Week 11: Weigh In Results

Thursday is my weigh in day at Weight Watchers.  I had my best week yet this week - I was down 3.0 pounds!  In Weight Watchers, you get to celebrate little milestones along the way and this week I got two of them: 1) another 5 lbs lost and 2) 5% of my starting weight lost. 

Each week I will update the ticker at the top of the blog.  This shows my goal as 50 pounds to lose (of which I've already lost 12).  I struggled with what number to ues as my starting point.  Should I use the highest I've ever been (which was right before I had Brady)?  Should I use how much I weighed right before Laney was born? 

I ended up using my starting weight from when I started at Weight Watchers this time around.  I started on April 8, 2010 and Laney was 3 weeks old at the time.  I had already lost 15 pounds by then, but honestly, I don't think that should count as true weight loss.  Laney was 7 pounds of that and the other 8 pounds was probably all that other stuff (you know, placenta, extra fluids, etc). 

So, if you take my 50 pound goal, and add the 15 pounds that I had already lost before starting weight watchers, you'll see that is a total of 65 pounds from Laney's pregnancy weight!  I know the numbers are all confusing - espically when all I do is talk about how much I have to lose, instead of putting my actual weight on there.  So, here is how my weight has progressed over the last 2-3 years:

Goal Weight                    0
Weight gained before Brady     +13 lbs (13 from goal)
Weight gained with Brady       +63 lbs (76 from goal)
Weight lost after Brady        -56 lbs (20 from goal)
Weight gained with Laney       +45 lbs (65 from goal)
Weight lost before starting WW -15 lbs (50 from goal)
Weight lost since starting WW  -12 lbs (38 from goal)

So, you can see how I struggled with what number to use as my starting weight.  It has gone up and down so much over the last 2-3 years.  Hopefully all of that kind of makes sense.  I'm working on a "About Me" page that will show all the different weights that I have been since I entered adulthood.  That should be interesting!