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...

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

I want to see D's doodle

5 weeks till Home!!!
-OP: yes
-activity: yes

It's nice to be back to scheduling in time to journal. I only have a few minutes, because I also have to schedule in time for supper before bed (which is soon, unfortunately), which I'm having late because I scheduled in my activity after I got home from work...LATE, because I went out with F and D after we finished our shift - which had NOT been scheduled into my day..lol. It was a long, stressful day at the new store and they wanted to go out for a bite and since D is my ride I of course went along. Not that I don't want to hang out with my two best friends in the city, but I hadn't planned on dining out, plus I still needed to get exercise in. I didn't have supper, just had a beer, and when I came home I exercised right away to make sure I did it. I'd hoped to get a workout in, but since I was late getting home there was just no way. I was tempted to just go for a short walk, but I want meat on my pizza when I have supper, so I got on the elliptical for some high intensity exercise instead. I'm hungry and I'm looking forward to eating, today was challenging, with take out pizzas at work, and then being at one of my fav restaurants this evening when I was hungry. I know I could have had something, but if I ate it would be sooo hard to come home and exercise, plus I hadn't planned to eat out and if I had something it would be a lot of points. If I didn't need to come home and exercise, I would have done it, but I figured I had enough will power to resist. There will be other days to eat there, it's right next to the new store, and I really want to lose as much as I can before I go home. I had a good time with my friends, D even drew one of his sketches on a napkin. Anyhoo, time to get my pizza fix after wanting it all day!

Earned 5 APs today: 35 min elliptical

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