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WW Weigh In#9

Posted renewme on January 10th, 2008 | Filed under General

Attended a WW meeting this morning.  Was down 1 lb. from last week.  Weighed 207 only .2 more lb and I’ve undone my Christmas damage! I’m glad to be down 1 lb. but at the same time I am disappointed in myself.  In reality it could have been much better.  I didn’t eat very well last week.  My meals were OK, it was the snacking in between that got me.  And Girls Scout cookies came in on Sunday.  Need I say more?  I thought I’d gotten all the temptations out, and they appeared.  Kids opened 4 different boxes (each had to open their favorite).  Well of those 4 there is only one box left with any in it.  There are a few boxes left that have not been opened.  I’m going to put them high on a shelf in the pantry out of sight.  As long as they are not open, I’m usually ok.  When things are open, that’s when I snack on them!  So, I’ve had my taste or 2 (or 3 or 4 or more!) of the Caramel Delight, Thanks-a-lot, lemonades, and pb patty.  At the meeting today they handed out free samples of a new WW mini bar called peanut butter bliss.  I haven’t eaten mine ye t but a few ladies did and said they were really good.  I haven’t tried any of the food they have there yet.  First, because I think it’s really expensive and  second because I don’t care if it’s only 1 pt.  I won’t be able to stop with just one!  I’d probably eat 1/2 the box or more at once, and blow tons of points!  It’s best just not to have it around right now.  There were a few ladies at the meeting who said the same thing about them.  It got me to thinking.  What is it about us that makes it so hard to just stop and say no to food?    My MIL can have a box of chocolates in her pantry and we’ll go back 6 months later and that same box of chocolates will still be there (if we didn’t eat it the 1st time there that is!LOL- Just kidding, I’m much better about not being a pig in front of other people.  I do a lot of my “bad” eating when I’m at home alone during the day).  I know alot of mine is done out of boredom or emotional.  When I’m busy throughout the day I do much better than when I don’t have anything planned.  At the same time though, both my dad struggled with alcohol many years ago and my brother is going through some struggles now with it.  Maybe my struggle isn’t that much different.  My drug of choice isn’t alcohol though, it’s food.  And just like they face or faced health problems from what they put into their body, so do I.  Maybe there is some sort of “problem” in the brain that make it more likely that we have control issues with what we put in.  I’m sure there a plenty of scientific studies and evidence proving or disproving this, but these are just a few of the rambling thoughts I’ve had over the past week. 

 My plan to improve this week is to watch the snacking!  Instead of just putting the cookies up, I may have dh keep them in his car.  They should be fine shouldn’t have to worry about melting as the weather is back to winter here.  That usually works pretty well for me.  Except for days like today when he takes the van and I have his car.  I opened up the trunk to put groceries in this morning and he’s got a mini mart in there!  M&Ms and all kinds of stuff from Christmas I’d given him to take to work.  I ended up grabbing a small bag of Dale and Thomas Popcorn and ate over half of it on my way home.  Again-  why couldn’t I have just left it there and forgotten about it.  Why did I grab it and open it knowing that I wouldn’t be able to stop with just a few small bites?  I also want to workout at least 3x by next meeting.  I discovered Wii boxing last night.  That was fun!  And it really got my heart rate up!  I’m going to look around and see what other games for Wii there are that might be fun for exercise.  I know variety is the key for me when it comes to exercise.  I get bored really easily with the same thing all the time.