I ate all the things!!! and now I am paying for it.

I ate a bit too much this week.

And as a result I gained 3.6 lbs this week....

Now I feel like this.

And I want to do this.

The circle of motivation

*Cue music from the Lion King*
I want to first off thank "Libwitch" for her awesome comment this week. It is always great to learn that your efforts have inspired others. That regardless of my current progress that the continued efforts motivate others to keep going themselves. That in-turn inspires me to keep going and thus the circle of motivation in complete. Sweetie you are awesome, keep on chipping away at your goal. Oh and stay away from the tasty stuffing at FSG, apparently there are 4 lbs of butter in a single tray of the stuff. Crazy right?

Anyways, as a wise fish once remarked "Just keep swimming" which is what I am doing. Tracking, going to the gym and trying to steer clear of bad food choices. All my efforts were for not as I lost 1.8 lbs this week (happy dance), meaning that I am that much closer to my new 5% of 11 lbs. Another 9.2 and I will be golden. I sent my tracker (from the week) to Lizz today (yay for tracking) and my new weight of 216.4 means that I am back to 36 daily points. I am participating in the 5 k walk it challenge on Sunday morning, which Mel and I are going to make it a Run/walk challenge up in Newmarket. I am interested in seeing how I do in regards to that. It has been a while since I ran for any distance. Mel is totally going to school me as she runs on the treadmill a lot.

I was slightly concerned yesterday when my trainer texted me to let me know that I couldn't come for training because the gym was closed. I am not sure what is going on at the McCaul location but I will find out tomorrow. Adzer (my trainer) and I have set up to work out at a different location (Union Station). It will be my first time going there so I better do some research on how to get there. I just hope that my location isn't closing down, that would tick me off, or that my new trainer is getting fired. LOL.

Wish me luck, I would like to lose 1.8 again next week or more, but honestly if the number goes down I will be happy. Lizz and I set a new goal of July 19th to reach my 5% target. It would be nice to get there.

The road to success is never smooth and usually uphill.

So I only gained 0.2 lbs this week. That is staying the same to me for all intensive purposes. Lets see if we can get this weight loss train back up to speed. Tracking and visiting the trainer. *nods* There was a woman at WW who attributed a lot of her success to the useful tips I provided durring meetings. It was very flattering and motivating to know that people value my options and it helps to motivate their own success. It is a bit frustrating that all of these members joined later then me, loss less then I and are reaching their lifetimes before me. Sometimes it feels like this journey will never end.

Not slacking on tracking

Hey guys,
So I tracked every single day and even submitted it to my tracking buddy Lizz from WW this morning. Now how did I fair? I didn't go over my weekly's and what I used in Weekly's I think I earned in activity points. Does that translate in a loss at the scale? I have NFC (No F*cking Clue*. I weighed myself yesterday and I didn't drop anything noticable. It is that time of the month so I may have some water weight. Hopefully all my diligent tracking and trips to the gym will show next week. I had to visit Value Village this weekend to pick up capri pants. I wasn't fitting into any of my pants anymore and the whole process got very depressing. I tried on pants at the gap on Friday and didn't fit a single pair. I found two pairs of capri's at Canadian Thrift for $20.
Think light thoughts for me.

Michelle

Lets try this again.

Hello poor neglected blog. I am sorry for not using you like a should. I promise to be better. I know I said I would be all "re-commited" and then it didn't happen. I am not sure what is going on. I know I have the will power of a super star, but I can't seem to get it started again. Sort of like a car that was working awesome. But then you hear a noise, it stalls and you keep trying twisting the key in the ignition and hoping that the car will kick back into life. I weighed in at 218 after my NYC trip. I gained a bit due to not tracking, eating poorly and visiting the cupcake store one too many times. I bought a tracker at weight watchers yesterday and I am going to try this time to look at this next phase of the weight loss as starting over. I am going to pretend that I am a new member starting at 218, my 5 % will be 11 pounds and my 10 % will be 22. That will get me back to 196 lbs. After that I will work on getting to 25 lbs which will be 193. Then work on small goals like getting into the 80's, 186, 183.2, 70's, 178.2 and then 175. Those are all tiny little goals which should help it not feel like this huge undertaking. Lets take things one step at a time. I am getting a head of myself. This week I am going to track everything and bump up my fitness. Maybe I can loose some of the weight I put on over my trip. Off to the personal trainer today.

No show

Went to the Gym last night, even though I kind of wished I didn't have a training session. The reason being that the gang from work went to the bar and I wanted to join them. But I went to the gym anyways and it turns out that my trainer went home sick and forgot to txt his clients that he wasn't going to be there. I had warmed up and everything and was just sitting there for 10 minutes before the fitness manager told me he wasn't in. So I worked out anyways. I worked my upper body and back. I didn't push myself as hard, but I didn't want to run the risk of injury. No worries peeps I got a free session for my troubles and he says he's going to be there tonight.

Lossing

I went down two pounds. Yay
My leader told me that next week is the last time she will be leading out group. I am saddened by this news and a little panic striken by the fact that I am losing one of my anchors of support. Boo