Oh my, what a week!! I realized late last night that I had not updated you on my Thanksgiving choices. My Thanksgiving celebrations with family and friends kept me on the road more days that I had originally planned. However, it was all a good thing. I ended up taking a couple of road trips that I didn’t know about until the day before them. Fun time and sweet memories!!A couple of days before Thanksgiving, I saw this thought posted on the WW message board: Thanksgiving is just another day. I will be surrounded by food and I will have choices to make, just like any other day. Whether or not I make good choices is completely up to me, just like any other day. Journaling my choices on/over Thanksgiving is up to me, just like any other day. The choice is, after all, completely mine.
I definitely celebrated Thanksgiving and made good choices. I squeezed off 2.4 pounds during all those celebrations!! So pleased and excited…….and VERY thankful!!! I am 69.2 pounds lighter than I was this time last year.
Things that I did Thanksgiving 2010 that I could or would NOT have done Thanksgiving 2009:
•Walked totally without my walking stick everywhere I went.
•Was on the road Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday visiting with family and friends. Back at home each night and up and out headed in a different direction the next day.
•Shopped at stores that did not have the electric scooters on Black Friday.
•Ate good, healthy choices and left second and third helpings on the table.
•Chose carefully the one dessert or taste of dessert that I wanted three of the five days.
•Tracked every bite.
•Spent three mornings in the pool.
Then went to a different Weight Watchers meeting on Monday evening to get the new program. I did NOT want to wait until today and hear the details of the new program. I couldn’t officially weigh today at my regular class since I’d already weighed once during this WW week. So, no report from the scales this week.
I am loving the new program. I’ll admit that it has been hard to wipe all the old facts and figures out of my brain this week. But, I believe that it will be well worth the effort. I’m excited!!
As I am closing in on my one year anniversary as a Weight Watcher member, I am very excited about my second year on program. I believe the new program will bring about great progress in my journey down the scales. I believe the new program will bring about more strides toward improving my health. I believe that my improved mobility and health over this past year will bring about a new level of exercise and I will not be limited to the pool for exercise.
The choice is mine and I am choosing to be excited and proud of my accomplishments this past year. I am choosing to continue down this beautiful road on my journey down the scales toward better health and mobility. To be perfectly honest, I LIKE that choice. I LIKE the “new and improved” Cynthia!!
