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I wondered for years what it would take for me to drop the 15 to
20 pounds I've always wanted to lose and to get my butt in gear and get
fit. Seems I've found the answer: The threat of public humiliation.
Over the years, I've tried Weight Watchers
(which is healthy and works for many people, but I just hate that
darned point system) and I've tried going it alone (which lasted for
about three days). What finally worked, I learned last year, is
weight-loss blogging.
Woman's Day asked me to write a three-month daily weight-loss blog, "Scaling Down and Fessing Up," for womansday.com. Talk about motivation!
Having
to confess my weight each week, in front of thousands of readers,
helped keep me on the straight and narrow (most of the time). In three
months, I went from 142 to 127 pounds. (OK, technically, I was 127.2 at
that last weigh-in.) But still... Woot! That's close enough to 15
pounds for me.
It has been just over a year since that last,
triumphant weigh-in. But what did I do once the blog ended, and I
didn't have the threat of public humiliation to keep me in line? I
stopped. I stopped logging my weight loss every week. I stopped
exercising regularly. I stopped watching what I ate quite so
closely.
I "got cute," as my old Weight Watchers instructor
called it. Started hitting the chocolate and the chips. Started this
parenting blog and kept my butt in this chair way too much. (And I was
already working as a freelance journalist for magazines, another
butt-in-chair job.)
So here I am, August 27, 2008, at 138.6 pounds. Sigh. (At least I
didn't break the dreaded 140 barrier.) I told you I got cute. But I
can turn this freight train to flab around!
Let's
face it: You, dear readers, are my best hope. No, I'm not morphing
Parent Talk Today from a parenting blog into a weight-loss blog. But I
do know there are a lot of busy moms who, like me, would like to drop
some weight and get more active.
So here's the deal. Every
Wednesday will be "Weight-Loss Wednesday" here. I'll confess (with
photo evidence from the scale — yikes!) my current weight. We'll talk
about the week ahead and what we can do to eat healthfully and get
moving. We'll do it together. I'm living proof that this works. I just
didn't realize, until now, how much I need you to keep me on track.
Today
is my son's first day of seventh grade. It's an excitiing day of new
beginnings for our family. I can't think of a better day to make my own
fresh start. Care to join me?
