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nwhikerTrying to get my diet back on track after 10 days of total chaos. It started with the emotional blah of hurting my knee, continued while stress eating before the election, then just spun out of control as OMG THANKSGIVING IS COMING struck me, and I dealt with the stress and sadness of my poor spouse being so stressed and sad himself about his dad.
But enough.
Back on track as of today, I hope. Usually if I can get one full good day in, I can keep going, so fingers crossed. I'll still have gained a bunch of weight, because of 10 days of crappy eating AND not exercising, but hopefully this will keep the mess to a minimum.
Of course, because of the first of the two major Thanksgiving shops, I proceeded to miss my Weight Watchers meeting.
Which... pisses me off. But. Also. WW and their crappy rebranding to "wellness" meeting is just annoying and over the past few weeks I've been finding the meeting less and less useful and more and more bullshit. Same leader, and I know she's good. There just isn't much to be done with these stupid woo-woo topics. Blah. The atmosphere in the meetings has also changed, and I'm hoping it's just the holiday season, but the people I most enjoyed seeing there are all AWOL, and I know at least one of them was very unhappy with losing the weight loss focus.
I get that "diet culture" is a bad thing. And that body positivity is a good thing. But... the situation for most people going to WW is that we're already fucked, having gone down the dieting path when we were too young to know the consequences, or when the consequences weren't as clear to many people as they are now.(By which I mean: start 10lbs "overweight". Diet. Lose 7 lbs. Plateau. Regain 12 lbs. Repeat. OVer and over over the years, and eventually, you look like me.) So yeah, if you haven't already, don't start dieting. But if you have, if it's too late... well, thanks WW for making us even more isolated when we were before, ya know?
Anyhow.
I track via LoseIt exclusively, since WW's latest punishing-for-carb-eaters plan left me miserable and gaining weight. I don't use any of their products. I'm no longer enjoying the meetings. I'm literally only going for a weekly weigh-in. I dunno.
But enough.
Back on track as of today, I hope. Usually if I can get one full good day in, I can keep going, so fingers crossed. I'll still have gained a bunch of weight, because of 10 days of crappy eating AND not exercising, but hopefully this will keep the mess to a minimum.
Of course, because of the first of the two major Thanksgiving shops, I proceeded to miss my Weight Watchers meeting.
Which... pisses me off. But. Also. WW and their crappy rebranding to "wellness" meeting is just annoying and over the past few weeks I've been finding the meeting less and less useful and more and more bullshit. Same leader, and I know she's good. There just isn't much to be done with these stupid woo-woo topics. Blah. The atmosphere in the meetings has also changed, and I'm hoping it's just the holiday season, but the people I most enjoyed seeing there are all AWOL, and I know at least one of them was very unhappy with losing the weight loss focus.
I get that "diet culture" is a bad thing. And that body positivity is a good thing. But... the situation for most people going to WW is that we're already fucked, having gone down the dieting path when we were too young to know the consequences, or when the consequences weren't as clear to many people as they are now.(By which I mean: start 10lbs "overweight". Diet. Lose 7 lbs. Plateau. Regain 12 lbs. Repeat. OVer and over over the years, and eventually, you look like me.) So yeah, if you haven't already, don't start dieting. But if you have, if it's too late... well, thanks WW for making us even more isolated when we were before, ya know?
Anyhow.
I track via LoseIt exclusively, since WW's latest punishing-for-carb-eaters plan left me miserable and gaining weight. I don't use any of their products. I'm no longer enjoying the meetings. I'm literally only going for a weekly weigh-in. I dunno.
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Date: 15 Nov 2018 23:54 (UTC)