Week # 4

I've just started week # 4. So, what's changed for me?

• I go to a WW's meeting almost every day and I'm enjoying it!
• I track all my food and I'm having fun doing it!
• I make healthier choices when it comes to food and activity!
• I don't go to the 7-Eleven anymore for junk food, pastries, soda!
• I don't go out for fast food!
• I look for ways to get activity into my day!
• I'm not napping every day!
• I have more energy!
• I've lost 10 pounds
• David has joined Weight Watchers!
• I'm losing inches!
• I eat fruits and vegetables!
• David and I cook healthy meals together!
• I look forward to weighing in on Wednesdays

Those are just the things I can think of off the top of my head. It's incredible how much has changed in 3 weeks time. I feel like my how life has changed just by joining WW.

What things have changed in your life since joining WW? What things have changed in just the last 3 weeks?

I went to the WW meeting at 10am. Karen wasn't there but Christine was so I was very pleasantly surprised. It was nice to have a meeting with her as the leader. After the meeting though I really wanted to stop at the 7-Eleven to get a couple of doughnuts. I couldn't believe the craving I had. I didn't got though. Instead I went to the Target and picked up the few things on my list that I forgot yesterday. I wanted to get some candy corn or chocolate but I didn't. They didn't have the juice I wanted at the Target so I thought about stopping by the Walgreen's to get it but I knew if I stopped there I would get a snack and a soda, so I bypassed the Walgreen's and went to the King Soopers. I knew I'd have to walk more there and would just get the juice. On the way in I went by the candy aisle and had that craving for chocolate but I just went right on by. I got the juice, didn't pick up anything at the register and walked out. I thought about stopping at Subway but didn't do that either. I came home and made my lunch, a ham and cheese sandwich & chips. I'll have some fruit in a just a little while. I'm still craving the junk but I didn't get any. It was hard to resist but I was able to do it. The feelings will pass, I know they will. It's not that I can't have a treat, it's just that I don't want to have one for the wrong reasons. Leaving WW meetings are the toughest times for me. That time between the end of the meeting and getting home is my most venerable. McDonald's and 7-Eleven and Walgreen's are on the way home, so convenient, but being this overweight is not convenient at all. Yeah, I could justify stopping and spending a $1 on 2 doughnuts by thinking that, hey, I went to 5 meetings this week, I deserve a reward, but who does that help and when do I stop. I stop by not getting started in the first place.

So, it wasn't an easy morning but I am proud that I was able to restrain myself. I want to figure out a reward for going to meetings and losing weight that's not totally food related. It would have to be something that is substantial though. If anyone has any ideas of ways to reward myself, I'd appreciate the suggestions. One lady at the meeting this morning said that another lady bought herself a new pair of socks for every pound she lost. Well, I don't need 124 pair of socks so it will have to be something different than that but I've got to so something. Maybe a sticker on the calendar for every day that I attend a meeting and something special for every pound or 5 lbs that I lose. I've got to come up with something. Ideas welcome.

Okay, I need to get the laundry going. Enough sitting around for now. I need to get p and do something or I'll end up at the 7-Eleven. LOL More later.