After the usual good morning banter at Weight Watchers, I stepped on the scale, knowing full well that I had gained some weight, but just how much was the BIG question. The answer came quickly when I saw my leader writing +2.2 on my chart. I had a smile on my face and told her that it was o.k. and that I’m back on track and I can lose that. This is life! This is ups and downs on the scale just like there are ups and downs in my life, just like there are ups and downs in your life.
What are my choices here? I”m not going to cry, I’m not going to drop to my knees like Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes and scream, “damn you all, damn you all to Hell”, well I kind of wanted to do that to the cookies, but that is in the past or just give up? What’s done is done. I can’t change the past. I can only move forward and that is what I will keep doing.
I’m not making any new year resolutions, but I do have some new goals for 2012. I plan to finish writing Sub Scouts (screenplay), I plan to finish writing one of my books, I plan to go to yoga more and start a routine of Pilates reformer classes for 12 weeks. I plan to keep taking good care of myself.
I would like to shrink Pudgers. Pudgers is my belly and I know that thing is not going away, but I would like to make it smaller and firmer. A long line of ancestry has finally made me realize that Pudgers will always be with me. My grandma has always been a small woman even during her pregnancies, but she has a pooch. I’m sure you will be reading a lot the next few months about the trials, tribulations, and adventures of Pudgers. Hey, maybe I’ll write it as a book!
I feel great about another goal I shared with my Weight Watchers group, today. I want to be better about how I eat all week. I am good about staying within my PointsPlus range, but I usually use all of my extra ones by Sunday because I indulge in things or go out to eat. I would like to pace myself more and not feel so frantic Monday through Thursday about burning off the calories, eating nothing but vegetables and fish. That’s just silly. I have been doing that over the past few months and it has made me realize that it isn’t a lifestyle. That’s an unfair assessment on a weekly scale. Sometimes on Thursdays after I leave the meeting I go to Starbucks and treat myself to a salted caramel mocha, which even though I get it with no whip and skim milk, it’s still loaded with sugar. I’m not saying that I’ll never have another one, but I want to look forward to it as an occassional treat, not a go to after my week has started over. I left my meeting, today and went to lunch with my girls. We went to Panera where I had a cup of black bean soup and a classic salad with low-fat balsamic vinaigrette dressing. It was substantial and very low in PP. I feel more optimistic about my goal already. I look up the PP for them on http://www.dwlz.com/restaurants.html .
Do you make resolutions? If so what are they? Do you have any goals for 2012?
