Last week I started weight watchers. People have asked me why I went, what provoked me etc. I really don’t know!! I try to blame it on my Mum, because she asked if I was interested in going with her, but she didn’t really push me, so I guess I was just willing to give it a try. I guess I finally decided I was going to do something about my self image. I knew I didn’t eat well, and I didn’t know how to. By going to weight watchers I could learn what was good for me!

I walked in there feeling low, and left feeling so optimistic! I thought there would be women in there weighing over 100kg, feeling sorry for themselves, and saying “why can’t I do it???” How wrong I was!! They’re all just like me – finally decided they’re not happy, and want to change it. There could be a variety of reasons – want to learn how to eat well (like me), already knew how to eat well just needed to learn more about exercise, or needed the constant pressures of “Weigh Ins” to keep their motivation levels high. I’m absolutely stoked though, because I was informed I only needed to lose 5kg!

One week on, and although I have eaten the odd bad thing – a bite of a chocolate cake on the weekend (which I couldn’t finish cause it was too sweet for me) a chocolate Cadbury Dream egg etc – I have still put 100% effort in it. I’m eating carrots for snacks, I’m looking for the healthy option of everything, rather than the bad. That’s not to say that I haven’t been tempted to go for the REALLY wrong things – like a meal at Red Rooster. I have been. Mat got a meal, and I got a baguette d’lite from Red Rooster (quite tasty actually, except for the mayo dripping onto your shirt because they put too much on!!), but they accidentally through in an extra regular chips. When we got home, Mat them in front of me, and I took one to eat. Had probably 5 chips total – YUK!! Too salty, too fatty, not for me.

It’s amazing that your whole phsyche on eating can change in just one week!! I have managed to change my habits, and I’m having a crack at cooking foods that I would never have dreamed of making. I tried to make a fried rice the other night, but wouldn’t you know it we had a blackout just when everything almost finished!! God must really think my food was going to taste like shit and tried to save me – wouldn’t blame him!! We packed everything away that we could (e.g. the rice had been done for about 5 mins before hand – was just finishing peas, eggs etc, so we put the rice in a container and stored it in the fridge) and when we tried the rice in the morning it was pretty feral!! So maybe the black out was for the best.

The whole system is based on a “point rating” for different foods, and adding up the points over a total day, then subtracting the “bonus” points that you get by exercising. For my weight group, I’m permitted a total of 20 points each day – unless I eat crap food, or a lot of food, I’m finding it difficult to actually reach that amount!!

ANYWAY, I had my first weigh in last night, and I was astounded. First, let me tell you what exercise I did last week:

3 days I took my dog for a 20 minute power walk at 5.30 in the mornings.

1 day 1/2 hour swimming at the pool doing laps of freestyle & breast stroke consecutively (swam a total of 500m in 1/2 hour)

Walked to the post office for work 5 times – 10 min. powerwalk there & back.

I think that was it….and ate healthy (apart from the things I mentioned above) – and the result is?

I lost a total of 1.1kg.

By eating in a healthy way, not buying the weight watchers low fat foods, and coping with every day items, I am SO impressed!! And I didn’t go out of my way to really exercise either – I just did normal things, that I should be doing all the time. The exception is swimming, but that’s because 2 of us at work are starting a thing where we go and swim laps twice a week. I’m thinking about maybe saying we just do it once a week – not sure yet if 2 times will be overkill, because it means that we’ll be eating our food while we’re trying to work.

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