Weight Watchers Win!

I started WW last summer at 176lb, which is WAY more than I need to be! I know for a fact that it will effect your joints and make old injuries flair up, I've also seen a lot of my friends go in to pregnancy slightly over weight and end up with hypertension and on bedrest. My goal is to get down to 135, which is a LOT of weight to lose, but it's where I ought to be and the size I was when I bought all the clothes in my closet that don't get worn because they don't. fit. It's also a good starting point for getting pregnant, because given my history with food, I'm going to be one of those pregnant girls that eats everything!

Today I got on the scale to find that I've officially lost 10 pounds!! I'm so excited, and I've read many times that if you can get the first 10 off, the rest will come along much easier. The weather will still suck for the next few weeks, but I'm hoping by March it will be good enough that I can go for a walk around the neighborhood each day, and that will help, too. I'm also hoping to not get injured like I did last summer-- talk about a setback!

More later, but that's my exciting news for the day, so it gets its own post!

Counting Calories

In a renewed effort to lose the 20-odd pounds I've gained in the last year, I'm starting on a revised version of the Weight Watchers theory, a diet that did me fairly well when I was in college-- calorie counting. I'm not very active, I sit at a desk all day and type, and when I get home I'm so exhausted I can maybe talk myself in to a few minutes of situps. If I remember after dinner, laundry, and spending a little bit of time with Jeremy. Truth is, I'm lazy. I need to start paying attention to myself if I want to be healthy enough to have a baby in the next couple of years!

All these entries will have a Calorie subject, so you can skip them if you're not that interested, but I figure this will give me a minute bit of accountability!

Today so far I had a Fage yogurt for breakfast (130cal/17g sugar) and snacked on a Chocolate Chex Mix bar (140cal/13g sugar). I figure that since my friend Heather (who is slightly smaller) was recommended a cut to 900cal/day, I could probably get away with between 1,000-1,200cal/day. I also need to cut down on my sugar intake, so yesterday was my last gratuitous desert!

I'm going to really buckle down on eating those yogurts for breakfast as opposed to Pop Tarts which have almost twice the sugar, 16 grams less of protein, and 3 times the calories! (since a serving is ONE Pop Tart, and who eats just one?)

We have a pretty decent amount of fiber in our diets, nearly problematic at times, but we need to get more protein, less sugar, and less fats-- no more eating half a package of bacon. Which we totally did a couple weeks ago... each.

The grill is going up this week, so I'll start grilling some veggies and some chicken, and go to the farmer's market to get lamb since it's high in protein and very lean.

Talking about all this food has gotten me nibbly, so on to my Lean Cuisine lunch!

PS, I'll have more pictures up when I get home-- hopefully the rain will hold off!