Weight Watchers Weigh In and Weekly Update

Another week, another weigh in and I wish I had some exciting news to share with you but I don’t. Today’s weigh in results were a big fat goose egg. Yep, I had no recorded change between this week and last and I am ok with that. Some weeks I am going to lose, some weeks gain and some weeks I will just stay the same, that’s just life. Of course, I would be happy to have lost something this week but given the circumstances (my monthly visitor) I am happy that I didn’t register a gain today. You may remember the post from last week about me working towards my first 7 Day Chip. Well, I have made it through those seven days successfully and am now on day 9 working towards the 30 Day Chip. Although I didn’t lose any weight this week I still deem it a success. I tracked and portioned my food daily and made sure I was making good, healthy food choices when possible. More than anything I needed to get my focus back onto what, when and how much I was eating; bringing myself back to making conscious eating decisions instead of mindless ones. As I frequently say, it is not always about the scale and I am happy for this non-scale victory.

Yesterday I went to back to back boxing classes and again came home with some war wounds. Plank elbow strikes again as well as what I like to call ‘the stigmata’. I am not sure why this has happened, Paul thinks it is from holding myself in a push-up position for an extended amount of time, but I have red marks on the middle of my palms. It’s really weird. It’s not like a scrape or rug burn; there is no breaking of the skin, just red marks on my palms. What’s even weirder about my ‘stigmata’ is that during those classes I was wearing hand wraps so there was plenty of padding on my hands/palms; I am quite perplexed as to how I got those marks. Oh well, I guess I am just lucky.

Although I got plenty of rest last night I am still exhausted from spending Sunday out in the heat all day long. With the heat index temperatures were in the high 90’s and that heat was really draining. I was talking with Paul on the drive up to Austin wondering whether or not 33 year-old Dacia could survive an all day long festival. Although I wasn’t sure if I could last out in the Texas sun all day, both Paul and I agreed that for certain Dacia from seven months ago would not have been able to make it. If I had gone to ACL last year I probably would have spent a majority of the day sitting and complaining about how badly my feet hurt or how tired and hungry I was. This year I was able to stand and dance and wander around the 46 acre park pretty easily. Yes, I was exhausted on the drive home but I felt great all day at the festival. It’s amazing how shedding some pounds (well, a lot of pounds really) has impacted my ability to do the things I love again. No longer will my weight have to play a key role in the decisions I make. Although I still have a long way to go to get myself to a healthy weight I now know that even at this weight I can function again like a regular human being and that is a fantastic feeling!

I had to update one of my weight loss goals/rewards because over the weekend I randomly ended up buying an iPad. An opportunity arose for us to buy an iPad for almost half the retail cost so we jumped at the chance. I of course couldn’t rationalize buying an iPad just because so Paul said that it could be one of my weight loss rewards. So I switched 20% weight loss goal reward from a weekend trip away to an iPad. Sorry, KG – I will have to make the trip to San Diego my 30% weight loss goal reward. I promise, I will get there sometime soon 🙂 I haven’t had much time to play around on the iPad but holy crap that thing is awesome. I can totally see it becoming my new addiction. The next vlog I record will be on the iPad so you will have to let me know if you notice a difference in the quality. I think if I knew weight loss would come with such great perks I would have started sooner 😉

One last thing before I go, I am looking for some new breakfast ideas. I want to switch it up from my normal yogurt and Kashi/granola and breakfast taco routine. I am looking for something easy, transportable, and packed with protein. Please leave any ideas or recommendations in the comments or you can always email, message, tweet, or whatever is easiest for you.

Thanks for reading!