100 Pound Loss

Lost weight.  I am now down about 11 pounds, but this week was putting one foot in front of the other. I wish weight loss was like the program bewitched and I could blink it off. I asked myself how did I get so fat.  Why did I let myself go?  Illness was part of it.  But I am really good at procrastinating.  I felt like this summer I woke up. The Weight Watchers core program makes it pretty mindless, but is hard if I get too hungry and not to want fast food. I think it is terrible though that the country is blaming the corporations for obesity.  They don’t put it in your mouth.  Though I am fat, I don’t blame anyone else.  I take responsibility for myself.  I do think they have an obligation though to offer some good healthy things to eat, but too much control by the government is not a good thing even if it is for health. No transfat has not made me thinner. Find of the week: I discovered non fat Pringles chips this week–not bad.  Goal: to be nice to myself and keep going!

Jane of the Jungle

Week 2, I lived through it.  A small loss.  The numbers go down so slowly.  But they went down in spite of a weekend in Reno at Hot August nights.  I had to have the hotel room with mirrors everywhere in the bathroom.  There is no stronger image to keep in mind why you need to lose weight than the image you get seeing yourself naked from all sides. I played video poker with virtual dealers who changed just like real ones.  One of them had a shapely figure.  The juxtaposition with my image was pretty humorous now that I think of it.  I am trying to take the whole thing serious but have a sense of humor about it too.

I found a good fat free dressing: Maple Grove Farms of Vermont Fat Free Poppyseed Dressing. I wish someone would work on making better fat free cheese.  Most of them taste like plastic.  One time I left fat mayo on  a knife and it hardened like plastic.  Oh well.  I am determined to make it this time.  It is hard though when the pounds come off so slowly.  I do feel better though.

I need to exercise.  Walking would be a good start, but it is difficult to put on a pair of shoes and walk around the block. Just kidding.  But I need to motivate myself more.  Energy comes from exercise.  I know that from my long distance running days.  So I am determined to get back to it.

I heard that Phelps, the gold medal winner,  eats 12,000 calories a day.  Yikes!!!

Well I keep going anyway.

Jane of the jungle