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!







Tuesday, October 18, 2011

198 Waffles

News flash to weight watchers--telling somebody to go pick up some frozen something does NOT constitute a recipe for that something. Sheesh. I was trying to find a low fat waffle recipe--I think 5 of the six recipes told me to go buy a frozen waffle. The "recipe" was putting different toppings on it.  I found an ok recipe elsewhere--not much to be done about waffles apparently, they are just high point. Bummer.  I continue to do well despite the lack of exercise.  Dead on track yesterday and I will be today too.  My knee is hurting, but the therapist is promising a brace that will allow me to hike to the Y on Sat and still do the marathon!  I hope so! I'll be so disappointed if I can't do the 1/2 marathon.  I'm feeling a bit more patient with myself though. The goal is 179 by Dec 16th--the day we leave for Hawaii.  I can do that--especially once I can start exercising again and the thought of that number makes me feel excited.  I think there is a magic "secret" to weight loss. The secret is PATIENCE.  Not something I'm good at--and not something Americans are famous for. No wonder we have an obesity epidemic!
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