Not sure what happened, but I dropped 4.6 lbs this week, making it a total of 105.6 down. This has been a loooong time coming; I got to 100 down in November, regained 8 before going down further.
And I’ve been HUNGRY a lot of that time. But for some reason, this last week I haven’t been starving. What did I do?
- I decided on my goal. My original motivation was health, and now that I’m healthy and fit it’s hard to justify losing more weight. But my knees sometimes hurt during workouts, so it’s probably good for me to reduce the load on them a bit more.
- I started running. I enjoyed running the last time I was thinner. I figure it’s a great way of telling my body if it doesn’t like everything jiggling it should lose some of what’s jiggling.
- I started eating more during the day. Really, being hungry is no fun, and sets me up for binging in the evenings. I’ve been eating weight watchers bagels with PB2 or oatmeal with dried cranberries.
- I stopped buying Weight Watchers bars, and generally am trying to eat less sugar.
We’ll see where the bouncing ball goes next week!
The meeting, as all of you weight watcher meeting attendees know, was about metabolism. I’d love to think I suffer from a low metabolism and that’s the root of my problems, but really, no. And I have only half a thyroid gland!
Truth is, we just don’t do much with our bodies nowadays. Back in the day, people had to work hard physically to get food. If you didn’t move, you didn’t eat–in the field, hunting, gathering, whatever.
Now, most of us sit all day and don’t even walk to the store. Not surprisingly, we don’t need a lot of food to support this lifestyle. On top of it, we don’t even do any physical labor to prepare this food; most of us eat prepared food we pop in the microwave, so we don’t even know what we’re eating.
Early on, I depended a great deal on Lean Cuisines and Smart Ones, but they aren’t very filling and are kind of… ew after a while. Now, I try to make big batches of stuff on the weekends. It helps I like to cook and my husband likes what I make.
Yes, people have medical reasons that keep them large, but that’s not the case for most of us. And so there’s no magic pill or shortcut that will help us. Sigh.
