Woah, a post on Saturday? YUP! In fact, I’m hoping to start blogging every Saturday. (“Hope” being the key word – if you’ve been around here long enough you’ve probably realized schedules aren’t really my thang.) BUT, now that I’m back on a “program” of some sort with structured weigh-ins, it seems a lot easier to do these weekly recaps.

Every Friday afternoon I meet with my Weight Watchers group. I weigh in, attend the meeting, and set goals for the upcoming week. If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you’ll catch those weigh-ins “live”. Since Saturdays are the start of my week (if I lose weight, my points adjust starting Saturday mornings), I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to talk about my week and my weigh-in results. These posts are probably more fun for me than you, but I figured Saturday is a good time to post an easy-to-skip post.

Or maybe you do like these posts? I know I like seeing how other people are losing weight from week-to-week. Let me know!

Rate The Week
May 18 – March 24

No. WW weeks completed: 1

Not gonna lie, I kind of felt like a bad-ass in the eating department this week. Adam and I’s food-prep helped a TON in this category. It’s amazing how much easier it is to eat healthy when 90% of the work is done before the week starts! I did swap out my salad one day for a giant burrito and chips from the cafeteria (23 points!) and last Saturday there was cake and mixed drinks at my sister-in-law’s graduation party. Minus a few slip-ups here and there where I didn’t really listen to what my body wanted and only what my mind told me I was craving (hell0 chips and dip, I’m lo0kin’ at you), I did AWESOME this week.

Food prep is a major advantage, and letting go of the guilt from “eating bad” is essential for my success. You eat, you count it, you move on. I think I’m finally starting to get that.

Goal for next week: eat a packed and tracked lunch, every day.

Utterly dismal. 

I made zero efforts on working out this week, mostly because I wanted to get a good feel for tracking points. I have a tendency to get SUPER overwhelmed, and I knew that tackling a new schedule with both eating and moving would send me into a panic-spiral. Now that I’m comfortably in week 2 of WW, I’m ready to up my activity. I was given a membership to

Goal for next week: Stick to the training plan from MyFitU and hopefully start adding in some running intervals outside!

I’m giving this one “three wings” (lol) because I didn’t make a conscious effort this week to work on my emotional strength, but I had a pretty decent week regardless. I know that journaling and taking my supplements have helped tremendously with my mental state. Also seeing an awesome victory on the scale (see below!) certainly pumped me up. I’ve also been spending more time reading, which always seems to help me gain a bigger perspective on life and not get caught up in the day-to-day stressors as much. Anyone else?

Goal for next week: find or write a new morning affirmation. Read it, every morning!

Weigh-In Update

WOO!! I was pretty freakin’ stoked! I know the first week is always a big loss, but it’s SO encouraging that I’m on the right track!

What was something positive from your week? What are you looking forward to next week?