Good Doctor's Appointment, and weight loss!

This has been a good week, after being stressed the first couple of days of it. I went to the doctor and everything looks okay. He won't get the pap test results for a few days, but he said he didn't see anything that I needed to worry about, so that's good. Then, after missing Weight Watchers yesterday due to the dr's appointment, I went today and lost 1.8 lbs for the week, bringing the total to 12 lbs since January.

Therapy and a low-dose antidepressant medicine are really helping me feel better. It's made a big difference in how dedicated I am to really trying to lose weight, too. Well, something has, anyway, and I assume it's that. Plus, I really, really like the Sparkpeople website. I like that I can track my food and see not just the WW Points for each item, but actually see if I'm getting enough fiber (I was actually going back and forth, one day way too much, one day not anywhere near enough - I really don't recommend doing that, especially if you have to be in close proximity to other people a lot), and I've started to pay a little more attention to things like sodium and cholesterol, although mostly I'm still just trying to stay in the calorie and fat ranges it recommends. Plus, the people on there are really supportive and understanding, and it amazes me how often I'll look at someone else's message they've posted or blog entry and think, yes, I do that, that's exactly how I feel! That's one reason I like Weight Watchers in general, going to the meetings and being around other people who are working on a lot of the same stuff, but this way, in addition to that weekly meeting, I have people I can turn to all hours of the day or night. I think the combination is really going to work for me.

Just checking in

I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd write something. Weight Watchers is going okay, but not great. I keep losing .8, then gaining .8, then losing it again. I know it's my fault, I'm not following the program as closely as I should, but it's still discouraging. The first time I did WW, way back in that previous lifetime BC (before cancer), I was very good about writing everything down, exercising, everything you're supposed to do. At least for the first year and a half or so, then I got a little lax, but was still mostly following it. Now, I'll follow it a few days, then not for a few days. Makes it hard to lose weight when you undo any good you did every few days. But, I found a new website that I think is going to help some. It's sparkpeople.com. In addition to a food tracker that tracks all nutrients, not just points (I'm not knocking the Points system, I know it works, and in some ways it makes life a lot easier than counting actual calories), SP has much more supportive forums than WW does (theirs can get a little snarky and way, way off topic in a sort of disturbing way as people seem to try to break the rules and get their posts pulled off the boards). I'm going to keep doing WW, and use SP as another tool to try to keep myself on track.

Well, I've got supper cooking in the oven, hopefully it's about done. I'll probably post again in the next few weeks, since I've got a dr's appt coming up on the 22nd of this month. I usually have enough stress in the weeks leading up to those that I find something to write.