50 lbs. LOST FINALLY!!!

50.4 lbs. LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!

I finally reached my half way mark of 50 lbs. lost!!! I cannot tell you how proud I am of myself and how accomplished I feel. Saying I've lost 50 lbs. is so much sweeter than saying 49 lbs. lol As thrilled as I am about the loss I want to stay focused on the next 50 lbs. One day, one week, sometimes one moment at at time.

My goal is to lose a total of 100 lbs. by Dec. 31, 2010! I'm well on my way but I have alot of work ahead. The next 50 are going to be tougher than the first. The smaller you get the harder it is to drop weight. Plus my weight loss has slowed in the past 3 weeks.

I've added weight training to my exercise routine and I've noticed I'm much hungrier since doing that. I'm going to tighten up my nutrition over the next few months, eating much cleaner than I had and worrying less about points. I know my portion sizes very well now and that was the main function of Weight Watchers for me. The other side of WW is that it allowed me to indulge in a meal out and still lose weight. I'll continue on Weight Watchers but will be focusing more on the Clean Eating side of my plan. We'll see how that goes in the coming weeks.

I will be stepping up my workouts as well. Adding more days and a more regular cycle of weight training! I'm excited!! :)

Here's to better health!! Bring it on!!!!! :)

Yeah, this whole taking pictures of food business is a pain in the patooty! I might try again, but the last two days I don't have pics. I forgot my camera or managed to remember taking a pic of just one meal...it's hard to carry it around and snap shots before you eat lol....I think it's valuable...sometimes seeing a photo rather than reading words works for people much better. So, maybe I'll try it again the rest of this week...maybe just Thursday and Friday. We'll see, not making any promises though.

:)

Food for Today, Sunday Nov. 1, 2009

Okay so I decided to post food pics for one week....hopefully I can keep up with it. It's kinda a lot of work to do.

For some reason the photos are stacking in reverse order...LOL this may be a short lived project...seems like a lot of hassle to do this but I'll try it.

I don't have a picture of breakfast because I forgot to take it before I ate it! lol but breakfast was french toast made with 1 egg and 2 whites, but I didn't use all the egg and I used 2 slices of lo cal whole wheat bread and I put 2 tsp of butter on them. = 4 points
And I had 2 cups of coffee with stevia and 1 tbs. creamer = 2 points

The next meal was 2 chicken tenders = 2 points
with 1 tbs mushroom alfredo sauce on top = 0 points
1/2 cup canned corn = 1 point
1 cup coffee with creamer and stevia = 1 point


The next meal was turkey and lo fat cheese sandwich
made with lo cal wheat bread, 2 tsp fat free ranch sour cream and mustard = 4 points
carrots with 1 tbs. fat free ranch sour cream = 0 points (2 tbs = 20 calories, 0 fat)
1/2 apple = .5 points

The next meal was seasoned ground beef in 1 tsp olive oil = 4 points
cherry tomatoes = 0 points
carrots = 0 points
fat free ranch sour cream = 0 points
1/2 cup strawberries = .5 points.

2 Liters of water