Accountability

I have to be accountable for what I eat, drink and whatever activities I do this week with someone I partnered with in my Weight Watchers group. Our leader thought it would be a good idea to share what your routine is with someone in the group in hope that you can possibly learn something different that can help with your weight loss program.
I record everything online through my smartphone app, but this week I have to jot my actions down as well so that I can share with my partner next week. It's not mandatory, but we can share how much weight we loss for the week as well. I'm looking forward to sharing my week and hopefully learn some new ideas/habits I can pick up as well! I'll keep you posted!

Last Weight Watchers meeting for the month

I went to my last Weight Watchers meeting last night for the month of January. That was also my first month with them and I lost a total of five pounds! Not bad if I have to say so myself! Someone in the group made a statement that really stuck with me and it was, "you didn't put the weight on over night, therefore, you're not going to lose it over night!". Another woman in the group mentioned a visual idea she saw on Facebook and said that a woman took a picture of two vases with marbles in them. For every pound she loses, she transfers a marble from one vase to the other showing her progress in the program. I need to come up with a similar idea. I'm looking forward to a good month in February!

Multiple sclerosis information

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Just the rules

I was watching E! News yesterday and I caught an excerpt talking about this woman named Tosca Reno who is the author of the book called, "Just the rules". It's a book about leading a healthy lifestyle by following her guide on eating right. It has 51 food laws to live by and if you follow it, you WILL achieve weight loss!
I was impressed with what I saw on TV and looked the book up on Amazon. It was reasonably priced, so I purchased and downloaded it. I'm going to review it today and come up with my own conclusions!


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Eating right and exercise

Since I joined Weight Watchers, I've learned a lot about eating the right food and finding the right exercise that you don't mind doing. I know that part of my problem was eating late and not eating frequently with breakfast, snack, lunch, snack and dinner. Now that I'm doing that and exercising regularly, I'm seeing a slow but good change. I'm eating frequently, but at the same time, watching what I eat and watching the portions as well. I'm only drinking water and green tea (a cup of coffee very sparingly)and surprisingly, it's not hard to do! I've always liked Zumba for a form of exercising and I've been doing kickboxing as well. I'm not a big fan of kickboxing, but it is a good workout. I discovered kettlebell weights and I LOVE that exercise just as much, if not more than Zumba. Kettlebell weights are a quick, but effective workout, I do it at home and I do it everyday! I've even decided just today that it's going to replace my kickboxing workout, so it's kettle bell weights and Zumba! I'll still do kickboxing every now and then. This is very positive for my MS and because my Weight Watchers experience is different and new for me, I created a blog to post my process and my learnings with this experience. Check it out at http://weightwatchersadventure.blogspot.com !

Any MS questions?

My family and I went to an MS seminar tonight and as always, all of the therapies were discussed. The food was really good. I think I did well for my weight program, grilled tilapia and green beans. After the Neurologist went through her slides, she said it's time for a question/answer session. A few people asked questions and then the Neurologist went to random tables and said I haven't heard anything from this table, are there any questions? People would ask a question, she would repeat it so everyone could know what she was answering. The Neurologist came to my table and asked if there were any questions. There was one other woman and her guest sitting at the table and they didn't have any questions. My family didn't have any questions and they looked at me. The Neurologist looked at me as well. I currently don't have any issues and the only thing I could think to bring up were MS hugs. The Neurologist was very familiar with them and began speaking about it. A woman sitting at a nearby table said she experiences MS hugs a lot and she gets infusions, which gives her great relief. I can't recall the technical term she used for the medication that she gets infuses for, but I'm sure it won't be hard to find out what it is if I ever need it. I must say, this Neurologist seemed to be very knowledgeable as to what she was speaking of and that makes a difference!

Weight Watchers update

Tuesday, January 10th, will be my one week mark being on Weight Watchers. There's very little challenge because I think I'm a disciplined person with a little guidance! I go in tomorrow for my first weigh in and I'm excited to see the outcome. I told myself that I wasn't going to get on my home scale and only weigh in at the meetings. My husband has been begging me to weigh myself, but I refuse! I have so much to say about this experience to where I think I'll start a Weight Watchers blog because I seem to get on everyone's nerves talking about it! Because this experience is related to my health, I'll share some of the postings on this blog as well. I'll keep you posted! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone