Thursday, August 30, 2012

BUSTED!!!

hahahaha  I think my Weight Watchers leader is on to me  = )

I continue to go back and forth over losing a little more weight or trying to REALLY maintain my current, stated, goal weight range (122-126 weighing in at the meeting with clothes and shoes on).

Right now, I'm ever so slowly losing more weight without trying. I would have to work to maintain. As happy as I am about that now, I'm on the other end of the emotional spectrum when I think about how hard I'll have to work to maintain during the winter months... from the other side of the acceptable weight range!!

But back to the story...if you remember, I weighed 119.8 at the meeting last week and got the feeling that I had reached the "you can keep on losing and we won't say anything...to a point" point.

I always weigh myself before I leave home so I know what I'll weigh at the meeting. I make sure I have everything on that I'm going to have on for weigh-in. I chose a pair of denim overalls and weighed 118.8 at home today... 116.6 nekkid weight.



I knew I would gain some with eating my meal replacement bar and drinking (I was VERY thirsty after my 4 mile run and drank ALOT!!) on the way to the meeting but I wanted to BE SURE and be above 120 when I got there...figured that would keep them from saying anything since they didn't before.

Once I got there, I put my sweater on too, to be on the safe side, to get weighed but then weighed 122 so I took the sweater off and got 120.8 for my official weight. I was happy and told Kim (our leader) that I was making sure I wasn't below 120 this week...thinking she would be proud of me for not losing more weight.

She looked at me with a sneaky grin and said "yeah, but your overalls weigh more!" BUSTED!!! hahahahaha  But she's probably seen all sorts of things in her 7 years as a WW leader so this was nothing new  = )


In other news...I hit 12 weeks maintaining today!! Hard to believe it's been 3 months already. I hope the next 9 months go by as quickly...not as in "life passing me by" but as in "I made it through the winter months successfully and am celebrating my 1 year maintaining anniversary!"


So I earned my 3 month charm for my bracelet  = )   I chose a pony, cause...well, it's me!  My neighbor (yes, I hear the pun in my head) had a neat idea...she was asking if I was going to get any spacers to go between the charms or beads. I figured I would but hadn't thought that far ahead. 

Now I've decided that I'll get a spacer at the 6 week point in the quarter and then the next charm or bead at the 12 week point. That will spread the excitement, anticipation and motivation out a little bit more  = )

I think my next bead/charm will be an airplane...for my Sweety Petey, of course!! And then IF I can make it through the winter months, that bead/charm will have to be extra special!

My running continues to improve...faster, easier and all around great! I did 4 miles at a 9:34 pace this morning and that was with backing off here and there to keep the effort easy. On Monday I did 3.11 miles (5k) at an 8:54 average pace...in the morning, at 10am, in AUGUST. It was hard work but it felt AWESOME!!!

I'm still not back to the paces I was running last fall but I feel like I'm well on my way and the cooler weather will help too. My weight is where it was this time last year but my body fat percentage is better this time. 

The numbers started to creep up in September and October of last year, then more in November and then December BIG TIME so I was already a couple pounds heavier for the fall races. Not sure if I'll do the same races this year but I'd like to do at least one to see if I can beat my time from last year.

I'm so thankful that I have tracked my weight and body fat numbers so I can look back and compare. I have several year's worth of food journals from when I was at my optimum "maximum muscle and minimum fat" years. That would be 98-100 pounds and 11-13% body fat...now THAT'S when I really ran well!!

Anyhow, I doubt I'll see those numbers again...it was almost 10 years ago. But I'm still striving to run the best that I can at this age and time of my life. It's just encouraging to look back on my numbers from last year and be doing better this year. Maybe that will make a difference for these dreaded winter months...I hope I hope I hope!