184 today. A pure gift. I don't feel I deserve it. Score another point for my underappreciated body--and score another for the super slow weight loss plan. I'm losing weight so slowly that my set-point is changing along with my weight. Yes, I had about 5 days of poor eating and very little activity, but I got back on track and my body, God bless it! seems to be recognizing that the 5 days is an abberation and is returning itself to what it thinks is normal. I want to support this--by eating right and moving--a happy cycle. It's finally spring and I've been able to walk to work again this week which I love to do--yesterday I tried a hungry girl slow cooker receipe--the meat was ready when I got home, but I needed to fix rice and eggrolls. I put the rice on and then did some gardening for about 45 min. It felt good and was good for me.
Today I have wellness time at work, but I don't want to go to the gym. I'm going to walk briskly around the duck pond for an hour. Dinner might be a little dicey--Catherine is coming home and she's showing us how to make pizza bombs. Not a great choice, but considerably better than delivery pizza.
Oh---and why I called this post "weird eggs." Another hungry girl winner. I overslept and I never feel like eating the instant I wake up--so I took 1/2 cup of egg substitute (wish that stuff were cheaper) and a laughing cow cheese (wish that stuff were cheaper too), to work--along with a lite bagel and fat free cream cheese. When I did get hungry--I put the egg stuff in a mug--cut the cheese into it and nuked it for 1 minute--stir, nuke again for 40 seconds and presto! Cheesy scrambled eggs! Not bad at all! The other day when I made it I threw some spinach and jalapeno in it and it was even better.
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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