Hey! Where's My Feet?

Can I get a WOOT!?  At least I think we need a woot... Training for the new job has taken me from home on the weekdays for a whole month!  During that month I had decided to concentrate on eating better, actually following my diet plan and exercising more since the hotel has a "fitness center".  Week one I lost 6 pounds!  Week two I didn't go up or down... Week three, I didn't even bother to seriously weigh myself because I'd been sick most that week and nothing had been agreeing with tum tum.  So here we are end of week four - the LAST DAY to be exact!  Earlier this week after coming back from lunch a classmate went out of her way, came over to see me and said "I don't know if you've been trying but you look like you've been losing weight!"  And she was excited for me!  How exciting is that?  How encouraging is that!?  She made my day!  Not to mention the fact that even Roy could tell my butt and my mid section looks smaller too!...

So, yeah… I joined Weight Watchers in January.   Why didn’t you all tell me they changed their program?!   It’s the same concept, except you’re eating more protein and less carbs.   LESS CARBS!?   Are you serious!?   Uhhh yeah they were.   Now it wasn’t totally horrible because you could still eat them, they just counted higher in the point system.   Which I suppose wasn’t all that horrible either since I was allowed a bazillion points.   But I just wasn’t feeling it… I tried following it; I did follow it, for a couple weeks… maybe 3 or 4.   I suppose I could have just gone back to the old program on my own, after all I do still have the old “point’s calculator” but you know what – after 3-4 weeks of little to no success I said screw it!   I had adopted a new theory… that I was going to be happy!   If that meant having a pizza over a salad then so be it!   Not that I have anything against salads, I LOVE them… but stick a pi...

So there I was plugging along with the weight loss plan… doing well, then all of a sudden WHAMMO, the holidays hit.   My philosophy toward this past holiday season was, “Eat whatever the hell I want & deal with it later.”   Whoops… another poor decision made by my alter ego, Honey Summers.   If you follow along you may remember I was down 20 pounds! 20 freaking pounds – WOOT!   Hold the woot… I gained 12 back… crap.   Well ya know what, so what… I’m not going to feel one bit guilty about it, I’m not going to beat myself up over it… I had a nice holiday, enjoyed some awesome food (and choked down some not so awesome) and I loved it!   I’ve never felt guilty about not doing the laundry, so I’m not going to feel guilty about this either… I’ll just take care of it now. To start the New Year off, as I do most new years, I’ve joined Weight Watchers again!   It’s different… it’s through my employer #1 and #2 the point system has changed.   Our offici...

OK... so I started this blog about 4 months ago with the hopes that it would hold me accountable and really step off the lazy train and get back into shape - well, at least a better shape than what I'm in right now.  I can honestly say that I'm still under 300, even under 290... but that 280-290 range is a bouncing yo-yo. In just a short two weeks I'll be facing the firing squad... Weight Watchers.  The good folks at work have brought in WW, so now there's no excuse... can't say I'm to busy for check in's and weekly meetings now cause they're coming to me - which is usually a great option, but dang.  I'm actually quite excited about it...  because I know I always do well with their program, but mostly because I usually drop 20ish pounds faster than Snoop Dogg can drop it like it's hot!  Which means what?  It means within the next month I should be 260-270 range and that's roughly only 20 pounds heavier than what I was before all these babie...

Think, think, think…. Re-think.   That’s what I’m doing, re-thinking this whole healthy eating diet scheme I’ve been attempting.   Weight Watchers (WW) has always worked fairly well for me, as long as I stick with it.   So that’s kinda what I’ve been doing…   using WW as a foundation to my healthy eating plan… worked for the first 20 pounds but now I’m stuck again and thinking maybe WW isn’t the way to go anymore… plus there are other potential health issues that could possibly benefit from what I’m proposing as a change. Several months ago my sweet cousin Robin mentioned the possibility of me having gluten intolerances… as usual I brushed it off and said whatever.   Now, just because I pushed the thought aside doesn’t mean I forgot about it… in reality, I probably just didn’t have the time to take on a new research project – still don’t.   It has to be done… off & on I’ve been reading about all this gluten free “hype” and based on what I’ve read, it mi...

Ahhh, the holiday season is upon us.   What’s the thing I look forward to the most during the holidays… FOOD!   All the yummy delicious food!   Turkey, ham, sweet taters, green bean casserole pies & cookies galore!   Ugh… it wreaks havoc on everyone’s healthy eating plan – especially mine!   I’d be willing to bet that most people, whether dieting or not, go hog wild from Thanksgiving through New Years with the over eating. 80% of the time I’m really trying to to the right thing, eat the right things and 20% of the time I have a little wiggle room to falter and “enjoy” my food – it allows me to keep my “stick with it” mentality.   I’m gonna call this my 20% rule… so I don’t go nuts during the holidays, so I can relax & enjoy without worry.   Of course that means the other 80% I’ll have to really focus on eating healthy and perhaps find some new low fat recipes or meal ideas which is ok with me cause I LOVE LOVE LOVE new recipes!   I’m addic...

I had the opportunity to try something tonight that I’ve been wanting to do for months now – Zumba!  It was a tossup between that and Jazzercise, which I’m thinking are fairly closely related. ZUMBA is a trade name for a dance fitness program created by dancer and choreographer Perez in Colombia during the 1990s. The program combines Latin and international music with dance in an effort to make exercise fun. (Thanks Wikipedia)  So how did I like it?  Well…. Let’s clear the air right now, it was fun & I liked it… that’s it, plain and simple.  You won’t ever hear or see me get excited about anything that makes me move for 50 minutes straight, sweat like a pig and smell like one too!  Whether it is Zumba, Jazzercise, moving furniture etc… it’s just not going to make me jump up and down and say WooHoo!  But it’s necessary… if I want to get my old svelte pole dancing body back, I must exercise, and I must sweat in the process… It’s just one of those thing...