I hate the plateau phase

So I was off to a good start, but now I've seemed to hit a plateau.  For probably now the last 2 weeks, my weight hasn't budged but I have lost inches.  2 inches off my waist.  While I'm happy with that I would still like to see the scale move down more. I'll post my measurements later.  But I will not give up yet....lol.

Here we go again....

So here it is many months later or should I say years later and I'm back to dieting.  This time I think I'll try the Weightwatchers® method and lets see how that works for me. By the way I actually started WW on September 10, 2012. So I'm actually on week 5 and 11.5 lbs lighter. A little background on my decision to make the switch is this, while I liked NS, I just couldn't bring myself to go back. There is a cost factor, a food factor and I needed to try something else. My friend was on it so I thought we could work together with this and provide support. NS food wasn't all bad, but of what I liked, I just couldn't see myself going back to just that again. Also, there was a space issue. To be on NS, requires enough space to store the food. I've moved to a new home and counter space I'm lacking a bit so this was going to be a problem. Money, NS is not cheap but is cheaper than eating out every day. My biggest problem was how do I make the transition from NS food to normal food and keep the weight off. There are many people out there that have been on the NS food for many years, and are still slim. I'll admit that I never went to the NS Maintenance site but I think it's just a scaled down version of the full blown NS. So now I'm doing Weightwatchers®. Now to sound a little confused or a hypocrite, my reasoning for never wanting to do WW was because, I hate cooking and since they didn't provide a system like NS I passed. Also, I didn't want to have to go to meetings, I don't need to be around people to tell me I'm fat, I know it, I do not wear rose colored glasses. Ok, so now that I'm on WW, here's what I've found, you don't have to go to meetings and weigh-in in front of everyone, yes you'll cook your own food, but they do have prepared food you can buy at your local grocery store. Yes there is a point system, and you log your food, but NS also had you logging your food intake and you saw your caloric intake count, so in some ways you were counting calories. What I do like about Weightwatchers®, I'm eating regular food, I don't feel deprived (too much, let's face it, I haven't had a McDonald's French Fry® in a long time)and on those special days I can work what I want into my point schedule. In fact, I'm entitled to 26 points per day and I get a weekly total of 49 points to use however I want. Some times those 49 points come in the form of a drink, and sometimes a splurge in the food area. Like when you go to your mother-in-laws for dinner and you need to eat the food she has prepared. Much easier than on NS. So my starting weight was 175 this time on 09-10-12 and Monday is my weigh-in day so today I came in at 163. I'll post pictures later. Until next time see ya. Oh yea, tell me what diet you've tried and/or your stories, tips and what have yous.

The Weightloss Continues

Well this morning I got on the scale.  Yippee!! I now weigh 145 lbs.  That makes the grand total 31.5 lbs lost.  I'm in the home stretch now.  What I have been doing is looking into other foods that I can progress to , to maintain my loss.  I found some recipes, alternatives to junk snacks and of course I'll keep up the exercise.  I walk anywhere from 1.5 to 5 miles a day.  I was doing this 7 days a week but now it's about 5 to 6 days.  I need to learn to let the body heal a bit.  All in all I'm doing well, some foods I'm tired of and some not even close.  I'll write more later.

It has been a while

I know it's been a while but I've been ill, caught whatever virus that was going around and then caught a cold.  Stalled in my weight-loss and cheated...twice and now I'm bad on schedule.  As of two days ago, I've lost 30 lbs and now weigh 146.50 lbs.

I'm plugging along, still considered overweight according to the BMI and for that matter, me.  My husband on the other hand, feels I can stop.  I would like to get to 140 lbs before I make that decision.  I originally set my goal at 135 but as we age, weight changes its appearance as well.

Weight-loss Stalls

Throughout diets you hear people talk about how they have stalled in their weight-loss.  It is recommended that their caloric intake vary a bit and/or bump up the exercise routine (or start).  So many small things can be the cause of stalling and I have seemed to be at a point.  Stalling for a day or two isn't anything to worry about, it is the week or two weeks that make you go hmmm.  Now I'm not at a point of a week or even two, but I noticed when I thought I should have lost more weight and I didn't.   They (the dieting world) say that your body can get used to a certain amount of calories and to keep the metabolism going you should vary the amount.  Additionally, when you stall, check your measurements, usually during that time, you may be losing inches instead.  So I decided to check my measurements and this is what I found:

January 2, 2010                                     February 15, 2010
Upper Arm - 12"                                    Upper Arm - 11.25"
Chest - 41"                                             Chest - 37"
Waist - 36"                                             Waist - 33"
Hip - 42"                                                Hip - 39.5
Thigh - 26"                                            Thigh - 24.5"

Not bad if I say so myself.  I'm quite happy with the difference.  I had forgotten what my original measurements were, and was a little shocked how much weight I had gained.  Happy, happy for the loss.