Weight loss——ugh—–do those two words make you cringe like me? Ok—New Year—-New You—New Years resolutions—yep I now find myself taking on one of the oldest resolutions of all time—–LOSING WEIGHT! Doesn’t that sound so ick? Well to me, it does. It brings up visions of suffering, torture, and just plain unhappiness to me. Ok, I must admit, I am sick of myself physically. I am now heavier than I have ever been NON-pregnant—-eeeeewwwwwww—oh well that is life right? I still believe that I am a valuable person, which is important, but this weight…ugh!!
So how do we tackle these resolutions? BEATS ME? I don’t make them. I take the easy way out and say “Oh well, they never last, so don’t make them in the first place”. Well as I take a sip of Merlot I think I have reached my max! Yep you guys are here to witness this—I have reached my max!
I am a Lifetime member of Weight Watchers. What that means is that approximately 6 years ago I FINALLY worked the program, lost 50 lbs, and kept it off for 6 weeks after I met my goal weight. Well, I have not kept it off over the past 4 years and I have gone up again so I find myself going back to Weight Watchers AGAIN. Now don’t get me wrong—In my opinion….WEIGHT WATCHER IS THE BEST PROGRAM OUT THERE——-IT WORKS WHEN YOU WORK IT——I did not work it for a LONG time! think I am ready to work it again. Ya know—-I hate being fat—I feel like I have always been, and watching “The Biggest Loser” I think maybe it is time for me to be more real in my weight loss. Maybe it is time to get to the core reason of why I eat like a crazed fool and chug down a 12 pack of beer. I am 37 (going on 38 years old) and crap—maybe it is time to grow up a bit and take care of myself.
You know, to type that stinks—for some reason in my brain, growing up has a stuffy aspect to it. Am I alone in that thinking??
Well I know a ton of you are out there deciding to start a new year eating healthy, so you know what? Let’s do it together—–don’t be alone! You comment to me and I will respond. Let’s go through this interesting life journey together! I promise now to write weekly and you now promise to respond. In my opinion—ANYTHING GOES—just don’t swear and we will make it through this life change together. It may suck, but let’s do it together. Who knows what we will figure out? Let’s finally keep that resolution longer than a week. We are in this together!
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Tags: diet, plan, Weight Loss, Weight Watchers
2 comments
Posted by: Thyme2dream on January 2, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Sounds like a plan!! I agree that weight watchers works, I lost 80 lbs on it between my second and third child, but you are right it only works when you work it!! My aim is to be at my goal weight by my 50th birthday-March of 2012- I have two years to work on it, but Im starting NOW cos I have a long way to go:) good luck, and I will keep in touch here too!
Posted by: Theresa Jones on January 3, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Count me in! I consider it my ‘”taking care of ME” resolution! Once and for all, it will be the one thing I conquer on my own and for myself. I haven’t had too much success with weight watchers in the past, but I am a huge fan (no pun intended!) of the South Beach way of living. It helped me shed nearly 100 lbs over the last few years…ok, so about 45 have crept back on. But what the heck that is a small hill of beans compared to the nearly 400lbs that I weighed at one time! Im all for public togetherness on this one! The more the merrier!