I hit 10lbs bitches!

I guess the title of this post says it all: after what feels like FOREVER, I finally hit that beautiful 10lbs loss mark.  My weight yo-yo'ed for a bit, and quite frankly, I was afraid I wasn't going to lose this week since after Monday I had stopped journaling my food.  Not to mention that surprise trip to the Melting Pot Tuesday. At any rate, I will be back to journaling so I keep up the progress.  After you hit your initial 5% loss, WW makes you set another goal to reach.  This goal can either be the weight you hope to finally be, or another smaller goal, such as another 5%.  I chose to go with 10% because my actual goal weight is so far off, I didn't want to be discouraged.

Here's my current stats:

Weigh in: 180.6 lbs

Loss: - 1.1 lbs

Total loss: - 10.2 lbs

I should try and post an updated pic....kinda like I said I was going to do in my first post.  Overall, I am pretty satisfied with my progress so far.  I would like for it to be more consistent, and a little more each week, but I'm grateful it's a loss rather than a gain. 

I'm late as usual

Ok, so I realized last week that I was a week behind on my weight loss blog, and I figured I'd catch up on 2 in one week...oops.  So then I realized I was three two weeks behind and decided to combine all three weigh ins.  It literally shows: loss-loss-gain.  Roller coaster story of my weight loss life.  I'm so close to my first ten pounds down I can taste it...uh...I mean....yeah....

Here's the stats from the last few weeks:

8/21/11

Weigh in: 183 lbs

Loss: -.02 lbs

Total down: - 7.8 lbs

8/28/11

Weigh in: 181.4 lbs

Loss: -1.6 lbs

Total down: - 9.4 lbs

At this point, I was like "Whoo hoo!!!  next week I can celebrate my 1st ten down and get another cool star on WW.com!"  And then....

9/4/11

Weigh in: 182.8 lbs

Loss: + 1.4lbs lbs  DAMNIT!

Total down: -8.0 lbs

SO close!!!  Ugh!  The good news is I know exactly what the problem was.  See, WW's new points system give you so many points that it's very easy to abuse that and think you have more than you really do.  I like to keep my extra weekly points as "overdraft protection," if you will.  There's 40-some points for that purpose!  I stopped journaling my food intake around, oh say, Tuesday.  It was downhill.   I knew by Friday after I had a donut and a half that I'd blown my diet.  I hammered the last nail in the coffin with my dinner at Outwest.  Nothing more I could do at that point.  Needless to say, I was not shocked that I'd gained.  I was just mad at myself for being so close and then blowing it.  I'm hoping to do much better this week.