Week One

I lost 2.0 pounds this week, and I have to confess that I'm disappointed. I was "good" this week... angelically "good" in fact. I ate all my flex points on one day (Sunday) and spent the rest of the week either exactly on points or a couple of points under. Another girl who was doing her first week weigh-in lost 6.6 pounds. I mean, I'd be happy with a 2 pound average, any other week 2 pounder would be great, but on your first week, don't you get all that magical water weight loss, and all that? I was hoping for a kick-start.

Maybe I didn't drink enough water.

Well, I clearly haven't been doing anything wrong, so I am going to continue my strategy. Tomorrow before work I will go to the grocery store and get my light bread, my light yogurt, my sugar snap peas, my bananas, my Healthy Choice deli meat, etc. I guess if I lost 2 pounds a week, I would get under 200 pounds within six months, so I really shouldn't complain. I just really want to lose ten pounds before I go back to Coldington next month.

Which is, let's face it, utterly unrealistic.

Feisty Times

I have only been on Weight Watchers for three days and therefore have not miraculously lost fifty pounds, but I already feel more confident, more in control, more fetching and more feisty. I don’t know why it’s so easy sometimes and so difficult at other times, but this is feeling like one of the easy times. We’ll see what happens at the end of the week.

I am lucky in that there is a grocery store a block away from my workplace. So my new Monday morning ritual is to go buy myself supplies for the week: light yogurt, a loaf of bread, fruit, veggies, lunchmeat, snacks. I may not have the gym situation sorted out, but the food thing is—for now—doable.

Also, since my venture into the hospital, I’ve cut way, way down on drinking caloric beverages. I only have single-shot lattes, and only one small one a day. (I used to have at least two large ones a day, especially on days when I’d teach. I needed a latte to start off each job, basically.) I might add back the early morning one, because I really am exhausted and a worse teacher in the morning if I have not had coffee. I’ve also cut back on alcohol, which tends to make me lose control of my eating if I’m not careful.

My next project is to try and get myself an elliptical trainer. However, I got a letter from the hospital showing charges of $1,500 for my emergency room visit. I hope my insurance will pay for the lion’s share of that, because if not, my elliptical trainer fund has just gone down the drain.

First Post

I still have to go back and look up the name of the brilliant person who gave me the name for this new blog. Thank you, brilliant person! I hesitated over the title because it might imply that I am not already hot, and will only be hot if I am thinner. But you all know better than that, right?

I thought I'd do one quick post here to commemorate my first day back at Weight Watchers. In the spirit of starting over again, I will even tell you the weight: 246.6 pounds. I don't know my highest weight ever, but last time I did weight watchers, I started at 267 pounds, I believe. My lowest weight was 213 pounds. My current 10% goal is 25 pounds, a nice round number. That would put me at 221.6 pounds. And so there you have it.

I decided to go back to Weight Watchers for several reasons. First, obviously, I have gained back some of the weight I lost (33 pounds, to be painfully exact) and I am less comfortable at this weight than I was at a lower weight. Second, I ended up in the hospital last week with gastritis, and one of the recommendations for that is to lose weight, and I want nothing to do with that kind of pain and those needles again, ever. Third, my cholesterol is borderline, and I would like to lower that number as well. Noble goals, aren't they?

My mother found out I was in the hospital, unfortunately, because I knew exactly what was coming when she called. I explained that I had a problem similar to acid reflux and she said "Oh, I had something like that too!" Pause. "I joined Curves, you know! I lost two pounds!" Translation: "It is because you're fat. Lose some weight." Yeah, thanks for the sympathy there. But I can't stay away from Weight Watchers because of that, so on we go.

They have changed the points system a little bit, and for the better, I think. Rather than just being based on your weight, they also take into account gender, age, and what you spend your day doing. (So as a Starbucks barista, since I was on my feet all day, I would have gotten two exctra points per day.) I ended up with a 30-point daily target. (It will go down by one every time the tens column in my weight goes down.)

Today I am counting points, but this evening I am having a dinner party and will probably just consider it as my Flex points for the week. I am going to see if I can hit 30 points every day this week. It seems like a pretty doable target, and since all this week I've been extra restricted on my eating (no alcohol, no coffee, no greasy foods, no spicy foods, no tomatoes) I think I should be able to make it.

I'll keep you posted! It's good to be back.