| August 22, 2001 |
| It has been a very long time since I have updated this website and I want to thank everyone who still comes by to see me and emails me. I was having a very difficult time getting into edit this site for a long while and eventually gave up hope. Now I see it is working just great!!! The last update was over a year ago now, and I was down almost to where I wanted to be weight wise. My sisters wedding came almost a year ago and I can't tell you how terrific I felt, wearing a beautiful dress in a size 10. I will try to get a picture uploaded to the picture page when I update next week!! My boys go back to school in two weeks and at that point I am going to try finding a new look for my web page since I am starting over. After my sisters wedding I began to really struggle with my weight again. I did become a lifetime Weight Watchers member, but haven't seen that weight since the day I recieved that honor. My weight has continued to climb from 146 for the last 10 or 11 months and I am currently in the 190's again. Funny how now I feel so physically miserable, but I know the last time I was this weight (on my way down) that I felt terrific and I felt like I looked great too. Funny how the perspective is soooo different when you are climbing to this number rather than falling to it. :) I still belong to the email group I joined 2 1/2 years ago -- a wonderful group of about 16 or 17 women - and we have been through it all together. Our focus started out as mainly weightloss, but now we talk about every aspect of our lives and we are best friends. We are renewing our focus to weight loss and healthier lives and I know that for me, this page is part of it. As of next week, I will be starting a new weight chart, and looking for more new recipes to post as well as weight loss pages to link too. If you have any please feel free to email me! Till next week - drink lots of water!!! Chel |
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| My Journal for August 2001 |
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| I am back!! As promised I have come back with a new starting weight. 198. Shocking - I feel so uncomfotable now, I can't imagine how I felt when I was another 34 pounds heavier. I refuse to go back over 200. I have set my new goal at 150 - I felt fabulous at that weight and I am pretty sure I can maintain it - the problem was I went off the program completely. I would truly like to be even lower than that, but for now I have set that as my goal. I would like to see 170 by new years - that is approximately 1.5 pounds per week from now. There are of course **a few** things I need to work on to get there - back to good eating habits, drinking loads of water, exercising! LOL -- just a few things. My goal for next week is to weigh in at 196. I am keeping my journal, and drinking lots of water. I will use positive affirmations and creative visualization and always be positive. The thing I need to work on most right now is emotional eating! I need to have a plan for each emotion that I eat! I tend to eat when I am bored, frustrated, lonely. My boys go back to school on next wednesday (the 5th) and it will make for some very quiet days! I have several lunch dates set up and I will plan ahead to be able to enjoy myself and have a good op time. For me planning ahead will mean banking points, and investigating the restraunts in which I will be eating so that I will know before I even get there what I will be ordering. Some things I find helpful to me in staying op at a restraunt are - knowing the menu -- some restraunts have websites that share the menu - if not most are willing to fax a copy to you either through the restraunt itself or by calling the corprate office. The same goes for nutritional information - sometimes available on the website, sometimes by calling the corprate office. There are times when the nutritional info isn't available - so then I just try to use my common sense, avoiding the cream based sauces and soups, dressing on the side, brioled or baked versus fried. order first - know what you are going to have when you arrive and be the first person at the table to order so that your best intentions dont go down the drain when you hear what your tablemate is having! And no matter what - don't change your order!!! Know your serving sizes - Most restraunts serve a huge amount of food, much more than a single serving! Know your serving sizes, and ask for a to go box right away - package up what isn't part of your serving size before you start to eat so that you wont be tempted to eat it anyhow! Even if you are still a little hungry when you are done, it is way to embarrasing to get that box back out while you are sitting in the restraunt!! Take what you need - if you are partial to a certain fat free dressing, or nonfat butter spray, nonfat mayo etc, and you know the restraunt doesn't have it, (and I haven't found one yet that does) take it with you. What are they going to say? You are still paying for your food, and if you claim you need a certain product for health reasons (and this is) I feel it would be discrimination for them to tell you that you can't do so! I scanned in a couple pictures to get that picture page updated again page 3 Have a wonderful week Chel ps - I used to have an update list for emailing people when I update my page - this list is now gone since I was off for so long, but am starting it again - if you would like to be alerted when I update my page, please email me with the word update in the subject line. |
| August 30, 2001 |