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...

Saturday, April 26, 2008

But you can't leave...there's cupcakes!

2 weeks, 1 day till Nightwish!
-OP: yes
-activity: yes

Okay, technically I can't call it an OP day yet, because I've not had my last meal, but I'll eat and meet any requirements I have left to meet. I just want to post now while I still have some of my wits about me. I got home from work in the early evening and went right for a walk. D brought me home and took me shopping along the way, so was able to stock up on veggies. Again I was struck by how pleasurable it is to shop with someone else when you're both shopping healthy. I really do love not having to feel ashamed of what I'm buying and not having to feel like I should make excuses for my choices. The problem is we were both shopping hungry and were both drooling over all the things we didn't intend to buy. We didn't buy anything we shouldn't tho, but it made for an amusing shopping trip, what with us both being constantly distracted by anything "shiney". I've noticed I've been hungry this week, not sure what that is a sign of. I have been getting a lot of activity in, so I don't know if that is it. I'm satisfied when I eat my meals, but I'm getting hungrier just before I eat them than I usually am. Maybe I will need to start working in snacks if this keeps up, I'll have to listen and try to figure out what my body's telling me. Well, right now it is trying to tell me to go eat already, so I should get on that.

ps: I did eat a complete supper last night despite the temptation not to...squee!

Earned 5 APs today: 80 min brisk walking

so says delle at 9:19 PM

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