Updates

Usually when I do not blog for a while it means bad news. It means that I have gained and don't want to share that information. However, I am glad to report this time that is not the case. Somehow (I am not entirely sure how) I have managed to lose weight at every weigh-in. This has become especially perplexing for the last 2 weeks because I have not been making good choices. My roomie has suggested that maybe some of my habits have changed and I don't realize it yet and I was actually not doing as badly as I thought I was. So I am going to give all the weigh-ins that I have neglected to blog.

For the Saturday before my spring break trip, my weigh-in went a little something like this:

Previous weight: 280.2
Current weight: 277.6
Weight +/- : -2.6
Total change from beginning of WW last October: +4.2
Yay!!

I was pleasantly surprised because I had gained weight the previous week. My friend Lindsey came down that Sunday and Lindsey, Maria and I went to an Adele concert. It was wonderful. The next day I had to go into lab but the two of them got me up early and got me out of the house (no small task I tell you) so I finished rather early. Lindsey and I then got in some good, fun exercise with a frisbee and a jump rope. I have not jump roped in a really long time and my coordination is not exactly top notch just yet but there were some valiant attempts. Lindsey and I were leaving on Tuesday for Red River and I knew that I would not be able to weigh-in that Saturday so I decided to weigh in on Tuesday morning before leaving. I was not expecting much but:

Previous weight: 277.6
Current weight: 275.4
+/- : -2.2
Total change from beginning of WW last October: +2

YAY!!!

So, now it was off to Red River. I have to tell you I was more than a little concerned about what 3 days in a car driving would do but it was not that bad. We got healthy snacky food before we left and drank plenty of water. The first night we stayed in Amarillo and the Travelodge had a free guest pass to the Gold's Gym so we got up early and went to work out. Later that day we went to Palo Duro Canyon and got some walking around in. It was a pretty active day. The next night we stayed at a La Quinta (I think) and it had "fitness equipment." But I would use that term pretty loosely. I did at least spend 15 minutes on the bike. 15 minutes is better than nothing. I was really glad to have someone else with me on the road trip that was also trying to be food conscious because she helped me make good decisions about what I was eating and for the most part we both made pretty good food choices and stayed active. The road trip could have been a whole lot worse.

Once we got to Red River, there was a lot of walking around trying to get our ski rentals and lessons and then 2 days of skiing but there were bad food choices too. There were some evil chocolate brownies and I made sure that I had some every day. Overall though it was not that bad. It wasn't like I finished off a tub of ice cream after eating a whole pizza. It could have been better but also based on past vacations it could have been a lot, lot worse. I am happy enough with how I did and will try to be better next time.

The skiing was a lot of fun. I did not leave the bunny slope however. I tried the next hill up once and once was enough. I can't really turn fast enough yet and I kept picking up speed and freaking myself out. I am going to try again the next time I go. However, I did not fall while standing still and I did not get hurt (other than being really, really sore) so that is something.

I weighed myself on my scale when I got back and I had dropped a couple of pounds so yay! But then throughout the rest of the week I made poor choice after poor choice. I was too tired to do anything after getting home from lab so I did not have much in the way of activity that week. I was pretty sure that the weigh in that Saturday was going to be seriously bad. So, here are the results:

Previous weight: 275.4
Current weight: 274.8
+/- : -0.6
Total change from beginning of WW last October: +1.4

WTF?!?!?!? I am not entirely sure how that negative number came out of that week but I am not complaining. I had told myself that I was going to make this next week better. And I sort of did. I ate better than I did the previous week but I was not tracking my points and I was making poor food choices and had a couple of very snacky nights. I also got busier in lab (of course) and still have not made it to the gym. I was pretty much counting on a + in front of my change from last week. So I went and weighed in this morning and:

Previous weight: 274.7
Current weight: 272
+/- : -2.8
Total change from beginning of WW last October: -1.4

WTF?!?!?!?!?! Not only was it not positive, it was pretty freaking negative. I am still perplexed as to how that came about. Again, not complaining but I am not going to keep thinking that without focusing on what I am doing, I will continue to get mysterious negative changes in my weight. I am super excited to finally be back below the weight I was when I started weight watchers last October. When I weighed in after spring break, I was actually back down to the weight I was at Christmas.

So, since I have started going again (2/21/09) I have lost 13.4 lbs (!!!!). I asked the people at WW to keep the total change the same and not re-zero it because I wanted to remind myself of how easy it is to put those pounds plus some on and how hard it is to get them back off. I don't want to skyrocket back up into a really large total + number. At the same time I needed to remind myself today just how well I have been doing since I started again. I am proud of those 13.4 lbs. I wish that they had been further weight loss of my last number in October but shit happens and I am not going to let that get me down. I think the biggest thing is that I keep weighing in. I usually have to go into lab on Saturdays and it is easy to tell myself that I can't stay for the meeting so why should I even weigh in? That is what happened last October. I have not stayed through a meeting in about 4 weeks but I continue to go and weigh in and I think that is helping to keep me accountable and to give me to the motivation to keep going.

So, this is a really long rambling update but there it is. I am going to try and blog regularly again but I am working on a paper that we are planning to submit for publication soon and it is certainly a time sucker. So, my goal for this week is to make it to the gym at least 1 day. I know that sounds like a weak goal but if you looked at my calendar for the week you would understand :)

So that is all until next week, when I will have less of me to share.