Lost 2 more pounds!

I was really worried that when I weighed in last night that I was going to have gained weight. But that didn't happen. I lost 2 pounds! I was so excited when Dori, my WW's leader, told me that. Actually I was incredulous. I'm down to 282.4. I'm down 16 pounds total since I started last September. I only  have four more pounds to lose my 20 pounds. I had almost reached that back in December right before I quit going for 4 months. So I'm almost back to where I was before I joined again this April. I'm very excited about that. It may take a few weeks to lose the weight to get to 20 lbs. but I'm willing to be patient. I'll also be in a new decade when that happens.

Dori was able to enter my original weight from September. It will show up next week when I weigh in. I also had her look at my weight trackers so she could see that I had my 16 weeks in. It all counted and I got my 16 week charm last night.

It's a pair of clapping hands and it has a 16 on it. I have to wait to get my 10% key chain to put it on something. Until then I'll keep it in my wallet. I'm very proud to have received this charm. It's my first WW bling! haha

The meeting was very good last night. As a group we had lost 76 pounds! That's awesome. This week's topic is grocery shopping. I realized while the topic was being discussed that my shopping is so much faster because I'm not going up and down every aisle. I'm sticking to the perimeter of the store. I can tell when I'm get less healthy foods because I have to go down the middle aisles to get that stuff (like cookies and chips). Power Foods were discussed a lot last night. I know that I need to be putting more Power Foods in my cart when I shop and less processed foods. There's a lot of sodium in processed foods. That will make me retain weight and I don't want that. Dori also brought up that you can spend less on groceries buying the Power Foods (fruits, veggies, low fat dairy, protein) as long as your not buying the junk food too. One lady said she pictures Dori running in to the at the grocery store to help her keep junk out of her cart. That was funny. Dori said she would never judge because she doesn't want to be judged but the point was well taken. If you wouldn't want someone seeing what you are buying then don't buy it.

The positives for yesterday were:

* walking on the treadmill
* getting to the meeting even though I was tired and sore
* weighing in even though I thought I had gained weight
* losing 2 lbs.
* getting my 16 weeks charm
* tracking everything I ate and drank

The negative for yesterday was:

* eating fast food for dinner after the meeting

I definitely could have made a better choice. But I did have the points and I did track everything. I was too tired and sore to cook. I'm going to have to change my Wednesdays so that I make sure dinner is cooked before the afternoon gets there. Something in the crock pot would be a good idea. Since I have my appointment with Alicia in the middle of the day I need to be on top of dinner for that day. Plus I have to pick up Bayou later in the afternoon on Wednesdays. I want to have dinner cooked before I have to leave for my meeting. That way David can eat early and I can eat after the meeting. I don't want to eat dinner before I weigh in.

I have to start working on the meal plan for this coming week and the grocery shopping list. I think we need to have salad most nights with our meals to get our veggies in. I also need to be eating fruit &/or veggies in addition to that 3 times a day. I also need to increase my fluid intake. I'm not drinking nearly enough water/tea. I think that's part of why my allergies are so bad. All this gunk in my nose and throat is there because I'm not getting enough fluids to wash it out. So more tea definitely. I'm going to look through the WW cookbook to see if I can select 2 recipes to cook this week. I want meals to be easy but tasty and healthy. Following The Peaceful Mom helps some but there are too many things she cooks that I don't like. I need to be able to plan meals on my own so they are more WW friendly. We were told that WW is coming out with WW for diabetics. I hope that's something we can  implement. That would help David and me to lose more weight and be healthier.

I don't have anything planned today. I'll go grocery shopping tomorrow after my meeting. I have a dentist appointment at 9am to get my crown put in and then I'm hoping to make it to Christine's 10am meeting. Then I'll go grocery shopping from there. I don't want to grocery shop too close to dinner because then I'll be tempted to get fast food again because I'm tired and sore. So I have to have a meal plan in place and follow it. I still have plenty of meats here in the freezer and some in the fridge so I can plan around that stuff. I'm trying my best to stop wasting food. I do have some stuff in the fridge that I have to toss out though. I hate to do it but it's been in there too long. I'll have to figure that out when I make my meal plan for this week (when to buy stuff so it doesn't go to waste, like salad stuff). Most of the salad stuff makes it through the week. It's other veggies I have to be careful buying. I'm going to try to get the kitchen inventory done today and start meal planning and making the grocery list. I don't want to leave it until tomorrow since I have so much going on in the morning. Plus, like I said, I don't have anything planned for today.

It's time to get breakfast and take my morning meds and supplements. I'm trying to take those every day but some of the supplements are so huge that I literally have to choke them down. I don't like taking them but I need to take them. I'll get sleepy from my meds so I'll be taking a nap here in just a little while. Then I can do the kitchen inventory. Of course I'll have to fight Bayou for the couch to take a nap. LOL The sun is just moving to the carpet from the wall so maybe she'll go lay on the sunny carpet area.

That's it for now. More later.