Wednesday Weight Loss.

Welcome back to week two of Wednesday Weight Loss, hosted by yours truly. This week I’ve lost three pounds. In actual fact, I’ve gained some and lost some more, with the end result being three pounds and a whole lotta feel good pumping through my body.

Total weight loss now 51 pounds - and I’m back to my Weight Watchers Gold Member range. I’ve started thinking about the shitty (yet wonderful) key I will get in September to mark the one year anniversary of reaching Gold. I suppose I’d better pop into WW at some point in the future so they remember I exist. I’m all about the the cheap motivating tools of global industry.

Congrats to all of you who have been working hard out there to take care of yourselves, whatever that means to you. And welcome to those of you who have decided that enough is enough, and your health matters more than that donut/unprotected sex/drugs/etc.

Last week we watched a TV show about toddlers who were obese. One little girl’s mother said, ‘She’s just like me. She just has to look at that cream cake and she’ll gain weight.’ The problem here is not looking at the cream cake, it is eating it. Let’s be realistic.

You make a ‘choice’ in your mind that you are prone to being fat, that merely looking at junk food will make your thighs gain new layers of cellulite - so you eat a bunch of nutritionally empty calories. I don’t want to sound harsh, but I know from personal experience. I was fat because I ate too much shit. It’s as simple as that.

I think it’s all about loving our bodies, our bumps, our wrinkles. I just question how many women really love their bodies when they are stuck in unhealthy patterns. I am probably one of the women who will have to fight every day, to make new decisions every hour, about the way I eat. I am not naturally thin. I am prone to eating huge amounts of shit, to loving pizzas and french fries - or just to never being able to stop eating something that tastes good, no matter how full I am. I’ve got to make decisions about how I feel emotionally when I am out of control with my eating.

I want to be able to be healthy: ie eat better, move around more. I think it’s that simple. I also think most people aren’t aware of the sheer volume of food they are eating. And some genuinely eat only a bit, but completely the wrong sort of food. I think a little educational programme never hurt anyone, and I would probably class WW as being loosely educational. It’s made me smarter about food, more realistic (I can eat normal food and still lose weight/maintain weight), and more focused on what I want to achieve.

For me, it’s about goal setting. And throughout this week I have thought about coming here today to update my weight loss, and that was pretty fucking motivational as well, let me tell you.

So here’s to the up weeks, the down weeks, and the stay-the-same weeks. How’d you all do?

Tags: healthy eating, weight loss, weight watchers