I was supposed to be updating my progress with ProPoints but I hit a wall and have been metaphorically collapsed on the pavement for the past week or more. I’m pretty good with hormones as long as they come alone. But when they bring with them their other little gang members – like stress, worry or crappy life events, then I’m usually beaten to a pulp and left lying in the gutter till they go away.
The result is that I have NOT felt like counting points or restricting carbs to the level that the new Weight Watchers plan wishes us to. Just the thought of it makes me feel cranky.
Thankfully, I didn’t turn into a bingeing mess because (hugely thankfully), bingeing is a very very rare event these days. I just needed more than 29 points a day to maintain any form of sanity. I also needed (oh dear – this isn’t going to sound great) a couple of glasses of wine. So I didn’t lose any weight because I didn’t follow the plan. This is not to say that the plan doesn’t work. Of course it works: it’s a diet! And when I want to lose those last 6 pounds (count ‘em!
) , I will follow ProPoints to the letter and they will slip away.
Another “thankfully”: I’m finding it hard to adjust to the new plan – not because I like the old plan better – but because I’ve finally figured out how to maintain my weight loss on NO PLAN. That’s a minor miracle for a woman who has been losing and gaining the same 30 pounds for 30 years.
Dare I say that I may have stumbled on my own secret to permanent weight loss?
- Write and write and write for a minimum of three years till you can’t think of another thing to say.
- Fall down and get up countless times but never, ever, ever give up.
- Alternate losing with maintaining for a long slow journey.
- Replace the dieting mentality with the “eating to live” mentality. Enjoy food.
This isn’t a valedictory address of any kind, because I haven’t actually taken off the last of those 30 pounds, but I’m so changed from July 08 when I started this journey that I feel the need to talk about it. Trying to follow ProPoints has just highlighted those changes. This probably needs a new post.
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