AN UPDATE LETTER TO MY MOM...

Thought I'd just take the easy way out & just post a letter that I wrote to my Mom... updating her on what was happening w/ me & WW.

I rejoined WW a week ago on Saturday... decided that I needed a RESTART... even though I never quit...I've just not been able to be consistent forever... it had been a year since I had been @ my lowest weight & I just wasn't getting anywhere... so I thought it might be helpful to start back @ ZERO so that I could see the progress (or not) easier through the smaller numbers, rather than floating around between 75-90 lbs lost... it's just not as noticeable, number-wise. Make sense? I wasn't sure I wanted that... I mean I AM proud of how far I've come & felt like maybe I would lose some of that by starting over, but it definitely felt like it was something I needed to do. Well... it was the perfect decision. I've looked @ where I've been slacking & where I need to be more consistent & have been working hard to make those positive & mindful choices like I used to. Weird... it felt so natural way back when... so easy... it feels like work now, but the more I work at it, the more it seems to smooth out & I can feel that momentum building again. Feels good.

I looked @ my current exercise habits & see that I've gone from walking almost daily for the first year or so I was on WW, to joining a gym last summer & working out there 3-5 days a week, (no longer needing to do anything from home), to just doing Aqua classes 3-4 days a week, to the past 6-8 months where I've "tried" to get to one or two Aqua classes a week (if I was lucky)... doing nothing else besides that. I wasn't getting in enough activity & it wasn't working for me anymore. So, I've decided now that I'm going to be shooting for SOME SORT of activity daily...even if it's just walking for 15 minutes or some active stretching (lunges, squats, crunches, etc). No more excuses... it doesn't have to be 5 classes a week, but it's going to be something... that way I won't look back @ the end of the week again & see only a day or maybe two of activity. It's just something that I can check off at the end of each day... like my water, fruits & veggies, milk, etc...

Anyways... last week I did my Aqua class Monday night, walking Tuesday night, Aqua Wednesday morning, a BASIC TRAINING class @ 5:30am Thursday morning (ugh!), Aqua Friday morning & Aqua on Saturday. Sunday was going to be another BASIC TRAINING class w/ my neighbor's sister, Steph, but we got busy working on the boys room & I didn't want to leave for 2 or 3 hours... so I took a day off. :o)

This BASIC TRAINING class was the first one I had taken... my Aqua instructor teaches it & I thought I would give it a try. It was GREAT... but it just about killed me!! :o) It was everything from basic aerobic moves to stretching, jumping jacks, squats, lunges... to working w/ resistance bands & hand weights. It went quickly & was fun! The thing about me is that if I get my heart rate up too high I will get nauseous... once it got too far when I was weight training @ the club last year & I had to run to the bathroom to throw up!!! LOL! Anyways... I definitely have to pace myself a little better so that won't happen. Tammy said she can put a trashcan in the back w/ me! LOL!! Anyways... my thighs HURT so much the next THREE days!!

I knew that although I had had an awesome week w/ food & activity, the fact that I was still recovering meant that my muscles were still holding on to a bunch of fluid (lactic acid) & that it might affect my weigh-in on Saturday. I even told the receptionist who was weighing me... sure enough, I had a 1.8 lb gain!!! UGH!! Frustrating, sorta... but I obviously knew it was a possibility... so it wasn't THAT big of a deal... it just would've been nice to have the scale reflect the week I'd had!! THIS coming weigh-in will reflect some PMS weight (sorry!), so that could be up several pounds (3-5, usually)... so although I've had another great week, I might just not weigh-in this weekend. Having a few great weeks before weighing in might be nice, actually!! (my NORM... knowing that I wasn't going to weigh-in, I would be bad this week & TRY to make it up next week... but I'm not playing that game anymore)

Anyways... WHEW, LOL... that's what's up w/ me & WW!! :o)


Julie