Brand new blog. Brand new start. I suppose, anyway. I haven't been to a Weight Watchers meeting since the end of August. It's basically been one excuse after another. And I've been eating mostly fast food because my energy is down and I've been too tired (or lazy) to cook anything. Not good. Not good at all. I've been stepping on the scale on occasion, watching the number go up. Just not doing anything about it.
I had every intention of going to a meeting this morning. I knew that they were going over the new program this week, so I figured I should go listen in. Actually, I wanted to go Monday which was my old weigh-in day but I had a class for work in the morning so I couldn't. So I planned on going today. I talked myself into it. And just as fast, talked myself out of it. This was my thought process:
Monday meetings: New leader than the one I'm used to and I don't know how she's going to be, but the receptionist is still the same. And all the people that were there for the entire year that are still there will be there. So I won't feel like I'm starting from square one.
Thursday: I've been to a meeting before with this leader and know she's inspirational and she lost a ton of weight, so she might help motivate me more since I have a bunch of weight to lose. But I don't know any of the members, so I'll feel like I'm starting over at square one. But I'd be going back sooner as opposed to pushing it off for another few days. Then again, if the receptionist is the same one that was there the last meeting I went to with this leader, she could never get my weight and liked to yell at me to hold still (even though I was standing still).
In the end, after much thought and many tears (yeah...I was literally crying over this), I chose the safety and comfort of my Monday people over the leader who lost a ton of weight. It really was hard for me to decide. But I feel like I made the right decision. I know that when I go through the door on Monday, my people (haha!) are going to be there and they'll know my name. As opposed to walking through the door this morning and being asked if I'm new. So yeah. That was my decision.
I am, however, 100% back on (the old) program. I need to buy a new food journal and such since the program changed. But for now, I printed out some blank journal sheets that I'm in the process of filling out. I also printed out some blank exercise logs. I'm getting on track with that on Monday (I know, why put it off until Monday? I have my reasons though. Mainly, I have a long court docket tonight so I might not be home until late and we're going to be (finally) painting our living room this weekend. So yeah. That's basically it.
Oh...some of you (if anyone other than Heather still reads this! Haha!) know that we were planning on going on a cruise with past Biggest Loser contestants in April. Well, they pushed the date back to November, and it was too close to Thanksgiving for us. So we decided not to go. Chris and I and my friend Abbey and her hubby Criag looked into other cruises. And then I spoke to my friend Becky who was also scehduled to go on the cruise with the Biggest Losers, and the three of us decided to plan our own cruise with the Biggest Losers. Right now, we have Neil Tejwani, Andrea Overstreet, and Ryan Kelley signed on. We also have several (more like 10..haha) more who have expressed interest or agreed to join as well. We are also working on getting a special trainer to join us to offer workout sessions. The cruise sails out of Port Canaveral Florida on December 3rd, 2009 and it's a 9 day cruise that sails through the Caribbean. If you want details, please let me know! We would love to have you join us. We have lots of events planned and lots of suprises in store. We're even planning an auction (or a raffle, we're not sure yet) where we will auction (or raffle) off gift baskets with various health and fitness items in them. All proceeds from that auction will go to benefit the Victory Juntion Camp in North Carolina. We were touched by Amy and Phillip from this current season of the Biggest Loser and their Autistic son. And the Victory Junction Camp provides kids an opportunity to forget about what makes them different and just have a good time.
Anyway..yeah. Sorry for that little blurb. We're really excited about the cruise. The rooms are great and the ship is going to be brand new and decorated for Christmas.
That is all. :D
