Chronicles of a Late Bloomer

I’m afraid to get on top.

Starting weight: 335.8
Last week: 324.2
This week: 321.4
Change this week: -2.8
Overall change: -14.4
Okay. That’s better.
This week’s goal: Lose at least 0.6 pounds to hit the 15-pounds milestone.

The talented Marla has challenged my parents’ belief that I am the biggest feminist in all of femi-nazi-dom. She writes a really interesting post about the patriarchy and treadmills. Now why didn’t I think of that?

I can’t use a pedometer, yet.
The mechanism in that tiny machine is not very sophisticated. It’s designed to detect and count each swish-swish of a normal person’s stepping movement. My stepping movement is more like thump-thump, jiggle-jiggle-jiggle and registers as more than one step every single time.

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I’m all for visualization and affirmations. I do live in L.A., after all. But part of the difficulty of losing weight is that I’ve never been thin. I have no point of reference or distant memory with which to feed my fantasies. I can’t remember, in fact, weighing less than 300 pounds in my entire [...]

Starting weight1: 335.8
Last week: 335.8
This week: 324.2
Change this week: -11.6
Overall change: -11.6
Woah.
Okay, well, with just one week of watching, journaling, and counting what I ate I lost almost every single pound that I put on over the holidays. Most people would be jumping up and down in ecstatic joy at double-digit weight loss in a [...]

The cupcakes above are not actual size. In fact, I shrank them down (“reduced,” as our grandmothers would be fond of saying) so as to avoid undue temptation for me or you or anyone else who doesn’t need delicious chocolate cupcakes on their mind. These are the cupcakes I made for my friend’s birthday yesterday, [...]

Before I finally got back on the wagon this week, I had long, drawn-out debates with myself about the philosophical merits of which wagon was best. Atkins? South Beach? Jenny Craig? Nurtisystem? Weight Watchers? Counting Calories? Spark People? Cyberdiet? Voluntary amputation? Cryogenic animation of my disembodied head?
I’ve followed both of Weight Watchers’ programs, including “Core” [...]

What surprises me most about the much-hyped “changes” to the Weight Watcher’s program is that I can suddenly eat 5 more points daily than I could when I was following the program before. I went from 33-35 points to 40 points (which must be well, well over 2000 calories) daily, and that’s without fudging my [...]