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, November 18, 2014

fast lunch

How can people like to eat fast? Especially heavy people? Slow eating is one good habit that I cherish. I don't know if I eat any less because of it, but since eating is my favorite thing, I like to make it last as long as possible. I'm thinking of it now because I was a judge for FBLA this morning and although my lunch was free, it was rushed which I hate. All my speakers talked about child labor and sweat shops. Unbelievable that such things could be happening now, in my modern world. 

1. That I wasn't forced into child labor
2. Or prostitution or any other horror
3. For mission emails
4. That I got to judge FBLA
5. That my sweet husband will always support me, drive me etc. 
^. That my final exam is a take home
7. That I can take a class in cognition next sem. How interesting is that??
8. That I can walk home today
9. That I can have a warm dinner and hot chocolate after I do
10. For visiting teaching--it's a pain, but worth it.
11. For ethic food
12. That I"m not color-blind
13. For the sheer goodness of the lives of my co-workers
14. For sleep
15. That I've had 50 years of good health
16. That David and Linda recorded Mom before she died
17. That Amie's little girl is ok
18. That Catherine doesn't have ADD
19.  That I don't weigh 600 pounds
20. Encyclopedias
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