Winning Outcomes - SMART Goal for weight loss?

I have been kind of grumpy lately, mainly due to my lack of forward progress in meeting my weight loss goal.  I came so close to my 10% Weight Watchers goal, to only go backwards.  I have been too busy with work and life in general to take a strong stance against this backward movement.  I feel like I am slowly sliding downhill, losing the weight loss battle again.

I thought for a while that budget restrictions would cause me to cancel my online subscription to Weight Watchers.  After re-evaluating things I have found this is not the case and I am glad.  I recognize when I am making excuses and cutting the only thing that keeps me thinking about weight loss would be giving into my excuses.

I have been highly unmotivated to exercise of late and I feel like today I am finally able to break that.  I would work out right now if it were possible, but it isn't.  I am blogging on the go as this weekend as been a very busy one.  As soon as I am home, I am going for a jog on the treadmill.  I found that I have been viewing working out as yet another chore, and when I get into my overwhelmed mood I cut off things that make me feel overwhelmed.  I wish I found solace in exercise more.  Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't.  Today I have gotten so grumpy and frustrated, only a brisk job on the treadmill until I am sweaty and tired can lift my mood.

I have been reading the Weight Watchers site more on my lunch breaks this past week, and I keep coming across the "Tools for Living" list.  That list is:

1. Winning Outcomes
2. Storyboarding
3. Empowering Beliefs
4. Mental Rehearsing
5. Motivating Strategy
6. Positive Self-Talking
7. Reframing
8. Anchoring

I figure I have not really made Weight Watchers a "way of life."  It is just something I do to try to maybe lose weight.  So I am attempting to make it a way of life.  I HATE tracking.  Let see how many ways I can say HATE and emphasize my point...abhor, detest, loathe...  Get my drift?  So then that leaves the "Simply Filling" Technique.  No tracking and only eating power foods.  As far as I understand it, you get your weekly bank of points, but don't adhere to the daily points.

After reading the page on the WW site about the "Tools for Living" I thought I would take more steps to make WW a way of life.  A friend of mine from guide dogs (Laurel) really stands out to me as an example of making WW a way of life.  She did it and you could see her body change, it was amazing.  I would like to be able to do that too. 

So now I attempt to make WW a way of life.  I don't like the way I feel or look and I want to be healthier.  So WW Tool #1 - Winning Outcome aka SMART Goal!  I had to laugh reading the WW page on winning outcomes and thinking of my former principal.  He was a SMART goal-aholic.  Winning outcomes are SMART Goals.  For those of you that don't teach with me a SMART Goal is...Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely.

I watch the Biggest Loser, it is one of my favorite shows. I was thinking the last time I watched it how much courage it took to stand there for the world to see, all the rolls of fat and cellulite, and then your weight... I have avoided stating my weight publicly, though I have admitted it to friends when I talk to them about weight.  So I make this blog my own Biggest Loser scale.  I started WW about 2 years ago, with Kerri in May, and I want to say this May will make 2 years since rejoining WW.  


*Does her best Alison Sweeney (hostess of the Biggest Loser) impression*

"Melanie, when you started your weight loss journey nearly two years ago with Weight Watchers, your starting weight was 222 pounds.  Your current weight is..."

*insert dramatic scale music here*
 
"211 pounds."

*Melanie sighs heavily and rolls her eyes*

For a while I was holding at 204 pounds and have been gradually climbing upward, it is aggravating.  For my height (5'6") I am told I should weight 150 - 155 pounds.  I have not weighed that much since I was 16 years old. I don't believe this to be a realistic goal for myself.  In preparation for my wedding, I got my weight down to 170.  I think that is a much more realistic goal.  For now I will focus on my 10% WW goal of 200 pounds.  I am presently 11 pounds away from it.  I will do as my former principal had our grade levels do and make a short term SMART goal.

My Winning Outcome/WW SMART goal:
I will loose 11 pounds through the Simply Filling technique and a minimum of 4 days of treadmill time a week, at a rate of one pound per week as verified and recorded at my meeting weigh-ins, so that the 10% goal of 200 pounds is met by Saturday, May 19th.


That seems to get in all the aspects of a SMART goal and does not seem unrealistic to me.  I am trying very hard not to feel negative about this and quit.  I HAVE to do this.