ACK!!! Up another pound 192. I can think of all kinds of reasons why this might be so---I'm being punished for the weekend events, I had a heavy dinner last night (it was perfectly within points, but it WAS really satisfying), it could be a random flux, or it could even be a new medication. In any case, I'm a little worried--but not too much. The last two days have been on track and today will be on track too. I did some strength training again yesterday, and I think perhaps I'm a little stronger (which would also account for a weight loss stall). Really, though I think the culprit is just plain eating too much too often.
A couple of years ago I tried the six day diet make-over plan, and I'm a tempted to try it again, just to get things jumpstarted. It's a very strict, very healthy, very low-cal, and very horrible plan. Lots of chicken and veggies. Again. and again and again and again and again. The guy that cooked up the plan also has a six WEEK plan, which sounds awful. No way I'd put myself through that, but a six day weight loss quickie? Maybe--especially now when the scale hasn't budged. I might even have the book at home. If not, I can always download it, or even pay off my library fine and possibly find it. It's a quick fix quack diet no doubt about it, but I think maybe sometimes those things are ok (so long as they are basically healthy!), some, but by no means ALL the weight lost is water, and it sure helps to make one feel grateful for a much more normal and yummy weightwatchers life. I think I'll go for it. I'll have to look over my week next week because it'll need to be done when nothing else special is happening--and I've found out those times are much rarer than I thought.
Another possible very fun thing---the Provo Halloween half-marathon! It sounds like a race with costumes--what a riot! I'd love to do this with Catherine. I'm going to call today to ask just how serious a race it is. I mean, will there be any other walkers? It took me 4 hours to complete the last half marathon. If everyone else is really going to run it and be done in two hours, then I will try a different event, but I really hope I can do this one, it sounds like so much fun!!!
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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