Me And My Journey

The other day Sandi mentioned that I was going to use a tool in my "journey". Well, I didn't know that I was on an actual journey, but since she said I was, I guess I might at well get started! Yesterday I joined Weight Watchers. Jeanine has done incredibly well on it. She's recently lost 20 some pounds on the point system. She's done it in the past, so I was aware on how to do the point thing. It's funny, we all know what to do, it's just putting it all into motion and sticking with it. Maybe some of you who actually know me will think that I might not need to do this, but I have put on quite a few pounds in the last year or so. About 10 years ago I went to Jenny Craig and lost 25 pounds. I actually got too thin on that program. I got to the point that I must have shrunk my stomach to the point that I would get full on their meals. Or it might have been that I had a psychological aversion to the food after a while and could barely choke it down. Haha (I'm not kidding)! I added a couple of pounds after the program to get to a weight that was managable for me and stayed right around that weight for about 8 years. The last couple of years, I've been watching the number on the scale increase a little bit at a time until I'm back up over the weight I was before I went to Jenny. The weird thing is that I'm still one size smaller in clothes than I was when then. I can't figure that one out. So anyway, while talking to Jeanine this weekend and seeing how great she looks, I decided it was time to get myself under control. (It doesn't hurt that I'll be sitting on a beach in June and have to go shopping for the dreaded bathing suit!) Those two things and also watching Sandi really work hard to get healthy got me motivated. So here goes.............

I went to the meeting yesterday expecting to see some really overweight people and was surprised to see that the majority of them maybe just needed to lose between 25 and 50 pounds. There was only one woman who looked like she needed to lose more, and she wasn't all that big either. When I got there, I walked in with a girl who looked to be in her mid to late twenties. She looked good and I assumed she was on maintenance or had just reached her goal. Well, it turns out that she just joined last week and had lost 1 pound in her first week. So it just goes to show you that I was being stereotypical in assuming that only really heavy people went to WW. (Is that like profiling?)

After the meeting the leader went through all the material with me. She asked what I had eaten for breakfast, which was my usual Multi-Grain Cheerios, Uncle Sam flaxseed cereal and some kind of fresh fruit. She said that was great and that I could start the program that day...............Oh, she doesn't know me very well. Anyone who does know me, knows that I am a VERY stubborn person. When someone tells me to do something, I quite frequently do the opposite (not at work btw, just in my personal life) I don't know why I'm like that, but I have been for as long as I remember. So of course I say "oh, why yes I plan on starting today". HA! - little does she know, that after I went grocery shopping I went straight to McDonalds and had lunch. I'm not the biggest fan of their food, but I tend to eat there when I'm out an about 'cause it's so convenient. I usually get a cheeseburger Happy Meal with a diet coke when I do eat there. It is just enough for me to get full on. But not yesterday. I decided to do the whole meal deal. I got a Fillet 'o Fish and the big fries and the big drink. THEN I came home and ate chocolate chip brownies with chocolate icing and sprinkles on them. Mmmmmm...............They were gooood! Then I got sleepy and wanted to take a nap LOL, but I had to go with Sandi to work out at Johns and did he ever kick our butts!!! So I guess my splurge got erased!!! When I got home from Johns, Larry and I made calzones for supper. So I had that and my beer and watched hockey and now my binge is over and I will be good from now on!!!!! :o)

Wow, sorry! Enough of that already. I just reread it and realized that I just bored everyone out of their skulls. I should have just deleted and started over, but I'm too lazy to write another post!

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I didn't get to watch any of the innauguration yesterday since I was out running errands. I did turn on talk radio to listen for a few minutes. I turned it on when the Rev. was speaking and he started praying The Lord's Prayer. It was a minute or so before noon. At noon, a voice cuts in and says that stations wishing to do so could pause for station identification. So right in the middle of The Lord's Prayer, the station that I was listening to went to a commercial break!!! I was dumbfounded!!! I was sitting at a red light and my mouth dropped open. I couldn't believe it. That's just wrong, I don't care who you are!!!!