iWatchr

My favorite thing about doing WW in 2010 is that I have an iPhone. And there is an app for that.
WW makes their own app, but you have to subscribe to the official online stuff in order to really take advantage of the app. HOWEVER.
iWatchr is an app that is UH-mazing.

You can enter your amount of daily points, and it counts toward that all day. You can enter your food and the points and it totals it up for you!

So, you can see that today was a good day! Supposed to be at 32, but close enough! I'm trying!!
My favorite feature is that on the main screen, it keeps a little badge posted to show how many points you've used so far. Or you can change it so it counts down to how many you have left. Which ever works for you. I love it!
Another awesome feature is that it has a calculator built in! WW sells one (and all of my friends have it), but I love this bc I need it all the time- and I ALWAYS have my phone.

And see that little "bonus" button? That's how you calculate your exercise- and then it'll combine it with your day's record! So great!! Def need to USE the "bonus" button more!!

YAY!!

Weigh in!

I LOST 7.8 pounds!!

I am SO excited!
There was only one person who did better than me, but everyone in my group lost weight!

I am so excited about my loss! Halfway to my 5% goal! That is ridic!

Since I'm down to 269.4, I had to drop a point off of my daily goal. Which is good! An exciting way to have to eat less!

One of my goals this next week is to eat more vegetables (didn't really pay attention this past week) and exercise more!

wishing I was with Bob and Jillian

I have had two good days of eating, but haven't worked out anymore.
We weigh in tomorrow, and I'm wishing I was having a last chance work out with Bob and Jillian on Biggest Loser. I know I've lost weight, but I want it to be big. I don't have to "win the weigh in", but I don't want to be "below the yellow line". If you don't watch Biggest Loser, then you have no idea what I'm talking about. I LOVE BIGGEST LOSER. It's my favorite show on TV. I'm totally obsessed with Bob and Jillian.

Most of my WW group is your average, overweight mom. Most are probably 40-60 pounds overweight. There is one "thin" woman- but she wants to lose about 15 pounds- to get back to her "normal" weight. There is one very overweight man- he probably needs to lose about 150-200 pounds to meet his goal weight. Since I need to lose 100-150, I put myself more in his group than the other.

My official WW goals are at 10% and 5%. My first goal is 14 pounds, and the second is 27. I haven't decided my "official" goal- trying to stay focused on the 14 first. Once I meet both of those goals, then I'm gonna let myself think about BIG GOALS.

Weigh in tomorrow! Wish me luck!!

excercise!

I know I'm fat, but I do understand the basic principles behind losing weight.

Eat less.
Move more.

These few days have been all about doing the eating less part, but today I went and worked out. Not a lot. But more than I have been doing.

30 minutes of cardio. Starting small. OBVIOUSLY. Did the elipitcal- which I like, but I am so fat that it's just hard. I know it won't be easier until I'm smaller, but that doesn't make it any easier today.

Food was good. Exactly the right amount of points today

ohmyword

Today I ate.
and ate.
and ate.
and ate some more.

It was like I lost all control.

HOW-THE-FREAK-EVER.

I wrote everything down. And too it out of my bonus points. In WW, there are 35 bonus points that you can eat any point during the week. I ate TWENTY of those points today.

And it's not like I had something good- it was all "trying to be healthy" things, but OHMYWORD there was a lot of it.

Tomorrow is another day. Fresh start.

The hardest thing about today was eating enough points. Fridays are long days for me at work. I go early, so by the time I leave at 430, I've been there a long time.

I thought I was gonna to go eat dinner with a friend before we went to a movie, so I planned my day to leave enough points for eating out. We ended up being too late to go to dinner so, it was just Dear John (which I loved) and no eating out.

So, I ended up 4 points shy of my "goal", but I wasn't going to just eat to eat. Ya know?

the first real day

Last night, I let myself have "one last night" of eating. And I did it right :)

But, today I'm writing everything down.

That's my main goal this week. My WW lady says that more people lose who write everything down and attend meetings. So, those are my two things I MUST do. Even if I cheat, I am going to write it down. Every bite.

One day down.
A lifetime to go.

I have a feeling that I'll never be able to stop writing everything down.

Do skinny people do this? I am truly curious. If you're skinny, I'd like to know.

Like a moron, I had to eat out on my very first day on WW. Dumb. Dinner at the home of my friends.
But, I made it. Just watched my portions really closely. Mimiced the food habits of my skinny friend that I was eating with.

As an evening goes, it was so great. I loved being able to sit with my friends and just talk. They're married w/ two kids, so it was a totally different atmosphere than my normal life, but I loved it.

Made it a whole day.
Go me!