The weight came off pretty quickly and easily in the beginning, as I suspect it does for a lot of people. Back at the end of April, I was down 11.2 pounds. But I noticed that since the end of March when my husband and I went away for a weekend, and I totally splurged and gave up dieting for our trip, it's been increasingly harder each week to stick with it, and to take off any pounds.
At my last weigh-in less than a week ago, that 11.2 total loss was now a total loss of 8.4 pounds. So I'm up 2.8 pounds since my lowest weigh-in. I'm a little skeptical of that last weigh-in, though, because I had eaten right before I went to my Weight Watchers meeting, and I normally don't do that. Not to mention, that morning my own scale had me weighing in at what I was the week before. So I think that I'm probably only really up 1.8 pounds, not 2.8 pounds. But why argue about such small numbers, you might ask, right? Well, when you don't have much to lose, and still want to lose a couple, every little tenth of a pound counts.
But I have to be honest with you, and with myself... I haven't really tried to lose weight these last few weeks. Life has been too busy, and circumstances have been too troublesome to track some of my meals, so I gave up tracking for a week or two, and I gave up caring too much about what I was eating. But it is amazing how quickly I fall back into old habits, and how quickly a little pound here and a little pound there can sneak back onto your body.
After my last meeting, though, I decided to try to get back on the wagon. It just so happened that the meeting topic was all about tracking. Our meeting leader actually shared some of her notes from an old tracker of hers from back in the year 2000. She had a lot of notes in there, and I realized that the online tool doesn't give me any opportunity to really journal about how I'm feeling when I'm eating (or not eating). So I bought a little notebook at the store the other day so that I can try to jot down some notes that pertain to my hunger levels before and after eating, and to try to make note of my cravings. I'm hoping that doing this will keep me from eating stuff I shouldn't, and help me to realize what I'm doing wrong even when I'm just trying to maintain a certain weight. And on those days that I find what I eat too complicated to track, I'll still at least write it in the notebook so I can be honest with myself.
So I don't know how well this journal thing will go, or how long I can keep up with it. It is time consuming, but I believe that there will be a benefit to it down the road. I'll keep you posted on any progress I think it helps me to experience.
