Weekly Weigh-in

-1 lb this week. WooHoo! It's not cause I carefully followed my diet over the holiday weekend :(

Weekly Weigh-in

It's Weigh Day. No change. Probably because I didn't exercise all last week. I stuck to my points after I recovered from my Mother's Day weekend eating disaster but my workout did not recover from my bad eating blues.

Tales from My Scale

Today begins the May Day Weight Loss Challenge.

My Goals: 15 lbs to lose. Today I weighed in at 129.5. To many of you, that might sound skinny. It's not - I'm 5 ft tall. Today's weigh-in puts me at a BMI of 25 - finally in the healthy range instead of overweight.

My History: I was underweight until I retired from running after college. I was on the Cross Country team in high school and college. I loved running, but my legs didn't. In 1999, I gave birth to a 9.5 lbs little monster baby boy, weighing in before his birth at 70 lbs more than that skinny runner I used to be. I don't even remember stepping on a scale between Little Man and Moo Moo's births. When Moo was about 9 months old, my sisters and I did Weight Watchers together. Still nursing Moo, I lost weight really easy. Then I started taking Paxil and my weight slowly crept back up. Now I am 6 months Paxil-free and want to lose that weight again.

My Weaknesses: Chocolate, The Jade Garden Chinese Buffet, Papa John's, comfort eating, reading blogs instead of cleaning my house and exercising.

I'm In

Group motivation really helps me with weight loss, so I've joined the Tales from the Scales May Day Weight Loss Challenge.

I've returned to Weight Watchers for the last few weeks and have lost about 5 lbs so far. After 4 years of taking Paxil for my social shyness (more on that later), I regained (and more), the 20 lbs I lost on Weight Watchers after Moo Moo was born.