Saturday, March 28, 2009

I need to get serious

I have been treading water of late. I have managed to maintain, just about, but I am not loosing. My big problem is the fact that I often find myself having to fit in with others, which means that I am either rushing meal times, or delaying meals. All of this means that I am making stupid choices either from lack of time or because I am too tired to give a damn.

So I have decided to do some planning. If I have the weeks menu planned, and the ingredients on hand, and even do some pre-preparation over the weekend I will have no excuse. I have assembled a pile of recipe books, and I am going to plan a week's menu. I am sure that this is common sense to many, but it has taken me some time to get to this point. I think that part of the problem is that I am not a cook. I do not enjoy cooking, and am happy to take all the short-cuts available to man and to keep using the same standbys. This will take some re-thinking for me.

I admire people who can do interesting and different dishes each day. I want my meals to be fuss free, and I do not want to spend hours in the kitchen each evening, because I will then snack while I am waiting for the meal to be ready.

I hope that sorting out how to stay on track, by being organised will be the final piece of the puzzle.

I know that my food choices have improved, and that I do not each as much junk as I did just a few months ago, so I know that I can do this. But it seems that I need to take baby steps and to do a little bit more each week or month.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

A surprise loss

For various reasons I have not been to a meeting for three weeks until last night. Having been away from home, and eaten out in that period, I was mentally prepared for a gain. This belief was reinforced by the fact that it was TTOM as well. Well there I was prepared to be "happy" as long as the scales were 92Kgs or thereabouts. And I was only 90.9. Fancy an only in front of that number LOL, but you know what I mean.

It took me so long to get back into the swing of things after Christmas, and then my routine was thrown again, when I was away from home, so this is a really good result all things considered. I now have renewed enthusiasm to re-commit to the journey.

The thing that I have learned since joining weight watchers is that I am never going to be perfect in my food choices, and I shouldn't aim to be so. That would just set me up for a failure. I need to learn when to stop. To learn to have a taste (not the whole bloomin' bowl). This is getting easier, and to be honest I don't feel that I am missng out just because I am imposing some sensible limits. And the proof has been that I can loose even when I do not track properly and when I am not in control of the choices.

Thank you for the kind comments on my first post. It is nice to know that there are others on the same journey, and that there is support out there. I will pluck up the courage to comment on other blogs one of these days.

Monday, March 9, 2009

The first day

I have been on the weight loss wagon for about 3 months now. In all honesty I have been hanging off the back threatening to fall off for a fair bit of that time, but I am still here.

I signed up with Weight Watchers in December, and started off really well. Then Christmas happened, and it was the change of routine that did me in rather than the food as such. Now I need to recommit to putting my health and well being ahead of the demands placed on my by other people and circumstances.

I have been inspired by blogs kept by fellow Weight Wathers, and have decided to make my own blog. I can't imagine that anyone would actually want to read the mad ramblings of my mind, but I do want to keep a record of my journey.

I have added the blogs which I read, because these ladies inspire me to keep believing that I can do it. I suspect that much of the time I won't enjoy it, but I just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other.