Last week was not great, with a 4.8 lb gain. But I recovered a good chunk of that with a 3.6 lb loss this week, for a total loss of 103. Keeping the bigger picture in mind is helping.
So what made the difference this week? I didn’t really track very well, at least not formally. But I did keep track of things mentally. I made better choices under trying circumstances. For example, my dad and stepmother were in town, and so we ate out. One of the places we ate was The Ground Round; not my favorite place, but a big hit with the kids, meaning I wouldn’t be tempted to hit them.
Theirs was a tough menu. No nutritional info online. Everything was like an example from Kessler’s book The End of Overeating (yes, I worked that in AGAIN!)-cheese and bacon, and oh, more cheese, and would you like a sugary sauce, too? The salads were the sabotage salad types, that look innocent. It’s salad! Lettuce! How bad could they be? Oh, they were bad all right. The kind loaded with all the good stuff. Candied pecans, avocado, and hey, who’s that? Our buddies Cheese and Bacon!
Normally, I eat mostly vegetarian, but that just wasn’t working here. Instead, I went for the single breast lemon herb chicken with broccoli, and splurged with the mashed red potatoes. The normal order was 2 breasts, can you imagine? It was a reasonable meal, with a bit of a treat (mashed potatoes really tasted like butter). I stayed away from the kids’ french fries.
We had a substitute leader so don’t remember much from the meeting. She was pitching the weight watchers foods like nobody’s business, and nobody was buying it at my meeting. We know they need shameless commerce to keep the place running, but why prey on poor fat people who are looking for support?
I heard that in another meeting the leader said that the pre-Lifetime people were supporting the Lifetime freeloaders. For y’all not saavy with the WW speak, Lifetime members are those who have met their goal and have maintained it–and who don’t pay for meetings so long as they stay on track. I think going for free is the only thing that’s motivating me right now to lose weight.
So good luck to you all on your weigh-ins this week, or however you are measuring your success!
