Just a bit cold and icy out today. Since I have made a promise to myself to stop making excuses I jumped my tooshie on my stationary bike. Taking it easy due to my heart monitor I still peddled further and longer than I have in the past: 5 .26 mi for 20 minutes!  Weight Watchers activity points here I come!!

There’s a really cool website that my friends turned me on to last year called Runkeeper.com. It’s kind of like Facebook for workouts. You can invite your friends to join your “posse” and keep track of each other’s workouts. It creates a friendly competition atmosphere and inspires me to try harder when I know others are looking at my stats. I also have the capability to link my Runkeeper account to my Facebook and publish my results to my Facebook page. Can we say even more accountability?

I’m pretty proud of myself right now and can feel a burst of energy. Think I will do a bit more house work, hit the shower, and do my nails.

Liz

I had weigh-in today and was down .2 lbs. While I was hoping for at least 1 lb I’m still pleased that I lost something. We are told that between 1-2 lbs a week is healthy but I can’t help but be just a little, teensy disappointed when I only lose .2 lbs after a week of hard-core tracking. Oh well. At least it wasn’t a gain! Patience is the key and I can’t let it get me down. I need to focus on eating healthy first and the weight loss will come.

Today’s meeting was pretty interesting. This week’s new challenge: How do we incorporate more fruit and veggie into our meals? I have to come clean and admit that a few years back I was on the Atkins diet with my hubby. I lost about 30 lbs, but felt like crap. I also had a hard time, after spending 5 years as a vegetarian, wrapping my head around the philosophy of fruit and veggie bad, meat and cheese good! Even though I lost the weight I felt lethargic, sluggish, and weighed down. And don’t even get me started on the body emitting odors one is forced to live with once hitting ketosis!

But I digress. It seems over the last 10 years or so fruit ahs really gotten a bad rap. The thought process is basically that fruit contains sugar, which means carbs, which means you will get fat if you eat too much fruit. This has always been confusing to me. I love fruit and have a hard time with any type of program that discourages the daily intake. While fruit is not calorie free, it is still the best alternative to what I call the 4 “c’s”: candy, cookies, chips & cake. When Weight Watchers revamped the points program the point value to 0 for veggies and most fruits. That’s right! You can eat as much fruit and veggie as you want to feel satisfied. Have I mentioned how much I love Weight Watchers?

Liz