Where do I go from here?

Ever since the Dominican, I've had a very hard time keeping on track with my points. And I could say it's because I was on a navy contract but I think that'd be a lie. Because if I had been going to the Dominican after my contracts, I definitely would be watching my points. Basically what I'm trying to say is that I don't have a specific goal. "I want to look better" or "I want to be healthier" are just not going to cut it. I just don't have anything very specific in mind. Bathing suit season isn't specific enough either. Basically, I think I'm just going to have to exercise my willpower. Friday will be my first "week" back, but I'm starting today. I can do it!

Potlucks

...I hate them. :(

Friday Weigh-In

I weighed in on Friday and I'm down to 123 pounds! That's 2.5lbs gone from 125.5 or 4 pounds gone from 127 (what I was when I got back from Victoria)!

Then I went shopping because I needed smaller jeans! I got size 26 in my jeans and I bought knee length shorts at size 3!

Getting Back To It!

Well, I'm finally back home again and I have lots to say weight-wise!

First of all, there was the Dominican trip which was wonderful and awesome! I didn't end up counting points. There was lots of drinking, though not as much as I thought there'd be, and lots of eating, though I didn't go crazy. My last official weigh in came to 125.5 pounds and when I weighed myself the morning after the trip I was 127. A pound and a half. Not bad at all! So then that morning I flew off to Victoria, B.C. for my navy contract.

It didn't start well. With the 4.5 hour time difference, my stomach did not understand that it may have been time to eat at home, but not in B.C. Then of course there was my first meal in the mess hall. I walked in, took one look at the menu and headed to the salad bar. There was NOTHING low in points. NOTHING. It was terrible. Or so I thought. I sailed on Monday on my ship and there the food was no better but there were only two options and no salad bar. It was take it or leave it. I basically lived on porridge with some other food thrown in there. There were attempts to count points, but it just wasn't possible. On top of it all, the fact that I ate the same things all the time made avoiding the bad stuff very hard. When you spend the last 5 days eating almost nothing but cereal and porridge, you have no idea how good brownies look. One day I actually, after supper, at about 6 or 7 brownies and 4 slices of banana bread. When we got back ashore a week later, I did better. On Friday I went out to eat and went for ice cream but I'm pretty sure it fit into my points. On Saturday I just threw my points into the wind since it was the last day in Victoria for me. I had more ice cream, two strawberry daquiries with supper and copious amounts of Malibu rum (with Coke Zero though!) that evening.

In the end though, all was well. I stepped on the scale Monday morning after I got home and was 127. Never gained a pound somehow. I think it might actually be that my body has adjusted itself to my new weight and that bad eating now and then doesn't affect it like it used to. What was even crazier is that before I went to bed, I weighed myself and I was 125.5. I went down during the day! It was like one day back to eating normally and BAM! My body just got rid of the pounds. So basically I'm back to where I left off before the Dominican! I can't wait to see if there's any change on Friday!

Fly away!

I'm leaving today for the Dominican! I've got my tupperware container packed with lots of low calorie snacks, and the mindset to go to the gym every morning! It's the alcohol thing that's going to be hard. I enjoy drinking, and it's free, and I'm going to be lying in the sun and swimming in a pool. It's hard to resist. But I'll try my best. So what if I go over a bit, it's vacation. I know eveyone has been saying you can't take a vacation from WW and all that, and I'm not really, I just may have a few more drinks or whatever. Plus, half the reason I'm told that is because once you do that it's hard to get back into it. For me it's not though. I didn't count over Christmas, and although I gained 5 pounds, I said "I'm starting back on WW the day I go back to school in January" (the 7th I think) and I did, perfectly counting my points and lost 3 pounds my first week back (which was only 4 days because I weight Fridays).

Another thing is when I go on my navy contract. Normally I gain weight but now that I have a plan to follow that I have been following since November, I know I won't. Because I know it won't be like before where I'd walk by the plate of cookies and say "One won't hurt!" because now I know one WILL hurt! Navy contracts always come with plenty of drinking, but this will work out well this time around. I have to save as much money as possible so there'll be less money for partying anyway and going out. Plus I need the money for scootering!

I weighed myself today to see my weight before I left to compare to when I get back. I'm 125, which is cool since it means I lost half a pound even after my crazy binge! Go me! See, this is what I mean, even with that I'm still doing good! So my goal is to not gain. I'm not going to hope for any weight loss, but I don't want to gain. Anyway, it's going to be a little messed up anyway, because I weigh Fridays, today is Wednesday and I get back on a Wednesday. And I won't be able to weigh myself on contract, so I won't have an "official" weigh in (as in, a Friday) until May 30th.

Well, I think that's long enough! Later!

Friday's weigh in, Saturday's binge

I forgot to report in on Friday! Anyway, I didn't lose anything, which I am taking as an accomplishment considering the low amount of exercise I did and the two pieces of cake and ice cream cake I went ahead and ate. And honestly, not losing off of 125.5 one week is NOT a big deal!

Ah, but Saturday. I was doing good with my points, like usual and then BAM! I couldn't stop eating! And with me it weird. I overeat things that aren't bad for me, like I had crackers and a bowl of high fibre cereal that I love! Anyway, I was pretty upset about it and at the point I just couldn't get myself to go to the gym and even my mom could tell. But I really wanted to go do something so me and her went for a walk. That was around 6pm and I didn't eat the rest of the day, or was hungry and when I went to bed I was 128lbs. So I thought, ok, nothing major. I'll probably go down a pound over night, then I'll have to work extra hard from now. I was 126.5 this morning so I went down 1.5, so I'm only 1 pound over, so this is good. I can get back.

In your face plateau!

After 5 frustrating weeks of being stuck at 130lbs, I have beaten the plateau! I LOST 4.5lbs!!!!!! Is that not insane? I can't believe it! My body was catching up on all these weeks it wasn't losing any weight!

PARTY!!! (at 5pm when I'm done my last exam!)