Thursday, April 1, 2010

What I have learned this week

It is okay to eat birthday cake on your birthday and drink a glass of wine, but it doesn't give me that sense of satisfaction that it once used to. In fact, it makes me feel like I have gorged myself for about 24 hours.

I weighed in with a .6lb loss tonight, nothing to write home about but I am happy there was no gain and to be honest, I wasn't expecting anything at all.

Desserts are desserts are desserts. Whether they come in a Weight Watchers box and only have 2 points, they are still desserts. I must cut back on them!

I drank a Starbucks today and did not enjoy it. Will I ever learn?

I have lapsed in writing down my food each day - "you bite it you write it" - and that has not helped me achieve success this week. I will be making more of an effort over the next 7 days to write every single thing down.

I love walking! I am so surprised at myself because I hate exercise. But I absolutely love walking everywhere now. I even walked today when there was a semi blizzard outside! Actually my walking partner made me duck into the parking garage and we realized that there are five floors and you have to walk up a steep incline to get to each floor. So we walked to the top and then we walked down again and did not have to suffer the blizzard. But I was happy to walk in the snow!

I am not losing as much weight as I would like - it has taken me 4 weeks to achieve what I did in my first week with the South Beach diet - however, slow and steady with no cravings is working for me and I feel better.

I love getting compliments on how I am losing weight by people I have not seen in a while!

2 comments:

  1. It's supposed to be better to lose weight that slowly. More of a chance of keeping it off. Good job so far!!! I know you can do it and hey, I might even join you at some point!

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  2. You're doing great, Sally! I'm getting lax on writing my food down too.....I try to calculate it in my head....but I KNOW I can't remember anything. Anyway, I have to go to a mtg this week because I missed the last 2 weeks due to vacation. If I didn't gain 10lbs from Vegas....I'll consider that a 'good job'. We did walk tons there though.....I like it when its warm....I don't know about the snow though. ;)

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