So I guess I discovered yesterday that walking isn’t as scary as first imagined. After roughly 6km yesterday (taking into account that I parked at University/Richmond and met my coworkers at Yonge/Queen), I decided this morning to walk to the subway station, about 1.6km. And then on the way home, I decided to walk again, so there’s another 1.6km. Thank goodness I have comfy shoes.
I’m happy to announce that since I started Weight Watchers in June with Crarie that I’ve lost a total of 30.6 pounds. This is the first time in about 5 years that I’ve been under 300 (297.0!). I’m sort of wondering if I’m going to run into the same plateau at 290 that I did last time I tried this in Rick’s Weight Loss Challenge (which I won, yet strangely never collected my dinner, whatupwiddat!?).
I’ve run into some adversity lately in wanting to stick with the weight loss plan. Not that I don’t want to lose, as I do, but losing the willpower to stick to eating the right things. Care and I switched from WW’s Core plan to the Flex plan (she switched last week, I switched this week) and it looks like it’s going to be a little easier, as you’re not really lulled into being limited by the ‘free’ food in the Core plan – now I can eat whatever I feel like by spending my points on it. Crappier food = more points = less other food. But at least there won’t be the same kind of cravings that I had before. Hopefully this will get me back focused on what I want to be doing.
Just to put that into perspective… at my current weight level I’m assigned 31 points per day. Most healthy things like fruit and vegetables are 0 points, low-fat meats are 2-4 points per serving… and a piece of Jack Astors’ Pan Bread with Cheese? One serving (which would be one of the six ‘puffs’ in the loaf)… 27 points. Even their Greek Salad is 27 points. Quite disgusting, really.
Have a good one!