100 pounds gone!

I finally did it!!!

100 pounds lost. This morning, at Weight Watchers I stepped on the scale and I saw it 159.3. Total pounds lost 100.1!!

It has been just over 3 years when I started WW. I have never given up on weight loss. Scrapbooking,reading a book,and crocheting are things in life I have not seen through to the end. But not weight loss.!

That is the key, if you are struggling with weight loss. Don't give up. Keep going. It will pay off!!

The picture of the balloons are what I received today at my meeting. I love my WW center so much!!! The two receptionist were so proud of me. Giving me hugs and even shedding a tear with me!!!

New Blog!

I have started a new blog about training for my half marathon. I just started it this week and I am not in full training yet so I might not post for a few weeks, but will be updated regularly.I would love anyone/someone out there to follow it. I might shut this blog down and just concentrate on my half marathon training blog. So my 24 followers please read my other blog if you wish!!

Banana free for a week? Say What?

It has come to my realization after talking to my WW leader and the receptionist at WW that I eat way too many fruit on a daily basis and it all starts with my morning banana. Don't get me wrong, bananas are not bad for you but when you are eating 2 a day it can all start to add up.

On the old WW program bananas were high in points. 2 points for 1 small banana. Now that all fruit is 0 points, we tend to eat as many fruits as we want. But that is not what we are suppose to be doing on this new program. We are suppose to eat 5-7 servings of fruit and veggies a day. A serving of fruit on WW is 1/2 cup. So one banana is 2 servings of fruit. My apple is that I eat at lunch is another serving then sometimes I follow it with a pear. And it depends on the size of my fruit they might be more then 1 serving. See where I am going?
So my receptionist said to completely cut out bananas out for a couple of weeks. See how my weight loss goes. It is no secret that my weight loss is at a stall. Maybe this will be for the better of me.

So yesterday when I went to the grocery store there was no bananas in my cart, and I am going to try to live with out them for a couple of weeks. It will be hard, that is the first thing I grab in the morning.
And for the next few weeks I am really am watching my fruit intake!! I even measured my berries this morning only a 1/2 cup!!
AND I KNOW, THAT NO ONE GETS FAT BY EATING TOO MUCH FRUIT. BUT IT CAN STALL WEIGHT LOSS!

I am giving up!!

Well kinda sort of??

I have decided after lots of thought that, I am finally going to stop losing weight and just settle at the weight that I am at. Well I am going to do try to lose more weight until june 8,2011. Why that date? That is the date that I started WW. Yes three years ago.

For the last 3 years I have been losing weight. I have lost 97 pounds! I am proud of my weight loss accomplishments but it is kind of at a stall right now. No I wouldn't say that I am plateauing, I am just probably not putting in 100 % effort that I did when I first started. I am not gaining any weight, just keeping the same weight. Well one week I will lose the next I will gain it back or most of the weight loss back. It is small weight loss that I am seeing anyways!

For the past 3 years that is all my body has known is to lose weight, maybe it needs a break. Maybe I need a mental break. Maybe I need not to feel guilty about eating food and wonder how it is going to effect my weight on the scale.

I have also realized that I don't really care about the number on the scale and that I like the way my body looks. Let's not go overboard my body is not great looking but it is better that what is looked like 3 years ago. I now can fit into my sister's size 8 jeans.

Ofcourse I would love to be a person that says that I have lost a 100 pounds but for now I am saying I have lost 97 pounds. But you know what, I don't care!!

And I also have really started having some personal great success at running. I love it. Too me that makes me feel great. Knowing that I just finished a 10km race and I wasn't the last one done.

So as of June 2011, I am going to maintain my weight. And continuing running!

Any thoughts?

Spring is here!

I can feel that Spring is here, or at least it is starting to make an appearance. The days are longer. The weather is starting to get warmer which only makes running so much easier and better. Which brings me to my next subject running.

For my little readers that I have, you know that I discovered running last year and fell in love with it. I ran my furthest distance of 10km just before the snow hit. I always thought that I would be a winter runner. But when the snow came, I just couldn't get motivated to go out there and run. I would always plan a run, then the night before we would get hit with a dumping of snow which made me not want to run. In fact I think I used this as an excuse not to run or even to get any exercise in.I did managed to get a few runs in, on slippery,wet and snowy trails. A couple weeks ago I was dodging puddles.

But the upside of all those horrible runs is that it has made my pace so much faster. I am running a pace that I have never seen before. I keep glancing at my Garmin and think it must be wrong. I am getting stronger and faster.

I am back to running!!

Weight loss update!

I haven't really updated my weight loss lately. I guess I feel that I am gaining and losing the same pounds over and over again. That one week in the month that I have terrible gain sets me back a week.
Today I weighed in at my WW. New scales,it now weighs you to the .1 instead of the usual .2 increments.

Weigh in was 162.1
Total loss of 97.3
Which means 2.7 to go to get to 100 pounds.
Again I will say:
So close but yet so far away.

I am at the point that I just want to settle, I mean I happy the way I look, I am happy in the way I feel. I have also maintained this weight loss which alot of people that is the hard part. I have learned a lot in my journey in weight loss.

Not sure what I am going to do!

Sarah

ABC's of me!

I know it's been a while since I posted. I will check in later this week and update you all on my weight loss.
But I thought that I would jump on the ABC bandwagon and do it too. So here you go!

Age: 31
Bed: Queen wishes it was a king
Chore you hate:putting away laundry
Dog: Only the cutest cocker spaniel around Sam i
Essential start to your day: Coffee
Favorite color:Green
Gold or silver: yellow gold
Height: 5'3 and a half
Instruments you play: None
Job title: jewellery and accesories dept head
Kids: none
Live:Newmarket Ontario
Mom's name: E(liz)abeth
Nickname:Sar,Sarahbear,Pooh
Overnight stay at hospital:none
Petpeeve:people who are late
Quote from a movie: you had me at hello, jerry Maguire
Right or left handed:right handed
Siblings: 2 sisters and a brother
Time you wake up at: depends usually around 8am
Underwear: I wear them daily
Veggies you dislike:turnip
What makes you run late:stopping and getting coffee,checking internet
Yummy food you make:anything I make is yummy
Xrays:dental
Zoo animal you like best:polar bears