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.