Weight Watcher’s Update
I’m up .4 pounds this week. Bugger. Oh well, these things happen. It usually means that I'm slacking off just a little. Time to tighten up things a bit then. Little more exercise, keep up with the food diary, start measuring instead of eyeballing portions, that sort of thing. Besides, the home scale was actually down this morning, so I'm not too worried.
But it was a bad meeting this morning too. My regular WW lecturer took a vacation day, and the woman who is her regular substitute just doesn’t take the same tone. My regular lecturer is really upbeat and funny. And she focuses on what you’re gaining by following the program, not on what you have to give up. You can tell her sub is one of those women who thinks that dieting is hard work, and that she resents having to do that work. I don’t want a lecturer who resents the effort it takes to be healthy.
Today’s topic for discussion was “The Recreational Eating Olympics.” We were supposed to share stories (from before Weight Watchers) about how much we used to eat. I don’t see much point in talking about eating an entire large tub of buttered popcorn at the movies, or inhaling an entire bag of chips, or snacking uncontrollably all day. I don’t want to spend my meeting time focusing on bad, unhealthy behaviors, because that just reinforces those behaviors. I’d rather spend my time talking about being healthy, and reinforcing good behaviors.
And then at the end of the meeting, she says, “I always forget the celebrations. Did anyone lose weight this week?” And the way she said it made it sound like she really didn’t expect to hear that anyone had lost weight! We’re in a Weight Watcher’s meeting for crying out loud! Of course we should be losing weight! Arrggghh.
My regular lecturer better be back next week. ::grumble::
But it was a bad meeting this morning too. My regular WW lecturer took a vacation day, and the woman who is her regular substitute just doesn’t take the same tone. My regular lecturer is really upbeat and funny. And she focuses on what you’re gaining by following the program, not on what you have to give up. You can tell her sub is one of those women who thinks that dieting is hard work, and that she resents having to do that work. I don’t want a lecturer who resents the effort it takes to be healthy.
Today’s topic for discussion was “The Recreational Eating Olympics.” We were supposed to share stories (from before Weight Watchers) about how much we used to eat. I don’t see much point in talking about eating an entire large tub of buttered popcorn at the movies, or inhaling an entire bag of chips, or snacking uncontrollably all day. I don’t want to spend my meeting time focusing on bad, unhealthy behaviors, because that just reinforces those behaviors. I’d rather spend my time talking about being healthy, and reinforcing good behaviors.
And then at the end of the meeting, she says, “I always forget the celebrations. Did anyone lose weight this week?” And the way she said it made it sound like she really didn’t expect to hear that anyone had lost weight! We’re in a Weight Watcher’s meeting for crying out loud! Of course we should be losing weight! Arrggghh.
My regular lecturer better be back next week. ::grumble::