Lose Weight and Keep it Off

I unfortunately have to bring an end to my 100 Day Challenge. I’m disappointed, especially with how close I was coming to finish it, but for personal reasons I just can’t keep doing it. Over the next few weeks I’ll explain more, but for now I need to focus on myself and my health. My weight loss is still important to me, but isn’t a priority right now. Staying healthy and eating well is. I’m not actually allowed to weigh each week right now. That doesn’t mean I’m going to go ridiculous now that I’m not tracking absolutely everything and focusing on losing weight. I am still going to focus on filling and healthy foods, while I support my own members.  The good thing about Weight Watchers is that there’s never really a real reason to stop following the plan. I want to remind everyone that Weight Watchers isn’t a diet. It’s a lifestyle change. The whole point is to focus on eating healthy foods, while creating a calorie deficit to lose weight healthily. I get a lot of...

I was almost completely on track yesterday. I’ve not had many bad days while doing the 100 Day Challenge, just a few slips here and there. Yesterday started off great until I failed to keep most food down. It’s so difficult to do anything when you’re struggling for energy because of lack of food and drink! Everything that was tracked didn’t likely stay in my system. It was only by dinner time that I was well enough to eat normally, and then I stuck to small amounts just in case. I did make sure I drank as much water as possible though to remain hydrated, although that was a struggle. Sometimes my body does this to me. I expect it now and then, but it usually happens on a Sunday—almost like my body knows that that is my day off. Even after a holiday, it looks like my body has told me that I’ve been doing too much. I couldn’t just take the day off though, and forced myself to work until everything was all done. Luckily, with it being the first day back after a break it wasn’...

So I haven’t been blogging about the 100 Day Challenge for a while. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing it. I have been tracking and watching what I’ve been eating. But for one reason or another I just haven’t pulled myself to the computer to blog about it. I know, that’s bad of me. But sometimes we need a break before we burn ourselves out. I’m not going to spend the whole post going through everything that I did and what I’ve not been doing over the last almost two weeks. Yes, my last blog post was June 2 and it’s now June 15! Naughty, Lexi, indeed! I’m onto day 66 of the 100 Day Challenge. Unfortunately, I’ve not been great on the plan, but I’ve tracked it all. I know exactly what I’ve done wrong and I know what to do to fix things over the next third of the 100 Day Challenge. First of all, I have been ill. Eating hasn’t been easy and all I’ve really wanted are water-based foods like melon, apples, celery and tomatoes. I’ve also been drinking a lot of water. Other ...

It’s not easy dieting or tracking when you’re ill. Usually, when I’m ill, I really don’t feel like eating and I definitely don’t feel like tracking. But I’m just over half way through the 100 Day Challenge and I forced myself to make a note of everything I ate. I didn’t go anywhere near all my pro points but at least it’s tracked. Sometimes I feel bad about not eating enough, but right now I’m focusing on my health. That’s the more important thing. It may mean I gain weight this week because I’ve not given my body the energy it needs, but I really don’t care right now. Illnesses really mess up the weight loss journey, anyway. It may sound to some like I’ve slightly given up. That definitely isn’t the case. All I’m doing is focusing my efforts on getting better. I can’t focus my efforts on everything when I’m ill, and focusing on weight loss is the wrong thing to do. I’ll just make myself more stressed, and that won’t help my health. Hopefully things will look up soon. ...

I’m behind on the blogging front again. I didn’t have the greatest weekend on the 100 Day Challenge, and not due to food I was eating. It was a weekend of feeling under the weather while trying to deal with everything happening at once. Friday wasn’t a bad day but the meal that I went to in the evening with the Sunday School teachers was long. It took an hour and half for the food to be sent out to us. And when I did get it, it wasn’t even that great. Being disappointed is an understatement, and I won’t recommend the place I went to anybody. In the end, it was 11pm by the time I was on the road to pick my daughter up from the babysitters—a whole hour later than I expected to be there! I didn’t get weighed on Saturday. With the hassle of Friday night, we all slept in on Saturday, so I had to drive my husband to work. It takes 45 minutes to get to his work by car, so it was an hour and half by the time I was finished with the driving. This was when   started feeling unde...