Good Morning everyone,
Well yesterday I was off program for the most part. After strawberry picking, we went out on my sisters boat, and then to my mother's pool, and I just wasn't in the mood to count points yesterday, really good right? Anybody have those kind of days? The day ended with us going out for ice cream. I really, really did not want to do it, but DH did, and I didn't think it was fair of me to always be making all of the "food choices". My food choice would've been to just come home and have a WW ice cream bar, like we did on Monday night, surely not as fun as going out for ice cream in everyone's mind.
Ann-wow another pound, that's great! You've gotta change your ticker because I keep waiting for it to flip to 60, we need to have a big online cheer when you get to that 60, that is amazing! You gotta post a picture one of these days....
LindaD- nice picture! That's so true about identifying those lonely times, and doing something about it. I am so thankful that my friend up the road is so willing to talk on the phone with me during lonely, boring afternoons, especially in the winter time. That is my worst time of day. My computer is pretty much in our kitchen, I wish that I could remove myself completely from the area when I'm on the computer, cause it's so easy to just grab food mindlessly when on the computer.
Tech- thanks for posting that recipe, I'm definitely going to have to try that, sounds really yummy! Where do you typically find the Wheat berries?
haylo- wow, your vacation sounds like it's going to be so much fun! Good luck at the casinos, which games do you usually play?
Linda-the one thing that I loved about being on core was the "free couscous" that was a dream! It just seems like pasta to me, but it's not, I think a lot of people think that couscous is pasta. Linda, I just loved what you wrote about your feelings and reaching your 10%, in fact, I just went to the old thread and read it again. It just reinforces the whole "journey thing", that when you reached your 10% before, it was just part of the process of you finally getting to the point mentally that you are at right now. It also reinforces that life just gets in the way sometimes and low and behold weight creeps on our bodies as we have our heads turned the other way. I liked what you said about not wanting to be "that fat lady". I think the biggest challenge that I have as a leader is when members don't have that "click" that goes off in their head that states, "I'm tired of this, I don't want to be fat anymore, and I'll do anything to lose the weight". I think here on this board, for as long as I've been here (since November) it's Ann who has the biggest click that I'm always searching and hoping for in some of the members that I see coming through these meetings. It's like they have these blinders on that horses have in races, and they only see the finish line, and they just keep truckin' along for that finish line. Sure there are bumps and bruises along the way, but they can see the thin person way up ahead just waiting for them.
One of the things that I like to say in meetings is that yes, America keeps getting fatter, and fatter, in fact there is a statistic out there that in another 15 years, if something doesn't change, 85% of Americans will be overweight. We are already the "laughing stock" of the world in terms of our obesity problem. But the fact is, all of us that are doing this, have made the decision to not be a part of that statistic, that we believe being overweight is unhealthy and less than attractive. And on that note, I will be journaling everything today!