OMG OMG OMG I LOST WEIGHT!!!!!! wOOt!!! 😀 😀 😀
I s’pose I shouldn’t be quite so excited about it since it was only a small-ish amount but I don’t care, it’s my first documented weight loss so I am gonna continue to do my happy boogie dance. lol.
I lost…ready for it?…1.8 pounds! That’s only 0.2 pounds under 2 pounds and my goal is to lose 2 pounds a week so I almost made it! Maybe I shouldn’t be so glad about it since I didn’t make my 2 pound goal for the week but I think I did pretty well so glad I shall be. 🙂
Now what did I do this momentous day, did I celebrate by drinking only water? Going for a hike? Eating super healthy because of being inspired? Well…no. I started the day off pretty well, a nice big healthy salad but then the day snowballed (food wise) and now I have eaten more points in this one day then in any day since this whole adventure started. Not good! I thought if my weighing in showed a weight loss I’d be even more inspired and do even better but it appears to have a slightly opposite affect. I didn’t feel that “oh, I lost weight so it’s ok to eat now” it was more “I only had a salad today and I have been doing so well it’s ok if I use some extra points” Not the best way to be thinking!
On a good note I felt great about myself all day; even though logically I know I don’t look any different I felt better about how I look and as a result felt better it my clothes and didn’t feel like some overweight ugly blob that everyone was looking at and judging. I know this won’t last probably longer then today; such a small amount of weight loss will not create a permanent change in my perception of my body but for today it was great. I think, in the coming weeks if it gets harder and I am really tempted to cheat I will try really hard to remember this feeling and realize that when I have lost 10 pounds the feeling will be even bigger and maybe slightly more permanent. Cause, a 10 pound loss would have more of an impact on what I look like, right? Goes to figure that the feeling of not looking like a horrible bump on a log might be a tad more permanent when I will actually look different, right?
Oh, on a (slight) side note, the pants that are my other gauge of weight loss did not fit better – not that I could notice anyways. shrug. Guess the weight came off some other section of my body. At this point I don’t really care where it came off, I am just glad it came off! lol.
Most of my food points today are guesses because the roomie and I went to the Night Market – the Night Market is like an outdoor fair with some games, one pathetic ride and a lot of booths selling food and random oddities (mostly over priced jewellery). It was alright, nothing so amazingly great that I just have to go back but it was fun as a one off. However, due to the food options and the face that in places like that I am always tempted to spend money I don’t have I probably won’t go back.
Ok, so here is what I ate (brace yourself!)
1 Fresh Express Salad Salsa Supreme = 8 points
2 pieces of toast = 2 points
2 tsp marg = 2 points
1/2 medium slush = 1 point
1 cup cherries = 1 point
potato on a stick (yes, you read that right lol) = 6 points
1 steamed bbq pork bun = 4 points
1 duck wrap = 5 points
1 bubble tea = 7 points (can you believe that?!?!)
So, that puts me at…I can’t believe I am admitting this, 36 points! I am actually ashamed. It’s easy to over eat and not feel ashamed about it when you aren’t tracking what you are eating; you can convince yourself you didn’t eat all that much or that what you ate wasn’t all that bad but seeing it written down like this, oh man, not good! I guess that will be the inspiration I need to keep at it; that combined with the scale number going down down down.
potato on a stick…mine was drizzled with ketchop, tasted like a big french fry!
The Amazing Shrinking Woman 
Try not to celebrate the fact that you’ve lost weight. Rather, reward yourself for what you did that got you there and then you might find that you don’t go on a binge. Also, perhaps a different way of approaching food would be helpful for example a low GL diet rather than something that counts points etc. I’m working with a woman at the moment who lost all her weight on weightwatchers and starved all the way down to 10st! She put it all back on and more and has only found an inner peace whilst losing weight since working with me. http://www.comforteatingcoach.com
Thanks for your comment. I don’t consider the food I ate at the night market a binge, every item was a small portion it’s just that the food itself is high calorie, doesn’t help that two items were deep fried! I am sorry for your client that she couldn’t keep the weight she lost off but for now I will stick with Weight Watchers; it is teaching me a lot about proper food portions and despite my many mistakes I feel I am learning a lot on this journey.I will however google a low GL diet so I have a back up plan. 🙂