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Weigh in 5/13 – Point Freakin’ 2

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Oh I know this happens on this diet, on every diet really.  Our bodies are complicated machines.  You can do everything right, and by everything right I mean everything right, not well I didn’t count my coffee creamer and only binged once right, and still not show what you think you deserve on the scale.

It doesn’t mean that you won’t be pissed off.  I can tell myself it’s only a number and I’m doing this to be healthier and cheer blah freakin’ cheer.  I don’t care.  I’m pissed.

I’m still on program, still working it like nobody’s business and I’ll probably have a whopper of a loss next week.

But I’m still pissed, and I can deal with that.

Weigh in 5/6 – If only it were Magic.

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The GIF associated with this post is what I send to people at work that want something done right away.  In case you are not old like me this is Tabatha from a show called “Bewitched” (and it’s actually before my time too, just saw it a lot on reruns.  I swear) and she would wiggle her nose and get what she wanted.

I stopped sending this when one of the engineers at work said “Awww is that you?” Yep, old.

Anyway….It would be so much easier if you could twitch your nose and lose the weight.  I did well this week, lost 1.8 pounds, but I’m working for it.  Which is kind of the point.  You have to work for it.  You have to be mindful and you have to move your body.

If something tells you it’s magic it’s wrong.  It is Math.  Pure and simple.  I get tired of answering all the “How did you lose all that weight??” questions with Weight Watchers because I’ll get a ton of “oh you should try this fill in the blank diet next” or “Weight Watchers doesn’t work” or “but do you eat white stuff” blah blah blah.  So my standard answer now is “I burn more calories than I consume.”

Really that is what it all boils down to, whether you do Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig or Whole 30 or Atkins or the damn Hotdog Diet.  You have to eat less than what you expel.  Period.

The trick is to find something that works for you.  A family member of mine is always saying that white stuff is poison and we cannot lose weight if we eat white stuff.  I eat white stuff.  I’ve lost almost 40 pounds, 65 if you count my highest weight.  Hey, if not eating white stuff works for you, that is awesome.

I’m not going to never eat bread again.  I’m not going to never eat a potato again.  If there is one thing I have learned in my 46 years on this Earth is you best find something you can live with the rest of your life.  There is no “done”.  I’ve watched this family member drop huge amounts of weight only to gain it back along with the same amount of friends.

I’ve never done that with Weight Watchers, and God knows I’ve done it enough times.  I just get smaller each time I come back.  I’ve learned valuable things that fit me and how I want to live.

Find that and you are golden.

Weigh In 4/29 – Oprah is an A-Hole

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So I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here but I had a year long tantrum over the change in the way that Weight Watchers calculates points.  Here comes Oprah Winfrey and suddenly coconut oil was 7 of these Smartpoints instead of 3.  Oh I was so mad that a lot of my staples had now become high point items, and when people would ask me how Weight Watchers was going I would say, “Not good because Oprah is an A-Hole.”

I’m usually awesome with change – in fact unlike most people in the universe I LOVE it.  It’s exciting to shake things up, learn something new – just don’t mess with my food and something that is working for me.

Now I realize that Oprah probably didn’t get involved with Weight Watchers just to change the entire plan.   I love Oprah, always have, but she was the easiest fall guy for what in my mind was the absolute destruction of Weight Watchers.  I think I tried it for like a week, got mad, and stopped logging in and going to meetings.

I’ve always had a problem with things like Atkins and low carb.  Hey, if it works for you great, but that is not something I would be able to sustain.  With the changes to the program that seemed to revolve around protein it seemed to me that was heading in that direction, and I did not like it.  Not. One. Bit.

So I wasn’t logging my food, and I wasn’t going to meetings, but I was still paying Weight Watchers.  Some may think that foolish, but I just knew I couldn’t close my account.  This is not my first rodeo with WW.  This isn’t even my third rodeo with WW.  I know what happens when I totally quit.

My tantrum seemed to subside somewhere around this Christmas, when I knew I had to do something or I would gain back all the weight I had already lost.  I’ve beat the odds and not been one of those people that gained back all their lbs + some friends when I stop doing a diet program.  In fact, I’ve never gotten back to my original high starting weight from 2002.  Weight Watchers definitely taught me a better way to eat, but getting to that goal has been like finding a unicorn for me.

I bit the bullet and went back to meetings in February like I was a brand new member.  I was still 10 pounds down from before my tantrum, and I kept it.  Telling myself I would give it two weeks of really, really trying I went in head on and totally on plan.

Really it wasn’t as bad as I had built it in my mind, and I begrudgingly had to admit that a lot of the changes were for the better.  Once I got my groove I had no problem following the plan and have never been hungry.  It seems really, really easy this time – something that has never happened to me before because chocolate.

So at weigh in this week I am down 37 pounds.  I am 22 pounds from my goal weight.  I’ve been closer before, but that is another blog post entirely.

22 more.  I’m going to do it this time, and Oprah, if you can hear me, I’m sorry I called you an A-Hole.  A lot.