Limited Success....

Since the last post, I showed a gain at Weight Watchers  (all of my sins catching up with me from June feasting), and thankfully, since the "kick in the pants" at the doctor's office, showed a 2.2 loss this week. Eating less and way better choices. I know that by purchasing six months of meetings I have done myself a favor. Too easy to quit when I go week by week. I actually stay for the meetings, and have learned lots from people who have had great success with their programs. One person has lost over 150 pounds! Now, really, since I don't have nearly that to lose, surely I can make some headway here. Support is great, though, and since I go to the meetings with some friends, it is a commitment for all of us. 

  Finally, going in the right direction....plus an hour walk every morning! About two months of this routine, and I hope that it will become habit, and just a part of my life!

Dose of Reality

Playing around with dieting all of this time and accomplishing nothing has brought me to a bit of a health crisis....just into the numbers that say I am diabetic, and cholesterol numbers are too high as well. Is this what it takes to get me moving? I have convinced the doctor that if I do not have healthier numbers in three months, then the medication would start. So....game on. Nothing like a dose of reality/kick in the pants to motivate a person. Amazing how my eating habits have already changed!

It takes a Watch dog!

Finally, after thinking that I would do a program on my own, I joined Weight Watchers and am attending the meetings. Despite having had numerous "special occasions", I have managed to lose 3.6 pounds in the last few weeks. This is certainly better than I would have done on my own. There is something about "facing the music" for me. It can't be confessing to a friend, or setting up a personal program, it seems. I must need the structure at this point in my life, and to that end, I have joined for six months. I expect to see moderate weight loss, but a year from now, I will be certainly happier and healthier, and very likely, thinner. I have joined Weight Watchers so many times in the past, but this time, I have a group of friends going with me. Some extra insurance that I stick with it. Will keep all "posted"!

Inspiration!

Love those success stories! I have needed some inspiration to get at and stick to the W.W. that I have wasted a whole month of subscription to! I am going to have to join the actual club, I think, to have the "watch dog" of the scale. Somebody else weighing me would be a good thing. However, I have found a blog today that will be a major source of inspiration. Visit Cara's blog and read about her success story. She has reached the milestone of 100 pounds!!! Amazing! Surely, if she can lose that weight slowly and steadily, then I can make a decent attempt to lose the thirty pounds that would make a huge difference to me. Starting......now!

Thirty Days makes a Habit

A first success a few years ago was inspired by reading a book which stated that it takes at least 30 days to instill a habit. I recall walking every day for that thirty days, and continued that habit for over two years. (It takes a lot less that thirty days to turn a habit into dust if you stop doing it. I found that out without reading a book!)

  So, I guess that is what I have to do. Surely, I can do that for thirty days. If I think it isn't working, I guess I can stop it. I have a feeling that if I did do that, (exercising and trying to stick to some sort of a program), I would see some results. 

  That will be my plan. Stay tuned.

Lessons to Learn

Joined W.W. online about two weeks ago. Have paid little attention to it because I have followed the program before and think that I know it all. If I knew it all, I would not be following a program again, now would I? Typical of anything like that that I start. I start applying all of the lessons from other programs instead of following the one I should be concentrating on. 

  However, I did take some time to look at some of the information on the W.W. site. I looked at restaurants, and the points value, and took a quiz. Found out that there is a lot to learn on the site. Found out that I don't know everything. Found out that I should really try to follow the program that I spent hard-earned money on rather than just thinking that it is going to work without any effort from me. 

  We'll see.

My relationship with Cottage Cheese

There are some foods that one just naturally thinks of when thinking about dieting. One of them is cottage cheese. Perhaps it is because by the time that you choose to diet, the cellulite that you are gathering on your body resembles cottage cheese. Not sure, but it might be a plausible theory. 

  I brought cottage cheese for lunch earlier this week, and managed to finally have that as the "lunch" today. Other foods, just about anything, really, would drag me away from my virtuous intentions, causing me to snub that cottage cheese. (which is really quite good if you top it with pineapple and chopped walnuts!)

  But worse, is the fact that I seem to think that by joining something, it will do the work for me. Joined W.W. online over a week ago but really have paid little attention to it. Makes me wonder if it is stubbornness or apathy. Not sure. Menopause? Don't know. Probably don't care. I guess I will have myself to blame if things don't turn around soon. What they say about being in the right frame of mind is the first step. Wanting to do it for myself. 

   But there is that wedding we have to go to in August. Maybe I just found my inspiration....