Real Numbers
I was in a negative mood as I headed on over to my meeting this morning. I don't know why. I felt as if I'd tried so hard this week, and it was so hard, and I wasn't going to lose anything, or not much, or it was in some other way going to end badly. Maybe I was mentally preparing myself for the worst.
Well I shouldn't have worried! I lost 6 pounds this week! (I suspect that many of you were right about last weeks 2-pound gain and that it wasn't real for some reason, either the scale was off or I was retaining water or something, which means I still lost 4 pounds of real weight, which means hooray.)
I also keep changing the clothes I am wearing for weigh-in, which probably only makes a slight difference but for the record, to control for that variable, I am going to stick with my tank top and gray yoga pants from now on.
6 pounds feels like a real number of pounds to have lost, for some reason. It is well on the way to 10 pounds, and then I'm 20% of the way there, if I want to lose 50 pounds, which would be nice. Every 5 pounds is 10% of what I want to lose, and that feels significant also. It feels like something I can build some real weight loss on. It feels better than last week when I was back at square one (or thought I was).
This week I have a challenge in that I like to prepare myself to use all my Flex points on one "cheat" night, and this week I have two potential cheat nights. One is Valentine's Day and one is today's birthday party for our friends' twin babies. I guess I'll see how the birthday party goes and then if we have to change our Valentine's Day dinner plans, so be it. But I will be looking for the veggie platter the second I get there, that much I can tell you!
I'll keep you posted. Stats in the sidebar.
Well I shouldn't have worried! I lost 6 pounds this week! (I suspect that many of you were right about last weeks 2-pound gain and that it wasn't real for some reason, either the scale was off or I was retaining water or something, which means I still lost 4 pounds of real weight, which means hooray.)
I also keep changing the clothes I am wearing for weigh-in, which probably only makes a slight difference but for the record, to control for that variable, I am going to stick with my tank top and gray yoga pants from now on.
6 pounds feels like a real number of pounds to have lost, for some reason. It is well on the way to 10 pounds, and then I'm 20% of the way there, if I want to lose 50 pounds, which would be nice. Every 5 pounds is 10% of what I want to lose, and that feels significant also. It feels like something I can build some real weight loss on. It feels better than last week when I was back at square one (or thought I was).
This week I have a challenge in that I like to prepare myself to use all my Flex points on one "cheat" night, and this week I have two potential cheat nights. One is Valentine's Day and one is today's birthday party for our friends' twin babies. I guess I'll see how the birthday party goes and then if we have to change our Valentine's Day dinner plans, so be it. But I will be looking for the veggie platter the second I get there, that much I can tell you!
I'll keep you posted. Stats in the sidebar.
Labels: weigh-in, weight watchers
2 Comments:
well done on the loss, that's awesome! I knew with all the walking in disney you would have lost somehting, even if you did eat.
That is awesome. (I've never lost 4 pounds in a week in my life...)
I must update my link to you, which currently points at Ointy...
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