Life's getting in the way....

Shame on me, I haven't done a very good job keeping up the new posts. Work has recently picked up, which is good, but it takes away from my blogging time ;)

Unfortunately, the past two weeks have not been productive weight loss weeks. I weighed in last Thursday and was up 3 lbs :( Perhaps its the fact that I have stopped tracking points and have been consuming baked goods at an alarming rate. Huh, go figure.

It's really important that I re-frame my thoughts on food and start thinking about how to get back on track with the plan. Just in time for the 4th of July weekend, great. I'm going to be realistic...I'm not going to have great weight loss over the weekend, but I can certainly attempt to lose those 3lbs from last week.

Since I get Thursday off, I'm going to miss my weekly weigh-in day so I'm setting the following goals for Thursday the 9th:

First, I need to start tracking points again. With out borders I've gone a bit wild.
Second, increase my exercise (there was a lull between soccer and basketball seasons and I could have used those exercise points).
Third, limit the caloric intake over the weekend to a reasonable amount without limiting fun :)
Finally, the hope is that I will "re-lose" those 3lbs so that I'm back on track for the remainder of July.

Blame Mother Nature ;)

I just got back from weighing in, and I'm up .4 lbs to put me at 202 lbs. I can't blame a change in clothes weight since my outfit last week and this week both weighed in at 1.2lbs. But I can blame mother nature for blessing me this week. This means next week's weigh in should be great!

I'm mentally preparing for the coming week, we have a few lunch/dinner things over the weekend, but I feel like I'll be able to splurge at one and keep the other two under wraps. I've got lots of stuff planned to keep me active: walking, cleaning, basketball, and soccer. And I'm having lots of fun trying out new recipes and using all the neat veggies in our New Roots delivery.

I wanted to share a very tasty recipe with you. I whipped this up last night after my workout at Greenlake. What's so great is you can make a bunch of the dressing in advance and have it on hand in your fridge, so when you are ready you can toss together whatever tasty veggies you have on hand and you're ready to eat. For you cilantro-haters beware the dressing has a strong flavor.

I have to be honest, this past weekend was tough. Whatever the scale says on Thursday I'm blaming the cakes! We had an anniversary and birthday celebration and the desserts just didn't stop coming. All my other eating habits were acceptable. So now I'm getting back into the right frame of mind to conquer the rest of the week, and hopefully I can still sneak in a small loss, or at least maintain.

Hip Hip Hooray!

What a great week, being back on track has sure been successful! Even with the weekend splurges, I lost 4.6 pounds this week! It's such a great feeling to finally have a good week on the scale after so many blah months/years. (Current weight 201.6, clothes weight 1.2)

I'm going to let this momentum carry me through the weekend, but I'm going to have some obstacles to overcome:

Friday/Saturday - We'll be at my parents house, dad's planning to BBQ, and my mom's a bit of a food pusher. I don't anticipate the point intake to be as high as last weekend, but I'm going to have to work very hard to keep track of my points and keep moving. Thankfully it is still going to be nice this weekend.

One step back, and two forward

As feared this weekend rapidly got out of hand. Between our fabulous dinner at the Met on Friday and couch surfing with Sara on Saturday I devoured all my workout points for the week and my 35 weekly bonus points and then some. So had I been sedentary I would have consumed about 2.5 extra days worth of points...that's not helpful to the waste line! Lucky for me I stayed very active this week, and with all this hot weather those splurge points aren't going to hurt me on the scale on Thursday.

Accomplishments:
1. I officially signed up for the November Seattle 1/2 marathon walk on Saturday, and may be signing up for a second 1/2 marathon in September...anyone interested in joining me?????
2. My walk to run training group started up Monday evening and the group is really motivated to get in shape and lose weight (they are all WW members too). We'll be running the Swedish 5K at the end of July together (maybe even the 10k depending on how the training goes).

I'm very excited to weigh in tomorrow, keep your fingers crossed for me and hopefully I can report good news tomorrow!