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Monday January 26

"Homecoming"

This past weekend was sort of like the first summer back at home after being away for my freshman year of college. Feeling the joys of comfort and familiarity while seeing with the eyes of someone who has been around more than the local block.

I decided to join Weight Watchers again...why wait until my anniversary when I'm sort of waffling now? There were a lot of reasons why I was reluctant to go back...mainly feeling they did me wrong back when I was 100% working the program and plateauing and they had zero solutions apart from stopping the gym. But the bottom line is I need the "check in" to stay focused on the future instead of on the immediate satisfaction of giving into a temptation. I want to find someone who will work with me to finish what I started in 2000. I'm not really sure that WW as a program has any new info to offer me..after all is the flex program *really* all that different from winning points? But the support, the accountability and the brainstorming to come up with ways for me to get to goal are what I need. I figure everything I have learned in the 1.5 years I've been away from WW can only help me within their program. I'm certainly not going to go back to days of eating Subway, breakfast cookies and Pirate's Booty. I'm pretty happy with the leader from this weekend. I weighed in "new" (after all, I've been away since 9/02) but after the meeting I explained the history, my frustration, my hope for the future. While I'm starting "new", I have come with some baggage (mainly my feelings and frustration with the plateau) and that at some point (when I've lost the 10 lbs I've gained) may need to be addressed. I was very excited that she came right out and said that WW is a program for casual exercisers and that we will have work together to come up with a points range that works for an athlete like me...WOO!!! I was happy to see that the getting started book does address nutritional guidelines and the recommendations seem to point towards balanced eating and quality foods...even though they still sell their crap meals and sugary bars. But I have always said that I would probably go back to WW because of my interest in becoming a leader. I feel what I have learned outside of WW would only help me to help others think outside the WW box while working within the points program.

I'm ignoring the feelings of failure and I am onto the next stage of my weight loss. I want to finish what I've started and focus on doing what it takes to get past onederland. I will be doing the "flex" weigh in...I don't think I could deal with going every week so I'll probably do every other week or so, depending on my schedule and how I feel I'm doing.

So here's to new beginnings!


1/26/2004 11:37 am link to this post

Saturday January 17

Finally a word from our sponsors...

Good golly miss molly, I really needed that website update. I haven't done everything I want to do, but the latest is updated which was the most important. The show is coming up and I'm having a wee bit of anxiety over it, but I'll be less nervous after I see the damn thing. I really wish I could have gotten a copy of the show before it's aired. I only committed like 3 days of my time and about $600 (for the vow renewal) for the project but whatever. I just hope it helps other folks out there...especially those considering going under the knife.

In other exciting news, I broke my first board!! WOO HOO! I've crossed my first rite of passage in kung fu class. The masters said I could do whatever I wanted with the wood, and I'm glad I kept it. Hub on the phone was like "yay, that's great and I'm proud of you". Hub after seeing the board was like "wow, I didn't realize it was so thick!" :D Part hand conditioning, part stance and part oonagi (Friends reference). I'm really glad I've found an activity I really love. I mean, I like the sweaty feeling after getting a good workout at the gym and I like weights more than cardio machines, but I am realling digging kung fu and it makes all the difference.

Stay strong everyone. In the next two weeks or so all the New Year's Resolutioners will mostly have fallen off the diet face of the earth. But we know better!



1/17/2004 08:14 am link to this post

Tuesday January 6

"Update"

Now with the holiday craze, I promise to update my sorely needing it website.

However, I want big woo hoo's.

6 days:
no sugar
no white flour
limited sugar free treats (under 100 cal per day)
in old WW points range (not going to think about activity points until I'm hungry)
and back at the gym
5 meals a day

yay. It feels good to be focused. It just better lead to weight loss!

JeAnne

1/6/2004 09:32 am link to this post