weigh-in day

Friday is WI day! I put Emma down for her nap earlier than usual so that she'd be in a good mood for the WHOLE meeting. We usually don't get to stay but for 20 minutes or so because she gets bored fast. Well of course she decided to sleep 30 minutes longer than usual and we got there just as the leader was starting to speak. I am quiet during the meetings, maybe because the same people talk every week, and I'm not good at just chiming in. But I did make SURE to raise my hand at the end...had to get another 5lb star you know :) My goal next week is to speak to someone besides the sweet cute pregnant woman who checks me in lol

My weight today was: 168.8 lbs
A total loss of 15.4lbs!!!! not bad for 10 weeks, only 10.8 to go until I reach my first goal!

lets talk about food baby!

Dinner last night...a delicious 8 points! Grilled spicy shrimp, sweet potato fries, green beans and a salad with homemade italian dressing. Those sweet potato fries ROCK! Want the recipe?

2 large sweet taters

1/4 cup olive oil

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp paprika

Slice potatoes like fries, combine oil and spices in bowl, then add taters to the mix and coat well!

line a cookie sheet with foil

BAKE AT 400 degrees for 30 minutes, turning every 10.

even Emma loves them

Emma stood by herself today for about 30 seconds! (then landed on her bottom, thankfully) Can someone please tell her to stop growing so fast? She doesn't even want me to hold her...just wants to crawl all over the place and tear the house apart :)

TOMORROW IS WEIGH IN DAY! So I've packed a healthy low-sodium dinner to take to work tonight...and I will have a loss, I can feel it.

Embarrassing

So today I realized I have been falling off of the Weight Watchers plan. I haven't been tracking/journaling daily. I will take a "bite" of something and not count the points, I haven't taken Emma on our morning walk in at least a week, weighing in but not staying for meetings, I have over eaten to the point I felt sick TWICE, and my self esteem took a nose dive. So I'm blogging today, and at least weekly, to hold me accountable. I had my first gain on the program last week, +0.8. So far on the program I have been doing really great and feeling so good, until the last week. I am trying to not let that bring me down! I started following other weight watchers blogs, using them for inspiration. And...I start with a personal trainer at the Y soon. Just have to get past my fear of doing group exersize!!

So the embarassing part of this post is telling you about my weight loss journey

...IN NUMBERS.

When I got pregnant I weighed 177lbs, was 207 when I delivered Emma. That's a normal weight gain for pregnancy, but being that I was already OVER WEIGHT...it didn't make it easy to come off. In February when Emma was 3 months old and I was still 195lbs, me and my husband (who was 210) decided to try the EAT TO LIVE diet. Basically we ate beans/veggies/fruit for 6 weeks. I lost 14lbs, bringing me down to 181. I gained a few, lost a few again in between march and may. In late may, I joined weight watchers at 184.2lbs. To date I have lost 14lbs and now weigh 170.2 and am half way to my goal weight of 158. I want to be at this first goal by baby girls 1st birthday! Even writing this I am getting excited, because talking about it motivates me.

Follow me on my journey...any tips/recipes/motivation you can offer are welcomed!

Christmas...195

now....170.2

in case you were wondering...my husband is now 168lbs and 6'2"

I hate men!