If it were easy I'd pop a pill and be thin

NOT.....

If anything I've learnt that on my journey to losing weight there are NO quick fixes or solutions. I did not become FAT overnight - it took years of practice to get to where I am and the fat is not going to just disappear because I so desperately WANT/NEED it to.

From popping pills, to injections, to drinking various concoctions and various other diets on offer - they have simply not worked. About the only one I like is Weight Watchers and if used properly can be a tool in helping you change your lifestyle and the way you eat.

A new diet pill has been launched in SA - the advert for it drives me NUTZ - they promise you can lose weight without dieting and without exercising/training. I grizzle when I hear it!! If it was as simple as popping a pill then we'd all be thin - Right - Wrong!! There is no plan to follow a healthier lifestyle and no motivation to get off your patootie and get moving.

I've said it's a science. Each day I become more convinced of it. When I was doing WW's and continuing with normal daily activity I lost weight - the bathroom scale was mostly kind. I then joined gym, then found myself a Personal Trainer, started Spinning and got a bicycle. I'm losing inches/centimetres but the SCALE has hovered between 92 and 93 Kg's. It's not budging. Although I eat healthy 90% of the time I'm worried that I am not eating enough or the right stuff to support my newest outdoor activity - cyling. Last night I burnt 713 calories while cycling 17 km's. My energy levels crash on a regular basis. On the days I crash, I feel horrid - it is hard to describe and even though I have had a good nights sleep just trying to do anything is a mission and this gets me frustrated and anger follows. I am now seeking out a dietician in the hopes I can get some direction in what to eat to support my passions : gym and cycling. I need to find balance in my attempt at finding a healthy lifestyle. Eating salads for lunch and dinner are clearly not supporting me when it comes to my activity levels.

If you have any ideas I'd love to hear them. What has been your experience?? If you cycle, how do you support it with your diet??

I'm off to hunt down a dietician. Have a great day everyone.

Accountability!!

For the past week or so I have been contemplating if I am going to be continuing with Weight Watchers or not. Don't get me wrong, I fully believe in Weight Watchers but right now all I use it for, is to step on a scale once a week. I rarely stay for the meetings due to time restrictions and two boys who would rather be somewhere else than at WW meeting. This is also a costly weigh in and that money right now could be used for other things. I also pay a Personal Trainer who does more and weighs me. ((grin)) Why pay twice??

The advantage in staying with Weight Watcher's is accountability and support. The incentive to not look like as Ass when you step on the scale. You want to have lost and not have picked up. Not that anyone makes you feels horrid if you have and fortunately it has only happened to me once or twice in my 20 week odd journey so far.

I rarely have big weight losses anyway. I spend a lot of time at the gym : 3 Personal training sessions, 3 Spinning classes and a Zumba class. A couple of weeks ago there were days when I would go to gym twice a day but my PT has insisted that I cut back on the amount I was doing, the concern being I was doing way too much. I am considering sneaking my Pilates session back in. I miss it!! So the scale is not showing much but the centimeters lost is.

I am 100% committed to my new healthy lifestyle and that is just it, it is about the lifestyle and not just about the weight loss. In the past when I have dieted and lost and then returned to bad habits, *voila* all the weight is back on and more!! I wish I had understood this before - losing the weight is not enough!! You need to change your lifestyle to make it a success!! Weight Watchers was the first step in my Journey and that is why a part of me still desperatley wants to hang on to it. But seriousely how many scales do we need to step on???

Shortly after joining WW's, I then signed up at one of the Virgin Active gyms locally and I have gone from strength to strength. I LOVE IT!! I live for how I feel after a good workout. I live for the *good* pain and do my best to avoid the *bad* pain (injury). I have to wonder how many times I have used these words said by Tara of The Biggest Loser : "You can do this, you have it within you. You have to be uncomfortable to grow". I hope I got the quote right, forgive me if I haven't. Those words have got me through many a Spinning session when my muscles are burning and one part of me wants to get off that bike and quit and then I just start saying those words over and over again in my head and next thing I know, I've survived the class and we're cooling down. There is nothing like the feeling of saying 'I did it and SURVIVED!!'.

So my thinking is, I don't need to step on a bathroom scale, a Weight Watchers scale and a gym scale to have them tell me the same thing. One should be enough and according to some, one is too many, but I'm not quite ready to throw my Bathroom Scale away. Maybe one day........

As of now I have lost 10 kilograms BUT I've dropped 2 Jean sizes and that means more to me than any number on a scale.......but the woman in me just refuses to part with the scale....Crazy, I know....