Weigh-In Day (Cue Jaws Music)...

Well, for Week 1 I'm down 4.6 pounds. I'm pretty pleased with that - but I do know that the loss is always much bigger on the 1st week.

I have to admit that the end of the week was a lot tougher than the beginning - I have SUCH a sweet tooth. I counted everything, but still... do you think if I figured out which tooth craved the sweet & then had some oral surgery??? No?

It's Day Two on the Island...

And already the natives are getting restless... Well, I guess it's just me who's restless. Ha! But I'm tracking and I'm wearing my tightest jeans, so things are still ok so far.

Did you know that a Payday bar is 7 points? That's the same number of points as my breakfast sandwich. Food for thought. Literally!

All right - let's head into the weekend with a postive attitude! Go team! Heh.

How many times do you start over?

As many as it takes I reckon. I signed up for WW online again this morning. I was going to go to meetings, but I decided that I didn't want to spend that extra money this close to Christmas AND I don't want to go to meetings. I like them once I'm there but I resent the heck out of HAVING to go. So I'll do online for a while & then consider meetings again in the spring when the weather's better & it's not dark when I get off of work.

So right this minute I'm eating a yummy breakfast of plain oatmeal made with skim milk & a chopped apple. I added cinnamon & 7 whole almonds (that's how many you can have for 1 point). The whole meal is 7 points, which seems high, but it needs to last me all morning. And my lunch (a can of soup) is only 4 points, so that helps.

You know, the human brain is very interesting. I could tell myself that I know how to eat in a healthy manner, but without the accountability of tracking my food & weighing in every week I just won't do it. I've got some faulty wiring up in there. Back before mom died I had just about gotten the wiring fixed, but I let the stress of  that undo all my hard work. I say poo on that! I'm going to be at my goal weight & feeling good about myself by my 50th birthday.

50?

OK, I have to go hyperventilate now. Sheesh!

Food for Thought

Stole this from here. I think I'll use it for my mantra for the next while:

I’ve had to learn self-discipline, the courageous act of refusing to yield to my own wild impulses, which would have me flee from uncomfortable circumstances.

Something to think about.

Food Disappointment

11/4/11

11:40 Here's something I haven't figured out how to deal with: what if the food I'm eating doesn't meet my taste needs? For example, I'm eating Healthy Choice Sesame Glazed Chicken right now for lunch. It's really tasty, but kind of sweet. I don't want sweet for lunch. Will I just accept that I can't have what I want, or will I later try to capture the taste I really wanted with another food? Stay tuned...

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So I started this on Friday & then totally forgot I even had this blog. Sheesh! I did NOT try to make up for my disappointing lunch - it was filling so I just went from there.

Yesterday I tried something different (that I used to do EVERY DAY back when I was losing weight successfully) - oatmeal for breakfast. It was pretty good & meant that I drank water instead of diet Sundrop. Which meant that I drank more water yesterday than I have been. I think it's a good strategy - & I'll soon get over the muzzy feeling I had at not getting caffiene until lunchtime. We'll see how it goes.

Day I Don't Care Anymore...

You may have noticed a lack of updates for the last couple of days. It isn't because I've eaten any differently (no cookie dough!). I just don't feel like it's really accomplishing what I had hoped. I'm still going to write down what I eat for my own self, but I'll use this space as more of a journal. So I might not write every day. And I might end up making this a private journal. We'll see!

So, I feel EXTRA fat today! My jeans are really tight and I feel quite cow-like. But I did manage to gazelle for 15 minutes last night (I gazelled like the wind tortoise!). I'm hoping that the button of my jeans pressing into my belly all day will make me consider before eating something when I'm not actually hungry. I'll let you know how it went tomorrow.

Day 13

OK, I'm officially tired of writing down all my food. Nobody but me really needs to know how many funsize snickers I ate today. But... ok, I'll at least sort of write what I ate today - again I didn't keep track of times.

JD Turkey Sausage muffin
cranberry juice
apple
the same lunch as yesterday (minus the salad)
small bag of bridge mix
pistachios
yogurt
rice, turkey meatballs, green beans
Halloween candy

Notes: I'm too sleepy to write any notes. :)