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!







Friday, May 11, 2012

405 Revolutionary Grilling Tray

I get a bang out of advertisers sometimes. I had a lean cuisine sandwich for lunch which I microwaved on a REVOLUTIONARY GRILLING TRAY!!  No doubt it's patented and one of a kind and I should be in awe. I was more in awe of the sandwich--a chicken spinach artichoke panini--really good. Not enough, it never is, but what there was was good.  It was worth 8 ww points which reminds me how tough it is to stick to ww portions. I also had a cup of soup 1, a mini yogurt 2, a mini popcorn 3 and a reeses cup for dessert--another 3 for a total of a 17 pt lunch--too much. I'd rather save those kinds of points for dinner. Still, it's not all that hard to make better choices and I'll be glad to move down the scale again. This upcoming week I told Catherine that I would fix all her favorites--come to think of it, they're actually not all that horrible except for the rouladen. Steak, turkey burgers, tacos, athenian chicken--all of that is within reason--or it would be if I could eat a reasonable portion of them.  Exercise is coming along too--thank goodness for the iron man--I'm sure that's what's keeping me from blowing up like a balloon. Yesterday I went up to the track and it's not open to the public! What?? In gorgeous weather like this?? I wound up on the treadmill again but I did 2 miles straight again at a 12 min or 5 mph pace. Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could keep it up? A half marathon in sub 3 hours!! Maybe someday.  Tonight Catherine will join me for a swim--I'm going to run just 1 mile first and then try 10 laps and see how my eyes do.
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