Okay--feeling much less inclined to do some quick quack diet today. Just being faithful to WW is plenty hard enough thanks--and it works just fine, I just need to string some good days together and I'll see the 180's again in no time. We got our shipment of PB2 yesterday. I've missed that stuff!! 2 Tbl of peanut butter only 1 point. YES. We also got some chocolate flavor--it's not Nutella, but it's not bad.
I've emailed Catherine and we're definitley going to do the Provo Halloween Half marathon. This sounds like such a blast--straight down some of the most gorgeous scenery in the world while wearing a Halloween costume. Perfect! The website is: Halloweenhalf.com
Today's challenege is this stupid Wednesday night class I'm taking. It's a lab that goes along with my stats class that teaches us to use a database program. I have exactly zero interest in learning this program and very nearly zero ability too. But the real problem is that the class is from 5:30 to 7:00, so by the time I walk home it will be 7:30 and now it's 3:00 and I'm already hungry. I foolishly did not pack a snack because I simply didn't want to spend the points for it. Tonight is a left over night and I'm having an enchilada and a salad and chips and a reeses peanut butter cup for dessert and I am determined to have it! I just wish I could have it a little earlier. I suppose it would be possible to pack it to work and eat before my class, but that's too early. If I must choose, I'd rather eat too late and have it to look forward to and be able to relax and enjoy it.
Can't wait to go home and dig out my walking schedule--I'm going to work on walking as fast as I possibly can intermixed with jogging as much as I can. I dont want to be last by some huge margin.
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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