Amidst all of the insanity though, I have been doing a good job of keeping up with my diet today. Weight Watchers is a Godsend for someone like me. I love it. I am very excited to be doing it too. The points system helped me lose 90 pounds in the past, and go from this....
November 2006To this..... (I actually lost another 5 pounds after this one was taken.)
January 2010Now, I've gained some of that weight back for a lot of reasons since that picture was taken in January. And I'll be honest, I was eating too much, and not working out like I had been when that picture was taken. In May, I did a triathlon and came in fourth! As a treat for all of my hard training, I gave myself food. Again... and again... and again. Then the binging took hold, and, well, here we are...
September 2010I'm back to 155 pounds and I was feeling absolutely miserable. Until today. I feel awesome today! I had some egg whites with spinach, and lowfat waffles with fruit for breakfast (5 points) a deli turkey sandwich for lunch with steamed veggies, an apple and laughing cow cheese (4 points!!) and for dinner? Who knows? I am supposed to get 27 points right now since I'm still breastfeeding, but being that we're starting the weaning process, I've dropped it down to 22 points (that's how many I would have if I weren't breastfeeding).
As far as working out... no luck yet today. I have a munchkin with an ear infection, so I had to take him to the doctor during my workout time. Maybe I will fit in a run this evening with my oldest kiddo. We're going to do a 5k together in November. It will be her first race!! She's super excited! After this pregnancy, I'm going to get back into racing too. I like triathlons and half marathons... but I'm hoping that one day I'll be finishing the real deal :o)
You are awesome! I wish I had the money to do weight watchers or something. I have a treadmill...and no motivation.
ReplyDeleteYou look awesome though! I hope that you can get where you want though, I know the feeling of being at an in between where you used to look and where you want to look....and your kinda in the middle. Know the feeling. But good luck :)
You can actually find all of the resources to do weight watchers without paying for e-tools, or meetings. I used to pay for it, but don't anymore. And weight watchers really does work!
ReplyDeleteHere's a points calculator:
http://watcherspoints.com/
The formula for how many points you get per day can be found here:
http://www.peertrainer.com/LoungeCommunityThread.aspx?ForumID=1&ThreadID=42251
You can also google WW points for restaurant foods, and you can usually find them pretty easily. No money needed. Oh, and no need for weight watchers brands either, you can usually do a comparison with their stuff and store brand stuff and find similar nutritional information. :)
Oh, and also, you can find the actual handheld points calculators online. They're worth it. It helps when you're shopping, and deciding what to buy. :) Pay attention to serving sizes!
ReplyDeleteThanks, taht sounds like a heck of a lot of work....I am so lazy. And we eat all organic, which is hard to find "low fat organic". At least from what I have found.
ReplyDeleteI eat a bowl of steelcut oats or a bowl of honey and oat cereal
Lunch I eat a lunch meat sandwich, or soup
Dinner we eat chicken or turkey (we don't even touch beef or pork) with pearl style cous cous unflavored and a veggie (salt free)
I eat small servings, don't over do it, and stay away from soda and junk foods. I just need to get motivated to work out....ugh...