I ventured into the Chesterfield Weight Watchers shop this morning and joined with a Monthly Pass.  Quite frankly, it was a little scary.  I chose a seat near another woman who had joined at the same time.  Unfortunately, she had a friend who came in later joining for the first time.  No new friendship there.  And a couple seats away from me was a woman who'd brought her five year old complete with a game system screaming some Dora the Explorer game.  There were quite a few more people than I expected for a Saturday morning.  The meeting leader was a substitute so I don't know what the usual leader is like.  Once the meeting started (finally! (late)), the mother had not yet told the kid to silence the game.  After 10 minutes of my glares and quite a few others, the mother took the kid out to the reception area where the kid proceeded to up the volume so that we heard Dora throughout the meeting.  I'm not good with people things...this is one of the reasons why.  The leader was actually pretty good and made a few points I hadn't put together before.  Like all WW meetings, there were the entrenched who've been on WW forever and will never reach goal and there were a few bright stars who were doing everything right.  And, it was the first meeting where there were men!!!  There were four guys at the meeting.  I really have always hated that WW seemed to be a woman's domain.  I like a meeting where I'll get the male prospective on things. 

Anyway, next week I'll sit on the other side of the room to avoid Dora.  And I'll introduce myself to one or more of the bright stars.  Two of them only started three weeks ago, so we can be new together.  In true form, I'm blowing off the weekend and will start counting points later.  I read through the material tonight and decided that I would do the Flex Plan, counting points.  I realize the Core Plan is probably the way to live life, but I work 40+ hours a week and don't have the time to work with all that unprocessed food. 

Another thing I'm going to try is something I read but couldn't find  to link to.  This woman talked about eating breakfast, first lunch, second lunch, and dinner.  That sounds perfect for me.  I work 9am to 6pm.  I eat breakfast at 8:20am.  Lunch time at the office is 11:30 to 12:30.  I don't get home until 6:30pm  That's seven hours after I ate lunch and we haven't even discussed preparation times.  So I'm thinking a second lunch at 3:30pm so that I can take the time to cook for a 7pm dinner.  If I eat dinner that late, I should only need a couple of points for a late snack.  For a daily routine, I think that will work. 

I don't intend for this to become a weight loss blog.  But today that's what I'm thinking about. 

Posted by: karen on 3/1/2008 8:28:24 PM , 2 comments