Oh noooooooooo, NOT again.......

Well, for two straight weeks, I squeezed out a total of 8 lbs!!!

WoooooHooooooooooo!!!!!!

But alas, as appears to be typical for my body this time around on Weight Watchers, I found 2.6 of them again this week. Sooooooo frustrating!!!

Oh noooooooooo, NOT again.......

I keep telling myself that it is okay to experience these unexplainable gains, because this new way of life, this journey to taking back my life and health is for LIFE and nothing will change once I reach goal. But, still.............I'm so ready for those scales to start going down, down, down consistently.

I had a little talk with my body this week prior to weigh-in (WI) and told it that I would appreciate a negative number. It didn't have to be a big negative, even .2 negative would have been appreciated. Well, apparently, my body doesn't have ears. So sad!!

On the evening before my WI, I journaled my thoughts to "document" my accomplishments this past week, just to remind myself of how far I have come. Those non-scale victories (NSVs) are so important. Yet, when frustration from the scales set in, sometimes those NSVs are easily forgotten.

So, before my WI this week, I decided to write out my thoughts:

Have I told you lately how wonderful it feels to be able to move and walk and do stuff that I haven’t enjoyed doing in a very long time?

I have had such a fun last few days of spending the mornings in the pool and then the afternoons doing stuff that I haven’t been able to do in a LONG time. It has been years since I went to the State Fair. Granted, I didn’t stay long (well, actually walking around an hour and a half is pretty long for me) and I used my rollator so that I could walk a wee bit easier and would have a place to sit and rest if needed. Still, I did it. Last year, not only did I not even try it………I could not fit on the rollator seat. Granted, this year, I had to squeeze in and out of it, but I was able to squeeze in and out. And, after all, squeezing is a GOOD thing. LOL!! I’m glad I didn’t think about that as I was at the Fair squeezing in and out. I would have laughed so hard someone might would have called for them to haul me off to the funny farm.

And, this week I carried all of my scrapbooking materials in and out of my van to use when I got together with my crafty friends to do crafts together. I am scrapbooking my WW journey and have decided to start working on it now.

And speaking of fun…………………we’ve had some interesting new students in water aerobics class these last three days. I have laughed more during class than I’ve laughed in a long time. At first, I felt bad about laughing………then I remembered how much I laughed at myself when I first started. It is just sometimes too funny learning those new moves. I remember how much I laughed at myself the first time I was taught to do suntan/superman. (Click link if the link below doesn't work.) I about drowned because I couldn’t keep my mouth shut from laughing while learning THAT move. It is just sometimes toooooooo funny!!!!!


Oh my, it is soooooooooo good to be able to do stuff again. I had gotten way to comfortable watching from the sidelines life happening all around me. I am having so much fun joining back in life again. I can’t imagine how much different it will be this time NEXT year.

Soooooooooooooooo, back to my thoughts AFTER this week's WI.

Dear Scales, you may or may not acknowledge my hard work throughout the week. I promise you this, you will NOT win this battle. You will eventually have to give up those lower numbers. I have made the choice. I am going forward on my journey to health. I will not look back. I will not give in to the disappointment and frustration. I have made the decision and I am sticking with it. Dear Scales, hear me and hear me loudly, YOU WILL GO DOWN!!!!!
Yep, that IS my choice and I like it and I'm sticking to it!!!!!