I remember when I first joined Weight Watchers a few years ago – I was so very excited, I got to eat real food, I got to eat the food that I wanted as long as I budgeted for it (and I love to budget, so that was awesome), and within the first few months I lost twenty-three pounds. Seriously, what a great plan!
Then, I snuck a few extra things…ice-cream, bread, oh how I love bread, an extra helping of potatoes…you get the picture, into my eating. (Although I’ve learned you can’t really sneak on yourself – unless you have multiple personalities, which I do not, so I guess the truth was I wanted what I wanted with no consequences…if you’re a mom, your familiar with this).
Sometimes I’m just so frustrated that I have to so diligently watch what I eat. (waaaa….there are so many other things to cry about, this should not be one of them, but I admit sometimes it is. Well, not real tears, just whiny sounds in my head.) I know there are women who eat what they want, when they want, and their body just takes care of it – mine would like my help – and sometimes I’m not so willing to lend it a hand.
Several years ago, I lost a bunch of weight (like fifty pounds!) but I’ve been stuck on this last twenty (now twenty-four) pounds for too long. I remember at one point in my life thinking I’d give anything to be just twenty (four) pounds overweight – but now I’ve been here too long. It’s time to check out the landscape further down the scale.
I watched Julie and Julia this weekend and was inspired by Julie Powell’s accountability that she felt to her readers (of which she wasn’t even sure she had any) to cook and then write about it everyday. I’m adopting that accountability and am telling you (even though you don’t care – why should you?) that this week I will stay on my points plan for Weight Watchers and I will report back how I did. I understand full well that this is for me – and that you will probably tell me to go to a Weight Watchers meeting. But that takes too much time and my computer is right here. So feel free to skip all the posts this week about my self-imposed accountability to stay within the points I am allotted; I’ll have at least one other post inspired by my time at high school cross country meets.
Off to get in my exercise for the day.