Day 1 of Challenge -- FAILED

In my post yesterday, I mentioned that I was taking on Marci's challenge. I am going to go 7 days in a roll without eating out.

The day started off well. I slept in since my husband and I did not get in from playing poker at my cousins last night until 3 am. During the evening, my cousin and I discussed weight watchers and point values for certain foods, mostly fast food items and how a lot of them can take up your WHOLE daily calorie intake in one meal. So as you can see, if I can succeed at not eating out all week, I should have a good weight loss.

So we skipped breakfast and for lunch we had Tuna Fish Sandwiches made with Light Tuna in Water, Light Mayo, and pickle on toasted 100% whole wheat bread. I made sure I ate few calories because at 3 pm, it was off to my nephews party. His birthday party had pizza and soda. I purchased my own diet Pepsi and steered away from the pizza by bowling during that time of the party. Now birthday cake, I did have a piece of that. I LOVE butter cream icing.

During the party, 3 different people asked me if I wanted to go out to eat after the party. First person -- "no, my daughter is welcome to go with you, but I am steering away from eating out for 7 days", Second person was told the same thing. Now the third, my brother, invited me to go with him and multiple other family member who were going to eat Mexican food, my FAVORITE! He and the others went on to say how I could start tomorrow. "You are always suppose to start on a Monday, start it tomorrow". So yes friends, I FAILED. I went to eat Mexican food tonight. But when you fall off a horse, you get back on, so tomorrow will be my NEW DAY 1. Sound familiar? Yeah, to me too.

Tune in tomorrow to see me succeed. : )

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Well, yesterday I had a weak day. During lunch we went to a Chinese Buffet. Instead of doing the buffet or eating any 372 calorie egg rolls, I did the mongolian bar where I was able to choose what all was going to be in my meal. I choose just a little bit of the steak, shrimp, and crab and the rest was veggies. I did have a bowl of hot and sour soup while waiting for it to cook. I know this still is not "diet" but it was a better choice. With weight watchers you are allowed 35 flex points each week that you can use whenever you like. Some choose to use a few each day, I usually use at least 25 on the weekend. I try to stay away from fried products, but find it hard to resist those crab ragoons. I ate one and afterwards found out it was 7 points OUCH.

For dinner we decided to go to my brothers house to watch movies and on the way we drove thru one of those Taco Bell / Long John Silver Combo Franchises. The plan was to get everyone Taco Bell, but when we got there my partner in crime (Husband who is supposed to be dieting), decided he was going to get his usual Fish and Chicken Plate. This is exactly what I always got and instantly got an attitude because I could not believe he was going to torture me like that. I was really mad. But I did not give in to my attitude I stuck to the plan and since I only had 9 points left out of my daily points, I pulled up my Taco Bell Application on my phone and ordered 9 points worth of food. You know I am not going to sit here and make you think that I believe the whole Taco Bell Diet menu, but their Fresco items are pretty good and their tacos are only 3 points a piece. But just like I learned from the day of my birthday and eating out, you can not go to a fast food, eat the correct amount of calories (points) and be satisfied. Some of you may be able to, but as an obese female, I am not satified with just one taco and one burrito. Consider this, I am still hungry, my husband (who is suppose to be dieting as well) is getting stuffed on his high calorie fried meal then I go to my brothers refrigerator, and what do I see CHEESECAKE!!! Another weakness!!!!

So we put in the movie and the title "Cloundy with a Chance of Meatballs" SHOULD have clued me in, but I had no idea what it was about, just a cute animated movie I had been wanting to see. If you have not seen it, it is about a town that only has sardines to eat. The star of the movie invents a machine that can make food. Ends up, it goes into the sky and starts raining food that the inventor chooses it to rain. So here I am on the couch, STILL hungry and watching hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream, and pancakes etc all showering this town and fulfilling everyones hunger. So YES, I did use some of my FLEX points to eat a peice of Cheesecake, and that half of peice of chicken plank my nephew did not eat, YEP ate that too. Then I started throwing back the water to finally NOT be hungry anymore.

My last post I had asked for my readers to suggest a challenge for next week. Although it is going to be EXTREMELY hard for me, I have decided to accept Marci's Challenge and starting on Sunday, I will go 7 days without eating ANY FAST FOOD. I am not going to eat out at all. I have already broke the news to my 16 year old daughter. This is going to be hard on her as well. Let me tell you a little bit about McKinsey. She is EXTREMELY spoiled by her papa and totally addicted to eating out. There has been times when papa has shown up at my house with a bag of burgers for my girls because they did not want to eat whatever I had in the house. I mean, Mckinsey would call papa, he would stop what he was doing and go to Whataburger and bring them burgers. This is the same man, when I was growing up that made us eat sandwiches at least once EVERY DAY. As an adult, to this day, I HATE eating sandwiches if they don't come from Subway.

So this will be a hard week for me but believe it or not, I am actually looking forward to the challenge. The house is already stocked with groceries and I already have all the meals planned. My hardest night will be Thursday because that is the night I bowl in a league. Get this, the league is called "Beer and Pizza". LOL Each team of 4 gets two pitchers of beer and a large pizza. I don't like beer, so I never drink any of that, but I usually do eat two peices of pizza. So this Thursday I am going to prepare myself and maybe pack a snack. As I get closer to the day, I will work it all out.

Well we are off to my cousins' to play Texas Hold 'Em. I plan on taking my own snacks with me because we usually pass snacks around while we are playing.

1st Weigh In

I did weigh in yesterday and I happy to announce that I lost 4.6 lbs. WOO HOO! If I lose three pounds this week, I will weigh less than I have in at least 10 years. I NEED TO make it past this hurdle and continue. As I stated in a previous entry, I got there last time and lost motivation and STOPPED my diet. I MUST stay motivated!!!!

I plan on going to Cancun this August and think about how much better I would feel about myself if I weighed 50 lbs less. It's at least 26 weeks before our trip and two pounds a week, would make me 52 lbs lighter. Wow!!! Now that is exciting. Then a couple months after that will be my high school reunion. Once I determine the date of my trip, I am going to add a count down on my blog to help me stay motivated.

We found out yesterday, that next Wednesday is our last weekly meeting at work. Therefore, I guess I will have to go to an off site Weight Watchers Meeting once a week. We do plan on meeting at lunch once a week and weighing in and motivating each other, but it is not going to be the same, I don't think.

I need to set up a challenge for this week. Any suggestions?

My birthday

I spent my birthday at a surgical center with my mom. She had knee surgery. It went well and she will hopefully be able to get back to her independent self soon.

Eating good was hard today. As you know, fast food and diets just don't mix well. I had intended on getting up early enough this morning to eat my usual 3 point oatmeal, but was not sucessful. Instead for breakfast we drove through sonic and I ate a jr breakfast buritto with egg, sausage, and cheese. Yea I know, I should have left off the cheese. Bad habits are hard to break. I did order a large ice water instead of my usual coke.

Since we did not know the area well, for lunch we just drove around and found Jack in the box. I had two tacos and a kids cheeseburger with water. I am definately learning that when trying to stay within your daily calorie range, when you eat bad you are still going to be hungry!!! Therefore, when dinner came around I was starving. Since we were all tired, I once again fell victim to eating out, my parents ordered pizza. I regrettably ate three peices. Depressed about blowing my day, I so wanted to drive thru dairy queen and get a blizzard on the way home, but my wonderful daughter refused to share one with me and I was not eating a whole one on my conscience. So for the first time all day, I came home and ate a grapefruit. And you know what? I am not craving that ice cream anymore.

Well it is after 10 pm, I have not done my daily 10 minutes of exercise from my weight watcher challenge for this week, so I better go

Tomorrow is weigh in. Wish me luck!!!

Month of Birthday Parties! HELP!!!!

We have TONS of January birthdays in my family.

This past weekend, we attended my niece and nephew, on my husband's side, birthday party. My niece turned 7 and my nephew 2. It was a joint birthday party at least, so their was only one cake I had to face this weekend. : ) On weight watchers you get your daily points, then flex points. Needless to say I used ALL my daily and almost ALL my flex points all in one day. I was proud of myself, I have talked my husband into jumping on the "Thin in 2010" bandwagon! AND when he went to the store with his mom for the groceries for the cook out, I asked him to buy me and him some ground turkey and wheat hamburger buns for "our" burgers. This small request ended up being a GREAT thing! My mother in law, who I worry about who is over weight as well, bought ground turkey for ALL the burgers!!! And for the Ice Cream -- she bought frozen yogurt. How awesome was that? So although I did use ALL my daily and flex points, I did not go OVER!!!

Tomorrow is my birthday, and also the day before weigh in! I plan on spending a lot of the day with my mother who is having surgery tomorrow. Since my mom is having surgery this will eliminate our usual birthday eating out dinner, which might be my save and grace for the weigh in. I feel I have done really well this week and am hoping for a loss.

This weekend will be my brother's sons 4th birthday party. They are doing a bowling party on Sunday. So although I might sneak that "small" piece of cake, I WILL be bowling to help counteract the calories. Birthday cake is definitely a weakness for me. I can not resist butter cream icing.

If you have a minute, please say a quick prayer that my mom's surgery goes well tomorrow.

Trying to get my head on straight

Hi, I am Stephany!

I am a wife and mother of two beautiful teenage daughters who are now 16 and 18! I work a Full-Time job and am a independent sales consultant for Scentsy Part-time.

When I was pregnant with my first daughter in 1991, my weight went over 200 lbs and I have not been under 200 lbs since. I DEFINATLY have over 100 pounds to lose.

I am very fortunate that my Full-Time employer has allowed us to have a Weight Watchers at Work program. I first started on the weight watchers last Fall with a group of about 20. During that time, I lost 15 pounds. At that time, I was entering into a new weight zone. A zone that I have not seen in over 10 years. Instead of getting excited about it, I started failing tremendously until I just gave up all together. Why am I SCARED to be thin? Stupid? YES of course it is. I would LOVE for Jillian to scream at me and HELP ME figure out what my problem is! But since The Biggest Loser hasn't called and I am almost 40, not to mention my 20th HS reunion in October, I NEED TO GET BUSY!!!!

I have set a GOAL to lose 2 lbs a week this year. To help me stay focused, I am going to blog my journey. Since I don't have Jillian, maybe this will be therapeutic and I will find out WHY? I want to live the rest of my life HEALTHY!

To be continued . . . .