Remember last week when I was simply silly?  Today’s mood description is elated, ecstatic, over the moon crazy happy.  I hit my five percent today at WW!  Finally. FINALLY!! I’ve lost a total of 64 pounds now!  That is a total of three pounds for the Slimmer This Summer Challenge – Excellent!

Just in case you’re pondering the math of a 5% goal and a total 64 pound loss, let me ‘splain.  I started with simple direction from my Doctor, and lost a bunch of weight.  I had a stroke, and gained back half of my original loss.  Then I then joined WW Online, and lost 25 pounds. When I stalled out plateaued there last year, I joined a regular WW group and started going to meetings.  The 5% Milestone represents what I’ve lost since joining the regular meetings, measured from my starting weight in January which was already 55 pounds down from my all time high.  (The whole story, including the stroke siderail, and pictures can be found here.)

And might I just say that I LOVE my WW leader, Terri?  Seriously.  She was jumping up and down with me, and even though I lost all of the weight with the Online program, gave me a WW keyring and the discs for the 25 and 50 pound goals I already hit.

I’m giving myself a Big Gold Star!  Whoot!

Overview of the Entire Slimmer This Summer  :

• Overall Goal of the Challenge  was to get to my goal weight of 145. That number is from the WW chart, based strictly on my height.   I did not make it there during the Challenge Time Frame.  I do need to move forward with a fresh evaluation of my goal weight, including a visit with my Doctor.   I have already lost a lot of weight, and am struggling to get these last few pounds off my frame.  Given my age, level of activity, muscle mass, etc, my body may already be at a healthy stopping place that I will be able to maintain forever.
• Tracking.  Yes, I tracked throughout the challenge, except for the few vacation days.  I also consistently measure and weigh my portions, as well.
• Earn a minimum of 50 activity points a week. Yes.  I’m freakishly active, trying to shed some more weight!  I earned 69 APs this week, including weight training, biking, Zumba and a quick round of basketball.  Oh, and schlepping furniture and belongings up stairs as we moved Cherry Ames back to college.
• Blogging.  Yes, including the gratuitous gold star!
• No quitting?  No brainer.  I STILL haven’t quit!  I’ll be moving forward with Mir for the Christmas Dress Challenge.  I need to pick a dress!
• Supporting fellow challengers – Yes!

It’s been fun, everyone, and I look forward to the next challenge.

I’m simply silly happy at the moment.  I just got back from my Weight Watchers meeting, and …drumroll,please…I didn’t gain any weight during my vacation!  In fact, I lost half a pound!

I’m pretty sure I lost that half pound over the last week, because vacation was full of such lovelies as margaritas, whiskey sours and fajitas.  The past week was full of exercise wonderfullness, like a 20 mile ride on Sunday, Zumba, boot camp and a short round on the evilliptical.

Here are the stats:

Overview for the week:

• Tracking.  Every bite!  A little off on the healthy habits checks; there’s a big gap in the middle of the chart
• Eat those Points. Yes!  And then some!
• Earn a minimum of 50 activity points a week. I earned 87 APs this week, and ate 34 of them.  Yum.
• Blogging.  Yes!  I’m back!  Check out my beach photos.
• No quitting?  No brainer.  I haven’t quit yet!
• Supporting fellow challengers – Yes!  you are all doing so well, sticking in until the end of summer!  I continue to pray for all of us, that we find the determination to make this time the last time and that we find a healthy, happy balance for ourselves!

Have a wonderful week, everyone!

What?  No progress report from Angela Pea??  Nope.  Not last week, not this week.

Why?  Because last report day I was caught up making a presentation then dashing to the airport to hop on a plane and catch up to my family, who had already left for a …wait for it….VACATION!!!!  Thursday was report day, but I had another meeting to attend and missed WW.  So Sunday it is.

I did okay with eating while at the beach…very mindful of portions, fried foods, drinks…but I didn’t get a whole lot of exercise, other than swimming, a few hours of kayaking, and the occasional lifting of my hand to turn the page of the book I was reading while lounging under a beach umbrella.  I didn’t track a thing, just enjoyed the food I chose to eat and the few glasses of wine I chose to drink.

It was pure bliss.  BLISS I tell you!  This is the first vacation we’ve taken in five years, and I enjoyed every single moment of the absolute luxury of doing nothing.  Nothing.  We unplugged everything.  No laptops were turned on, blackberries were turned off and left in the hotel safe, no iPhones in sight.

So…here’s my week in review.

• Tracking.  Nope!  None!
• Eat those Points. Yes!  I’m pretty sure I ate all my points.
• Earn a minimum of 50 activity points a week. Seriously?  Can I count points for napping under the beach umbrella?  How about sand castle building?  Chasing crabs on a dark beach?  Diving for sand dollars?

• Blogging.  Nada!
• No quitting?  No brainer.  I haven’t quit yet….I just took a week off.
• Supporting fellow challengers – I fully intend to hop over and visit everyone before Sunday.  Really!