CathyM Weight Loss & Health Blog

Haven’t written in a few days. Partly because I have been busy, partly because I didn’t want to talk about gaining a pound. A pound is nothing, it could be water weight. Today I am down to 173 so I can brag about it. If I am up in weight tomorrow, I will probably keep it to myself.

I participated in a diet program during the 80’s where we had to weigh in daily with a counselor. I would stop by on my way into work. The daily weigh in was to keep us on track and the counselors were motivating when they congratulated us on weight loss. However, I absolutely hated the days when I was even or up in pounds. The counselor would ask , “What did you eat yesterday? What did you do different? Did you exercise?” I didn’t want to have a long conversation at that point, I knew I was on track and would see the weight loss within the upcoming days. Now, when I did get off track too much, that’s when I would go ahead and drop the program and be done with weight loss for a few years. Wonder if that will happen with this blog. Will I get off track and give it up? I am trying to make this a long term commitment. We’ll see if I can do it.

I often have thought that I could eat whatever I want for 11 months out of the year and then diet for one month. Well, almost. In reality what happens is that I eat mostly healthy but as much as I want and about every 5 years I have to loose 15 – 20 pounds. That’s where I am at now, the last time I did a similar weight loss was 2000-2001 and before that it was 1996.

I think I will like the anonymity of joining an online weight lost program. It’ll be part of a “program” but not having to tell my life history to a counselor unless I want to. He he, and that’s what I am doing in this blog. I have been too busy too start my evaluation of online programs but I will get to it.

Enough rambling.

Posted June 15th, 2006 under Motivation. RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.