Why You Shouldn't Skip A Meeting

Recently I switched my weigh-in days.  It's easier both for childcare and for my buddy to attend.  It's also WAY later in the day.  I'm fairly starving by the time the weigh-in happens.  If I want to play the glad game, I can eat at freakin' huge dinner.  I usually do.

This week the meeting numbers were down.  It's usually a smaller meeting, but there were only 14 or 15 people there.  Normally we have about 20.  It's nothing to be too upset about. 

Unless your leader does a traveling journal.  WW has journals that last for 3 months and are intended for you to track your points, your activities and to set weekly goals for yourself.  They're like a food journal/diary all in one.  Our meeting does a traveling one.  A person from our meeting takes the journal for a week, documents what they do and then brings it back to the next meeting for someone else to take.

With no volunteers, I got the traveling journal.  I feel immense pressure to eat more veggies and fruit than I ever have in my life.  Apparently if people are going to look at what I eat, I want to eat healthy.  Which I'm sure is the whole point of the book!

A Great Find

I am surrounded by people doing WW.  I'm not sure if that's God's way of giving me support or if I'm more tuned into it.  Like when you buy a new car and then you start seeing that car everywhere.

Awhile ago a friend told me about a ranch dressing that she found that was worth 1 point.  Ranch is my absolute favorite.  Then she told me it was Johnny's and I knew I had to try it.  She warned that it was a bit peppery, but she liked it.

I tried it last night for the first time and it's actually really good.  It does have quite a bit of pepper to it that really hits after you swallow.  It doesn't taste like 1 point salad dressing. 

Thank you Johnny for making my salads taste great and low points.  You are my new food hero.

10%

I've made it to another milestone.  I've lost 10% of my starting weight.  In all actuality, I've lost a bit more.  Yesterday at my WW meeting, I got my 10% keychain.

As I got on the scale and realized I reached this goal in such a short time, they are a little concerned that I'm losing weight too fast.  In all honesty, I'm just following the program.  I'm not deviating.  That's just how quickly I'm losing it. 

Apparently all the steak fries dipped in ranch was really bad for me.  Now that I haven't had one for 2 months, my body is finally shedding years of steak fries dripping with ranch.  If the speed of loss is any indication, I used to eat quite a few of them.

Bloomsday

This weekend was our annual Bloomsday Run.  It's a 12k or 7.46 mile race.  I've been doing it since I was 7.  I missed a few years, but I've done more of them than I've missed.

The course has changed over the years based upon changes in our city or to make it easier for the runners.  This year I wore a pedometer to see exactly how many steps I took.  From my car, through the race and back to my car was 20,236 steps.  That's just over 10 miles.

My official time was 1:44:10.  That's about a 14 minute mile.  For someone who is carrying extra weight and did no training, I'm glad with this time.  I just wanted to do it in under 2 hours and to shave over 15 minutes off that, is more than I hoped.

Next year maybe I can shave another 15 minutes off my time!