The post below wasn't negative but wasn't really positive either. So here are my positive thoughts:
This is a great time of year to be unemployed in Florida, my favorite time of the year. I have yard work to do but it's not too hot to do it. I can walk, and wander the garden center to find ways to spruce up the yard on the cheap.
Praise for Weight Watchers Online - I've lost about 10, 11 pounds, which is hardly impressive, but that is totally on me, because I have been making exceptions for happy hours and dinners out and lunches out and on and on, because for someone with no job and two mortgages I sure do eat out a lot - other people usually pay, but I do eat out a lot. But that's not why I praise WW. I praise WW Online because the little daily checklist of water and fruits and vegetables and exercise and vitamins and dairy has really had an effect on my thought processes - I am drinking more water and remembering the vitamin and getting enough calcium and fruit and veggies - much more than I did before. And the weight may be coming off a bit slowly, but it IS coming off, and painlessly. It's a little cheery checklist to help me remember the goals I should hit each day, and I really do use it. And I'm paying attention to portion control, too, for I think the first time since I was a teenager.
And because I am doing all of these good things, I feel great. Really great. My brain fog, waves of tiredness, etc., have been reduced to barely noticeable, and I think I owe that to the healthy eating habits WW has encouraged. I sleep 8 or 9 hours at night - for the first time in, oh, I don't know, 15 years? Despite the crazy instability of everything around me, I feel centered. It'll all work out, and it will be better than before. I just know it.
I didn't write a whole lot of details about the brain aneurysm and surgery and recovery when it happened, at first because I couldn't see or think long enough to do it, and then because I was so happy to feel "normal" again, all I wanted to do was put it behind me. But I can't do that - it was a truly transformational experience, and it took me a full year to process it. I'll try to organize my ramblings about that as I figure out how to celebrate my Annie-versary, or as I think of it, Yay, I'm Not DEAD!
So though I can't see my future, the present is quite fine. It'll all work out.
whoa, girl, 10 lbs is HUGE... go lift a 10 pound roast at the store, heh and tell me that's not an acheivement. and yay for getting your perspective back. Need a distraction and a serious hoot? try online dating, heh. I did on and off for 4 years. Met some great people, fell in love a time or two. no regrets. and it'll fer shure take your mind of the yard...
ReplyDeleteWell, the 10 pounds is nice but I've been doing it at the rate of about a half a pound a week, and that is purely my fault because my diligence has, shall we say, wavered. I've noodled around with online dating a bit, never really got into it. Maybe I should. I definitely need a distraction these days!
ReplyDeleteoh - i think the slow'n'steady is proof that you still can eat out, have a life, hang with the home grrls, and still be slender. nah - too fast and you don't have time to process things.
ReplyDeleteyea!! for you grrrrrl.
The horoscope is very encouraging. Even if you put no faith in that sort of thing, reading it makes you think it just might happen, and we all know how that goes.
ReplyDeleteI used to think my mother was crazy for her "you get the good you believe you will get" lectures, but now I see the psychology at work. Weight Watchers, horoscopes,the Law of Attraction, it's all just a way of reminding us that we are in charge of own life, isn't it?
Congratulations on the 10 pounds; is it doctors who say that rate- a half pound a week- is ideal? If you stay positive about it, as you are, it will add up to your goal wight and STAY off, too. Good on ya..
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