I am a WeightWatchers member and have been since June! I am down 12 pounds since I began but that is in 3 months, I guess that equates to about 1 pound per week which is wonderful but I lost 5 here, gained 3 there, lost 1 over there and stayed the same for a couple weeks too.
BUT I've found the oomph to continue on this downward trend. Know why? KNOW WHY? I feel better! Just 12 pounds lighter and I feel like I can take on the world, or maybe that's just the coffee I had with breakfast...
You know, being on WeightWatchers (my 3rd time now) teaches you a lot about one's relationship with food. I was, like many people, an emotional eater...and NEVER REALIZED IT! I thought all people went out with their friends and brought home a pint of Ben & Jerry's after dinner a couple times a week! And ate the whole thing usually in one sitting! Sure those were scrumptious times, but I never put two and two together: that 1. I ate because I was unhappy about something and 2. Eating made that something worse...it was a cycle and that something was a loneliness due to being (according to BMI) obese. There, I said it. I am (and was) obese.
Difference is: the before me ate more when she was unhappy with herself. When she had a pint of ice cream and felt bad about it, she went to the store the next day and BOUGHT ANOTHER ONE! The today me goes to the gym which makes her happy (inside and out) and doesn't beat herself up anymore...BECAUSE...Now I am in control, now I am responsible for my actions...now I am taking my life by the horns and (hehe, I play the horn) stickin' it to me! I'm proving to me that "hey, awesome, you're going to the gym, owning what you eat, losing weight and feeling better than ever!"
I have a vision of myself. I know what I want for the future. I want it so bad that I’m DOING THIS…all this hard work…all this changing…all this planning, because yes, you have to have a plan to change your world, and I WILL REACH MY GOAL…because I WANT IT! I’m WORTH it! I am too stinkin’ adorable to not be completely happy with myself, too adorable to not own myself, to know myself, to be COMFORTABLE with myself.
Bonus: better health, better sleep, more energy, more focus, more CONFIDENCE. I am amazing, not in a pompous, conceded, obnoxious way, just in a totally aware of myself way…in a way I have never been before. Weight loss is an adventure, there is a beginning and there is a long winding road full of ups and downs and triumphs and mishaps and things you’ve never seen before and I, my friends, I am the Commodore! (I really like pirates and sea-related things and I’m just glad I had an excuse to use that amazingly fun word!) I am the leader of my adventure and … AND I’M WINNING! (Not a Charlie Sheen joke, hehe) But notice, I never said END. There is no END to weight loss. I will NEVER stop struggling with food. I will never not-need to be completely aware of what goes into my body, be it food or exercise…because I’m not just losing weight. I am changing my lifestyle. And…I love it…and it’s working…and when something makes you feel this good, um, why doesn’t everyone do it?!
Guess who's happy! ME!
YOUR TURN!
