Weigh-in Wednesday: Rethink Your Shrink Week 3

Today is Wednesday so you know what that means... it is time for us to step on the scales and report to our blogs and to the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans for the 3rd time in the newest challenge Rethink Your Shrink. If you are still wanting to join in the challenge there is plenty of time and when it comes to banding together to lose weight the more the merrier is certainly true.

Here are last week's goals and the progress that I made on them...

1. Continue to track/journal my food using the Weight Watchers Online Tools. DID IT!!! Thank you very much!
   
2. Drink 200 ozs of water per day ROCKED IT
   
3. Exercise at least 3 times per week I exercised in different ways this week, but I did it.
   
4. In addition to my 3 times a week of exercise I would like to start the Couch to 5K program back up. Does it count as meeting the goal if I downloaded the podcasts on my computer and even moved them to the iPod?? No? Oh.. ok well then this one hasn't been accomplished
   
5. No late night snacking except for my Thursday night out w/ friends and make healthy choices while doing so. I did really well with this one except last night...and even then I didn't want to eat but because I hadn't eaten dinner and donated plasma I NEEDED to eat. 
6. REMEMBER to eat breakfast... 4 out of 7 days isn't bad right??? OK... I know it is bad... I'm working on it

Here are the numbers from the beginning of the challenge/next week and then my current numbers:

Starting Weight: 239.4 lbs
Starting BMI:  41.1
Starting Body Fat %: 53.9%

1/6/10 Weight: 237 lbs
1/6/10 BMI: 40.7

1/6/10 Body Fat %: 52.1%

Here are THIS weeks numbers:

Weight: 235.2 lbs

BMI: 40.1

Fat % 51.3

Weekly Results:
weight loss of 1.8 lbs

BMI reduction of .6

Body Fat loss of .9%

Challenge results:
Weight loss of 4.2

BMI reduction of 1 pt.

Body fat loss of 2.6%

Not bad if I do say so myself. Here are this week's goals:

1. Continue on with my Weight Watchers.
2. Drink my water
3. Eat breakfast
4. No late night snacking except for tomorrow night
5. Exercise 3 days
6. Get back on the Couch to 5K
7. Take a little bit of time for myself now that classes have started back up.

Good luck everyone!!! 

Weigh-in Wednesday: Rethink Your Shrink Week 2

Rethink Your Shrink is about changing from the inside. It’s about looking back so that you can move forward by changing the present. We will re-evaluate our eating habits, our patterns, our obstacles and our activity levels. We will take with us what worked in 2009 and dispose of what didn’t.

 Today is the beginning of the second week of the new and amazing Rethink Your Shrink Challenge over at the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans, if you haven't joined us yet you still can. It is amazing and fun. I have been a member of the sisterhood for just over a year now and I couldn't be happier with the knowledge that I have gotten and the friendships that I have been blessed with. Here are my goals from last week:

1. Get back on track with Weight Watchers Online, *BTW they are running a promotional thing right now were if you sign up you get your registration fees waived* DID IT!!! And have been doing REALLY well with my journaling/tracking
   
2. Start drinking more water. I want to drink at least 200 ozs per day. This would mean I have to fill my water bottle 5 times, and I know that I can do it. So if you happen to live near me and you see me without my water bottle... could you make a point to point it out *Hey... I never said I could do this all on my own* ROCKED IT... I didn't even need to be reminded to bring my water bottle when I left the house.
   
3. Start the Wii Active 30 day challenge again. When I was doing it before I was doing really well with it, I just have to get back on track. I didn't do this part :( I did however at least do some major cardio around the house. I made certain that I walked up and down my stairs at least 50 times/day.
   
4. Start going to the Gym again. This could take some serious work since my kids are not that fond of the child watch program, but I will have to figure something out... I went twice...
   
5. No late night snacking except for my "Thursdays at Fridays" and even then I want to keep it light and no so unhealthy I am doing awesome with this... I did have one night where I had a small bowl of popcorn but it had no butter or salt so I don't think it would too bad of a cheat.
   
6. Take it easy on the 'beverages' tomorrow, New Years Eve. Did you know the kind of hidden calories that are snuck into those drinks?? I mean it is crazy. I did ok...
   

Here are my numbers from last week:
Starting Weight: 239.4 lbs
Starting BMI:  41.1
Starting Body Fat %: 53.9%

Here are this week's numbers:
Weight: 237 lbs.
BMI :  40.7
Body Fat: 51.1%








Week's Results:
DOWN 2.4 lbs
DOWN .4 for my BMI
DOWN 2.8 % of Body Fat


Here are this weeks goals:

1. Continue to track/journal my food using the Weight Watchers Online Tools.
2. Drink 200 ozs of water per day
3. Exercise at least 3 times per week
4. In addition to my 3 times a week of exercise I would like to start the Couch to 5K program back up.
5. No late night snacking except for my Thursday night out w/ friends and make healthy choices while doing so.
6. REMEMBER to eat breakfast...

I think those are some good goals for the week... See you next week :)

Weigh-in Wednesday Rethink Your Shrink Week 1

Today is the start of the newest challenge over at the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans. If you are not familiar with the Sisterhood I really think you need to pop over there and check them out. You can click on THIS LINK and it will take you over to the Sisterhood and the newest challenge that they have set out for us. The details for the newest challenge are all laid out for you (and me) by clicking this link and we can be on this road to a healthier me and you in no time.

This new challenge is set up to last 7 weeks so this will be the first weigh in of the challenge. I do have to post one portion of the post from the Sisterhood on my blog because it spoke to me so clearly *Thank you Christie*... so here it is:

This is the day you’ve decided to change your mind about food and health. This is the day you’ve decided to venture outside of your comfort zone. This is the day you’ve taken the first step toward becoming the person you have always wanted to be. The person you picture. No more waiting around. The change starts now and it starts with you, within you. Claim today and every day as yours starting this very minute! Because 2010 is your year.

 I also think that it is important for us to set goals that are attainable for ourselves. Does that mean that I don't think I should say "I want to weigh 135lbs", no I am not saying that... but if I had that as my only goal I would easily get discouraged because that is literally over 100 pounds that I need to lose, so instead my first goal is to get myself under 200lbs, so you see that is still a fairly large goal (as it means I need to lose 40lbs), but at least it is a smaller goal for me. I have also decided that I am going to start listing my BMI on my challenges as well so here are my starting stats for the Rethink Your Shrink Challenge:

Starting Weight: 239.4 lbs
Starting BMI:  41.1
Starting Body Fat %: 53.9%


So here goes... Here are my goals for this week:

1. Get back on track with Weight Watchers Online, *BTW they are running a promotional thing right now were if you sign up you get your registration fees waived* 
2. Start drinking more water. I want to drink at least 200 ozs per day. This would mean I have to fill my water bottle 5 times, and I know that I can do it. So if you happen to live near me and you see me without my water bottle... could you make a point to point it out *Hey... I never said I could do this all on my own*
3. Start the Wii Active 30 day challenge again. When I was doing it before I was doing really well with it, I just have to get back on track.
4. Start going to the Gym again. This could take some serious work since my kids are not that fond of the child watch program, but I will have to figure something out...
5. No late night snacking except for my "Thursdays at Fridays" and even then I want to keep it light and no so unhealthy
6. Take it easy on the 'beverages' tomorrow, New Years Eve. Did you know the kind of hidden calories that are snuck into those drinks?? I mean it is crazy.

I think those some pretty good goals for this week. So in the event that you would like to join the party please feel free to stop over at the Sisterhood and join in the fun the more the merrier is definately the theory over there... as long as it is the more people trying to get/stay healthy.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!