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!







Wednesday, July 18, 2012

476 Vacation

Back from Montana--a total food disaster, but it does make me want to actually read the Intuitive Eating book again rather than just vaguely remember it. I wonder what the author would have done last Friday. Last Friday we went to Idaho Falls--we got there at lunchtime and ate at Smitty's, famous for the world's best pancakes. Normally, I don't even LIKE potato pancakes, but these are to die for. I had one of the most satisfying lunches of my life--I was hungry and that lunch satisfied me on every level--scrambled eggs, 3 thick slices of bacon and three large, rich potato pancakes with sour cream, and two mugs of hot chocolate with real whipping cream. I don't know if it's my good german genetics or what, but I'm partial to heavy creams and heavy in general. OK--a perfect, intuitive fantastic lunch. Dinner-time came around and because my lunch was so satisfying, I wasn't in the least hungry. OK--I'd certainly had plenty of calories, and my body was telling me that I was still full--easy choice--go do something else---specifically take the walk my body wanted. WRONG!!! Idaho Falls in home to the Snake Pit restaurant--famed for it's great food AND Harrison Ford had just been there two weeks ago! Even though I was full, I knew I'd have no problem putting away a full blown 7 course banquet. To the Pit we went and I'm glad I did---that blue cheese chili burger was the best burger I've ever eaten and that includes the "best burger in Paradise" from Aruba (which was fantastic).
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