Fresh Starts

The best thing about Monday's is they often mean a fresh start for anything and everything. It's the beginning of the work week - you may have gone nuts over the weekend resulting in the beginning of getting back on track - or just decided to start something new.

For me, this past Monday was kind of admitting defeat. To step back a few, I bought my wedding dress in June where I was a slim 141 pounds. After I had gotten engaged, I immediately started watching what I was eating, stuck to 3 meals a day, got in good amounts of cardio and was in a great place mentally and even with my health! This past weekend, I had to endure a Patient First visit and after glancing over at the scale, I have apparently gained 12 pounds in the last 6 weeks (148-160). Weighing in at 160. I couldn't believe it! I know I had some fun over the last few months, but I honestly didn't think it was 19 pounds of fun from when I bought my dress!

So, Monday I immediately marched myself back into Weight Watchers and signed back up. I had made LifeTime in 2006 and have always had a little weight fluctuation, but never that high. I was mad at myself, I felt defeated and knew I could do better, but didn't know why. But, when I stepped on their scale, I only weighted 156. Hey! That's a 4 pound difference from the day before. Not ideal, but definitely made me feel a little bit better. This time around, I also bought the Active Link which is Weight Watchers new tool to calculate Activity Points. I. CAN. DO THIS. I've done it before, I can do it again.

It always seems like the first week is the hardest, and this week I can't calculate any activity points since the Active Link is in it's Assessment phase. So, I'm trying my hardest to stay on point each day.

So, here we are, back at it again - I've got the working out thing down... now it's time to lock in the eating so that 102 days from now, I can rock that dress with pride!