Week 4 lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil

Well I have reached the one month mark. It doesn't seem like 4 weeks ago I started my journey. It hasn't been sooo bad I guess. I have not had a coke since I started. I have not given up sweet tea. As a true southerner I simply can not give it up. Its the house wine of the south. The past 2 or so weeks have been crazy. I am trying to finish up Jonathan's Halloween costume. So I really have not had much of a chance to exercise. Also at work in the past 2 weeks a customer has ordered and delivered Papa John's pizzas and had some kind of desserts with them. Cripes! Why me? I have worked there almost 5 years and I can count on one hand how often with the exception of Christmas time that food has been delivered for us. Of course it figures when I start a diet the free food just comes pouring in. I resisted the pizza and Wendy's frosty's the first time but yesterday I had 1 slice of pizza. I had just walked 2 miles on my lunch break. I tried to eat it slow and with a knife and fork. It just didn't taste that good and right after I ate it I felt gross. That stupid pizza/grease taste stayed with me for the rest of the day. I don't think my body can handle that kind of grease anymore.

Also forgot to say that I had ordered some snicker dooodle cookies for West Nassau High school and they came in today and I saw that 1 cookie was 140 calories and 6 grams of fat. No way im eating those. Man I love I love snicker doodle cookies. I got rid of them. WILL POWER!!!!

So enough of my rambling. Let's get down to business.

October 21, 2010
Starting Weight 308lbs.
Current Weight 288 lbs. That's a 20lb. weight loss in one month! Whoo hoo!





Looking forward to next week and seeing what takes place.

*hangs head in shame* Finally an update for the past 2 weeks.

Sorry about not updating. I have been super busy lately. I am trying to finish up Jonathan's Halloween costume. When its done I will be sure to show it off to you.

So lets update you on why you are here. I have been trying to execise but this past week I did not do as well as I was hoping due to not feeling to great.

Here is what I did 2 weeks ago on my weigh in 10/8/10.
Starting Weight 308lbs.
Current weight 295lbs. So no weight loss this week. boo hiss!!

For the record is just water on the front of my t-shirt. I had just got done fillling a bunch of water bottles.




Now onto this week. Weigh in on 10/17/10

Starting weight 308lbs
Current weight 289lbs.
thats a total loss of 19lbs. much much better.

week 2 better late than never

Well I didn't get a chance to post on Thursday as promised due to getting sick. I did get a chance to go weigh in at my parents house and get my picture taken. For some reason on Thursday I didn't show any weight loss. Bummer. However I scaled in the next night and just tonight and I am down to 295. Awesome! That's 13 lbs. lost. I think I would be kicking even more butt if I could get my sodium consumption under control. I think with all of the water I have been drinking the sodium is causing water retention. Boo hiss. But overall its still going fairly well. We went to St. Augustine today and we walked a total of 2.75miles. Looking forward to more strides in the coming week.



Susan



Starting weight 308 lbs.

Current Weight 295 lbs. 10/2/10

Weekend update so far...

Happy Saturday! I wish every day of the week was like Saturday. I said yesterday at work that I think my struggle point will come on the weekends where I have time to sit around and eat. I am a boredom eater. I feel fairly good on how I did today. I attended Brad's cousin Marty's baby shower. She looks great. I had a good time catching up with family I haven't seen in about a year. Way too long. I was afraid of the food entering the shower. The Sontag family has some fabulous cooks in it. I was expecting hearty rich southern style food. I felt I did pretty good. I ate in moderation and tried to make wise choices. I figured out calories and I think I was generous in some calorie counts and it looks like I still only ate about 700 cal.

I left there and went to my parents house where my Aunt Shirley and Uncle Stan are visiting from NC. Dinner was...oh dear. It was manicotti, dinner rolls, salad and corn niblets. Man alive those rolls were sooooo good. I had 2 of them. Yikes. Dinner came up to about 1000 cal. ouch!

On a happy note I weighed myself while at my parents and according to my scale I am down to 300 lbs. so its looking like an 8lb. weight loss so far. I am jazzed. Only 132 more or so lbs. to lose.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Susan

Testing this bad boy out.

Well I have decided to do something that millions of other people are doing. I have started a Blog. With this Blog I am hoping to remain dedicated and on the task of losing weight and getting healthy. I guess I need some kind of accountability.

How bout some introductions?

I am Susan and am 31 years old wife to Brad(5/2002) and mother to Jonathan(3/2004). I like to read, scrapbook,sew and shop. I work as a Driver Supervisor for a trucking company. Obviously I like to eat otherwise I wouldn't be starting a Blog to track my weight loss journey.

My starting weight is:
*gulp* 308 lbs.

There it is in black and white. Its awful.

1st weigh in photo 9/23/2010





Goal weight is: 165 lbs. So I have over 140lbs. to lose or so.

I am an avid fan of the t.v. show " The Biggest Loser". Tuesday night when this season premiered, I sat there and everyone did their "starting weight" weigh in and I was like "Holy smokes! I weigh more than some of these people". Some by a good 60 or so lbs. Its time. I have made so many excuses and tried Weight Watchers twice in the past with moderate success. This time I am trying an App on my i-Touch that counts calories. Its called "Nutrition Menu". I'm not all that keen on seeing the calories as a whole as it can be a little daunting. With WW I had a certain amount of points each day. When eating it was like "'Oh this is ONLY 6 points" well when you ONLY get like 30 points a day and you just blew threw 6 in one item its kind of disappointing. Plus you got the extra 35 points a week so you could splurge. It worked for a while but it got old. I never really did exercise much either of those 2 times I tried it. I am hoping to incorporate exercise in with watching what I eat. You only get so far just eating right.

Well I rambled on more than I intended to do. I would like who ever is out there reading this to keep me encouraged and motivated. If you have your own journey you are on or success story or even helpful hints. I would like very much for you share them with me. No one can do this alone.


Please check back to see how I am doing. I think I will make my official weigh in day be Thursdays.

Susan