It really is the key to success. I think anyone who limits the kinds of food they eat is setting up for failure. Liquid diets, grapefruit diets or even the slimfast,slimfast, sensible dinnner thingy are doomed from the start. Even if you initially lose weight - what have you changed to keep it off???? Eventually you have to go back to "regular food". Eventually you will gain back weight. I don't want that to happen to me. I really do try to eat a variety of foods - the majority of food I eat is healthy and unprocessed. My problem is PORTIONs. A bag is a serving size, my plate needs to be filled. I don't measure anything and my eye is not even close to being close....
If I buy WW meals I am nearly always disappointed by the portions... Is this really the amount I should be eating??? WOW! This is where I desparately need to change. I am active, I am healthy. I just eat too damn much. This is not a revelation - I've known it all along. I pretend that I am following the points plan, but I know that if someone actually followed behind me to check my interpretation of what constitutes a point they would have to laugh - and smack me!!
If I want to change my body, I actually have to change what I am doing. Obviously what I have been doing is not working, and to continue on this course is just wasting time.... I am 40! UGH!!
I watched FrontLine last night - a show that pointed out that the fastest growing segment of the population is over 85. It was sad to see most of these people just wasting away; unable to care for themselves; some not even knowing what's going on in the world. My grandmother is in a nursing home. It's only been a year and she is fully institutionalized. I hate going there to visit a woman who is no longer present. It breaks my heart. Where am I going with this??? I guess I just want to know that if I am going to live to be old, I want to be healthy enough to be a part of society and not a burden. If my knees are having troubles now, where will I be when I am 85?? Losing weight can do nothing but help. I have to get this through my head and DO SOMETHING!!!
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