Ok---today is on track--at least so far. I can't believe how far off I've fallen. It makes me mad--do I want to sabotage myself? Or is it truly that I'm just in the midst of a major life change? Either way, life is going to change--sometimes for the good, sometimes the bad, and I need to learn to respond without going to pieces on the food. Last night dinner started out fine. The popcorn was a little weird, but not unreasonable. Dave ate a lot of it though. So I made a little more. Then had a BIG slice of cheese with it. AND chocolate milk. Where did that come from?? Tomorrow is the first weigh day that I do NOT want to weigh. A shame, since last week was so good! It's ok though. I will weigh. I will go out to dinner and enjoy being with my husband. On Saturday I will be back to officially tracking online even though it won't be fun because my numbers for the week will be off. Actually, that's silly. Why should I wait. Today I'm trying. I'll put my food in. On Sunday I get start tracking fresh again and get on with business. I'm booking flights to Hawaii today and I want to look and feel as nice as I did in Aruba--knowing that I weigh less than I have in a long time. I have cute fall clothes just this close to looking nice. I want to wear them. It's nice that the path is always right in front of me to get back on. I think I'll have to get back to working through the heart to heart book (lds version of OA). Obviously, I still have some anchors holding me at a higher weight than I want to be and I might need to uncover those before I can reach my goal.
Something I need to voice again is my frustration with traditional diet plans. Talk about setting people up for failure! My Mom's nutrisystem "meals" are about 260 calories! Ok, so you add a yogurt (100 cal), and a salad (50 cal) and you have....drum roll 410 calories. Times three thats 1,230 cal a day. NOT ENOUGH!!! That's the bare minimum doctors are willing to say is healthy. Based on my own experiences with calorie counting I know that 600 calories is what it takes to get me to feeling full. Times that by 3 is 1,800 cal. The PERFECT amount if I was trying to lose weight as a diabetic. As a normal person trying to maintain a weight of about 150 I should add another 500 or so cal. 2,300 is about right for a moderatley active female, and is actually about what I will naturally choose (see the very beginnings of this blog).
Losing weight in spite of myself.
I began this blog in February 2011 as a way to help me not quit trying to lose weight, and to learn a few things. It's been an interesting and powerful experience. It certainly confirms what I've long suspected--that although I am a genuinely happy cheery person in the main, I am NOT a happy cheery dieter. I DETEST losing weight. I resent being overweight in the first place and I am a virtuoso in the art of self-sabotage. And YET--I'm doing it! I'm fighting and kicking and EATING all the way down, but the weight is finally going down. The plan I was following in February was a half-baked one largely based on wishful thinking. I gained a little weight and decided to get real. I knew I couldn't just join weightwatchers or count calories or do any one plan and expect to be successful. I decided if I was going to bother to make the effort to lose weight I was going to throw everything I could think of at the problem. And so I do. My real "Day One" for this blog is April 1, 2011. I joined weight watchers, I joined caloriecount.com (awesome website), I read the blog losingweighteveryday.blogspot.com religiously, I keep this blog faithfully, I joined the health programs sponsored by my insurance, I use the principles from overeater's anonymous, I use my church's 12 step program as well, I subscribe--and use--Healthy Cooking Magazine.
The result of all this? Painfully slow progress (About 20 lbs in 10 months). But it IS progress and like the little engine that could I keep on trying in my rebellious way. I have no intention of quitting. This is by far the longest sustained weight loss effort I've ever made in my life. Successful I think, because for the first in my life I've done this MY way--which I've discovered, involves a lot of pizza and restaraunt food. I'm convinced this is the only way to lose weight. For me it must be MY way. For you it MUST be YOUR way. Not weight watcher's way, not your doctor's way, but YOUR way. Any plan or idea I use is only a tool.
The latest plan to lose weight my way began on Oct 29, 2013. It really is my own crazy plan. As you'll see if you read that post. I've implemented the best ideas of all sorts of eating plans and thrown out the scale. A couple of months in and I'm definitely healthier. I'm actually enjoying myself. I won't weigh until April 1, 2014, so I'll see then if this works the way I hope it will.
There is no magic weight loss bullet. But there IS a great deal of magic in the discovery of what I can happily live with (very different from what weight watchers tells me I can happily live with) and still have the body and health I want.
Good luck to all of us on this journey. It's quite a trip!
The result of all this? Painfully slow progress (About 20 lbs in 10 months). But it IS progress and like the little engine that could I keep on trying in my rebellious way. I have no intention of quitting. This is by far the longest sustained weight loss effort I've ever made in my life. Successful I think, because for the first in my life I've done this MY way--which I've discovered, involves a lot of pizza and restaraunt food. I'm convinced this is the only way to lose weight. For me it must be MY way. For you it MUST be YOUR way. Not weight watcher's way, not your doctor's way, but YOUR way. Any plan or idea I use is only a tool.
The latest plan to lose weight my way began on Oct 29, 2013. It really is my own crazy plan. As you'll see if you read that post. I've implemented the best ideas of all sorts of eating plans and thrown out the scale. A couple of months in and I'm definitely healthier. I'm actually enjoying myself. I won't weigh until April 1, 2014, so I'll see then if this works the way I hope it will.
There is no magic weight loss bullet. But there IS a great deal of magic in the discovery of what I can happily live with (very different from what weight watchers tells me I can happily live with) and still have the body and health I want.
Good luck to all of us on this journey. It's quite a trip!
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