Hello Weight Watchers

Today I attended my first Weight Watchers meeting. I think I need the group push and someone ELSE watching my weight in order to make me curb my bad behaviors... Any parent can tell you that bribery with a dash (and just a dash) of guilt can be a very powerful behavior modification tool. I am going for a long-term goal that seems, from this vantage point, virtually impossible. But I am willing to suspend my disbelief for awhile to give myself the opportunity to succeed. I even met a woman named Jane that I liked right off the bat. She's starting today, too. Maybe we'll be buddies.

I've been reading and reading, computing points, keeping a list of all the stuff I typically eat. Foraging through the pantry to find out how horrible all my favorite things are for me. Cutting back on Almonds will be hard. The one thing I have to virtually give up is... peanut butter. Well. At least in the quantities I have eaten it in the past. (Please refer to all previous entries to get an idea why this concept is just short of appalling.)

But hey! I walked today -- and even sort of jogged a little bit. I put in an hour and that added more points to my available total for the day.

FOOD: It's about 3:30pm and I still have 20 points to work with until I go to bed. I'm going to Jennifer's with a salad for a cookout. I will hopefully get lots of support there.

MOOD: Well, it's day one and I'm being a good girl with food and exercise. I'm pretty up-beat! Maybe I can do this thing! Rah rah rah!!!