So, I started back on Weight Watchers three weeks ago. It is be-YOND time for me to get off my asses and actually work at losing weight. This whole "eat a pint of ice cream and then cry into the empty container" just doesn't seem to be burning enough calories.
I'm actually astounded at how quickly my mind has adapted to the WW plan. Before WW, I would eat a chocolate bar (or seven) and then feel super guilty. Now? My guilt kicks in if I go overboard and eat TWO squares of Lindt's delicious Sea Salt bar, instead of just the one that I allot myself. The mind is a wonderfully strange thing.
The thing I love about WW is that I can still eat all the foods I like - I just have to count everything. I am not a health food nut (as I typed that, I could hear my ass yelling, "No shit, Sherlock!"). I'm not big into cottage cheese, grapefruit, tofu, soy, organic, granola blah blah blah. I like food. That's the reason I'm in this fat situation in the first place. But I'm realizing that I can still eat everything I like AND still lose weight. My first week on WW, I lost 4 lbs. I promptly celebrated with a Sausage and Egger meal from Mickey D's. I had a whole week ahead of me to burn it off, so why not? :)
I have a very long road ahead of me. If I can stick with losing two pounds per week, I should hit my goal weight in, let's see...add the 7, carry the 5, subtract 2....seventeen thousand years. You see, most women want to get back to either their pre-children weight or their wedding weight. Me? I'm striving for my birth weight.
Seriously though, I have close to 100lbs to lose. I have found some really great weight loss blogs to keep me motivated. I know I'm going to slip-up here and there, but I won't let that deter me to the point of giving up. I read a really great analogy last week, "If we give up our "diet" just because we had a binge session, that would be similar to discovering your car has a flat tire and thinking to yourself, "Well, I'm really f*#ked now" and then taking out a knife and slashing the other three tires". This quote really resonated with me. Not so much for the wisdom, but mostly because I have three spare tires around my midsection :)
Happy Monday everybody :)
Good for you Jyl! A friend of mine is going through a similar thing with great success and I'll be rooting for you the whole waY!
ReplyDeleteYou go, girl!!! I find you have to really indulge periodically to keep ON the plan, if that makes any sense. Being a food 'luva' myself, I can relate to you 100%! I'm really liking the points plus plan but NEED a major carb fix every now and then, lol.
ReplyDeleteCongrats Jyl! I went on WW a few years back and lost 40lbs and never felt better - and after this baby I plan on getting back to that!! I found some of the things that helped me in my journey were:
ReplyDelete1. WW blogs and interacting online with other women on WW.
2. Walking, walking, walking. But only with some really good music that I was looking forward to hearing.
3. If I was craving something and I had already had enough, I would picture the item I was craving covered in mustard and pepper and it seemed to help stop the craving!
Good luck, you'll do great!!
This was my favourite quote (and SO true):
"Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels".