GWEJ (Goal Weigh Ending June)

Now this is normally something done on weight watchers forum and occassionally on our ww facebook group does and I'm going to post this hear as well.

To coincide with the challenge we have at weight watchers which ends the end of July my goal is to weigh 84.9 kilos so that is a loss of 3.4 kilos this month. June ends in the middle of the week and as I weigh in on Saturday's my weight at the end of the month will be as at 26 June 2010... So I have 4 weeks to lose 3.4 kilos or 850 grams per week... Let the challenge begin...

I did mention this at the end of my previous post but I think its time to give it a post all of its on. This goal is going to be a bit of a challenge but nothing that some focus and effort want hurt.

I'm sure the more I post this and the more accountable I am the more focused and motivated I will become in achieving this goal.

Week 119 of my weight loss journey

Yes I can't believe I have been losing weight for this long.... A friend of mine on a weight loss group we have on facebook got me thinking about my overall journey and the time its taken to get this far.

I've been on this journey for over 2 years, well 119 weeks to be exact (just worked it out) and during this time I've lost just over 29 kilos and whilst I'm happy with that its by no means fast but its my journey and I have to be happy with that. WW tell you that you should try and average your weight loss at 500 grams per week, well mine is a little below that at 250 grams per week... I still have another about 21 kilos to lose to get to my goal weight and I'm hoping that I can spead things up just a little to get there in the next year.. If I can increase my average to 400 grams per week then I will lose the 21 kilos in 52 weeks...

My point is that it doesn't matter how long it takes you as long as you don't give up and that the whole process fits into your life style. I still go out, I still eat chocolate and I still drink wine and bourbon and I still go away interstate and overseas ... I really wouldn't change much as I'm living my life at the same time as losing weight. It will just take longer the way I'm doing it that's all...

The above picture was taken last Mondy at the Lindt Cafe in Melbourne... This was my breakfast... It was very yummy but also very rich.... I also weighed in on the saturday at 88.4 kilos, so I'm using it as my 88.4 kilo picture....

Today was WI and I lost 100 grams... I'm pretty happy with that. During the past week I have been to melbourne, where I ate and drank more than normal, its been TTOM, and I now have the flu... Very little exercise has been done this week and I still lost... I now weigh 88.3 kilos and am very much an 80's girl... Bring on the 70's is all I can say...

Our leader today challenged us to lose a kilo this week, so I'm going to focus on that. A few weeks ago she challenged us to a 6 week weight loss challenge and I wanted to be 84.9 kilos at the end of it.... I think we have 4 weeks left and I have 3.4 kilos to lose... Time to get focused again I think... I can do this if I really want it.... I'd love to be a 70's girl for spring this year (September)... which would then see me needing losing 5 kilos in 2 months....

WI Day

I'm so happy right now, the scales rewarded me well after my effort this week... I smashed getting under 90 with a 1.4 kilos loss getting me to 88.8 kilos.... I haven't been this low for about 20 years....

I also decided to go shopping today with the aim of trying on some new jean and maybe buying some new jeans as my current ones are a bit big.... I decided to try on a pair of size 14 jeans, and whils i didn't think they would fit and still didn't as I was trying to pull them up, they did so I bought a size 14 ...jeans!!!! they are a little snug but the 16's are just too big... This will give me some focus for the coming week to make sure they fit nicely when I go to melbourne next saturday.... The jeans were only cheap ones because I still have about 22 kilos to lose and I don't want to spend the money on expensive jeans only for them not to fit me for long... I will buy decent jeans when I get to my goal weight...

I also bought a pair of boots as my reward for weighing in under 90 kilso... Last week I got a new pair of runners so it was the boots turn this week.

Now bring on my next goal of being under 85 kilos... At weight watchers today our leader gave us a challenge of what weight we wanted to be or how much we wanted to lose in the next 6 weeks. Well originally mine was to lose 3.6 kilos or 600 grams per week and I just realised that would make me 85.2 kilos so I'm going to go for 3.9 kilos which will see me at 84.9 kilos...

When I started this journey I weighted in at 115.9 kilos and today at 88.8 kilos see my total loss of 27.1 kilos loss all together...

WI Saturday 8/5/2010

Sorry I've been a bit slack in updating my WI results from Saturday.

I lost 1.6 kilos which is great but just missed out on my weekly goal of going under 90 kilos.... I know the goal was a big ask and I did have a feeling on Thursday that I was just going to miss it. I weighed in at 90.3 kilos...

I'm trying to stick with the same principals this week so my cycling points are:-

Saturday - 30 points - exercise points earnt 6.5 points
Sunday - 33 points (I didn't mean to have this many but I got a bit hungry in the afternoon) - exercise points earnt 8 points
Monday - 21 points - already at 5 points and I still need to go for a walk tonight.
Tuesday - 23 points
Wednesday - 25 points
Thursday - 23 points
Friday - 21 points

The above points are based on earning exerise points of:-

2 x 6.5 points
5 x 8 points.

or the same as last week...

In terms of Operation Tiger:-

50 mins of Wii Fit jogging 5 days per week (in the mornings instead of my usual walk). on track
60 mins walk with my brother 5-6 days per week. on track
Drink at least 2 litres of water per day. on track - however, its this week focus...
Eat Healthly food and minimise junk food. - on track
Sticking to my 21 weight watchers points per day. - I've increased my points slightly as I don't eat enough when I earn 8 exercise points per day and I'm only allowed to save 4 of them anyway.
Aiming to lose 600 grams per week and be under 85 kilos at the end of Operation period. I'm back on track with my weight loss...

Rewards
Under 90 kilos - buy myself some new boots. - I'm thinking of changing this to new runner as I need another pair. Mind you I also need boots for work - winters coming... LOL...

Under 85 kilos - acrylic finger nails.

Feeling a little more in control

I'm feeling a little more in control this week, which is good.

I had a slow start to my tiger challenge, recording a 100 gram gain at WI on Saturday. I'm OK with that because TTOM came on Wednesday and I didn't track all that well last week.

A couple of weeks ago my WW leader announced that she was leaving us as she needed to spend more time with her teenager daugher (she also works full time), which really shocked the whole meeting, her leaving us not why....

On saturday I went to WI not really knowing what to expect, if we'd get a new leader or just a fill in, well we got a new leader. Well you could also say we got an old leader too, one of the previous leaders came back... Helen. Helen is lovely but will take a bit of getting use to as she has a different personality to our old leader...

Its so surprising what a new leader will do for your journey. This week I'm finding my self more focused, I'm tracking better and feeling a lot better about myself. I've started my points cycling this week which has gone:-

Saturday I ate 27 (I was originally meant to only have 25)
Sunday I ate 29 (on plan)
Monday I got 21 and will stick to that.
Tuesday see me on 20
Wednesday has been changed to 23
Thursday has been changed to 21
Friday is 20

Water has been good and so has the exercise....

I'm feeling pretty focused right now... and here's to having a great week...