Not too good ~
that's how I've been at updating all of my blogs and well, actually how I've been at my food journal and sticking to my plan. It's amazing how you forget what you've eaten in a day ( I can't remember from morning to afternoon) if you don't write it down. I have several days in my journal that have breakfast and lunch written down but nothing for dinner. I know I didn't miss a meal that night but obviously forgot to write it down. I also have other days that I got the date written and that is about it. Well, it's Monday! A new day! A new week! I ate a lot of yummy food this past weekend between my husbands birthday celebration, my mother in laws birthday celebration, & my in laws 50th wedding anniversary celebration. You can go on over and check out my pics at my other blog here.
I started thinking about this blog this past weekend and how disappointing it might be since we've hardly updated it and it doesn't seem to be filled with posts of huge loses but you wanna know something? It's REAL! It's the real deal! and if you are like me ~ losing weight isn't just a daily struggle it's an hourly struggle. I've thought at least a dozen times in the last week that I should stop Weight Watchers and go to the one thing that has worked best for me and that is the low carb Atkins diet. I lost a bunch of weight and maintained it for 3 years. HOWEVER, I cannot stomach a lot of meat, cheese, and eggs like I did during those 3 years. It's like watermelon - we used to eat it all the time as kids. My dad would cut it open and put it out on the picnic table in the backyard, give us lots of spoons and my sisters and the neighborhood kids would dig in. TOO much watermelon as a kid and it's something I cannot eat now.
Wanna know something else, I'm 10 lbs. heavier now then when I started that diet in 2000 and 35 lbs heavier then when I was at my lowest weight in 2003 but it crept back on slowly.
I've started and quit the low carb thing probably 25 times this year alone.

This time around I wanted to be REAL to myself and get to a point where I was eating to nourish my body, mind and soul and not because something taste good or I'm having a craving for it or just because it's there (like the 3 krispy creme donuts yesterday were just "there" and I ate them)!

So back to it being REAL! It's a real struggle to get it off and keep it off! I know you understand where I'm coming from. I'm trying to keep it real and like I say to my kids sometimes - "get real" when they are being unreasonable - I need to get real about my food journal and sticking to a plan to be healthier!
Today is a NEW DAY! Thank God!
Have a wonderful week. I'll be back to post my weight loss on Friday!
Sandy

Happenings...

Okay, so I have not been around a while and for a weight loss blog you know what that means.... I have been bad, very, very, bad. I will make no excuses. I brain told the hand to feed the mouth and the hand obediently complied.
My sister, Sandy, who is ( or was before she came here this weekend) doing well on program came for a short visit with my 3 nephews so we had six boys in the home, 3 of which are teens, taller than us, and very hungry beings. What are two moms to do but feed them tons and of course test all the food to make sure it wasn't poison.

I thought I'd share our ww menus with you for the weekend.
Here goes...
Friday dinner
5 pieces of papa john's pizza 50pts.
Sat. movie popcorn 20 points
fried chicken burritos 15 points each
cheese cake 8 points a piece

Sunday
spagetti with fried meatballs 15 points
you get the picture. We have eaten our points for the month but we will not let that stop us from starting again this morning. :) Why is it when we have company everything is about the food??? It's like it is a get out of jail free card. I know I am not in jail but sometimes I feel like I am because I don't want to let go of certain foods (carmel fraps) that I like. I know that there are ways to make your favorite foods into a lower calorie food but I think sometimes I am too lazy for that. How bout you? Do your visits with relatives or friends revolve around food? Do you use these visits as a time to slip, or in our case flat out fall, off program? We would love to here what happens in your lives in this very rewarding, yet sometimes frustrating path to weight loss.
Linda

First things first! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BROTHER IN LAW DAVID! Love ya and glad we're here celebrating your special day with you!

Second, No WW meeting today!
I'm away from town so won't be able to go to my Weight Watchers meeting or weigh in today. I feel good though. Been following the plan and more than that really trying to make it life change instead of a diet! Diets for me are temporary ~ a life change is what I need so that I can eat and know that it is going to benefit my body not sit on it for years - you know what I mean.
I'm at my older sister Linda's house in Memphis and with 6 boys between us we're sure to have a grand time with lots of fun and lots of NOISE ~ gotta love it!
If you want to see an amazing before and after you have to go on over to http://donnadowney.typepad.com/ She has been doing Nutrasystem and looks fabulous! You have to scroll down in her posts to see her and she is so incredibly funny! Watch her videos. She's a scrapbooking goodess and I absolutely love her inspirational personality ~ oh, and did I mention she PAINTS!
Have a fabulous weekend!
Sandy