Set your sights on healthy eating!

This is the military's health slogan. Sure, it sounds good, but it is extremely hypocritical. It's extremely hard to eat healthy when I'm working. When I go on contracts over the summer, usually around 4 months, I gain weight. The most I've gained is 10 pounds. In four months, that's just not healthy. And I know it's the fault of my eating over the summer because when I come home and start eating normally, I lose it all.

Try setting your sights on healthy eating when you walk into the mess hall to find:
-the ever present dessert counter
-the ever present smell of deep fryer
-the menu containing items such as hot dogs and pub baskets
-the huge portions that get shovelled onto your plate (This is the worst. Sometimes (a lot) when there's not much there I want to eat, I usually just ask for the rice and head to the salad bar. But when you ask for rice, they seem to think you want your plate covered in it)

My unit in the city is terrible for the bad eating. Normally at our stand easy at 9:00pm we have soup but they sometimes like to cook other things:
-pizza
-hot dogs
-fries
-fried chicken
-taters

9:00 at night too! What are they thinking????

Being on ship is always hard. They have exercise equipment, but when you're not working, you're usually sleeping, because work is very exhausting on ship. They serve much of the same crap, the huge portions and the endless desserts. But it's worse because you're on a little ship with no time to use the exercise equipment. You can just go for a walk because it takes about 10 seconds to get from one end of the ship to the other!

[/end navy rant]

Another week, another loss!

I lost 2.5 pounds this week! I didn't do anything different though, not that I could tell anyway. Maybe it's the gym. I mean, I went the week before but that was my first time back in a while so I guess it would take a while for my body to get used to it again. I didn't go on Friday. I went shopping instead! Everything I bought was a small, except this one sweater which they didn't have any smalls in. It felt so good!

Living at home is so hard sometimes while doing Weight Watchers when nobody else is doing it (or following it properly, aka mom). I have 8 points left today and my mom has ribs out cooking for supper. Ribs! Really though. I think I could eat two and then have no points left. What is she thinking?!

I can make something else for myself, which I will do, but last night my dad seriously accused me of not eating! He said I'm going away to nothing! He made me so angry! He's always telling me not go go anorexic on him, but sort of joking, but this was just so uncalled for. I know he's my dad and with anorexia being really common and all that he can worry about me, but I think after knowing me for 21 years, he can trust that I wouldn't do that. I've always said I would never have the will power to be anorexic because if I get hungry, I eat. Except now, I eat veggies rather than a bag of chips, or a big bagel or something not so healthy. Don't get me wrong, I still eat those things, I just eat baked chips and small bagels and sometimes indulge myself in a regular bag of chips. Since I started WW in November I've only had 3 bags of Miss Vickie's salt and vinegar chips, my favourite chips!

SO THERE! Take that dad!

Doing good!

I feel like I am anyway, though I did miss pilates today. See, I'm on midterm break and normally I go to pilates on my two hour break. Since I have no car, I would have to take an hour bus ride there, do the hour long class and take an hour long bus ride home. Plus it was 72km/h winds and rain all day. I'm back in school Thursday, so I'll only miss one class. I've been doing my MWF gym though.

Check out my weight loss ticker above! Cool, no? I like it. And 8 more pounds to go! I almost don't believe it! I wonder what I'll be like at 128! If I lose 1 pound a week, then by April 11th I will be at 128 and then we'll see if I should keep going or not. I get 21 points a day, but once I go to 129 I'm supposed to go to 20 points. I don't think I will though. I'm going to try keeping at 21 points and see what happens.

I have 4 points left, after supper! Here's what I had:

Porridge: 2 points
Omlette and English Muffin: 4 points
Popcorn: 1 point
Cereal: 2 points
Spaghetti: 8 points (my mom's sauce has ground beef in it so I add two points.

I'm not sure what I'm going to use my 4 point on tonight, but I'm envisioning some baked Tostitos and salsa, and 20 cinnamon hearts, because those are 1 point for 20! haha

Another one bites the dust!

Another pound that is! New total: 12.5 lbs! I was so excited because I didn't think I'd lost any this week, but I have prevailed! :D I managed to stick to my gym schedule this week! I did my Monday-Wednesday-Friday morning workout on my own, and on Tuesday and Thursday I went to pilates class and did my morning/evening yoga. I feel really good!

I'm always glad for Fridays because I get my bonus 35 points back. I'm going to try and manage them as well as possible this week because I'm going out Sunday night (I'm on midterm break) so I'll need points there. And I'm going to a movie tonight and I can't pass up the popcorn!

Tall, non-fat caramel macchiato, please!

Except I forgot the non-fat part, and remembered at the end of my drink. It ended up being 7 points! 7! This left me with 4 for the day, at 2:00pm, with no extra points and my weighing day tomorrow. What to do? Make some zero point soup and have a salad! I also had a fruit and yogurt parfait which used up the 4 points. Gotta remember the non-fat part! That brings it down to only 3 points!

I don't think I lost any weight this week, but I don't care because I feel a lot better and like I've gotten back on track. I started back to the gym on my Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule (yup, going tomorrow morning!), I'm doing pilates, which I love, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and doing yoga at home in the morning and evening. I absolutely love the yoga and pilates. I feel more toned already from the pilates and I'm sleeping much deeper with the yoga. It's a beginners DVD which is more for relaxation and flexibility, but I love it. I invested in new yoga clothes and a mat too!

Well, I'm off to do some yoga, I'll be back in the morning with the results of my weigh in!

Extra points

Sometimes I have to wonder about those 35 extra points you get per week with Weight Watchers. I'm thinking about cutting mine in half, now that I'm down to a relatively low weight, because I think they're starting to hinder my weight loss. Now whenever I use them, I feel like crap, like I overate way too much. Either way, my 35 points are pretty much gone. I think I have 2 left. Hopefully going back to the gym tomorrow will help me feel better!

My first post!

Even though I started losing weight back on November 4th, I still wanted to start this. Mostly as a way to just talk about what I'm doing to lose weight, whether or not anyone is reading it. I'm doing Weight Watchers points and it really works, and I still get to eat every kind of food! I know it sounds like a commercial, but it's true! I'm going to the Dominican in 11 weeks and this trip was what really got me motivated to really try and lose weight - so I'll look good in my bathing suit! haha! I've always wanted to lose the bit of extra weight I have though, but the trip is a good motivator. So far I've lost 11.5 pounds and I'm looking to lose about 8-10 more before the trip. About a pound per week, and I know I can do it!

I'm starting a gym routine - Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and Saturdays if I can. I'm doing this for a few reasons. One, I want to be in good shape, and have some tone. Two, after losing 11.5 pounds and not being overweight to begin with, my weight loss has been getting much harder and I think I need the exercise to supplement the points system. And three, I need to keep up my fitness for my job.

Yesterday I went out grocery shopping with a friend and ended up buying some of my own stuff, but stuff that was all points-wise. I bought nothing over 2 points. The most exciting thing was the Weight Watchers bagels! The bread is easy to find but this is the first time I've seen the bagels. Since I only get 21 points a day, and bagels are 6 points without the toppings, I haven't really had many since I started, and I love bagels. But these are two points! Here's what I bought, along with their points values:

-4 bags of Weight Watchers bagels (2)
-Package of Weight Watchers wraps (1)
-Strawberries (1 per 1&1/2 cups)
-A big container of vanilla yogurt (1 per 1/2 cup)
-Philly Roasted Red Pepper cream cheese (1 per tbsp - this stuff is AWESOME)
-Philly Strawberry cream cheese (1 per tbsp)
-2 of those Campbell soup on the go things (1)
-Spritzer salad dressing (0!!!)
-Quaker Apples and Cinnamon and Mixed Berries oatmeal (2 per package)
-Mini bags of popcorn (1)
-Ice cream sandwiches (2)
-2 cases (24 cans) of diet lemon iced tea ($1.99 each!) (0!!!)

Not bad, not bad! I came home and put it away, making sure to mark everything that wasn't labelled with Weight Watchers (and the cream cheese) with a note saying that it was for me and my mom ONLY (she's doing Weight Watchers too). My brother and my dad know not to eat anything with a Weight Watchers logo, but otherwise its fair game to them if I don't mark it.

Well, I think that's enough for a first entry! Bye!