weight chart – Sweat & Sparkle

Keeping with my “out with the old, in with the new” mentality for the new year, I did some clean-up on my blog today, deleting old links, adding a few new ones. One of the new ones inspired me to get back to posting my weigh-in on my blog. Spinning My Wheels (I love that title and the double meaning) listed her January goals and set up her month’s weigh-ins on the sidebar of her blog, and I like the accountability, the transparency, having all of that front and center.

I have updated my weigh-in page and will post my weigh-in each week from now until I reach my goal weight! Actually, I’m not even completely sure what my goal weight is. Back when I still weighed over 200 pounds, I settled on 139 mostly because I really wanted to weigh in the 130’s again, like I did in high school. But instead of fixating on a number on the scale, I have since shifted my focus to consider myself at goal weight whenever all of the smaller, size 8 and 6 clothes in my closet fit again. So we’ll see where that ends up being.

It’s still been a struggle to get my eating back under control this week. My mind (and my stomach, apparently) are still in vacation/holiday mode, but it’s time to dial it back, turn down the crazy, and get back to working hard.

Breaking down my weight loss goals into mini goals has helped a lot, so I am setting a new one for myself. The kids won’t be back with us until next weekend, so I am setting a goal of hitting the 150’s by next weekend. I weighed in at 164.2 last Saturday, and I suspect some of that is still water weight from overeating. It’s going to take some effort to get this done, but it should still be achievable, a little over 2 pounds each week.

And I like the idea of setting some personal goals based on the kids, because they are a huge reason I want to reach my goal and get healthy and fit. They have no positive female role model in their other home. I hate that for so long, I have been unhealthy and out of shape too. Last time the kids were home, they mentioned more than once how much thinner I am. I want them to see just what a strong, fit woman can do when she puts her mind to it!

Playing around in MyFitnessPal today, I ran a report for my weight over the past year. I wasn’t surprised by the roller coaster, up and down, spikes and dips, mountain ridge profile of my weight graph. I already knew I’ve yo-yo’d like crazy.

What did stop me in my tracks, though, was realizing I haven’t weighed below 200 pounds for over a year.

Wow. I am only 5’3″, so weighing over 200 pounds is very noticeable on me, to say the least. And I have let that go for over a year? That was sobering. And mortifying. And sad.

I have had steady weight losses for the past month, at least. That’s a start. I need to focus on that. It was discouraging and depressing to see my weight chart today, and now I wish I hadn’t run it.

If I work out today and tomorrow, I will complete my goal of working out every day in March. A friend suggested taking a picture of my calendar covered in stars (I put a star on the calendar for each day that I work out), so I need to remember to take that picture!