WW Week 2
I'm hanging in.
I've made it through two weeks of being back on program. I continue to feel like this is one of the best things I could have done for myself.
I missed my yoga last weekend. I'd like to blame that on out of town company, but that's really no excuse. I could have done it on Sunday afternoon and I just didn't. I didn't get much pipe practice in either this week - and it certainly showed in my lesson on Wednesday night :-S
My steps were down a bit, and I didn't log as many Activity Points as I did the first week, but it's not often that I get a 15,000 step day in like I did in Week 1.
I had an "Aha" moment last weekend at my meeting that I have taken to heart this week. Every week there is what I call - for lack of a better term - a Weekly Reader (remember those?!). I used to get the meeting room weekly reader and look through it, read the exercise, look at the recipe, check out the tips, and then put it away - or toss it. Last Saturday, a woman in my meeting said that she had really worked with the exercise and answered the questions - and from what I could tell, it pretty much informed her whole week and kept her on task.
Well, isn't that interesting? She actually used one of the tools that WW gives us every week in the meeting room . . . I made a decision there and then that I was going to use every tool that WW gives me to be successful. I'm not going to just read it, or think about it, I'm going to do/use/practice it.
So, yeah, I got cracking right away with the exercise in last week's weekly reader as soon as I got home from my meeting. I actually wrote out my answers to the questions. It was all about what my choice (lose or maintain) was going to be for the holiday season and how I was going to achieve it - and OMG we are IN the Holiday Season, my friends. It's in full swing already.
And then, I happened to re-watch Dr. Brene Brown's two Oprah Master Class episodes last Sunday, and she said something that that really resonated with me and completely dovetailed with the choice I had made the day before. She was talking about gratitude and how one had to make it a practice. Not just thinking about it, but actually practicing it, meaning actually writing out the three (or however many you want) things you are grateful for every day/night, not just thinking about them. Practicing in the truest sense of the word, which Webster's defines thus (as a noun): "the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method as opposed to theories about such application or use."
I'm actually using the tools I have from WW.
So, a wakeup call in the meeting room, and Brene Brown. Hard to argue with either one. And BTW, if you have never seen her June 2010 TED talk called The Power of Vulnerability, click that link. It takes about 20 minutes to watch. It's life-altering. I'm not kidding.
My friend, C, left on Sunday, and my friend, Linda the Chicken Lady, arrived on Wednesday with her dog, Hannah. She's staying with me for a few weeks, and it's very nice to have her and Hannah Dog at the house. Plus, she telecommutes pretty much all the time, which means she's home a lot. She offered to cook dinners!! And she's well aware of the journey I'm on, so she's totally down with weighing and measuring things for me so I can track points easily. How awesome is that?!
Here's the Check In:
Weight: -5.2
Daily Points: 34
Weekly Points: 49 (ate 47)
Activity Points: Earned 11 (ate none)
Oh, and in case your wondering, my choice for the Holida Season was to continue losing. :-)
I've made it through two weeks of being back on program. I continue to feel like this is one of the best things I could have done for myself.
I missed my yoga last weekend. I'd like to blame that on out of town company, but that's really no excuse. I could have done it on Sunday afternoon and I just didn't. I didn't get much pipe practice in either this week - and it certainly showed in my lesson on Wednesday night :-S
My steps were down a bit, and I didn't log as many Activity Points as I did the first week, but it's not often that I get a 15,000 step day in like I did in Week 1.
I had an "Aha" moment last weekend at my meeting that I have taken to heart this week. Every week there is what I call - for lack of a better term - a Weekly Reader (remember those?!). I used to get the meeting room weekly reader and look through it, read the exercise, look at the recipe, check out the tips, and then put it away - or toss it. Last Saturday, a woman in my meeting said that she had really worked with the exercise and answered the questions - and from what I could tell, it pretty much informed her whole week and kept her on task.
Well, isn't that interesting? She actually used one of the tools that WW gives us every week in the meeting room . . . I made a decision there and then that I was going to use every tool that WW gives me to be successful. I'm not going to just read it, or think about it, I'm going to do/use/practice it.
So, yeah, I got cracking right away with the exercise in last week's weekly reader as soon as I got home from my meeting. I actually wrote out my answers to the questions. It was all about what my choice (lose or maintain) was going to be for the holiday season and how I was going to achieve it - and OMG we are IN the Holiday Season, my friends. It's in full swing already.
And then, I happened to re-watch Dr. Brene Brown's two Oprah Master Class episodes last Sunday, and she said something that that really resonated with me and completely dovetailed with the choice I had made the day before. She was talking about gratitude and how one had to make it a practice. Not just thinking about it, but actually practicing it, meaning actually writing out the three (or however many you want) things you are grateful for every day/night, not just thinking about them. Practicing in the truest sense of the word, which Webster's defines thus (as a noun): "the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method as opposed to theories about such application or use."
I'm actually using the tools I have from WW.
So, a wakeup call in the meeting room, and Brene Brown. Hard to argue with either one. And BTW, if you have never seen her June 2010 TED talk called The Power of Vulnerability, click that link. It takes about 20 minutes to watch. It's life-altering. I'm not kidding.
My friend, C, left on Sunday, and my friend, Linda the Chicken Lady, arrived on Wednesday with her dog, Hannah. She's staying with me for a few weeks, and it's very nice to have her and Hannah Dog at the house. Plus, she telecommutes pretty much all the time, which means she's home a lot. She offered to cook dinners!! And she's well aware of the journey I'm on, so she's totally down with weighing and measuring things for me so I can track points easily. How awesome is that?!
Here's the Check In:
Weight: -5.2
Daily Points: 34
Weekly Points: 49 (ate 47)
Activity Points: Earned 11 (ate none)
Oh, and in case your wondering, my choice for the Holida Season was to continue losing. :-)
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