ACK!!! The Hungry Girl book is out today--not yesterday! Today is the BEST/WORST timing!! After a solid 12 years of hard work Dave was awarded TENURE!!!! I can't think of anyone who deserves it more!! He got the letter today, which is terrible timing. Are we going to celebrate? We are not! We both have to work late, and I have visiting teaching immediately afterward. Dinner? Leftovers. Sheesh!! They waited this long to tell us, they may was well have waited until Friday when we could do something about it.
Some celebration is in the works. Dave has been talking about ordering official robes for years. These cost $1,000. We don't care. He can have them. He also wants a really good steak dinner. I told him to find the best steak dinner on the planet. Plus we're going to Disneyland at the end of April for our 25th anniversary--which will be extra nice because Catherine will be celebrating her AS graduation and Dave can celebrate tenure too and we're both turning 50. Good times all around.
ANYWAY--TODAY the Hungry Girl Diet book comes out. Not that I have time to pick this up. Ogden, Utah is a wonderful place, but there is no bookstore here. It's the stupidest thing! I'll have to drive out to the Barnes and Noble in Layton--after visiting teaching--I'll be lucky to get home by 10:30.
A bit more on how the exercise is going to work for me. I took a good look at myfitnesspal yesterday--I don't quite believe that the exercises burn as much as they do. I HOPE they do, but I think I'd better aim lower rather than higher when it comes to counting exercise. I looked up super slow walking--the kind I do going around the duck pond with a book in my hand. Just 1/2 hour of even that burns 100 cal!! YAY!!! Heavy exercise burns anywhere from 200 to 500 per 1/2 hour. Because I tend to grossly exaggerate how hard I'm working---it's going to go like this----1/2 hour of "lazy" exercise (which includes the wii) earns me 100 cal, moderate (I've put the book down) 150 cal and heavy 200. I'm going to let myself accumulate as much as I want. Just like my real pay checks, I can save up for something big (a trip to Pizza Pie Cafe) or fritter away slowly. I figure a typical fast food meal (including mall greek food) will be 1500 cal. 500 I'd be eating anyway, so I need to save 1,000. A real restaraunt blow-out meal such as Macaroni Grill which would be several loaves of bread, an appetizer, a blow of olives, a cream based main dish and a rich dessert will be 3,000. 500 I'd eat anyway--the rest I can save for.
I have some thoughts on repentance---or rather the lack thereof. But that's going to be for tomorrow's post.
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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