I'm Baaaack!!!

Today's Weight (Friday, February 12, 2010): 177.4 Pounds

Total Weight Loss Since Last Entry (December 29, 2009): 5.8 Pounds

Yes, I'm back at blogging about my journey to fitness. I know that the last entry was done before the New Year, and I've been somewhat negligent in making my entries, but that's what tends to happen as you get further into the "journey". I even had been slacking off in making my daily food journal entries figuring that I know what I ate and figure that I'm okay and within my WW points allotment for the day or even week.

I've lost weight since the last entry, but I feel like I'm about to hit another plateau, and that's not good for keeping my motivation going. So, when I went to my WW meeting last Saturday, the topic couldn't have been more appropriate - Keeping Motivated.

Given that it's winter, it's been pretty easy to come up with excuses not to go to my weekly meetings. As a matter of fact, my husband, Rob came up with a real doozy..."if it snows, you're not going anywhere". Well, for heaven sakes, we live in Canada - in February it snows all the time! Except that this year, the weather gods have been smiling on the city I live in, and we've had the least amount of snow EVER! So, that excuse goes out the window. So, out of excuses, I get dressed, put my shoes on and Rob drives me to my meeting. When I get there, I'm pretty nervous about getting on the scale, most week's the news is good to great, then there's others where I wish I hadn't bothered coming (like the week of New Years - where I gained a whopping 1.8 pounds!). Then the following week, I lost 3.2 pounds - it's those weeks I live for. So, not only did I lose the gain but I even added to the lost total.

What's motivating me these days to go to my WW meetings is my fantastically funny leader Kelly. She is such a positive and motivating person, that I would feel guilty if I missed a meeting. Also, I would wonder what funny tidbits of her own journey she she shared and that I missed. So, every week, I go not just for myself, but also to laugh about some hilarious anecdote she shares with the group. I've noticed that since joining in June 2009, the group has grown - I don't know if it's because there's more people who need to lose weight, or whether people have heard about Kelly and how funny and motivating she is. She always has a positive attitude, and encourages all of us to continue on. She even encourages us to e-mail her during the week if we have a question or just want to unload on her.

Last week, Kelly had some very wise advice:

1. Lose weight without perfection - it's okay to make mistakes;
2. Learn from my mistakes and make changes;
3. Do some positive self-talking;
4. Come up with a motivating strategy; Think of the potential payoff;
5. Anchoring - "I did it before - I can do it again";

At the end of the meeting, Kelly challenged all of us to do one of the following:

1. Give myself 10 passes to forgive myself for bad choices;
2. Read one success story each day;
3. Keep a victory log in which I record the positive things I do daily for weight loss;
4. Start an on-line blog;

Well, the easiest and best thing for me is to do the blog option. So, here I am, back on the proverbial horse, and will try to post on a much more regular basis. Optimally, I should do this each week. I'm going to commit to this. Now that it's out there in cyber-space for the world to read - I'm committed and WILL BACK NEXT WEEK - PROMISE!