Back-to-work Eve...

Argh. My Christmas vacation is over. Tomorrow I go back to work. Back to the grindstone.

How is it after a week and a half of doing nothing, I still feel like I need a few more days off?

Anyway--my New Years week was nothing short of gluttonous. It's pretty terrible, and there is no doubt that I will have gained at least a pound. I tracked nothing and indulged in everything. Especially alcohol. Oh boy did I enjoy my alcohol. But I had fun.

Tomorrow I'm back to WW and back to the plan. There was no good reason to jump off the plan - head first, into a big pile of eating and imbibing, but all I can do is pick myself up, dust my too big jeans off, and hop back into the swing of things.

And now, a festive photo from my trip to Pittsburgh. Heee...I look skinny. Well, almost. Burberry jeans just a hop, skip and a jump away.

More tomorrow!

Until next time

Weigh-in blues

I started to do this yesterday, but things got busy, so today's won't be quite as emotional...but I'll do it anyway.

It was bound to happen. I was hoping it wouldn't have been this week since I had reached 15 lbs, but when I got weighed in on Monday, I learned that I had put on 1.5 lbs. Yikes! And I was doing so well. Part of it was I'm sure due to the fact that I had eaten a yogurt & some fruit about an hour before I got weighed, which didn't help...but I'm pretty sure the major influence was the masses amount of alcohol I had on Saturday.

Thursday's Oreo fest didn't help I'm sure either.

Saturday was a crazy day and by Saturday night the only goal I had was to go out and drink. A lot. And lo and behold--I achieved it (if only weight loss was that easy!!) And Monday was obviously the result of that. Even Sunday's luncheon out wasn't that bad with a very portion controlled & healthy choice meal (though I did add to my points later that night).

So this week's goal is to take off the 1/5 lbs. If I get past that, even better. Yesterday I was a little discouraged plus I had been having a rough day aside from knowing that I had gained weight. The fact that I had to then track my weight on WW.com and see the line on the graph go up instead of down didn't help either.

But a couple things I'm doing to get rid of that 1.5...

• Trying to stay within my daily points as much as possible
• Writing down everything...last week I tended to leave out certain things...like alcohol
• Using the 3 month planner I borrowed from my leader to write down & get ideas from other members
• Keeping the smile on my face & moving forward! I've come this far!! A little setback is normal.

So it's Wednesday and I had a good point day yesterday. Tonight I've got a date (egad!) and am going out to dinner, so I will have to keep an eye on what I'm eating without looking like I'm keeping an eye on it. :)

I think I'll also do another Tool for Living this week to help boost my motivation and keep me moving towards my 10% by June 30th!!!

Until next time!