The Weekly Weigh-In

I went to my weight watcher's meeting this morning and weighed on. Looks like I was right about being back on track. I lost 2.8 pounds this week. Woo hoo!

Here's some things that helped my success:

I didn't sit around and mope about the gain last week. I just got back onto the program and stuck with it.

The few times that I had food that wasn't prepared at home I tried to make better choices and really watch the portions. We had La Gondola on Thursday night when my son and his cousins dyed Easter eggs. Their garlic bread is amazing. However, instead of mowing down on it I limited myself to one piece - I was the one that cut the bread, so I cut the pieces pretty small. I ate more of the Torpedo sub - a cold cut sub. I had a small portion of the spaghetti. Okay - and I did have a dilly bar afterwards. But because I was so good with the dinner I was able to work this in using some of my weekly points that are available for splurges.

I worked out. Okay - only one day. But one is better than none. And I will say that I busted my arse. We have a treadmill that someone gave us awhile back. It's stuck on an incline...so needless to say it's quite the workout. Granted, it's not a horrible incline, but still enough to make everything harder. I did interval training. I enjoy interval training much more than just plain walking or running. For those that have never tried it, here's the gist. You get your heart rate up by it's max for a minute or so and then you bring it down to more of a fat-burning level. You keep it at the lower level for a minute or so. Then you go back up. And back down and back up. And I think you get the gist. You do that for 20 minutes and you've got the equivalent of a 60 minute workout at a slower pace. Granted, the 60 minute workout has it's place as it helps with endurance. But, it's very hard for me to have a longer amount of time to work out. And this way I still feel like I'm getting a great workout. I also add on a 5 minute warm up and 5 minute cool down. So total, it's 30 minutes. Anyways, I did a lot of interval training when I lost tons of weight before my wedding. It definitely works. And it really helps improve cardiovascular fitness big time.

I didn't give up even when I felt I might have overindulged. Last week I made that mistake and gave in to the lure of Girl Scout cookies towards the end of the week. I tend to get suckered into that type of "Oh hell...I've already screwed up" mentality a lot. So, I fought very hard against that.

Outdoor time. Being out in the sun lifts my mood and helps with my motivation level.

Anyways, that's the update for now.