Many of my posts are long, but this needed to be said. It may simplistic in nature, however for me it is an accomplishment indeed. As you know I am heavy. Not only that, but I had gained a significant amount of weight in the past year due to letting food be my comfort, my friend, my bandage, and my activity. I knew this was bad and still know it is bad. With this blog, Weight Watchers, and support from friends and family I know that I have to and have begun to change that.
There are things that it becomes difficult to do as your weight increases. One of these things is getting off the couch. This is not to say figuratively getting off the couch as in I'm heavy I have to stop sitting around and do something. It had become difficult to get off the couch. I own one couch that is kind of broken and it is physically difficult to get off of that one. Then the other couch or loveseat is very comfortable, and because of it's design, your feet don't touch the floor. So, I am already at a disadvantage, but now I am happy to say I can do it with a lot less trouble! Also, it is easier to bend over and pick stuff up. My stomach used to get in the way.
Yesterday, I was watching a show on OWN called something like "My 900 lb. Mother." It was very sad that no one got that woman some help to save her from herself. Sadly, it made me feel skinny in comparison.
I lost 2.2 lbs this week and according to Weight Watchers I am losing weight too fast. I'm not sure what this means, but I did get more exercise than usual this past week. I am trying so hard to eat right and go to water aerobics.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
One serving is what?!
And now a word from our sponsor...A few words on serving sizes. Sometimes a serving size is absolutely ridiculous. This is especially true when trying to lose weight, because if you take the whole bag or box into the living room with you, you will mindlessly eat a whole lot of Trader Joe's Salt & Pepper Ridge Cut Potato Chips. When really all you can have is seven. That's right a serving of these really yummy potato chips is seven chips. I thought, that was a silly amount so I took 14 potato chips. I should have stopped and figure out the points, because if I had, I would have only taken seven. Who eats only seven potato chips?
Now back to Popsicles So far, the Popsicles I have purchased have been low points. Jolly Rancher Popsicles are really good. I recently went to Trader Joe's and purchase Mango & Creme bars. They are only two points, however they are about 1" x 2", so they are really small and somewhat disappointing. I should have known better, because the box was too small to hold anything that my mind's eye thought should be in there.
A serving of peanut butter is 1 T which is a lot when you measure it. A serving of fat free salad dressing is 2 T which is adequate unless you like your veggies to take a bath in dressing. Then you are out of luck.
A serving of cereal is usually 1 cup which is fine with me with a 1/2 cup of milk and some fruit. Yummy...A serving of peppermint patties is three, although I am sure that is the small ones and not the big ones. A serving of meat is supposed to be about 4 oz. This is not very big, but you can then fill the rest of your plate with a baked sweet potato and non-starchy vegetables. This can be a problem in my house, because I have one kid who will only eat corn, peas and tomatoes in the vegetable group and the other one will not eat corn or peas or tomatoes, but will eat brocolli. It is a dilemma, I tell you. Don't get me started on dinner in my house. Meanwhile, a serving of most vegetables is a cup, but vegetables are zero points on Weight Watcher's even if you eat more than a cup of veggies.
Fruit is also zero points. I haven't tried to see what would happen if I put in a ridiculous serving size of plums (a regular serving size is two), but I'm at the computer, so I'll try it now. Nope 20 plums is still zero points. On the other side of serving sizes, who is going to eat 20 plums? And no, this is not a challenge for you. I take no responsibility for the consequences of eating 20 plums.
A serving size of eggs is egg. Only little children eat egg. I eat eggs. Don't you? One egg is two points which lets me eat two eggs.
I love barbecue sauce. It is so yummy. Yummy, yummy, yummy! Not as yummy as ice cream and I will not be putting barbecue sauce on my ice cream, because that is just gross. At least it probably is...
Trader Joe's has many yummy things. I was at Trader Joe's a while ago and bought some barbecue sauce. That barbecue sauce's serving size was 1/4 cup. That is a lot of barbecue sauce until you buy a different kind. Sweet Baby Ray's serving size is 2 T. Why is there such a discrepancy? That is just weird in my opinion. I used 3 T the last time I used it on my brussel sprouts. I like brussel sprouts, but not enough to eat them plain.
I was curious so I looked up a Big Mac to see if a whole Big Mac was the serving size. Apparently, you can eat a whole Big Mac on Weight Watcher's and you spend 14 points. In reality, I would advise against eating a Big Mac for the calories and fat alone. A Whopper, Jr. on the other hand is only nine points and is (as I recently discovered) mostly bread.
Since a Wendy's single is bigger it is also more points. Don't go there, because Wendy's sells salads. Yay. Unfortunately, since there is other stuff in there besides veggies, they are not zero points.
I seem to be slightly obsessed with serving sizes, because I think that whoever thought of them was not thinking!
Let's not forget my progress, people. Despite eating the ice cream and the 14 potato chips. (And a whole bag of edamame chips.) I lost 2.6 lbs. this week!
Last night, I ate at Red Lobster and made very wise delicious choices. No eating bland, boring food! Also, no cutting out that very important food group mentioned above.
I bet I could write an entire blog post about ice cream. Whoever invented ice cream was really on to something. Now you might be thinking, you are on a diet. You shouldn't eat ice cream. I am a firm believer in not excluding a food group. You have to include the ice cream food group even if you are trying to lose weight. Everything in moderation, right? Suffice it to say, I do not keep ice cream in the house due to my ice cream addiction. I'm not sure if, technically, there is any scientific fact that one can be addicted to ice cream, but I am. Which reminds me of Popsicles. Apparently, Popsicle must be capitalized, so it must be like Jell-o. I'll touch on Popsicles later. Back to ice cream. A serving of ice cream is 1/2 cup. If you measure that out, it is not very much. Who only eats 1/2 cup of ice cream along with your seven potato chips? Fat free and most low-fat ice cream is not that good. Some things I can eat lowfat, like cheese, milk, yogurt and roast beef, but not ice cream. It is sacrilegious to eat low-fat or fat free ice cream (and seven potato chips). If I am going to eat the ice cream, it needs to be the real stuff, otherwise I will not get rid of that craving. So, I (once again) ate my son's Ben & Jerry's vanilla ice cream and loved it. I also counted the points from it to the best of my ability. I think it was about 18 points for the amount of ice cream I consumed. Oh well...sigh
Now back to Popsicles So far, the Popsicles I have purchased have been low points. Jolly Rancher Popsicles are really good. I recently went to Trader Joe's and purchase Mango & Creme bars. They are only two points, however they are about 1" x 2", so they are really small and somewhat disappointing. I should have known better, because the box was too small to hold anything that my mind's eye thought should be in there.
A serving of peanut butter is 1 T which is a lot when you measure it. A serving of fat free salad dressing is 2 T which is adequate unless you like your veggies to take a bath in dressing. Then you are out of luck.
A serving of cereal is usually 1 cup which is fine with me with a 1/2 cup of milk and some fruit. Yummy...A serving of peppermint patties is three, although I am sure that is the small ones and not the big ones. A serving of meat is supposed to be about 4 oz. This is not very big, but you can then fill the rest of your plate with a baked sweet potato and non-starchy vegetables. This can be a problem in my house, because I have one kid who will only eat corn, peas and tomatoes in the vegetable group and the other one will not eat corn or peas or tomatoes, but will eat brocolli. It is a dilemma, I tell you. Don't get me started on dinner in my house. Meanwhile, a serving of most vegetables is a cup, but vegetables are zero points on Weight Watcher's even if you eat more than a cup of veggies.
Fruit is also zero points. I haven't tried to see what would happen if I put in a ridiculous serving size of plums (a regular serving size is two), but I'm at the computer, so I'll try it now. Nope 20 plums is still zero points. On the other side of serving sizes, who is going to eat 20 plums? And no, this is not a challenge for you. I take no responsibility for the consequences of eating 20 plums.
A serving size of eggs is egg. Only little children eat egg. I eat eggs. Don't you? One egg is two points which lets me eat two eggs.
I love barbecue sauce. It is so yummy. Yummy, yummy, yummy! Not as yummy as ice cream and I will not be putting barbecue sauce on my ice cream, because that is just gross. At least it probably is...
Trader Joe's has many yummy things. I was at Trader Joe's a while ago and bought some barbecue sauce. That barbecue sauce's serving size was 1/4 cup. That is a lot of barbecue sauce until you buy a different kind. Sweet Baby Ray's serving size is 2 T. Why is there such a discrepancy? That is just weird in my opinion. I used 3 T the last time I used it on my brussel sprouts. I like brussel sprouts, but not enough to eat them plain.
I was curious so I looked up a Big Mac to see if a whole Big Mac was the serving size. Apparently, you can eat a whole Big Mac on Weight Watcher's and you spend 14 points. In reality, I would advise against eating a Big Mac for the calories and fat alone. A Whopper, Jr. on the other hand is only nine points and is (as I recently discovered) mostly bread.
Since a Wendy's single is bigger it is also more points. Don't go there, because Wendy's sells salads. Yay. Unfortunately, since there is other stuff in there besides veggies, they are not zero points.
I seem to be slightly obsessed with serving sizes, because I think that whoever thought of them was not thinking!
Let's not forget my progress, people. Despite eating the ice cream and the 14 potato chips. (And a whole bag of edamame chips.) I lost 2.6 lbs. this week!
Last night, I ate at Red Lobster and made very wise delicious choices. No eating bland, boring food! Also, no cutting out that very important food group mentioned above.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Food, Food Everywhere
Food is part of our society. You can't escape it, unless like that Geico commercial you live under a rock.
Sometimes food gets the better of me and I just eat. Like last night. I'm not proud of myself and I should've just gone to bed, but instead I at an entire container of honey cinnamon almonds from Target. They had been in my cabinet for a week and I hadn't touched them. Unfortunately, they were good.
I'm Jewish, so food is part of life. We have special dinners on the holidays. In this case the Jewish ones-Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippor. Then we also have a special dinner on that other Jewish holiday-Thanksgiving. I know that is not a Jewish holiday, but it might as well be with the amount of food that comes out of it.
Almost every store you go in has food. Even Sports Authority has some things that are edible. There are, however, some things you can do to prevent wanting to buy everything you see. One thing you can do is to say to yourself, "I don't want to buy cupcakes that have red, green, orange and blue frosting. They are not worth the calories and they are weird-looking." Another thing you can do is eat before you go to the store. I know that this is not always possible, but it really helps the impulse buying followed by the impulse eating of all of said item like a pint of Ben and Jerry's Everything But The...Sometimes, not recently, I have been known to go to the store to buy said item. I can proudly say that I have not had ice cream since I started back on Weight Watcher's. I'll get back to me and my progress later. The last thing that I know of, besides having a friend hold you back from buying those technicolor cupcakes or white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, is to chew gum when you are in the store. I don't know why it works, but I was recently in CVS and it worked for me. I also had recently eaten dinner. So I was doing a double whammy on not buying the yummy candy that is strategically placed where you line up to check-out.
Another place there is food a lot is in the workplace. I'm a teacher, and for whatever reason if someone brings in food and puts it in the lounge, we will eat it. Whatever it is, it will be gone before the last lunch period. If it isn't gone, it's probably not good anyway.
Food is part of how we socialize. "Let's meet for coffee." "Let's get together and go out for dinner." We can't seem to meet with other people without food involved. I think that is part of the human condition. This why I hate thin people. I don't hate you if you're thin. I just hate the idea that a person can eat and not gain weight. It isn't fair. When I was a little girl, I could have the second helping of chicken and kugel at Shabbat dinner. I always said back then that if I ever had to go on a diet it would be very hard, because I love to eat.
My progress is still progressing, but not very quickly because of doing some back-sliding and eating an entire box of iced animal crackers. I also recently ate that entire container of honey cinnamon almonds. Both of which were really good. I will no longer buy iced animal crackers. Not sure about the almonds. After all, they're almonds and aren't almonds good for you?
Sometimes I get weird cravings. Not what you are thinking. It's a food thing not a pregnant thing. (It would be immaculate conception, so you be the judge.) I crave bread. When I eat bread, it usually has to have something on it. Luckily, I had margarine, but if you are like me I do not eat one piece of bread or even two. No, it can be much worse than that. I will say that it could be more than four pieces, but less than 10. I'm sure you get the idea. You know it is kind of like eating an entire Domino's medium BBQ chicken pizza.
I have lost .6 lbs so far. Ugh. That was discouraging, but I know that this is a battle. Within this battle there are many mini-battles like buying your son a Mickey D's milkshake and not buying one for yourself. I had a sip and it was good, but not as good as I thought it would be. That is one thing that I have noticed while trying to stay on this looooooooong road, when you are paying more attention to what you eat, you begin to actually taste your food. Some of it does not taste as good as I once thought.
Now a word on Weight Watchers. I love it. I think it is great. It gives me a direction. Lord knows I can not do this by myself. However, some days I wind up with points at the end of the day and I am not hungry anymore. Sure I could eat, but isn't that how I got to this point in my life in the first place?
Sometimes food gets the better of me and I just eat. Like last night. I'm not proud of myself and I should've just gone to bed, but instead I at an entire container of honey cinnamon almonds from Target. They had been in my cabinet for a week and I hadn't touched them. Unfortunately, they were good.
I'm Jewish, so food is part of life. We have special dinners on the holidays. In this case the Jewish ones-Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippor. Then we also have a special dinner on that other Jewish holiday-Thanksgiving. I know that is not a Jewish holiday, but it might as well be with the amount of food that comes out of it.
Almost every store you go in has food. Even Sports Authority has some things that are edible. There are, however, some things you can do to prevent wanting to buy everything you see. One thing you can do is to say to yourself, "I don't want to buy cupcakes that have red, green, orange and blue frosting. They are not worth the calories and they are weird-looking." Another thing you can do is eat before you go to the store. I know that this is not always possible, but it really helps the impulse buying followed by the impulse eating of all of said item like a pint of Ben and Jerry's Everything But The...Sometimes, not recently, I have been known to go to the store to buy said item. I can proudly say that I have not had ice cream since I started back on Weight Watcher's. I'll get back to me and my progress later. The last thing that I know of, besides having a friend hold you back from buying those technicolor cupcakes or white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, is to chew gum when you are in the store. I don't know why it works, but I was recently in CVS and it worked for me. I also had recently eaten dinner. So I was doing a double whammy on not buying the yummy candy that is strategically placed where you line up to check-out.
Another place there is food a lot is in the workplace. I'm a teacher, and for whatever reason if someone brings in food and puts it in the lounge, we will eat it. Whatever it is, it will be gone before the last lunch period. If it isn't gone, it's probably not good anyway.
Food is part of how we socialize. "Let's meet for coffee." "Let's get together and go out for dinner." We can't seem to meet with other people without food involved. I think that is part of the human condition. This why I hate thin people. I don't hate you if you're thin. I just hate the idea that a person can eat and not gain weight. It isn't fair. When I was a little girl, I could have the second helping of chicken and kugel at Shabbat dinner. I always said back then that if I ever had to go on a diet it would be very hard, because I love to eat.
My progress is still progressing, but not very quickly because of doing some back-sliding and eating an entire box of iced animal crackers. I also recently ate that entire container of honey cinnamon almonds. Both of which were really good. I will no longer buy iced animal crackers. Not sure about the almonds. After all, they're almonds and aren't almonds good for you?
Sometimes I get weird cravings. Not what you are thinking. It's a food thing not a pregnant thing. (It would be immaculate conception, so you be the judge.) I crave bread. When I eat bread, it usually has to have something on it. Luckily, I had margarine, but if you are like me I do not eat one piece of bread or even two. No, it can be much worse than that. I will say that it could be more than four pieces, but less than 10. I'm sure you get the idea. You know it is kind of like eating an entire Domino's medium BBQ chicken pizza.
I have lost .6 lbs so far. Ugh. That was discouraging, but I know that this is a battle. Within this battle there are many mini-battles like buying your son a Mickey D's milkshake and not buying one for yourself. I had a sip and it was good, but not as good as I thought it would be. That is one thing that I have noticed while trying to stay on this looooooooong road, when you are paying more attention to what you eat, you begin to actually taste your food. Some of it does not taste as good as I once thought.
Now a word on Weight Watchers. I love it. I think it is great. It gives me a direction. Lord knows I can not do this by myself. However, some days I wind up with points at the end of the day and I am not hungry anymore. Sure I could eat, but isn't that how I got to this point in my life in the first place?
Saturday, July 2, 2011
The Beginning
I have tried to lose weight/keep it off for years now. It is a constant struggle, except for the times when I just give up and don't care. Those are the times when I gain. I decided that one way to make it easier, is to make it public. Then others can share my trials and tribulations. I think this blog might help people. It may entertain people. In any case, I hope it helps me. I chose to use my first grade picture, because back then weight was not an issue. It was a simpler time.
Now, a little about me, I am 44 years old and I am currently about 81 lbs overweight. I have two teenagers one of whom is also overweight. I am a single mother. I am an elementary school teacher and have a long commute during the school year. I have many other challenges, all of which cause me problems with food and eating.
I have been on Weight Watchers several times. I have also tried Nutri System and had some success with it. I stopped it, because I couldn't stand the way the food tasted anymore. I tried Ediets, because it was all on-line, but for some reason, I thought this approach was too hard. This was probably, because it involves too much cooking. I tried Jenny Craig. Their food is really good, but it is expensive. So, after awhile no more Jenny Craig. I tried Atkins and I think I gained weight, because I could eat bacon and butter and other high fat items. I loved what I could eat on Atkins, but it was not the diet for me. I also tried another diet that is run out of my chiropractor's office and it was great, except that once again, I started to have trouble with the way the food tasted.
I think the only way to lose weight realistically is Weight Watchers. Some of those other diet plans teach how to eat their food, but now how to eat real food. Now there is Weight Watcher's on-line. I don't have to worry about going to meetings and paying weekly. You pay a monthly fee and have access to all of their on-line tools. I can use Weight Watcher's mobile on my smartphone. Now there are less excuses for me.
So here I am. I have been using Weight Watchers online off and on for the past year. In that year, I was more off than on. I hit many roadblocks and when I hit them I tended to eat. I am what is called an emotional eater. I don't have to be hungry to eat. I could be sad, happy, frustrated, or annoyed. All of those feelings could, if I let myself, cause me to overeat. I am the heaviest I have ever been and that does not make me too proud of myself. I have more aches and pains and my clothes don't all fit right, etc. However, I know that I am a good person and that, above all else, is very important. When I look in the mirror, especially naked (Egads!) I look horrendous. Therefore, I try not to look in the mirror from the chest down. I still see it in my face, but it is not as bad as in the rest of my body.
There are many disadvantages to being overweight, besides needing bigger clothes. For example chairs with arms are usually very uncomfortable. Folding metal chairs aren't comfortable to begin with and when you're heavy they're worse. The driver's seat of the car has that part of the seat belt that digs in to your side while you are driving. It is hard to paint your toenails. It is hard to pick things off of the floor. I spent the last two years teaching kindergarten and I noticed that during this past year, getting up off the floor was REALLY difficult.
I am not hoping to become thin. I don't think that will ever happen. I have small, incremental, goals for myself that are realistic, for me.I have been diligently following Weight Watchers PointsPlus system since Monday and have already lost almost 3 lbs. You might think that is a drop in the bucket, but in my bucket, it is huge. That means I only have 78 lbs more to go overall, but 2 lbs until I'm what I call "under a 10". That means that my weight will be under the closest factor of 10 to where I started. I'm not going to post my weight here. At least, I don't think I will. We'll see what other people think about that.
Being at home alone is hard enough, but tonight I am going to a restaurant and then to a friend's home. Those two places will be even harder. I have done my research and picked my entree for tonight. It is a crab house, but I am planning to order shrimp. No hush puppies, because they aren't worth the points. So, I dread being faced with the menu even though I have previewed it on-line. Then what will happen at my friend's house. I'm almost thinking of bringing my own diet root beer with me. Diet Root Beer is satisfying and calorie-free. I know she'll be serving alcoholic beverages. Again, I'd rather eat my food then drink it.
I have discovered that some things about food surprise me. Mayonnaise is fat. Two tablespoons of mayonnaise is a lot. A serving of barbecue sauce is 1/4 cup. That is also a lot. I bought popsicles, because it is summer and they are 1 point each. They aren't ice cream, but ice cream is a very dangerous substance to have in my home. Some other foods can not be in my home. One of these is, surprisingly, frosted animal crackers. I am afraid of candy. I love most candy and that is why I am afraid of it. However, 3 peppermint patties is a serving. This is AWESOME! Sometimes it is all about the quantity. That is why 94% fat free microwave popcorn is also AWESOME! I can have a whole bag for 3 points! Yay!
I started water aerobics on Monday night. I have gone twice so far. It meets Monday and Wednesday evenings, but it also meets Saturday morning, so I went Monday and then today. I love water aerobics! It is fun and no one cares what you look like. I am going to try Zumba on Tuesday evening. We'll see how that is. I'm not very coordinated when it comes to dancing, so...It is supposed to be fun, also. I'll try to keep you posted.
I am not heavy enough for surgery, not that I want to go that route anyway, so I know that I have to do this myself. I know that I am capable of a lot of things including weight loss. You know that game show where they want "NoWhammies!". I want "No Roadblocks!"
Tomorrow, I am having a family gathering at a place than I recommended when I wasn't on Weight Watchers. Luckily, they have an on-line meal planner. Then on Monday, I am going to a movie (no movie food, probably) and dinner. I know I'll have to pick a Weight Watchers friendly place and they do exist.
Now, a little about me, I am 44 years old and I am currently about 81 lbs overweight. I have two teenagers one of whom is also overweight. I am a single mother. I am an elementary school teacher and have a long commute during the school year. I have many other challenges, all of which cause me problems with food and eating.
I have been on Weight Watchers several times. I have also tried Nutri System and had some success with it. I stopped it, because I couldn't stand the way the food tasted anymore. I tried Ediets, because it was all on-line, but for some reason, I thought this approach was too hard. This was probably, because it involves too much cooking. I tried Jenny Craig. Their food is really good, but it is expensive. So, after awhile no more Jenny Craig. I tried Atkins and I think I gained weight, because I could eat bacon and butter and other high fat items. I loved what I could eat on Atkins, but it was not the diet for me. I also tried another diet that is run out of my chiropractor's office and it was great, except that once again, I started to have trouble with the way the food tasted.
I think the only way to lose weight realistically is Weight Watchers. Some of those other diet plans teach how to eat their food, but now how to eat real food. Now there is Weight Watcher's on-line. I don't have to worry about going to meetings and paying weekly. You pay a monthly fee and have access to all of their on-line tools. I can use Weight Watcher's mobile on my smartphone. Now there are less excuses for me.
So here I am. I have been using Weight Watchers online off and on for the past year. In that year, I was more off than on. I hit many roadblocks and when I hit them I tended to eat. I am what is called an emotional eater. I don't have to be hungry to eat. I could be sad, happy, frustrated, or annoyed. All of those feelings could, if I let myself, cause me to overeat. I am the heaviest I have ever been and that does not make me too proud of myself. I have more aches and pains and my clothes don't all fit right, etc. However, I know that I am a good person and that, above all else, is very important. When I look in the mirror, especially naked (Egads!) I look horrendous. Therefore, I try not to look in the mirror from the chest down. I still see it in my face, but it is not as bad as in the rest of my body.
There are many disadvantages to being overweight, besides needing bigger clothes. For example chairs with arms are usually very uncomfortable. Folding metal chairs aren't comfortable to begin with and when you're heavy they're worse. The driver's seat of the car has that part of the seat belt that digs in to your side while you are driving. It is hard to paint your toenails. It is hard to pick things off of the floor. I spent the last two years teaching kindergarten and I noticed that during this past year, getting up off the floor was REALLY difficult.
I am not hoping to become thin. I don't think that will ever happen. I have small, incremental, goals for myself that are realistic, for me.I have been diligently following Weight Watchers PointsPlus system since Monday and have already lost almost 3 lbs. You might think that is a drop in the bucket, but in my bucket, it is huge. That means I only have 78 lbs more to go overall, but 2 lbs until I'm what I call "under a 10". That means that my weight will be under the closest factor of 10 to where I started. I'm not going to post my weight here. At least, I don't think I will. We'll see what other people think about that.
Being at home alone is hard enough, but tonight I am going to a restaurant and then to a friend's home. Those two places will be even harder. I have done my research and picked my entree for tonight. It is a crab house, but I am planning to order shrimp. No hush puppies, because they aren't worth the points. So, I dread being faced with the menu even though I have previewed it on-line. Then what will happen at my friend's house. I'm almost thinking of bringing my own diet root beer with me. Diet Root Beer is satisfying and calorie-free. I know she'll be serving alcoholic beverages. Again, I'd rather eat my food then drink it.
I have discovered that some things about food surprise me. Mayonnaise is fat. Two tablespoons of mayonnaise is a lot. A serving of barbecue sauce is 1/4 cup. That is also a lot. I bought popsicles, because it is summer and they are 1 point each. They aren't ice cream, but ice cream is a very dangerous substance to have in my home. Some other foods can not be in my home. One of these is, surprisingly, frosted animal crackers. I am afraid of candy. I love most candy and that is why I am afraid of it. However, 3 peppermint patties is a serving. This is AWESOME! Sometimes it is all about the quantity. That is why 94% fat free microwave popcorn is also AWESOME! I can have a whole bag for 3 points! Yay!
I started water aerobics on Monday night. I have gone twice so far. It meets Monday and Wednesday evenings, but it also meets Saturday morning, so I went Monday and then today. I love water aerobics! It is fun and no one cares what you look like. I am going to try Zumba on Tuesday evening. We'll see how that is. I'm not very coordinated when it comes to dancing, so...It is supposed to be fun, also. I'll try to keep you posted.
I am not heavy enough for surgery, not that I want to go that route anyway, so I know that I have to do this myself. I know that I am capable of a lot of things including weight loss. You know that game show where they want "NoWhammies!". I want "No Roadblocks!"
Tomorrow, I am having a family gathering at a place than I recommended when I wasn't on Weight Watchers. Luckily, they have an on-line meal planner. Then on Monday, I am going to a movie (no movie food, probably) and dinner. I know I'll have to pick a Weight Watchers friendly place and they do exist.
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