I was talking to one of the other girls in my office & it turns out that she's doing WW as well. I discussed how I felt about my first meeting with her & she said that she was really surprised and completely different from her experience at the Wed. meetings. I'm heartened to hear this for sure!

I'm also pumped to know that there is someone else in the office who is involved in the program. She was a lifetime member, but gained some of the weight back.

I'm trying to help motivate my Mom to stick with the plan, and I think it's working so far. She's trying to walk every day with my Dad, and actually trying to keep track of what she's eating, even though she's doing the Core program. It'll be nice to actually see this work for her. *fingers crossed*

By talking about my experiences so far with WW with another friend who did it in the past, I have actually motivated her to get back into it again. That was something completely unexpected! I'm glad though. I think that having multiple people around me that I can talk to about this is going to be really important to helping me stick with it.

Now that I've been able to estimate how long it will take me to bike to work from home (~40 min), I can't wait to get started! I'm being careful not to try too much too fast though, as I need to get used to getting up early & getting there on time while driving first. Working from home first thing in the morning so far has been fantastic, but it wasn't a big deal if I slept in a little bit because I could just make the time up later and no one would know. Now I need to be at the office for 8:30am. I know no one would give me a hard time since it's all students, and none are my actual bosses, but it's important to me.

I can't believe that it's Tuesday already! I need to go weigh in tomorrow night, but I can't go to the meeting. :( I have a conference call at 7pm. I don't think that I'm going to be able to go to the meetings at all this week...unless I go at lunch time tomorrow. Hmmm...

So far I find that I'm having a hard time using all of my daily points. I get home around 4pm, get hungry around 6pm and I still have between 15-18 points to eat! *gasps* I just don't like eating a lot of heavy things when I'm working, and during the summer I like basically fruits & veggies, which don't add up to a lot of points. I'm going to try to somehow start taking food that's worth more calories with me, but I feel like it's defeating the purpose since I want to eat fewer points in the end anyway.

Getting the oil in hasn't been too bad thanks to the couscous I made. It's so easy to just throw the 2 tsp of extra virgin olive oil in. It's when I run out of couscous that I'm going to have to come up with something else.

This weekend is going to be tough. We're going to the Island for the Aerosmith concert and a couple of parties. I'm not naive enough to think that I won't drink, but I'm going to have to figure out my points & ration them. I can't wait to go swimming in the ocean though. Yay! I've only been swimming once so far this summer and I miss it.

Mom offered to buy me 3 outfits (no more than $150 total) for work at my new job, but I've decided to hold off because I want to get new clothes after I lose some weight. This is incentive for me. Also, I can't wait to get a membership to the Y because I miss lifting weights and I feel so much more comfortable using machines since that's what I first did weightlifting on.

I definitely think that there's something wrong with my knee, but I'm not sure what. It's been a bit of a pain for ~2 weeks now, and biking didn't help. It was sore to walk early Monday morning, but it's better now. It feels weird when I walk upstairs or put weight on the kneecap (kneeling). Hopefully it'll work itself out & feel better after I lose some weight. I really don't think that my body is meant to handle being this heavy.

Well, I think I'm going to go for a bike ride. I wanted to wait for Jeff so that I wouldn't be alone on the trails, but I know that he's just going to want to relax, veg on the tv & eat...and then it'll be dark.

One of the things that I'm noticing is that when I want to exercise I tend to wait & hope that Jeff will do it with me. Mayhaps it's because I know he wants to get in shape as well, but I think another part of it is that I enjoy the company. That will be a nice thing about the Y because I have friends who go there.

So Far, So Good...

I've been following the WW Flex Plan for 5 days now. At the end of Day 4 I weighed myself at home out of curiosity.

I was ecstatic to see that I had dropped ~6.4 lbs!

I upped my activity level as well.

2 hours of dancing @ Boom! on Friday night.
3 hours of golf on Sunday morning.
2hr 40min of biking in to downtown on Sunday evening.

I feel great!

First Weight Watchers Meeting

I must admit I wasn't impressed by my first WW meeting, and thus far I'm not a fan of the leader, but I'm still going to give it a shot for another 9 weeks.

We discussed how to deal with plateaus, which I already understand.

I didn't feel like the leader when going over everything at the end was trying to help us personally. It felt kind of like we were just 2 more randoms. And while I realize that until I'm there for a bit I am a random, you don't want to feel like that when you're trying to build a type of relationship to motivate you.

I got a 2 week free trial of eTools though, so I'm pumped about that.

My Daily Points total is 28. So far I've eaten 6 points. I have to manage to eat all 28 though, so I'm going to have to start snacking more or something.

I'm not sure how I'm going to eat enough oil/day since I don't use oil, but Mom suggested dipping bread in oil the way we did in Italy. Still sounds gross to me.

Well, I'm off to make some lunch & go into work.

Let It Begin.

Consider today the beginning of new efforts to eat healthy and get fit.

I just weighed myself at exactly 213.0 lb.

I never want to be this weight or more again.

I plan to start Weight Watchers (hopefully) this Wednesday & get a membership to the Y as soon as I can afford it.

My realistic goal is to lose 30lb. My eventual goal is to lose between 70-80lb.

I want to gain more upper body muscle and be able to lift 50lb like it's a joke.

I want to be able to easily lift at least a 25lb weight with each arm.

I want to be a size that doesn't require double digits or a specialty shop.

I want to feel healthy and energized.

I want to avoid new stretch marks.

I want to easily be able to bike to & from work, including biking up the UNB hill!

I want to be able to jog the 5km Run for the Cure.

I want to not be morbidly obese.

I want to feel comfortable, content and happy with my body again.