It's Delle!

Someone on the WW boards mentioned they read my blog (news to me, I didn't think anybody stopped by here aside from my best friend!), so I thought I should put a little blurb about me. I made this journal so I can keep track of the things I'm doing and how I'm thinking and feeling as I journey along the road to getting thinner. It's not intended to be written to an audience, it is honestly something I am writing to myself, and I find it so helpful to be able to look back even 4 months ago and see what kinds of things I was experiencing...so many of our experiences in life slip through the cracks, and I want to remember as many of them as I can in relation to my weight loss; the good, the bad, and even the oh so ugly ones!

So many people say they've struggled with their weight for years, but this is not tue for me. I've been overweight from my earliest memories, and morbidly obese all of my adult life, but I was not the type to yo-yo diet, so in that sense I was not struggling. I don't know what my highest weight was because I didn't have a scale to weigh myself when I started getting set to lose weight. In the year before I started WW I started trying to eat less junk food and to get a little activity into my routine. When I started WW I was 288 lbs and wearing a size 22, and I know the year before I was wearing a size 26 (which was tight on me), so I'm guessing I was easily in the low 300 lb-range at my highest weight.

For the first year of my weight loss journey I was incredibly focussed and motivated. I was keeping my weight loss a secret from my family back home in Newfoundland, and my goal was to surprise them on my trip home in July. Needless to say it was quite a shock to a lot of people when I showed up over 100 lbs lighter without any warning!

Right now I am getting back on track after my trip back home. I wasn't following WW for a while due to comp issues, not to mention life issues, and I've gained back some of the weight I had lost. I got away from journalling, but I'm back at it again and am using it to help me get my focus back. I also like using it to keep track of my activity, although I've not had an organised execise regime for a few months now due to an injury. I'm getting back into my activity, however, and I will be updating all my numbers soon.

As I said, I don't write in this blog with an audience in mind, but if anyone had any questions or comments on anything here, please don't hesitate to post!

BTW, the name of my blog came from a comment my supervisor at work made one day when I was in the middle of a full-blown rant about something I had to do that was infuriating me. He interrupted me and said something to the tune of, "Don't worry about it you don't have to do it. And my goodness look at you! Where are you going, everytime I see you, you're smaller! It's crazy, you're the incredible shrinking woman!!" The moment was funny and unexpected and seemed to sum up my life right now, so I came home and re-titled my blog.

Now all I need is a cape...

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Thursday night

I don't have much to say tonight. It was a long day at work, and as soon as I came home, I went for a river walk, then came home and set about making supper and making lunch for tomorrow. My back is aching tonight; I did something bad to it, exercising, and have only been making it worse. I stopped doing the exercise I believe caused it, but I can't not work, and today's efforts seemed to have only aggravated it more. It seems like I am in some sort of pain all the time now, and I don't much like it. I have a lot of pain in my neck and shoulders, and I'm not sure what is causing it. I think I carry my tension there, and I try to keep from doing it, but I can't seem to stop. Things are certainly tense for me lately, so I guess it is not entirelly my fault. Another long day tomorrow, I hope I feel rested enough to tackle it, it is the busiest day of the week for us, and it is my last day. If it gets rough, I will try to remind myself that I will have two days off afterward to look forward to. I do enjoy weekends off. I've been up all week, and I don't know yet if I have finally hit a plateau, or if there is something about the ampount of food I am eating or the amount of exercise I am doing that is contributing. I am trying to figure out if I need to eat more or less, but it is hard to know what to do. I do know I want to see the scale moving downward again. Hopefully I will have a loss this week, I would like that very much.

Earned 7 APs today: 85 min brisk walking.

so says delle at 7:55 PM

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