But I weighed myself at home, on my official Weight Watchers(tm) scale, and am sad to report yet another gain. About another pound. Doesn't sound like much but in the past few weeks I've seen my weight slowly but surely creep up from 180 to what it is now, @ 186.0.
Before anyone suggests it, I did a pregnancy test this morning. Negatory, ol' pal, sorry! Nope, it's just plain ordinary why-aren't-you-exercising-more-Chrissy? fat.
I've decided to try a couple of things, as detailed below:
1. TRACK. I'm supposed to be in Weight Watchers, right? So why not actually do what they tell me to do and track my food every day? Sigh. Well, the reason is I really HATE having to track my food every day. And I got out of the habit of doing it. But I'll try, this week only, and see if there's something I'm missing in my eating habits.
2. MOVE. I did this last week and it didn't seem to have any effect; but I'll continue to do my treadmill workout every other day.
3. RELAX. I have to be careful about this one, because it might sound like I'm just giving myself permission to sit in front of the TV and eat bon-bons all day for the rest of my life. (Mmmmm ... bon-bons!)
That's not it! But perhaps I should relax a little and not worry so much about the numbers on the scale. Because here's the thing:
a. I'm eating good food, for the most part. No more marathon binge junkets between KFC and Popeye's anymore.
b. I do exercise fairly often - I have a nice leisurely walk of about half an hour every morning, from the train station to my office. At my job - which is going to end on December 11th. Which leads to:
c. When my job ends, I have faith that I will not just sit around and watch TV all day. The first week I'll cut myself a little slack, but I plan to work out a schedule that incorporates my online classes, working around the house and the garden, and yes, EXERCISING!
But meantime I'm not going to beat myself up if I get a little nuts about food issues for a while. I'm losing my job, dammit - if eating a Beard Papa Vanilla Cream Puff at Famima's once a week helps me deal with that, then so be it!
2 comments:
Famima? What kind of store is that? I keep passing them by and I've never stopped in one because I don't know what a Famima is going to try to sell to me. Is it a grocery store or a Liquor Store?
Oh, and what kind of treadmill are you using? I run a treadmill review site and my readers would sure like to know what you think....if you would be so gracious.
Hi John - Famima! (don't forget the exclamation point!) is a chain of convenience stores that originated in Japan. They're very popular and opening lots of locatins in downtown L.A.
And the treadmill I use is a HealthRider 5500i. We like it a lot - got it used from our friends at "It Figures" when they went out of business, and it works just fine.
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