perfectly in with my daily point allowance which is nice. I'm not looking forward to lowering my points because that means I'm going to have to cut some things out or actually make healthier choices. I guess that's one of the drawbacks of NOT being so far.
Other than some random weight loss my main (current) goal is to be able to fit into my hockey jersey again (by the time the season starts up).
While I still technically fit into it, I'm snug as a bug in a rug and that, as the Spanish speakers say, is no bueno.
The other day I wrote about how I have been slowly making some changes to my food intake in order to be healthier and maybe have a weight loss side effect and much to Josie's dismay I have shed a good chunk of pounds in the past two months (and Josie - it's not all from cutting out non diet soda which I rarely drank at that point anyway :)
I'm not going to over do these posts but I'm going to at least try to do them once a week to update my progress and how much I am struggling to meet my goals.
That being said - my current packed lunch fits almost perfectly in with my daily point allowance which is nice. I'm not looking forward to lowering my points because that means I'm going to have to cut some things out or actually make healthier choices. I guess that's one of the drawbacks of NOT being so far.
Other than some random weight loss my main (current) goal is to be able to fit into my hockey jersey again (by the time the season starts up).
While I still technically fit into it, I'm snug as a bug in a rug and that, as the Spanish speakers say, is no bueno.
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Every Smart Man
...Builds a shed over his most important Tool. Yes, this is the battle cry of fatty's everywhere. I had always told myself that when I couldn't look down and see little Beavis any longer that's when I'd make sure to lose some weight - but a combination of me having a small tally-whacker and me lying to myself it never happened.
I've been heavy most of my life and I've always been cool with it, but the older I get the more I realize that maybe I should be less heavy for the health of it. For the past 6 years I've weighed in right around 280 pounds give or take, but just within the past few months I jumped on a scale and saw that I was really close to 300 and that kind of scared me a bit so I decided I really needed to make a change.
So, since that point I have been slowly making some changes and of course violently falling off of the wagon only to crawl back on it and start again. For simplicity sake I'm just going to say that I noticed my weight at the beginning of April (Oh Ms O'Neil how I do adore thee).
My biggest weakness is potato chips. It's just too easy to pick up a bag or three and chow through them. It's also easy to just finish a bag without realizing it. So, when I have chips I try to make it the little snack size bags to control my portions, however there have been a few times when I'll just randomly grab a big bag while at the store and next thing I know I've eaten like half the bag and finish it off the next day. Control issues - Hand Raised.
Things that I have done:
I am at about 98% diet Dew. Now I don't need to hear anyone's babbling brook of bullshit telling me how diet soda is just as bad as regular soda an whatever the fuck else people want to point to. Fact of the matter is by switching to diet Dew I've cut out a lot of sugar. A lot -A-Fucking-Lot! Seriously. In one 12 oz can of Regular Mt Dew there is 47 grams of sugar. Even though I have cut back on the amount of Dew I have drank over the years I still go through a minimum of 4 cans of Dew every single day. I crack one when I wake up, I have two at work and I have one (sometimes more) when I'm chilling in the evening. I've been adding water into my diet and cutting out some of the Dew, but I still drink a lot of that shit. So, lets just round down to 4 cans of Dew every day and you are looking at 188 grams of sugar in a day. That is an awful lot of sugar to cut out of my fat-and-ever-increasing-ass per day. So, if you want to tell me that Diet is just as bad for me, Fuck You until you can prove your case (and then I'll just switch back to regular biznatch).
I have cut out on eating out (I'm single so I had no choice *rim shot*) to 2-4 times per month. I pack my lunch for work every day so that I am not tempted to go to buy any of the junk that I was consistently filling my body with. No more Sam's Club Pizza. No more Burgers from wherever. No more Panda Express. Not even Jared's favorite Subway meals. No, Now I strictly control what I put in my body during the work day.
I have also cut back on my portion sizes during dinner. I used to load my plate up and just eat like a pig. now I carefully dictate how much I am going to eat by trying to stick kinda sorta stick to the recommended serving sizes.
So, those three changes have led me to drop from 300 pounds to 282 pounds (back to where I'm used to being) in about 2 months.
Now, on to part two of my plan which was just conceived like 2 days ago. I've got a friend who is also trying to lose weight and has used Weight Watchers with some success in the past. However, upon going back to normal eating habits she has gained her weight back (well, some of it) and asked me if I could help to keep her motivated in losing weight again and trying to keep it off. Shit yeah - I'm all for a buddy system (because my motivation is pretty close to zero on my own). So, I'm now in the process of turning my daily food (I pretty much eat the same exact thing every bloody day) into what-the-fuck-ever their point system is so that I can do the play-along-at-home game. I also bought a bathroom scale so that I can actually weigh myself with some regularity and I can see how my changes are affecting me. I'm hoping to gain a bit more motivation and maybe add in some exercise (which I keep telling myself and you guys that I'm going to do) in order to help improve the results.
End result, I'm going to look sleek and sexy and all you mofo's are gonna want my body (just the ladies, the guys will just want to be like me).
So - today is Day Negative 3 as I'm officially starting on Monday. I'm going to have one outrageous meal this weekend before beginning and I'm actually kind of looking forward to it.
And now I leave you with this:
I've been heavy most of my life and I've always been cool with it, but the older I get the more I realize that maybe I should be less heavy for the health of it. For the past 6 years I've weighed in right around 280 pounds give or take, but just within the past few months I jumped on a scale and saw that I was really close to 300 and that kind of scared me a bit so I decided I really needed to make a change.
My biggest weakness is potato chips. It's just too easy to pick up a bag or three and chow through them. It's also easy to just finish a bag without realizing it. So, when I have chips I try to make it the little snack size bags to control my portions, however there have been a few times when I'll just randomly grab a big bag while at the store and next thing I know I've eaten like half the bag and finish it off the next day. Control issues - Hand Raised.
Things that I have done:
I am at about 98% diet Dew. Now I don't need to hear anyone's babbling brook of bullshit telling me how diet soda is just as bad as regular soda an whatever the fuck else people want to point to. Fact of the matter is by switching to diet Dew I've cut out a lot of sugar. A lot -A-Fucking-Lot! Seriously. In one 12 oz can of Regular Mt Dew there is 47 grams of sugar. Even though I have cut back on the amount of Dew I have drank over the years I still go through a minimum of 4 cans of Dew every single day. I crack one when I wake up, I have two at work and I have one (sometimes more) when I'm chilling in the evening. I've been adding water into my diet and cutting out some of the Dew, but I still drink a lot of that shit. So, lets just round down to 4 cans of Dew every day and you are looking at 188 grams of sugar in a day. That is an awful lot of sugar to cut out of my fat-and-ever-increasing-ass per day. So, if you want to tell me that Diet is just as bad for me, Fuck You until you can prove your case (and then I'll just switch back to regular biznatch).
I have cut out on eating out (I'm single so I had no choice *rim shot*) to 2-4 times per month. I pack my lunch for work every day so that I am not tempted to go to buy any of the junk that I was consistently filling my body with. No more Sam's Club Pizza. No more Burgers from wherever. No more Panda Express. Not even Jared's favorite Subway meals. No, Now I strictly control what I put in my body during the work day.
I have also cut back on my portion sizes during dinner. I used to load my plate up and just eat like a pig. now I carefully dictate how much I am going to eat by trying to stick kinda sorta stick to the recommended serving sizes.
So, those three changes have led me to drop from 300 pounds to 282 pounds (back to where I'm used to being) in about 2 months.
Now, on to part two of my plan which was just conceived like 2 days ago. I've got a friend who is also trying to lose weight and has used Weight Watchers with some success in the past. However, upon going back to normal eating habits she has gained her weight back (well, some of it) and asked me if I could help to keep her motivated in losing weight again and trying to keep it off. Shit yeah - I'm all for a buddy system (because my motivation is pretty close to zero on my own). So, I'm now in the process of turning my daily food (I pretty much eat the same exact thing every bloody day) into what-the-fuck-ever their point system is so that I can do the play-along-at-home game. I also bought a bathroom scale so that I can actually weigh myself with some regularity and I can see how my changes are affecting me. I'm hoping to gain a bit more motivation and maybe add in some exercise (which I keep telling myself and you guys that I'm going to do) in order to help improve the results.
End result, I'm going to look sleek and sexy and all you mofo's are gonna want my body (just the ladies, the guys will just want to be like me).
So - today is Day Negative 3 as I'm officially starting on Monday. I'm going to have one outrageous meal this weekend before beginning and I'm actually kind of looking forward to it.
And now I leave you with this:
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