Also known as My Weight Loss Journey (I explain the 55, read on…)
I’m guessing this will hit home for a few people. Unfortunately I don’t have the excuse of a recent pregnancy (like many of my clients) for the weight gain of the last several (ahem) years. Blame it on age, I guess. Or lifestyle change (hmmm, is it any coincidence that when I started my business my weight increased?).
Anyway, speaking as a person who was super thin her entire life until several years ago, carrying more weight around than is comfortable has been a burden in more ways than one. It has permeated my everyday life like nothing else. Every morning there is the WHAT TO WEAR question. Well, what fits? What looks good? Amend that, what looks acceptable? It’s a bummer every day. Every year there is the failed commitment. Every clothes shopping expedition is painful. So I finally got really, really tired of the whole thing. I’m capable of change, I’m able to adapt, I have will power. I don’t know where it’s been but I know that I have it. I just needed a PLAN.
So, at the end of December, 2009 – I thought I’d get a jump start on the new year – I finally settled on a plan. I think I spent all of 2009 trolling around looking for ‘the right one’ (delaying tactic) and just could not pull the trigger. Since I am a night owl those of you who are will appreciate that there are a bazillion infomercials on at night and a LOT of them tout a weight loss / exercise program. So I think I’ve seen them all. Oh, and I’ve tried a few in the past but nothing seems to have worked or at least stuck.
The plan? I joined Weight Watchers. But – only because I could do it ONLINE and on my own time. I’m a BIG online kinda person. Oh and – big PLUS – they have an iPhone app. I saw this and I was THERE! Me and my iPhone, we are inseparable. No meetings for me, sorry, just not my style and I honestly don’t have the time. Or, I should say that because my schedule is so erratic that the possibility of me being anywhere (for personal reasons) at the same time every week is pretty remote. And Weight Watchers seems to have a pretty good plan, I checked it out. Plus I’ve been keeping a very informal poll the last year or two – whenever I saw someone who lost weight I’d ask how and quite often the answer was ‘Weight Watchers.’ Gee, they can’t all be wrong, there must be something there. So Weight Watchers it is.
Since I’ve stuck with this for a bit over a month now, to cement my commitment I made the decision to start blogging about it. I thought you would all appreciate it and maybe even encourage me with your success stories. Besides, once everyone knows there’s no way to back down, I’ll just have to keep moving forward or suffer the humiliation of defeat at the hands of my own willpower. Not happening this time!! No sirree!!
So here’s where I am to date – it’s been a total loss of a little less than 2 pounds per week, with extreme fluctations in the middle weeks (read, didn’t lose very much there). I have to tell you that when I was younger it used to be a lot easier to lose weight. Go without a few things and BAM – there went 5 pounds (of course that was when that was ALL I had to lose). Well, it’s a WHOLE new ballgame these days.
And though I’m not divulging how much I intend to lose I will say that to get back to my ‘regular weight’ before all this went awry, at the current rate of loss, it will be about 4.3 months before I’m where I want to be. Which is almost exactly on my birthday – and it’s a big one this year. So –
Here’s where the 55 comes into play. This has now become my ‘Countdown to 55,’ which is the age (gasp) I’ll be on May 5 this year – my gosh, yet another disclosure but what the heck. See, I was born on 5/5/55 so this is a BIG birthday for me, at least it feels that way. And, the gift I’m giving myself will be the new me. So, wish me luck everyone and I’ll continue to report back…
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