A Smidjin at a time

Weight Watchers encourages tracking of all food you eat and the activity you do. At meeting you can get these little paper booklets that have it all laid out, including where you can mark off how many of the extra weekly points you use and mark off the activity points you gain (and choose to use). It also has little check boxes for fruits and veggies and lean proteins and fluids. It's all in a nice little format you can just slip in your purse. Then there is the E-tools tracker. Tons of foods and commons serving sizes pre-programmed in you just have to type and click. Automatically does the math if you have more or less than the normal serving. It will automatically deduct from your weekly points if you go over your daily points target. And they have a mobile version of it that you can access on your smart phone. My first week on Weight watchers I did the paper tracking, then I switched to the e-tools tracker. And I love it. It is so easy, especially using my phone. But I am a secr...

I am sitting here feeling the urge to blog but not really having any idea what I wanted to blog about. So I came up with 2 things and now I am gonna share them with you. So when you join weight watchers they have all these goals for you. First 5%, 20%, 16 weeks, 25 pound medallions. And your ultimate goal weight. It took me a while to get to those 5 and 10%. and I still haven't quite gotten to my 25 pound marker. But I know that I need to keep my goals small. So I am just going from 5% to 5%. Of couse each time that becomes a differant number, but that is my goal. You also are supposed to set an ultimate weight loss goal sometime with them, I haven't yet. And I am okay with that really. Because I ahve a goal but I don't. I have a number that is right in the range of all the charts and graphs and guidelines. But I don't want to focus on that number, not yet, adn maybe not all. To don't wanna get so focused on it that I lose sight of the bigger picture, my health. And...