C3 – Week 3, Day 21 of 84

Cycle Day 2, Boosting, Weight 132.5

My weight stayed steady this week, which doesn’t surprise or upset me since it’s cycle day 2.  I’m learning to just roll with the flow and as long as I’m staying on task it’ll all work out in the end.  Hormones are to blame for most of my ups and downs on the scale these days.

Jodi and I have been playing a TON of tennis the last couple of weeks.  Our activity points added up to 27 points this week! That’s a ton!  We usually have about 10 per week.  I don’t use them, though… I prefer the additional weight loss.

My eating has been great.  I haven’t had any trouble staying in my target points.  I feel as though I’m eating healthy and allowing myself treats and feeling great about the weight loss to date.

Our workouts for the next four weeks will change from straight sets to compound sets for two weeks with two weeks of circuits.  We have been playing tennis for our cardio, but weather will designate whether we have to be indoors verses outdoors.  The weather here has been amazing the last week, but we don’t expect that to be the norm for the rest of summer in Arkansas.

On to week 4…

C3 – Week 2, Day 14 of 84

Cycle Day 24, Boosting, Weight 132.5

The “scale gods” were smiling on me this week.  I’m down another 2.5 pounds from last week!! I can’t really figure that out.  I’m still doing exactly what I’ve been doing since I started plugging my food into Weight Watcher points. I’ll chalk up the odd fluctuations to hormones, since I am totally consistent in my eating and workouts.

In the past 6 weeks (since coming back from vacation and starting to track my foods in WW), I’ve lost 10 pounds.  That’s the most I’ve lost in several years and this is my lowest weight in at least 2 years.  I have a pair of shorts on today that I couldn’t get into in May when I tried them on.  Pretty happy about that!

I’m also only 2.5 pounds away from my current goal weight.

This week we’re doing heavy lifting (3 sets of 10) and BFL intervals for cardio.  We’ve also been playing tennis, well, I don’t know if you can call it “playing tennis” since we can’t yet play very well, but we’re having a ball doing it!  This week alone, we’ve played about 4 hours and we’re planning on playing at least an hour tonight after church. Lots of fun!

On to week 3…

C3 – Week 1, Day 7 of 84

Cycle Day 17, Buffing, Weight 135.0

The scale was very hesitant to move again this week, but I managed to lose a pound from last week (after being up a 1/2 pound at my last weigh in).  So, since coming back from vacation (6/6/09), I’ve lost 7.5 pounds.

It has been hard for me to understand what’s going on with me weight-wise. (Such is the story of my life for the past 3 or 4 years)  I realize I ate really bad during vacation, so the first week back losing 3.5 pounds, while totally out of character for me, didn’t completely surprise me.  Then, the next week, I was down 2.5 pounds.  Those were my first two weeks of plugging my foods into Weight Watcher points.  The next week, even though it was my “start” week (cyclically speaking), I lost another pound.  Thrilling to me!  The 4th week, I gained a half pound, and this week, back down a pound.  Every day for the past five weeks, I have been AT my target points, using most, but not all my allowance points, and none of my activity points.  I’m going to keep giving it my best effort and see if it will continue.

On the positive side of things, I am 5 pounds lighter at Cycle Day 17 this month, than I was in June.  So, I’ll keep fighting the good fight.

Some food accomplishments this week include choosing to eat a Weight Watcher meal at Applebee's rather than going to the Olive Garden (which I dearly love) when Jodi, Jessica and I went to Branson this past Friday.  We had planned on spending some of our allowance points and go to Cold Stone Creamery, but when it came down to it, Jodi got a Mocha Frappuccino Light at Starbucks and I passed up dessert altogether.  We did eat at our favorite pizza place (Breadeaux Pizza), but chose to split a small mushroom/onion pizza with light cheese to keep our points down.

I took my measurements just this morning and will be tracking them as well during this challenge (possibly once a month or so).

Our workouts have been tough. No surprise there.  We’re doing straight sets for half the month and circuits for the other half along with intervals on the tready for cardio.

I’ve changed my weight ticker at the top to reflect my efforts for the year.  It makes me feel a little better seeing the bigger number.

On to week 2…

End of C2

I’m writing this late, and didn’t weigh in until Monday morning, but I wanted to wrap up Challenge 2

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Today marks the end of Challenge 2 (2009).  Not impressive at all!! I started this challenge at 138.5, got to a high of 142.5 (after vacation) and finished at 136.0 (up a half pound from last week). I’m a little frustrated because I have stayed completely within my target WW points for the past 4 weeks straight.  The first week, I lost 3.5#, the second week I was down 2.5#, and last week I was down 1# during a high hormone week.  This week, I stayed on task, had leftover “allowance” points, haven’t (ever) used a single activity point and I was UP a half a pound.  Granted, I weighed in a day late (and AFTER a holiday and free day) and I was only a half pound up, so I won’t be fighting all week to get off a pound or two sparked from a full free day of eating.  There’s my silver lining.

I ate at my parent’s house on the 4th.  They had a cookout and I wanted to at least enjoy the cookout without doing too much damage, so I brought baked chips and a whole wheat (double fiber) English muffin to use for my hamburger bun.  I also had some baked beans, a little bit of some really good potato salad, sugar free/fat free ambrosia, and some fresh fruit.  For dessert I had a piece of cake my sister made that had fresh fruit, angel food cake and some vanilla ice cream. Oh, and a slice of homemade pumpkin bread (a huge weakness for me – AND it’s 8 WW points!!) Since my points were up from Saturday, I took a small free day and ended up having leftover allowance points for the week.

I will be counting WW points again for C3 and see where that takes me.  Our workouts have been great! I absolutely LOVE lifting. If I had to do cardio only for the rest of my life, I’d go crazy!

I’ll take my measurements sometime this week and see where I’m at there.  My goal for the next challenge will still be a target of 130 pounds.

Anyone want to join me for a 12 week challenge??  Set your goals, make a workout and eating plan, and let me know you’re in!!

I guess it’s on to Challenge 3…