Weigh In #9 - Whoops!

I feel like I've been so busy lately, so I have not bothered to track calories, go to the gym more than the minimum amounts of time to get an insurance rebate, or to even weigh myself.  In the last few days I've noticed I look big again, so tonight I finally dug the scale out of the cabinet and weighed in.  I'm almost 170 pounds!  The exact number was 169.4.  Wow.  A year ago I was hovering around 145, so I have put on 25 pounds.  My absolute heaviest I have been was 180, but even then that was after a weekend of excessive eating, and I was usually around 175, so I'm only a few pounds shy of going back to my heaviest.  It took me about 9 months to lose the weight before and now all that hard work is out the window.  At least this time I know I can do it.  Prior to August of 2009 I had never had much success in losing more than 5 pounds, but when I actually took the time to track calories, it actually worked.  I did that for about a year, but when I started my new job in August 2010, I felt like I didn't have the time to track anymore and also not as much time to exercise.  I still have the same job, but I NEED to make the time. I also have another reason to get back on track. My sister is getting married in fall 2012.  I'm assuming she will be asking me to be a part of the bridal party, so I want to look good for that.  I almost wish it wasn't so far away because I need motivation.  If it was fall of this year, I think I'd have a little more drive to do what I need to do to.

Emotional Eating and Weigh-In #8

I've really been dealing with a lot of emotional eating lately.  I just don't know how to get happy.  Tuesday I was feeling even more down than normal, so I went to the store and bought some donuts, chips, cookies and chocolate candy. I also bought a bottle of "St. John's Wort".  I've never used that before, but I was feeling desperate.  So for the past two mornings I took a pill and I have to say I feel a little better.  The only bad thing is I still have some left over junk food in the house.  I just weighed in and I'm 164.5:(  I know some of that is due to eating very poorly the last few days.  I'm going to meet an old friend from school in 2 weeks and I haven't seen her in over 10 years. She is one of those people with a perfect body - I'm jealous of the  photos of her on vacation that she posted on Facebook.  In several photos she was on the beach and a bikini.  So, I was really motivated to lose some weight a week ago, but when I'm feeling low I really don't care.  Now I just need to keep reminding myself about seeing my old friend and maybe I can drop at least a couple pounds.

Weigh in #7

Just weighed in for the first time in a while, and I am 163.2. So I think that's one of my higher weights since I started this blog.  I didn't eat very well today.  There were free donuts at work, so I had 2 of them.  Then I had a Totino's party pizza for lunch - the whole thing, and then when I got home from work, I went to the drive thru at Burger King and had 2 BK stackers and onion rings. Once I finished that, I had some ice cream.  Sadly, I think sometimes food is one of my few joys in life when I don't do much else besides the same routine of get up way too early, drag my butt out of bed, go to work, come home and maybe have an hour to myself before my husband gets home from work, then I make dinner and maybe spend some time online or watching a tv show, and then go to bed. Because my time is so limited, I rarely want to spend any of my evenings exercising. So sadly I know I need to start losing weight again, but I just can't seem to get motivated to eat better and take some of my precious free time and spend it at the gym. It's times like this I wish there was a weight loss pill that worked.

Trying an experiment and weigh in #6

I've heard that sleep is an essential part of losing weight.  There is an article from Psychology Today which says you actually burn more calories sleeping.  I was listening to a radio interview the other day in which a woman lost 7 pounds in 10 weeks just by getting enough sleep. I've gained quite a bit of weight since I started my new job, and I think it's partially to do with cutting back on sleep.  I'm still getting between 7 and 8 hours most nights, but I think I need about 8.5. So I'm going to try to get to bed earlier (since unfortunately I can't sleep in any later because of work) and see if I start losing weight. 

Oh and by the way, the weigh in this week was 160.8.

Weeky Weigh In #5

My weight today is 162.7. Yesterday I found a couple pairs of jeans that I forgot I had.  They are size 14 and they fit.  I was a size 10 just 6 months ago. My size 12's are getting tight. I'm going on vacation in less than 2 months and I don't want to look fat in my photos, but I'm still not remembering that when I want to eat.

Weekly Weigh-In #4

162.5

So pretty much a maintain right now.  I really want to lose 15 pounds, but I just can't seem to motivate myself lately.  It's 2 degrees today.  The good news is it's supposed to be in the high 30's this weekend!  As long as it doesn't snow (which wouldn't surprise me since this winter has been particularly miserable), I should be able to get some nice outdoor walks in!

Weekly Weigh In #3

Just weighed myself, and I was 162.9.  I had weighed myself a few days ago and was 159, and I know I had a big dinner today, so I'm not too concerned with the .7 gain. I had mentioned in my last update that I would concentrate on exercise this week, but I think I actually paid more attention to food.  I did have a bad food day today, but I did ok the rest of the week. I have to work on portion control this week.