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?