Goals: First Draft

October 16th, 2004 at 8:10 pm (Uncategorical)

I’d been casually thinking of goals — not with any prompting or from any sense of “should,” but just in the natural course of things and in the wake of the mind-bogglingly-quick and surely-temporary progress I’ve made so far.

It wasn’t a big leap to start thinking about goals; I’m already looking for an excuse to not go to WW meetings. That seems like a fine enough reward for my first goal. It’s not that I dislike the meetings so much, but that it’s not really me and it costs so much money. It wouldn’t be so much money, if I weren’t a grad student living off of financial aid and facing winter.

Also, I can’t even bring myself to say the words “Weight Watchers.” Not even in therapy, where I can say anything. It’s just too terrible. I’ll be very grateful for the kick-start that I’ve received there, but I just simply can’t see myself paying and attending meetings there every week for the year and a half to two years that I estimate it will take to drop to a reasonable level.

Anyway, I thought this week, “Once I get down to the point where I can weigh myself at home, I’ll probably quit going to meetings.” Mostly, I’m motivated to go for the once-a-week weigh-in and for the overall structure of the eating plans. The standard bathroom scale only measures up to 300 pounds. Even still, it’s good for me to not own one because it keeps me from the obsessive weighing habit that would surely be part of my neuroses. I dunno. I’ll explore this with my therapist.

In the meantime, here is the first draft of the goals that I managed to jot down last night.

  1. 310 = join curves
  2. 300 = angel dvd’s
  3. 290 = buy my own scale, re-think weight watchers
  4. 280 = road trip to Seattle
  5. 270 = open web site
  6. 260 = alias dvd’s
  7. 250 = join a gym
  8. 240 = new digital camera
  9. 230 = laser hair removal
  10. 220 = bookbinding press
  11. 210 = new bed
  12. 200 =
  13. 190 = board shear
  14. 1 year of maintaining 190 = lasik surgery (if brave enough!)
  15. 2 years of maintaining 190 = new car (hybrid or hydrogen or something)

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