...ABOUT MY ATTEMPTS TO GET UP ON THE WEIGHT LOSS WAGON AND FINALLY STAY THERE...
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Yes I'm Still Here
Do I look confused in this photo from last weekend? Well, I should, because this look on my face is exactly how I feel about my weight loss efforts lately. I have been avoiding this blog like I've been avoiding the scale in my bathroom. But, I did weigh today, for the first time in oh, maybe a month. It wasn't as horrible as I anticipated, but it wasn't a number I really wanted to see either. I knew I had gained weight over the holidays, because of how my clothes have been fitting these days. I started this blog because I wanted to get serious about my weight loss and I wanted another tool to help me focus on it. I read so many other weight loss blogs where folks post their daily successes and struggles, and I was hoping to do the same. I knew once I stopped going to my Weight Watchers meetings, this gain was likely to happen. This has been my pattern in the past- as long as I go to meetings, I keep losing weight. As soon as I stop going, I slowly start to let the pounds creep right back on. I miss my Friday morning meetings, and I especially miss my enthusiastic and inspirational leader Marci. I did check online this morning, and found that although she doesn't do Saturday mornings at the old location (which was an actual WW center), she does do Saturdays at a different location (and a Thursday night one), at a church nearby. James and I are done with vacations and out of town weekend trips for awhile, and right now it's free to join back up with WW. I have to seriously consider this as an option. Hopefully I will have some good news to report soon, so that I can get back on here and get dedicated and focused on this area of my life!
I'm glad you're back too! Getting back on the scale in these situations can be tough, I know, but you did it, and it wasn't as bad as you thought it would be. I read somewhere that the greater the number of attempts at something like weight loss, the higher the probability of eventual success. I am sure that you will reach your goal in time.
I've set this blog up so I can focus more closely on my (lack of) effort to lose weight. I hope to blog often, to keep myself honest and on the right track.
My husband James and I recently moved to Virginia in 2019 due to his career (I finally retired a few years ago!). We love our life, our new country home, our four kitties, our family. We love to travel, we take frequent cruises and big epic road trips across the country. Most of all, we love to spend time together no matter what we're doing. I have an ordinary life but share it with an extraordinary man. I am so lucky! Life has been great to both of us. Please enjoy my blog filled with cat photos, pictures from our vacations, and some art thrown in here and there.
Stella Virgin
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* From THE KING COLLECTED COLLECTION, a parody of the first chapter of
(nearly) every Stephen King novel that I'm currently wrapping up.*
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ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're back too! Getting back on the scale in these situations can be tough, I know, but you did it, and it wasn't as bad as you thought it would be. I read somewhere that the greater the number of attempts at something like weight loss, the higher the probability of eventual success. I am sure that you will reach your goal in time.
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