I spent a lot of time today waiting for buses that never showed up. The worst was when I left work and had to wait 50 min in the cold amongst a hoard of agonisingly annoying teenagers for the next one to come along. I got a hot shower when I got home but I'm still chilled to the bone. It's half past midnight and I just finished supper, and now I have to go to bed because I have to be up before dawn to go in for a stupid staff meeting. I had my WI today and it showed me as being very much up, but I just logged it and went on with my day. I'm seeing a pattern in my progress charts now where every 4 weeks during this week I am up more than others. I guess my Week of No Loss has now become my Week of Big Gain. Whatever, I'm not too fussed, the numbers will move down eventually, besides my activity level will also be slowing things down now. I know I'm not actually gaining fat, my clothes and my measurements tell me so, so I'm just going with it. And now it is time to go to bed.
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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...
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...
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A life in progress...
Started my weight loss journey: July 02, 2007
Time elapsed: 52 weeks
Starting weight: 288 lbs
Goal weight: 172 lbs
Current weight: 184 lbs
Total weight change: -104 lbs
Pounds to goal: -12 lbs
Started my exercise regime: August 20, 2007
Time elapsed: 45 weeks
Total activity time: 401.2 hours (24,071 min)
Total distance walked: 661 miles (1,063.8 kms)
Time elapsed: 52 weeks
Starting weight: 288 lbs
Goal weight: 172 lbs
Current weight: 184 lbs
Total weight change: -104 lbs
Pounds to goal: -12 lbs
Started my exercise regime: August 20, 2007
Time elapsed: 45 weeks
Total activity time: 401.2 hours (24,071 min)
Total distance walked: 661 miles (1,063.8 kms)
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