Week 11 Day 1

Breakfast:
1. milk: 4 PP
Total: 4 PP

Snack:
1. yogurt: 2 PP
Total: 2 PP

Lunch:
1. crackers: 2 PP
2. ham: 2 PP
3. egg white: 0 PP
4. pickle: 0 PP
5. granola bar: 2 PP
6. orange: 0 PP
Total: 6 PP

Dinner:
1. whistle dogs: 12 PP
2. mac and cheese: 16 PP
3. reese big cup 1/4
Total: 37 PP

Water Drank: 8/8 c.

Total: 35/35

Weeklies Used: 14/49

Weeklies Left: 35/49
AP's Earned This Week: 0

Radio QOTD

A radio station here posted this as their question of the day on their facebook page and also opened it for callers on the air this morning:

Nicole Sherzinger admits she's been dieting since she 

was 14 years old. Is it ok for a 14 year old to diet?

The cohost of the morning show, named Robin, shared her story this morning. She said that she was a chubby kid at age 9 and her mom took her to a nutritionist. She slimmed down and from the sounds of it, didn't have a problem with weight after that. She considers herself average sized now and goes by the fit of her clothes rather than her weight. I believe she said that she struggled with thinking about her weight and food a lot, but seems to be okay now.

My opinion on the question is: I don't think dieting is the right mindset for anyone. If you change your eating habits for life and look at it as a permanent change rather than the temporary one of a diet, if you actually are overweight, then you'll be able to keep the weight off.

I tried to call in and share my story as well this morning but couldn't get through and needed to get to work.

When I was 16, my family decided to start on the Atkins diet. I have always been overweight, probably since about age 9/10. I am a TOTAL pasta person and it was torture to me to have meat forced on me and pasta taken away. I'm sure you all know, but Atkins is a diet where (at least in the first two weeks), you try eat fewer than 20g of carbs each day. Fiber knocks off carbs and fat is good for you. 

Well, to have the diet forced on me and my favourite foods taken away from me just made me cheat where I could (which wasn't very many places) and made me rebel against diets and healthy eating until I made that choice for myself and became self-motivated.

The moral of the story is: force a kid/teen/whoever to diet, they may rebel against it and defeat the purpose of the diet to begin with. This is why we will teach our children healthy eating right from the beginning of their lives.

Week 10 Goal Check In & Week 11 Goals

Week 10 Goals:

• goal weight: 145 pounds: as always, any downward action is headed in the right way
• 5 pounds a month: 5.2lbs lost this month :) goal achieved!
• lose 7.2 pounds by new years: 1.2 lost this week, 6 left to go in 6 weeks. definitely do-able!!
• one soda per day (2 on friday) IF I drink 8 cups of water per day: I did it until dinner tonight xD I had chugged 4c of water in less than an hour so that was pretty good anyways. I'll finish my other 4c before going to bed :)
• try eat less than 7 weeklies on any given day (Tues, Wed (treat days) and Fri (pizza) an exception):  I did it and used around half. That's way better than last week.

Week 11 Goals:

• goal weight: 145 pounds
• 5 pounds a month: ALREADY DONE BUT LEAVING ON HERE ANYWAYS
• lose 7.2 pounds by new years
• one soda per day (2 on friday) IF I drink 8 cups of water per day
• try eat less than 6 weeklies on any given day (Tues, Wed (treat days) and Fri (pizza) an exception)

Week 10 Day 7 Weigh In!

I lost 1.2 lbs this week. That brings me to 21.8 lbs lost total :) I am 0.2 lbs away from my 10%. BLAH!

Breakfast:
Total: 0 PP

Snack:
Total: 0 PP

Lunch:
Total: 0 PP

Dinner:
1. 4 pc boston pizza meateor pizza: 28 PP
2. chips: 7 PP
3. 1/2 reese BIG BIG cup: 18 PP
4. diet soda with dinner: 0 PP
Total: 53 PP

Water Drank: 8/8 c.

Total: 35/35

Weeklies Used: 18/49

Weeklies Left: 4/49
AP's Earned This Week: 0

Week 10 Day 6

Breakfast:
1. fiber one shredded wheat: 6 PP
2. 2 c milk: 4 PP
Total: 10 PP

Snack:
1. yogurt: 2 PP
2. orange: 0 PP
Total: 2 PP

Lunch:
1. crackers: 3 PP
2. chicken: 1 PP
3. egg white: 0 PP
4. grapes: 0 PP
Total: 4 PP

Dinner:
1. chicken: 3 PP
2. spaghetti: 8 PP
3. garlic toast: 3 PP
4. sauce: 2 PP
5. coke zero: 0 PP
Total: 16 PP

Water Drank: 8/8 c.

Total: 32/35

Weeklies Used: 0/49

Weeklies Left: 21/49
AP's Earned This Week: 0

Week 10 Day 5

Breakfast:
1. fiber one shredded wheat: 6 PP
2. 2 c milk: 4 PP
Total: 10 PP

Snack:
Total: 0 PP

Lunch:
1. grilled cheese: 3 PP
2. 2 egg whites: 1 PP
3. 2 slices chicken bologna: 4 PP
Total: 8 PP

Dinner:
1. hamburger helper with turkey: 9 PP
2. toast: 3 PP
3. broccoli: 0 PP
4. chicken: 3 PP
Total: 15 PP

Water Drank: 8/8 c.

Total: 33/35

Weeklies Used: 0/49

Weeklies Left: 21/49
AP's Earned This Week: 0

Now the RL people have started it...

Before now, all my shortcuts posts have been about online ads I've seen (I think). This one came from facebook, from a friend (someone I used to ride the bus to college with everyday and came into my work all the time). 

My words to her =/= my thoughts. My thoughts:

• it's a marathon, not a race
• you won't be able to keep the weight off
• change your lifestyle, don't diet
• shortcuts may work now, but don't expect them to keep working
• that's just too fast

and then the kicker:

• I wish I could lose weight that fast... 

I fully hope she gets her diet under control and keeps it off but I don't expect it. The weight piled on for a reason, how do you expect to keep it off if you don't fix the problem. 

That would be like mopping the floor but not fixing the leaky pipe that caused the mess. Yes, the floor is clean, but as soon as you stop mopping and let your guard down, your floor will be covered in water again because you've just mopped, you haven't fixed the pipe.

I don't like my way of thinking. It scares me, but at this point, I've bad mouthed the fast ways of losing weight, and I succeeded on WW, so I would never go and try it. I know that WW works for me and I know that with eating healthy I will lose the weight eventually and I will be eating a diet that I can maintain for the rest of my life.