Crazy!

The last 2 years, since I started triathlon training in the wintertime, I thought to myself how nice it could be if i could lose 20-30 pounds by July when I attended a sci-fin convention. Both years, the con came and went and I had not lost any weight.

This year, I will most likely hit the 50 pound milestone just in time for the con. WOW! 

I decided not to do the tri this year, in part due to lack of training time and lack of funds to buy a decent bike. (I'm not suffering another 15 mile ride on a too-small bike not built for speed or comfort.)But also I really want to focus on hitting my weight loss goal, and endurance training makes you want to eat EVERYTHING IN SIGHT.

I definitely want to do it next year and see if I'm any faster once I'm not carrying an extra 80-100 pounds around.

Back in the game.

Weighed in today and I'm down 2.5 pounds since my last weigh in 2 weeks ago. Yay!

I think I need to start inventing mini goals, to stay motivated. I'm hoping that will distract me a little from the feeling like there's no light at the end of this very long tunnel.

I'm at 246.5 today. My first mini goal is to see if I can get down to 240 by the time I attend my next sci fi convention, July 5-8. That's 6.5 pounds in about a month.

EDIT: a week after I posted this I had a huge 3.5 pound drop and changed the mini goal to 238- which would make an even 50 pound loss.

Slowly getting back on track.

So I spent a couple of days playing hooky from WW, then promptly got food poisoning, then landed in the ER with a fun kidney stone and spent several days being made ill from painkillers.

I finally started tracking points again on Thursday. Haven't been on a scale yet, so I don't know if being sick balanced out a few days of indulgences. I'm still not at 100% yet, so working out will have to come slowly. A short walk yesterday wore me out terribly.

I'm determined to get back on track, but I'm feeling less enthusiastic. I'm heading into month 6 of WW and starting to feel like I will never reach my goal. I have so far to go.

AWOL

I sort of went AWOL this week. I haven't been tracking, and I have been eating junk. (this week's indulgences include greasy Chinese food and expensive cheese)

I feel... disgusting. 

Plans for the near future involve eating pearl barley and a lot of vegetables and drinking a gallon of water.

I'm getting sick of tracking points and thinking about food and diets and stuff. I have been doing well, but I think I need a break from it.

Coffee

I used to hate coffee. But 6 or 7 years ago, I started to aquire a taste for it. Before WW, I drank it frequently but not necessarily on a daily basis. Since joining WW, I have become a fiend for the stuff. I can not even begin to describe how satisfying it is to me to drink coffee.

I do try to limit my intake on the weekdays to just 2 cups in the morning. And nothing in it but some Splenda. But on the weekends, I will indulge in more. Midday iced coffees. Coffee with half and half. sugar free flavor shot? Sign me up.

I think coffee might be my favorite food.

Oh man...

While I was out running errands today, I stopped in at my corner gas station for a diet soda. (I have been really into Diet Sunkist orange soda lately.) The cashier asked where I've been lately. I told him I'd joined Weight Watchers.

This means that before WW, I shopped at the corner gas station enough for the cashiers to know me and notice when I stop coming in.

I don't smoke and I don't have a car. I was there for sodas and junk food. A lot of sodas and junk food.