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So, after all that talk about pork, maybe now’s the time I should mention Weight Watchers.
I started in August and I’ve lost about fifteen pounds. I like it. It’s juvenile, but I really enjoy getting stickers in my little book and watching the line on my weight chart head downward.
Unfortunately, it’s expensive. By my calculations, once my free this and free that are over with, it’ll be about $40 a month. Which works out to about $10 a pound. But it is working for me, and I think it’s a healthier, more sustainable sort of system than I ever worked out for myself.
I lost 30 pounds back in 2004. Gary and I did it together, and rewarded each other with $100 cash for every five pounds (hmmm… I guess that was even more expensive). I accomplished that, basically, by sleeping through supper every night. Then in 2006, I lost 50 pounds by sleeping through breakfast. Since then, my depression (and hypersomnia) has improved. The problem is, when I’m awake, I tend to want to eat. And Headache didn’t help. When my pain was bad, I’d take anything I could find, or eat anything I could get my hands on. And you don’t burn that many calories laying in the bed half the time.
Once Headache was on the wane, I really felt like I had no other excuse not to get started getting in shape. My main motivators are, of course, Maw and Paw. Not that they care whether I’m fat or not. No. What I mean is, I’ll be damned if when I’m sixty-eight, I have to have Z and Tink pull me up out of my chair because I can’t stand up by myself, or wipe my ass because I can’t hold it long enough to get to the toilet. (On that second front, I have become a champion Kegel-er. I wonder if that’s an Olympic event?)
COntinued at So...
