Starting Today 10/10/09 to Lose Weight-Anyone Join?

   I lost 4.6 lbs on Weight Watchers this week!  Of course I had my shoes on at the lst weigh in and took them off this week, BUT that should mean I lost at least 2.6 and that's a step in the right direction.  I love WW and always have and I know the plan, BUT I just don't seem to be able to stick with it on my own,  Knowing that I am paying to do it and knowing I am going to get weighed keep me in line.  The women I work with are doing it with me by simply looking at the materials they give me at the meetings and looking up and keeping track of what they are eating.  Now we have carrots and celery sticks and fruit in the breakroom instead of chips and cookies.    Patoo, you are right....there are 35 extra points you get to play around with and they encourage you to use them.  It is amazing all the good things you can eat that one would look at as fattening....like avocadoes and olives.  This week was incorporating exercise, something I don't get a lot of, so I have started taking one of the dogs a walk every morning....can't take both because then I feel like Ben Hur in a chariot race. 

   Well, you know even though I know WW works and have had success with the program before it took the fear of this new drug I am taking, Megace, to force me back into it.  The main complaint with this treatment has always been that it caused women to gain weight and that in itself although not something I want is a minor SE, BUT it would just be one more thing I have no control over, like the cancer so I decided to try to counteract the SE before it started.  Now I am not sure if  my appetite is increased due to the drug or if it's just that I am actually hungry (although I am not really all that much) due to cutting calories.  I do know that when I am on a diet I become much more obsessed with eating  because I am planning meals, looking at labels on cans and really enjoy the taste of food so much more.  The other day I had this wonderful salad with salmon on it and I just kept thinking Wow, this is good, Delicious actually, Boy, this is really good.  Also having my sense of taste back really makes me appreciate food a lot more which is not necessarily a good thing.

Not really embarrassing Cake because we are going through treatments that hinder our attempts at weight loss so staying the same is really good, losing is just a plus.  You are doing great by not gaining - accept that truth.

And, welcome back, BTW.

Cake I just got back from an allinclusive resort but did not gain a lbs.so I am off to the gym.Need to send that scale needle back.I have my DD's wedding  comming up this August so that should be the extra incentive I need to motivate me.

I got weighed tonight and lost 1 more pound. I just sit there in my chair and never volunteer anything, but for some reason the meetings help me and I like hearing other people telling about their success. I discovered some really good crackers at the store the other day that are Allbran multigrain....you get to eat 18 of them and that is a lot.  Also I never in my life thought I would like those veggie burgers, but they are actually good.  But I guess if you are hungry enough, anyting tastes good.  Fiber seems to be what's it's all about with WW. 

Back from visit to Ohio and thankfully didn't gain!  I ate more than I should have but who doesn't when on a trip. I was afraid to get on the scale!  I did manage to walk though, started out walking outside but it was way too cold so DH took me to the mall walk.  There is no way I could live in a cold climate again.  It was 72 when we landed in Tampa late Sunday night.

Back to work part time and will try to have better eating plans for that.  Hopefully will start aerobics next week so that should help.  I guess we just need to take it one day at a time and do the best we can.

Good luck to everyone!  Take care.

OK, I've decided that it is time to get on the scale again...... I have to use my Mom's scale, cause mine gives me a different reading everytime I get on.  It is really easy to think that I am doing well that way!! Well, sometimes!  Will post later with results!  Happy Hump Day Everyone!

Marybe- My DH and I are from Canton, Ohio.  His parents still live in Canton and mine live in North Canton now.  It was good to go back for a few days but glad to be home.

Jo- heard that some nursing home company or health company or something like that moved into the old Hoover plant.  We drove by it and saw the renovations, I hope it helps the city recover a bit.

fmakj- congrats on the 2 lbs!  I know exercising helps big time.  I can't wait until next week when I can start aerobics again!  Walking is good but not good enough for me. 

patoo- FYI- those sketcher shoes haven't done anything for shaping up but they are very, very comfy to walk in and if you're on your feet a lot. 

Keep positive toughts everybody!  It's just one day at a time.

Kelley

Food journals really help ladies I think I might try moving that scale to the kitchen.LOL

Patoo - the last time I weighed myself was 2 weeks ago, so really averaging 1 lb a week.  The only scale in my kitchen is my food scale!!  JO - Congrats on the loss (again!).  I think that we all need to find the balance that will work for ourselves!  Keep up the great work Everyone!

Jo-5   And where are you in OH?  Congratulations on the 3 lbs and thanks for the burger recipe.

   I agree with not weighing too often, I don't even own a scale.  I get weighed at WW and when I was going for weekly chemo was getting weighed there every week (that was preWW and it went up every week usually).  The small meals are a good idea and work, but protein has to be in each meal....I think 6 meals per day is what they say.  I actually used to work out with a personal trainer and that is what he had me doing...also drink lots of water and drink it before and during exercising so as not to dehydrate.  It was the only time in my life I was actually getting somewhere with exercise and then we found out he was a nutcase and a registered sex offender.....he was engaged to a friend of mine and was training with me for free.  Anyway, he went to jail because he violated his parole....my friend was devastated and I quit exercising. 

Today I took a huge salad to work that I made....it was really a goood salad with all kinds of good things in it that I normally like, BUT I just couldn't make myself eat more than 1/3 of it.....I think I need to add some variety because I am just getting sick of green leafy things.  I am going to make some spaghetti sauce with gr turkey and try it with some wheat pasta. 

That ALL that matters Patoo!!  Don't let the scale start creeping UP on you!!!!  Great job!

Did a 2 hour llama hike today in the snowy forest!!  Luckily I wore ski pants cause it was really cold today!!

It does that for sure!  But, I still need someone else around to talk to, or I'd get bored pretty quickly!  Lucky for me there are a few parents that like going on these hikes too!!!  The draw back is the hot chocolate, juice and all kinds of snacks when the walk is over!!!

On the bright side, you have LOST 8 LBS!!!!  I know it seems frustrating, ! am down 10 lbs since Oct. 10, but I figure the slower it comes off, the better able I will be to KEEP it off!!  Congrats!