Oh golly, look how the time goes by.  Well, I failed to follow through, again.  I reached the goal and was down to 164 lbs.  Well here I am a little over a year later and I weigh 184 lbs.  My husband is now on a weight loss journey with me and here I go, starting over.

Eaten so far today: Berry/banana homemade smoothy, beef jerky, turkey wrapped in bib lettuce with peppers and onions.  For dinner I made turkey stromboli.  It was actually really good, I felt like I was on Chopped, I had all these ingredients and it sort of just came together.  I used 2 lbs of ground turkey, 2 bell peppers, an onion, carrots, and a head of broccoli all chopped up and cooked together in a big skillet.  I had a package of italian herb dressing mix and through that in along with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.  I then got thin pizza crust (this is where I probably went wrong as I know it probably isn't the best carbs..I should make my own with whole wheat etc, but as I said, it sort of evolved).   We had pizza sauce for dipping. The hubs liked it and lots of veggies per serving.

The thing I wouldn't have learned about weight loss had I never gained weight...How hard it is!  I never had a weight problem until after a got married (more about that later).  I think I had always looked at someone overweight complaining about needing to lose weight, my thought was, just eat right and move. Now in essence, it is this simple, but how can something so simple be so difficult.  It just makes me realize that one really needs to be careful in their judgements.  Sometimes you really don't know how hard something is unless you are in their shoes.

1-23-11

Well, I went to my first weight watchers meeting yesterday.  I am 176.4 pounds and my first goal is to lose 9 lbs, this would be 5% of my current body weight.  I feel good so far and I am very encouraged and feel like I can do this.  I hope to keep this attitude and keep it up.  Yesterday and today have been good days.  The coming school week will require planning to stay on track, which I haven't done yet and need to. 

1-17-2011

Well, it is time for me to do something about all this weight I have gained.  This site is intended just for me, as my journal, for accountability.