This
is just what I feel like! A big stuffed elephant!
I made the decision to join Weight Watchers.
I have been thinking about it for a few weeks now. Especially since
a friend of mine in Melbourne said she had joined and was losing weight
for her wedding.
I thought it would be a good idea to join as well.
Then we could motivate each other. Even though she is 2000 kilometres
away, we chat on the net all the time. (And hopefully I will get
an invite to the wedding too!! - - Hint Hint CG!)
I searched the WW site a while ago, and sent an
e-mail to find out where my closest meeting place was. I just knew
that I had to join when I was told where my closest site was..... at the
school ... about 500 metres from my front door! How could I not join.
So today I wandered up at 7:00pm. I was
met by a lovely lady, who pointed me towards the new members table, where
I sat and was shortly greeted by my WW leader. She explained the
program to me, then took me to the scales. Yuk! I didn't want
to look. I had been kidding myself for so long, thinking I was still
under 100 kilos. Those scales soon proved me wrong, and I weighed
in at 117.2 kilos. Which may be a good thing, it made me sick to
think I had let myself get that big, and I was determined to reduce my
size.
I stayed for the meeting. Our leader cooked
a meal from one of the cook books. It smelled great, and looked great.
I decided it wouldn't be that hard if all the recipes looked that yummy.
After the meeting, I walked home the long way.
My first bit of exercise.
My week has been amazingly easy. Work has been busy, so that helps keep my mind off food. I haven't followed the menu plan that is in my week one booklet at all. Instead, I have just used the tracker and made my own menu plan. I am on 24 points per day. It was hard the first few days to eat that much. I find I am filling up on vegetables (which are no points) and then not wanting to eat anything else.
I have joined a weight loss e-mail list, and someone suggested I double my breakfast servings. I have started doing that. I arrive at work with a lovely full tummy, and find I am not craving any high sugar foods around mid morning like I used to before WW when I never ate breakfast.
I've pretty much had the same thing for lunch every day. A bread roll with ham & salad. That's ok so far, but I will get sick of it in the future. As long as I don't go off in search of chips and pies, I will be fine.
I am really looking forward to my next weigh in on Tuesday night. I wonder how much I will lose in my first week. I hope it is at least 1 kilo. I am scared I will give up if my loss is too small. I know that I will have tiny losses some weeks. I just don't want one on my first week.
I wish I could exercise more. I just don't have the energy to. My leader says that will come eventually, and to start with I should just stick to walking for a few minutes here and there. I have been going for a 30 minute walk every second day at work. Next week, (if I'm not too busy) I will try to go out every day for a walk.
