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How did Week 1 on Weight Watchers go? So far, it’s going wonderful! If you recall, I weighed in at 244.9 last Friday. Well, I decided to eat badly Friday day, night, and going into Saturday. By Sunday I was back up to 249, mostly water weight I am sure, right? I can hope. I weighed in at Weight Watchers on Monday at 247.2 which I’m not thrilled about, but it’s a starting point and here we go!

After much thinking I’ve decided to switch my weigh-in day from Friday to Monday. As I said above, I have a tendency to weigh in on Friday’s, then eat like crap Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with hopes of being back on track by Monday. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn’t. Given the fact I’ve been losing the same 30 LBS for two years now, trends show I usually don’t.

This can’t be healthy. Gaining and losing weight so quickly! So, for my health and sanity, I will be keeping weigh-in’s to Monday from here on out.

How was food this week? Well, at first I was eating below my allotted points (31) but then after talking to Vanessa and some other Weight Watcher members, I’ve tried to stay right on track and eat my 31 points. So far I haven’t felt a need to eat extra points, but the week isn’t over yet!

I feel happy, though. I feel like I am gaining control again. I feel like my cravings have gone down drastically. I feel like this is the start of something that I can do for the rest of my life.

I’m excited, and I can’t wait to weigh in!
~Christina

I have been thinking about joining Weight Watchers recently. Due to my experiences with L.A. Weight Loss, and feeling taken advantage of financially (and still being in debt due to this) I was very hesitant.

Last week, I made a huge decision to join the YMCA. Frankly, gym’s terrify me. They always have, and I always was wary of them because I thought people would stare at me. Oddly enough, after going there a few times, I was the one staring at THEM. They all had their noses in a book, magazine, on the TV, or zoned out to their iPod or MP3 player of choice. I’m very proud of myself for taking that step.

Sadly, since returning home from Kansas, and the beach, my eating habits never returned to “normal”. Therefore, when I finally weighed in and saw that I had gained 8 pounds, I knew I had to do something. After trying to re-start counting calories, and failing day after day after day, tonight I knew I had to do it.

I joined Weight Watchers. Tomorrow (okay, it’s more like today) August 23, 2009 is Day 1 on Weight Watchers. Next week is going to be hellish for me. School starts on Monday, Monday night my Aunt is bringing by her dog and I am dogsitting all week, and also we pick my Mom’s new black lab puppy up Monday night. Three dogs in the house, with school starting. This is the week I decide to join Weight Watchers? Ah, yes I am crazy.

Schedule permitting, I am planning on weighing in on Monday at Weight Watchers, but if I run out of time, then I will go Friday morning. I may end up going both days, or maybe just Fridays, since that is my current weigh-day. We will see how this week pans out.

Thank you for your time.

~Christina

I have had this for quite some time now, and I’ve been unsure if I had enough time to devote to a blog, or not. Or even if I had anything to say worth writing about. Typically my days are filled with school, and video games, not exactly interesting.

I have been on Youtube since 2006, and in the weight loss community since the begining of 2007. In that time, I have lost weight, gained it back, lost it again, gained some more, and lost again. It isn’t easy, but the support, inspiration, and motivation I have found in the community there, has kept me going.

Sadly, as of late I have noticed a huge rise in drama. It saddens me, because while I understand nobody wants their name drug through the mud, I feel like we’re all losing focus on what is important: ourselves. We are all there for ourselves, to learn and grow, to motivate and support one another, to inspire others. Cutting others down, and making videos about how they are bad people, or their personal life choices not only has nothing to do with why we’re here, but it is deteriorating our community. It’s sad to see, and I hope that soon it will start to return to what it should be.

My classes ended today. I work very hard to get good grades (I’ve gotten all A’s for a year now) and it definitely adds stress to my life. Now that this semester is over, and I have roughly a month before next semester begins, I am going to work on my time management and begin a routine. I plan on starting tomorrow - no “I’ll start Monday” ideas for me.

Since Januarry of this year, I have lost 33.1 lbs. My starting weight was 270, and my goal weight is currently set at 140-145 lbs. However, I am taking it at smaller increments of weight. Originally I was hoping to lose 6 lbs. a month, and am slightly behind in that goal, but I plan to continue on, and hopefully reach 210 lbs. by Christmas, and my goal (140-145) by September of 2010.

Typically I weigh-in on Fridays, but the next two weeks I will be weighing in on Thursdays because I won’t be near a scale on Friday.

See you soon!
~Christina~