Just wanted to post a quick weight loss update. I weighed in tonight at Weight Watchers and to my surprise I was down 2.6 lbs and hit my 10 lb total loss milestone. I also hit my 5% weight loss milestone as well. Very exciting!
Even more exciting because I had a really bad week. I went way over on my weekly points during the week last week (leftover Halloween candy attack) and just was nowhere near as active as I was the previous week. Now, the previous week I actually showed a gain at the scale. I did everything right, so I was a bit bummed about that. I think things just spiraled out of control a little after that happened. However, I was actually really good this past weekend and basically stuck to my daily points and actually showed a loss tonight.
So that just goes to show, when you are in doubt about whether to weigh in or not, you should. You could be pleasantly surprised and even if you do have a gain, at least if you get back on track, you can actually see the loss the following week.
My goals for this week are to get back on track with Activity. I use the Weight Watchers Active Link and I really like it. It's an activity monitor, kind of similar to the idea behind the FitBit, but it works with the Weight Watchers program to compute your Activity Points. It really takes the guesswork out of things and I like that it looks at how active you are over the course of the whole day rather than just computing points when working out. This way, if you have a really lazy day where the only activity you really got was your workout, you might not get activity points. Then on days where you are at work and running around like crazy but don't workout, you could actually earn activity points. I think it's a more honest way of tracking activity points and I'm glad I'm making the investment so far. At the least, it provides awareness of how active or inactive I am being.
Back to the goals - my goals for this week are to hit 100% of my Active Link challenge for 5 days this week. Doesn't have to be consecutive. I think I'm also going to try to get up and workout in the morning on two weekdays this week. The time change has been a struggle for me since it's been getting dark so early. Wondering if I can make it out of bed slightly earlier and just get the workout done in the morning. I'll report back on my progress next week.
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