Lose 40 lbs

My skinny jeans are loose! Just keeping on with the clean eating, cutting way back on bread and pasta, and tracking portions.

Especially when staying w family – the menu and even the timing make good choices and self control harder. About 100 WW points for the week above my normal… And came home to weigh in around 3 lbs above a week ago. Blech. Good start back today though, back in the routine.

Focusing on clean eating as a lifelong habit… Eat food, not too much, mostly plants, organic and pastured.

Oh, and I put away the size 16 and 14s. The 12s are great and the 10s will fit soon. :)

I have lost 15 lbs on Weight Watchers! This puts me around (or within 5 lbs of) my previous “normal” and comfortable weight. But still 25 until my goal. If p and I could both get back to college weight- it would almost be like being 20 again, together. He has like 50 lbs to go. I can’t imagine. I hope he keeps it up and doesn’t stop early. I’d love to see him slim and muscled. I don’t ever say so. I love him the way he is. But you know.

I have lost 12 lbs on Weight Watchers. Just as great, P has lost 15. It is easier to commit to long term change when it’s for our household. Tracking food may need to be a lifelong habit, as long as we are living the sedentary suburban life. I’m accepting that.

10 lbs lower than last yr at this time. Could be worse, but I still gained 10 lbs in the last 2.5 months. My birthday thru Xmas must just be a stressful, self indulgent time for me. Read a food book today that helped confirm strategy of quality whole unprocessed foods. “Eat FOOD. Not too much. Mostly plants.” using this strategy, in conjunction w my running and yoga goals, I plan to shed an additional 30 lbs, over the next 4 months or so. I can do it. I’m going to eat good food and exercise.

Being home is challenging; I cook and eat for something to do, or i go out to eat with friends as entertainment. Kind of hit bottom tonight, as I downed three servings of potato pancakes plus an apple oven pancake, at least most of it. Paid the price as I had horrible stomachache. Self-sabotage?
Anyway, nowhere to go but up. Meaning down in weight. Looking at pictures on computer only further reveals my self-delusion. I look more like my overweight relatives than my spry college self.

I am down almost five pounds this week! I feel like a contestant on the biggest loser. I know it gets harder after the first week, but I am happy. How am I doing it? Just implementing all the strategies and knowledge I have built up over the years but not used!! Writing it down, fruits and veggies and whole grains and lean protein, shooting for 1400 or so calories, exercising. I think one big key has been planning, too. Plan on the weekend and prepack portions so I don’t end up coming home tired and staring at an empty fridge.