Lowering the Feed Limit

Well, I’ve finished my second full week wearing this little gem.

Last week I figured I’d lose about 1.5 pounds so when I lost only .2 I was pretty upset. I couldn’t figure it out.

On Thursday, I had my coaching session with a Bodybugg coach. She walked me through the website and showed me some things I didn’t know about even with all my playing around on the site. She also said to give things another week and see what we might need to change.

Well, I started weighing my food after talking to her because, as she said, I might have been underestimating how big a portion I’m eating.

Well, what I found explains EVERYTHING – all the problems I’ve been having getting to my goal, all the weeks I should have been down and wasn’t, EVERYTHING!

Popcorn has more calories than I ever could have imagined.

I LOVE popcorn and clearly was underestimating how much of it I eat. I looked one night at how many calories I had left and thought I would figure out how much popcorn I could have. Turned out to be about two handfuls!

Not even a bowl full.

Seeing this, I realized that at least twice a week, I was eating half a big bowl (shared with Beloved), and I was assuming it was only a few cups and totally messing up the points (on WW) or calories.

This week I weighed everything (well, after Thursday’s coaching session).

I lost THREE pounds this week!!! Three pounds!!!

And that was being sick yesterday and not really being able to exercise much. We went to Pizza Hut on Friday and I went out with my writers’ group on Saturday! And I lost 3 pounds!

I love this little thing!!!

I told you I was getting serious and here I am, not updating this thing.

Well, with the Girl being home and acting like a Nazi coach, in the last two weeks, I’ve lost a net of 2.4 pounds!

Do you understand what that means?

Over Christmas week I LOST 2.8 pounds! That’s with the Grandparents here. Grandparents that buy bread and treats. My mother-in-law talks about wanting to lose weight, but she enjoys her chips and ice cream and cookies. I think part of my victory was because I wanted to show that I could do it even with the holidays and show her that you don’t just give up. I don’t know if she’ll notice or even care, but I was pretty proud of myself.

Last week, after New Year’s, I did gain .4 but that’s not too bad, I don’t think and what I’ve learned from watching The Biggest Loser is that a great week is often followed by a not so great week, so over all I’m pretty happy.

I didn’t track as well last week, so I’m trying harder this week.

I haven’t given up on Weight Watchers. I got a nice note from someone who reads this, which amazes me – that someone reads this, I mean – and she was concerned because I sounded so discouraged about the slowness of my weight loss. She recommended interval training, which according to what I’ve read in my own research and talking to Beloved, is something worth pursuing. I don’t know that I can make it the only thing in my exercise plan: I just can’t “live” on only four extra activity points (half an hour work out) three or four times a week.

Not a recommended work out plan!

However, I did it once last week and then the next time I worked out I did the same kind of thing for half an hour and then finished up 45 minutes on the bike (45 minutes total including the half hour she suggested). I was down 1.8 this Monday! I didn’t blog last week, but I was down .8 that weigh-in.

I didn’t get any workouts in this past weekend because I was at BabelCon, a local sci-fi/fantasy con, where I sat at a merchant table with two other local authors. I sold 8 books, so I was pretty happy and got my picture taken with several celebrities:

Me with Brave Knights

Darth Vader was, of course, there.

John Hertzler played Chancellor Martok on Deep Space Nine. He was/is my favorite Klingon (next to Worf, of course) and in my mind the most romantic.

Here’s what he said about his wife when talking to Worf about marriage:

“We are not accorded the luxury of choosing the women we fall in love with. Do you think Sirella is anything like the woman I thought I’d marry? She is a mercurial, arrogant, prideful woman who shares my bed far too infrequently for my taste. And yet… I love her deeply. We Klingons often tout our prowess in battle and our desire for honor and glory above all else… but how hollow is the sound of victory without someone to share it with. And Honor gives little comfort to a man alone in his home… and in his heart. “

I mean, come on. How could you not want to be next to this man? And he called me “baby,” so what are you going to do?

My friend, and fellow author, Jo Templeton, and me with Richard Hatch of two different kinds of Battlestar Galactica!

This week has been going well. I’m working on a new book and pretty excited about it. I’ll talk a little more about it at The Romancechick Speaks.

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Things have been working better since my talk with Theresa two weeks ago. I went out and binged with Cold Stone ice cream two weeks ago (that Monday) and I ended up losing .6 that week. This week, after not exactly binging but trying to eat more points, I lost 1.4. So that’s two pounds in two weeks. Pretty good.

This past Monday I did a bit of a binge, too, but I didn’t actually count points. I estimated and marked them off my tracker. So, I’ve been trying to make up for it a bit by working out for 95 minutes on Tuesday and I’m going to the Y this morning, too. I don’t want to, but I really need to.

Hope everyone else is having a good day.

Yesterday, I did everything I was supposed to. I was meticulous in writing everything down that I ate. I put last night’s dinner in the recipe builder on eTools and made sure I only had one serving. I went to the gym and worked out. AND earlier in the day I’d gone to the bookstore, sat in a comfy chair and wrote like crazy. (Beloved asked if that meant I wrote, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” over and over.) I went to bed feeling very good about things.

Today I planned to do something similar, but at the last minute the Boy’s school was canceled. We had a HUGE thunderstorm last night and it knocked the power out at the school, so they called 1/2 hour before I would have left to take him, and when he was about halfway into his uniform, and told me school would be closed. So, he’s in a t-shirt and jeans, watching Noggin.

I’m thinking about taking him to Chick-fil-a for lunch. I can write while he’s in the play place.

How’s your day going?

I’m down 2 pounds this week! I’m so happy. The program works if you just do it, Nancy!

Another good thing was that I got to congratulate my friend Rhonda in person. Right before I left for WW, I saw an email from her. She’s an aspiring romance writer in our local group and one of my critique partners. She entered a contest and today her dream editor called her – CALLED HER – and said she has a great voice and the editor said she wants to work with Rhonda! If you’re not a writer, you might not realize how big this is, but it’s HUGE! I was so hoping she’d be at WW so I could be the first one to hug her! I got out of the weigh-in line the moment she stepped in the door and grabbed her!

So, look out world, Rhonda’s coming!

Check out the tickers on the sidebar! I FINALLY earned the Cookie Dough Blast!

I just got home from my Weight Watcher’s meeting and I couldn’t believe that I’d lost 4.4 pounds since my weigh-in on Christmas Eve! This week was the only one I really watched what I ate and I got back to the gym after the hospital and vacation. Maybe I am learning to eat better and did better with what I was eating than I thought!

But, I’m so motivated now I want to go right back to the gym, but I think I’ll have lunch and do some work, probably writing!