I haven't had a lot of success with Weight Watchers or the South Beach Diet. I've gained and lost a lot of weight over the years. When I went to WW, the leaders would say that people regained all their weight because they didn't stick around long enough to go through the Maintenance Program. I'm not so sure.
It might be that behaviors need to be changed, and so we bought Dr. Phil McGraw's book The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom. I've been reading it slowly since we bought it. It's not hard to understand and some of it seems to be so common sense it's like why wouldn't we be able to figure this out? But I want to give it a try anyway.
The book is a little interactive in that there are exercises to complete. I keep a weight journal at 3 Fat Chicks so I won't repeat all that here. Basically, though, my goal is to lose over 100 pounds in 2 years or less. I will eliminate junk food and exercise. Once I lose the weight, I want to stay within 5 pounds of goal. I expect to feel a lot better. I expect my blood pressure to go down and my energy level to go up.
There was another exercise there with a bunch of questions to answer and to see how ready I am for change. And I am. Now I'm reading the next chapter which has to do with figuring out thought patterns that influence behavior.
Everyone's got to follow the program for it to work effectively. Tonight we had soft tacos for dinner. We had no fat sour cream for the kids and me and regular sour cream for TB. Well, Heidi wanted regular sour cream too. It's very hard not to want something that's sitting right there on the table with you. But we'll work it out.
If you were an astronaut would you rather discover life in outer space superior or inferior to ourselves and why?
Americans are the first in everything so of course any life in outer space would be inferior to us! ;) Okay, so that was written somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
I would rather that we were superior to the aliens for self defense reasons. If we found this new life and they ended up being hostile, we?d be SOL if they were superior to us.
In terms of culture, which would include art and music, I don?t think I?d be too upset if they were superior to us. I enjoy learning new things and I don?t think I would feel threatened by that.
HI, I think I found your blog from recently updated, or maybe it was bloggers over 40. At any rate, I am procrastinating prodigously and reading people's archives.
I too am doing a Dr. Phil challenge with varying success but the biggest change--the difference that made the difference--is keeping a food intake and exercise log at CalorieKing
There's a free 7 day trial and you can see how it goes for you.
Good luck!
Posted by: liz at April 11, 2004 05:55 PM