Posts Tagged ‘weight watchers’
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Mini-goals and other thoughts
Mark made dinner and I didn’t even take a picture
He made salmon, edamame and jasmine rice. I never crave fish. It’s something I pretty much have to be fed in order to eat. One exception – tuna salad. Creamy mayo and dill relish and I’m there.I’m really liking the Weight Watchers meetings. It’s hard to put my finger on why. The discussion is always really good. People are open and supportive and so nice. I like listening to other people talk about their struggles and successes, and being there to support them. The leader is really nice and even though the discussion veers off track of the topic, it’s always interesting. It’s kind of like group therapy for people losing weight. I haven’t spoken up much, but I will eventually. Even though I have a blog and discuss this stuff with the world wide web, talking about eating and my struggles face to face is pretty horrifying. It was pretty awesome to weigh in and have someone tell me “good job” this week. I was like a kindergartener that got a gold star.
Although, I’d be kidding myself if I said here that I openly talk about all of it. I still have a hard time doing it!
There are a lot of things I like about the Weight Watchers program but I haven’t been sticking to it very well. It’s hard to gather the motivation to log all of your points. It’s hard to stick to your points and not overeat every day. I have a habit of eating until I’m at the “roll me out of the restaurant” state. I have a habit of afterwards, not logging what just happened at the restaurant/home/whatever. If you don’t log it, you can kind of pretend it didn’t happen even when your stomach still feels like it’s upside down the next morning. I don’t like feeling “not full” and especially hungry at night. My cure for this is to overeat or snack all night. But the cure is keeping me away from my goals.
I have not ran at all this week (with the exception of Sunday). I decided to take it easy this week and just not force myself. I feel kind of guilty about that. Although logically, it’s good to have rest and it’s the hottest it’s been all summer right now. I know that when I feel like going for a run, I will. Every now and then I guess I need a vacation from running.
So there is my honesty for the week! I think I will plan on making a goal a week to keep me on track and blog about my consistency with it. What I’d like to do is 1) work out in the morning before work; 2) track all of my points; 3) stay within my point range – a pretty important one; 4) stop drinking diet coke (I drink a 22 oz bottle every day); and I’m sure I’ll come up with more. Those are the main ones, but they are pretty big. I have to decide which one to focus on first!
Do you set mini-goals for yourself?
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Here we go…
So much to say today!
First, I plugged in my workouts for my half marathon today. Tomorrow’s workout is:
10-20 minutes warm-up jog; 2 x (6 x 400m @ 7:35) (1:30 RI) (2:30 RI between sets), 10 minutes cool-down jogging
RI = recovery interval
This workout seems pretty complicated – I am doing a lot of arithmetic when I’m doing a speed workout. But this one is pretty tame compared to some of the others. I guess you *could* do these outdoors, but I really prefer my treadmill – it takes some of the guesswork out.
Secondly, as I’ve been talking about here on the blog, I went to a Weight Watchers meeting today. I decided to do this for many reasons, but basically I need more accountability in my life to lose the weight I’m looking to lose. It’s not a lot compared to some of the women in the program. Technically, I’m not classified as overweight on the BMI index. However, I’m not where I want to be, and I need a sensible program in my life to help me along.
I had mixed feelings at the meeting. I know I don’t fit the stereotypical Weight Watchers member profile. I ran a marathon a few months ago; I’m training for a half marathon; I’m not obese. It makes me feel kind of weird. I don’t know right now how many more meetings I will go to, but I am aware that going to the meetings is one of the reasons that people on WW are successful. It’s certainly not a cool or hip program. It’s not EXTREME. Many features of the WW program are predicated on the idea that humans are fallible. There’s that 95% legend (that 95% who lose weight ultimately fail) to take into consideration. Now that’s EXTREME.
I thought I ate pretty well today, but I logged my points this afternoon and discovered that maybe I did not – my breakfast, lunch, and snacks already put me over my allotted points (you get allotted points and then additional weekly allowance – I broke into the allowance, which apparently you are supposed to do). Just so you know, I didn’t run out and eat a Baconator for lunch, even though the numbers make it look like it – I had carrots, tabbouleh with fresh mozzarella, and wheat thins. Realizing what happened, I ate just a small snack tonight and hopefully tomorrow I will be smarter with how I spread my food through the day.
[I had to check … WW does not have the Baconator in its online database. Imagine that!]
Most of the blogs I read are written by women that are already finished with their weight struggles and are extremely fit and run marathons and triathlons. I’m in this weird in-between. I hope someone finds it entertaining!
I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing, whether it’s cool or not, makes me feel like a weirdo or not, and hopefully I’ll get where I want to be. *shrug*
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