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Turn Slip Ups Into Success – Weekly Weigh In

July 15, 2012 By Jennifer Swafford 11 Comments

If you don’t mind, I am just going to let my thoughts go for a minute.  Bear with me!

I’ve slipped.

I’ve slipped far and I’ve been slipping for quite a while.

This week’s Weight Watchers topic was PERFECT for me.  You know why?!?  Because I had a major slip up.

I gained 3.8 pounds.  I now weigh back in the 190′s.  O-M-G!!!!

What defines us is how well we rise after falling.

Rise Up!

It was a wake up call.  It was the wake up call I needed to get my butt back in gear.

I think last week when I only gained a little (and expected to gain a lot!), I thought I could continue to cheat and not gain.  Boy was I ever wrong.  I’m tired of it.

My clothes don’t fit good and I REFUSE to buy new ones.

I FEEL bad physically.  I have headaches again.

I don’t like the way I look in the mirror or some pictures that are taken.

I am gaining weight and It is time to stop.

The past eight months I have teeter tottered back and forth.  I looked back at my weight record and can CLEARLY see the steady gain.

weight watchers weight record

Steady Gain since November….not good!

Who am I?!?  This week’s big gain was just what I needed to say, “Self…get it together.  Enough is enough!”

Plus, if I don’t do something before work starts, I won’t have any clothes to wear!

So…I am serious this time.  I have had enough.  I WILL turn this slip up into success.  It is simply a choice.  It is actually a whole bunch of small choices that add up.  I will make small, good choices that will add up to success.

This week’s meeting was perfect for me.  I have a choice.  I can continue to go in the wrong direction or I can get my act together, do what I KNOW I NEED to do and get back on track.

I choose success.  Which do YOU choose?

 

Thank you for letting me get my thoughts out.  This post made me very sad to write.  I feel like a fake.  I don’t feel like a weight loss role model.  However, I know in my heart those are lies.  We ALL go through downs.  I have gone through a down and I hope some of you can relate and feel encouraged to know you are not alone.  Let’s make it a great week!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/claire.auger3 Claire Auger

    It takes so much courage to tell us what you have. But you’re right…this is life. And we have ups and downs. The fact is that you’re still on your journey and YES. YOU ARE an inspiration and motivation to a lot of us. Whether the scale moves up or down. Have faith…you’re not a fake at all. Hugs!!

  • http://twitter.com/womanofless WomanOfLessSubstance

    Gah! How can an upwards slope be so slippy. It goes against the rules of physics! So unfair.

    I’m in a similar boat. I was doing very well and then just, slowly, stopped doing so well and then just, slowly, started doing very badly indeed.

    I have not been doing a single thing right. Haven’t been exercising, haven’t been tracking, haven’t been careful about my food choices etc.

    Time for us both to get back on the horse! Tomorrow I rise at dawn and run!

  • http://sweatingforit.wordpress.com/ Laura @ sweatingforit

    I love your attitude about this! Keep it up and you will be successful!

  • Lori Dunagan

    Thanks for being so honest and courageous. You are a true inspiration. I am also in the same boat as you but I haven’t even gone back to a ww meeting. I am just so tired of thinking and planning what to eat. So thank you for saying out loud all that I have been thinking.

  • http://profiles.google.com/anij34 Jolene O’Dell

    I saw an inspirational saying recently that says, “If your tired of starting over, dtop giving up!” Ouch…that stings but in a good way…I did about 2.5 miles of hiking with the family today (and I’m 29 almost 30 weeks pregnant). Walked about a mile yesterday and hoping to get some more mileage done on Wed and Thurs.

    Keep going!

  • Billie Parrott

    I was hoping for a “sign” or motivation in my emails this morning after getting on the
    scale and having my eating over the past few days catch up with me. I let the tracking slip and then the activity and then the careful choices of what I was eating. And it showed up on the scale yesterday and today. Two days in a row looks like a true gain to me. I don’t know why this has happened — I could probably figure it out if I thought for a while, but I’m tired of all the mental stuff that goes with this. I just want to change because it’s the right thing to do and move on.
    Thanks for the honest post. It was exactly what I needed. I love your blog and look forward to seeing that you were able to get past this and back on track.

  • Anna Moeggenborg

    I don’t think you’re a fake at all – like others have said, it takes courage to be real. That shows your character. And so many others are in the same boat. I’ve been wondering how to get re-motivated, but your post makes me think that maybe it’s not so much getting motivated as just continuing to truck along. Everyone’s in it for the long haul, right? Slow and steady…but steady in the right direction. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/madge.cook.3 Madge Cook

    Good for you for your honesty! And good for you for going to weigh in even though you had a hunch you may have gained. It is so much easier to decide NOT to go weigh in when you know you’ve not been following the plan. But you took the more difficult route which will hopefully lead to a “wake up!”

    You are still a role model. You are proving that nobody is perfect, everyone slips ups, but you have to get back up. That is the reality of achieving any success, including weight loss!

    I wish you the very best of luck!!!

  • Amanda E

    This was me this morning, I’ve had small gains the past few weeks because of stress eating. Today I stepped on the scale for my weekly weigh in and clocked in at 213#, I use to be over 300#. Between stress and discouragement at yo-yoing in the 190s for a year I slacked, a lot. I’m not liking my clothes tight or looking bloated.

    I need to keep telling myself to get my stuff together. Maybe the gains will help me break the longest plateau ever and I can start feeling good about myself again.

  • http://newtheoryblog.wordpress.com/ Lindsay

    Jennifer! I just found your site and am so happy I did! Your bio sounds a lot like me minus your tremendous weight loss successes. I’ve been overweight for some time now and am just now getting serious about doing something about it. I joined Weight Watchers yesterday and cried through my first meeting. Today I got started tracking, started a blog, and actually USED my gym membership. I’m also an elementary teacher, like you. You have an amazing site and I look forward to getting to know you a bit more through your awesome blog. Thanks.

  • http://twitter.com/WorkoutMuzkDiva Workout Music Diva

    If we can’t be honest with ourselves, we can’t get around to making the necessary changes we need. You are documenting your weight loss JOURNEY and the journey certainly isn’t a straight, steady downhill path to your goal weight. Besides, if you can’t vent to us (who are on the same, winding & bending path that you are)
    , who can you vent to?? :>)