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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Week 52
Up 1.4 (54lbs total)
A whole year of meetings - they gave me a "Stay and Succeed" award and told me to write 52 over the 16!
Well I was shocked that the total was not more - I was expecting 4 to 5 lbs. especially as I went and ordered the 'farewell' pizza from Panago last night (with 2 Chipotle dips no less - I love those). Logic says that if I hadn't eaten a whole medium pizza I might even have lost weight today, but I won't think about that.
The truth is I've been coasting since the middle of October: little tracking, more indulging, no exercise. Obviously, this is what maintenance looks like if I want to stay the weight I am now. But I don't, I want to lose more. I am, however, in the process of revising my weight goal. I have to lose another 55 lbs to get to the WW prescribed goal weight for my height. But the last time I weighed that I was in my early 20s and out dancing, running, hiking and --- more importantly for weight loss --- smoking! So I think I am going to take off another 35 then have a serious discussion with my doctor about the health issues. If he says I'm alright to live my life out at that weight then I'll get him to sign the WW form to set my goal higher. I do NOT want to be locked mentally in a battle to remove 20 lbs that isn't life-threatening just because of an arbitrary weight range set by WW. I listened to a 70+ year old woman today talk about how she can't get the last 5 lbs off - for what? If your body doesn't want to give it up let it keep it - I mean really, if it's not making you sick then do yourself a favour. At 70 I'll be thinking about orthopedics and elastic waists anyway so who cares!!
Happy New Year all, see you soon.
A whole year of meetings - they gave me a "Stay and Succeed" award and told me to write 52 over the 16!
Well I was shocked that the total was not more - I was expecting 4 to 5 lbs. especially as I went and ordered the 'farewell' pizza from Panago last night (with 2 Chipotle dips no less - I love those). Logic says that if I hadn't eaten a whole medium pizza I might even have lost weight today, but I won't think about that.
The truth is I've been coasting since the middle of October: little tracking, more indulging, no exercise. Obviously, this is what maintenance looks like if I want to stay the weight I am now. But I don't, I want to lose more. I am, however, in the process of revising my weight goal. I have to lose another 55 lbs to get to the WW prescribed goal weight for my height. But the last time I weighed that I was in my early 20s and out dancing, running, hiking and --- more importantly for weight loss --- smoking! So I think I am going to take off another 35 then have a serious discussion with my doctor about the health issues. If he says I'm alright to live my life out at that weight then I'll get him to sign the WW form to set my goal higher. I do NOT want to be locked mentally in a battle to remove 20 lbs that isn't life-threatening just because of an arbitrary weight range set by WW. I listened to a 70+ year old woman today talk about how she can't get the last 5 lbs off - for what? If your body doesn't want to give it up let it keep it - I mean really, if it's not making you sick then do yourself a favour. At 70 I'll be thinking about orthopedics and elastic waists anyway so who cares!!
Happy New Year all, see you soon.
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