Stizz To The Ale

That last blog is STALE, so I thought I would update you on The War Against The Muffin Top, as well as a few other things.

Last week on my way to Weight Watchers (hereafter referred to as "WW"), I stopped at home to pick up my weight tracker booklet thingie and happened to step on my home scale before I went. I was not pleased with what I saw, but I couldn't say I was totally unhappy, either. There was a loss, just not as great as I'd hoped.

Fast forward to when I stepped on the scale that night. The very impressed look came across the face of the woman checking me in. She told me I'd lost twice what I thought I had and told me to keep up the good work.

While I was elated to see the number printed on the booklet going down, I was kind of bummed, because this scenario just reinforced my suspicion that WW jacks up your starting weight a few pounds so that you show enough progress in the first week to keep going and stay motivated for the next. Still, it worked for me! I went to Trader Joe's and stocked up on a bunch of ridiculously healthy food, feeling that it was possible for me to shed these remaining pounds with as much resolve and energy as the previous 95.

Of course, I then proceeded to eat out for practically every meal in the days following, my wallet and the Core Plan taking the hits all along the way, but my conscience suffered the most. I don't know why I do it to myself. I do well, make progress, and then get lazy and try to coast on the foundation I've built up to that point. It's a pattern for my WHOLE LIFE.

So, it's a matter of breaking the pattern and not putting too much undue pressure on myself.

I told MFDC about the 4 pounds, as well as my WW conspiracy theory. He said, in this situation, he was choosing to see the glass as half full so, to him, the four pounds was four pounds. One of the billions of reasons why I am filled with such warm, gooey love for that man.

Outside of that, there really isn't too much going on. Just trying to find ways to get my mind to stop racing and to be better to myself.