Tracking, Spaces, Routines

If it has not been obvious, I am a Weight Watchers member.  I have been for many years.....more off than on but that is a story for another day.  I even have the first cookbook the Jean N (can't spell her last name.....but the founder of WW).  My grandmother, God love her, thought her chubby granddaughter needed the help.

For the most part I am a faithful tracker........well, I did take a couple of months off.  I had my pity party that if I could not exercise, why track what I eat.  Did it matter?  I know it did matter but could not wrap my head around it.  What is crazy is I have been watching people around me losing like crazy.....why?  Let's say it together......TRACKING!  One high school friend has almost lost half his starting body weight.  How did he do it?  I eats the same thing every day for breakfast, snack, lunch and snack.  Dinner he varies as I am sure his family would get bored with eating the same boring chicken every night.

Tracking is not hard.  Is it necessary?  I really do think so.  Our mindless eating (one cookie won't kill me) will get us into trouble.  An extra point here, two there, no enough activity will help the pounds creep back.  Shoot, WW has apps of every kind, paper trackers, books....all sorts of tools to help us be successful.

In the new version of Weight Watchers 360, there are even more tools.  They are my title today.  I have recommitted to tracking.  I can do it on my computer, my phone, my iPad....they have made it very easy for me.....I can't screw it up!  Well.......you understand what I mean.

Spaces is one of my prides today (yesterday too) as I took the time to clean the fridge.  OMG the stuff that was in there that was old.  Some looked like a science experiment and other things just looked wilted and beyond their time.  I was sad for the money I was throwing out and have made a promise to myself that I will not let that happen anymore.  Food is too expensive to be lackadaisical with what I have purchased and not use it.  Once it was clean, I started cooking!  I looked up recipes (split pea soup....Emeril has a great one) and made 2 pots of soup.  Good old chicken soup and Split Pea (no ham).  I had purchased some chicken breasts and was afraid they might be bad.....luck was on my side and they were fine.  I stuffed them with low fat ricotta cheese and spinach, topped them with salsa and added a little white wine to it for added moisture.  All point friendly.  I went to the grocery and got fruit, frozen veggies and am good to go for the week.  My space in my kitchen is a good place for me.  Everything there is friendly and I don't have to worry about whether something will sabotage my journey.

Another friendly space is my bedroom AKA the cave!  No food is allowed in the cave, liquid beverage only.  There has to be a place where I don't have to worry about food.  The dog and I have our safe haven......and all is good there.

Let's face it, we are all creatures of habit.  Routine can be our friend.  I love knowing that I have my pedometer on and can challenge myself to move a little more today than yesterday.  I like knowing that I have a few things readily available for breakfast so no thought process needed there.  I have snacks to grab with no thought of failure. 

I need to work on my exercise routine.  More like get back to it.  As I said the other day I took my first class and although I did plan tomorrow to be number 2 it might have to wait for the weekend.  I say that as being an accountant, year end is surrounding me and those deadlines don't care if I want to work out.  I will get out and take Sassy for a walk.  She will love it.  She loves the cold weather and running around like a fool (a fool on a leash!)

I did have my first weigh in for 2013 this morning (ww at the office......greatest thing I did for me and my work buddies) and had a success on the scale.  That made my day!  I will allow the momentum and joy of that feeling today carry me through the week.  There is no such thing as failure UNLESS I say it is failure.  I make choices all day long.  If my choice is to indulge in a piece of chocolate, good for me.  If I bite it, I write it.  The word 'bad' is banned from my vocabulary unless I am talking about something spoiled.  I am not bad for making a choice......I am a human making a choice.  If I choose to have something NOT point friendly I have to give something up to accommodate it.

This is my year for success.  I know it.....I feel it....I will achieve it and unlike the celebrities who endorse WW, I don't have chefs, trainers and the like in my corner.  I do, however, have all my friends who cheer me on and for that I am the luckiest girl in the world!

See you soon!