October 27, 2005
Why lose weight?
OOPs, haven't written since I went back to school. It's been a busy year, and a very frustrating one. Lots of contruction, new staff, less money, etc, etc. Stress sometimes gets the better of me, but I try to leave work at work and enjoy the rest of my life. Which isn't to say that I don't love my job, because I do. I really love working with the kids, helping them research and find the answers.
I was thinking about losing weight (gee, how unusual). Why lose weight? I mean, I remember when I was really heavy, and I felt that there was no help for me. What changes someone's mind? What's the click? I don't know what mine was...I went to WW convinced I wouldn't lose. And then I did. Is is that overweight people get so used to things not being the way we want, that we figure we should just shut up and get used to it? Or get over it?
I get so frustrated with myself when I screw up. And I don't mean, oh, I ate some wrong foods, but really screw up, where I can't get back on track for weeks! My birthday was a couple weeks ago, and so I let things go a little, never thinking I'd have a hard time coming back. I mean, I know that WW is a life thing. I know it...it's either WW, or weight gain. But I just kept putting off that "return to sensibility" thing each day. It was almost like I wanted to get in all the naughty foods I could before I started over. I gained a few pounds thanks to that. I'm at 208 now, but I expect to have a good loss next week. The first week back in business you always do.
But back to the click. Someone asked me, how can we convince people to give WW core plan a try? How do we convince them that it's not a "DIET", and so much better than anything else out there? (it's not, you know...i definitely don't feel like I'm dieting...just eating better).
I don't know. Some people have given up so drastically that they'd rather have SURGERY to lose weight. I guess the first thing that has to happen is that an overweight person needs to feel that they are worth something. For me- my mother joined with me, and paid for me, and encouraged me. And that attention, I guess, did the trick. And gave me the click.
Posted by Mary Elizabeth on October 27, 2005 01:02 PM
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