Since I do WW at work and next week is a short week, my group decided not to meet next week. So the next weigh in will be the week after Thanksgiving. I have done amazingly well the past 2 weeks with both my eating and excercising. My goal for Thanksgiving is to lose weight and not maintain or gain. I know I can do it. I am going to focus on eating foods that are special to the holiday season and that I can't easily get other times of the year (in moderate portions of course!)

Also, I was debating about signing up again for the next 10 week session which would run through 2/14. At first I wasn't going to do it, but now I decided I really want to do it. I want to lose my 10%. I want that key chain. I want it bad.

Things are going much better. I went to my WW meeting after skipping 2 weeks and I maintained at 198. I should change my stats... I also made the zero point soup and took it for lunch all last week. I made 4 out of 5 lunches last week which is amazing! I plan on making more soup this week as well. I also went to the gym a bunch last week. I went Tuesday-Friday in the mornings for about an hour each day. I also went to aerobics Tuesday at lunch. And after work on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday I walked on the treadmill for about an hour each day. I took yesterday and today off from the gym.

However, my eating this weekend hasn't been exactly stellar. Friday night I went to Outback. I ate about half a loaf of the brown bread and butter and had a house salad w/ crutons, cheese, and dressing on the side. I also order a cheese burger and baked potato, but I only ate half of each. Yesterday, I had a half a turkey sandwhich on Pecan cranberry bread with avacado, bleu cheese, and sprouts, half my serving of potato chips and a child portion of chicken chilli. That night was the bad part. I snacked on pretzels, chips, and salsa and some candy. Today, I had a salad w/ turkey and cheese from cracker barrel with honey mustard on the side and 4 saltines. in the afternoon I had fugde. Lots and lots of fudge, but it was soooooooo yummy. I will be taking the rest into work tomorrow. And for dinner I had my leftover sandwhich. So fudge aside I feel I did pretty well. I need to get my lunch ready for tomorrow as well. This week I have a lot more going on. Hopefully, I can do as well as I did last week.

Taken from a John Mayer blog:

CHANGE

I've been thinking about something lately.

Imagine this:

You're on an airplane, sleeping with your head against the window, your heart set on being home this time three hours from now. All of a sudden, something goes very wrong. The plane stops moving across the air and instead starts falling through it. The lights are flickering and the movie is skipping. The plane dips hundreds of feet in seconds, and the yellow cups fall from the ceiling. They're a brighter shade of yellow than you remember, because unlike the demonstration, these cups have never been handled before. "Flight attendants take your seats now", you hear, the pilot's voice trembling over a cacophony of alert tones. You get that smell in the bridge of your nose like you've just been hit with a football. That's what the fear smells like. The plane is going down.

Four more drastic drops in under a minute. People are crying. For all the folklore about how your life flashes before your eyes, you're remarkably fixed on one vision - your parents. They're sleeping at this very moment, in a bedroom so quiet they can hear the clock in the kitchen. And you can see them, clear as can be. You wish you could see a playground or a first kiss, but all you can see is your parents sleeping. Huh. Well, that's that.

Several long minutes go by. Then, all at once, the lights come back on and the plane somehow rights itself. Some people cheer, but most people cry harder. The plane lands about an hour later, and as soon as you feel that touch down - hell, even when you were within 50 feet of the ground and could still technically survive a fall - you realize that however you brokered the deal between you and God worked; you've just been granted life in overtime.

Here's the question: what do you change? Whom do you call that you haven't spoken to in years? Whom do you realize has been toxic to your heart and drop with surprising ease? What trips do you cancel, and what trips do you book? What can't you be bothered with anymore? What's the new you like?

Think about that, and then ask one more question. Why not just change it all right now?

(Working on it...)

POSTED BY JOHN MAYER AT 04:48 AM FROM SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

The bolded part has really hit home. I am working on changing some things in my life right now. I am trying hard. While not completely successful this week, I am at least happy.

I went to the gym and the grocery store today and that's about it!

I did 15 minutes of weights, 60 minutes on the hard elliptical and, 35 minutes on the treadmill.

I stopped by the grocery store and did not stray from list at all! No impulse buys here!

I made my favorite salad for dinner tonight and I realized just how much I missed making my own food.

I will be updating my ticker tomorrow. It will reflect a starting weight of tomorrow's date. Come to think of it, I might heve two tickers. I am not sure yet.