Migraines may not be good for my mood, but they sure were good for weight loss-scale says I lost 3.6 this week, for a total of 107.4 lost! I am now merely overweight at 178.8 lbs.
I have a hard time believing this one will really “stick,” given I’ve been losing under half a pound a week for several weeks now. That’s just too much weight to be losing in one week. It’s got to be water weight I lost in part because I’m not moving much and I’m not eating much. Still, if I can keep it off, I’ll be so close to my “new” goal of 50 kilos! I’m at… hold on, google it…
48.7 kilos lost!
Which isn’t as scary as 107.4 lbs for some reason. Revisualizing it as kilos has helped confuse me enough that the numbers don’t have as much magic.
I’ll have to see how it goes… I was mentally “blocked” around the 180 mark, thinking as I got close to that I could have a little wiggle room since I was down so far. But I whizzed past that number!
But this new number means another new number in Weight Watchers land… fewer points. I was at 24 points a day, and so expected going down 1 point, but no! Now I’m supposed to make do with 22 points per day.
For those of you who are not on Weight Watchers, 22 points=Not Much Food. I haven’t been formally tracking lately, though I am doing some mental calculating of what I’ve eaten and how much more I can eat in a day. I need to think if I want to start formally tracking while I get used to this new level. I’ve been dreading the drop in points. And unlike other people, exercise is great for my mood and my buff shoulders, but I don’t count on calories burned to lose weight.
The topic today was how to let go of the dieting mentality. I never had much of a diet mentality, but boy, this drop in points is making it kick in big time! I’m going to try to focus on what I’ve been doing that has been so successful.
I’m coming up on my 2 year anniversary with Weight Watchers come August 11. I don’t think I’ll be able to hit my new goal of 50 kilos by then, as that’s 2.6 lbs in 10 days, and I don’t plan on driving myself crazy to hit it. Realistically, I’m thinking getting down to 165 by the end of the year, and then seeing what that feels like.
How are you determining your goal weight?
