Weight Loss 2008

I think I am ready to take on exercise in combination with Weight Watchers.  I did no working out this week and I used all of my extra points and I have a feeling that isn’t a good combination for me.  Maybe if I had used my points on healthy foods, but instead I got McDonald’s and Winchell’s.  So if I want to have those things I will need to offset it with exercise or not use so many of my extra points.

So in a minute I am going to weigh in and see what has happened but I know from peeking all week that I certainly didn’t gain any ground.  Hubby has suggested that I use a mini-trampoline.  We got that idea from Fried Green Tomatoes.  It certainly looks fun and I bet I could do that and still watch TV.  On websites that encourage rebounding (that is what jumping on the trampoline is called) they suggest just ten minutes at a time, a few times a day.  I think I might be able to do that.  Combine that with PushTV and I might be on to something.  I still think Lady Shanny’s advice is great.  Get the eating part down and then add in a little exercise at a time.

So that is me in a nutshell.  I am going to go weigh in and see what has happened. 

Well, another successful week.  I am very, very happy with the results.  So far I am still not exercising but I plan to very soon. 

Something that Shanny wrote a while ago is really echoing in me.  She was relating running a 2k one day to running an 8k the next and how that would either discourage her or injure her.  But she went on to talk about being consistent and pushing herself just a little bit toward her goal.

I keep thinking about my attempts at exercising and how I have quit each time.  I do it for a spurt of time and then I quit.  I think that I am trying to go from the proverbial 2k to 8k with out the other “k’s” in between.

I am suggesting to myself that I need to pick an exercise (which still has me stumped) and do it for a tiny bit of time every day for days and days.  And without the guilt I attach to it that I am not doing enough.  That I need to be happy that I am doing it at all as opposed to being upset that I am not doing enough.

The only question that I keep coming back to is what exercise should I do?  Walking outside isn’t doable yet this time of year.  I have a few exercise DVD’s but they really don’t do it for me.  I don’t have a treadmill yet because I am saving up money for a trip.  So I keep coming back to the same thing.  What can I do long term for ten minutes a day until it grows into something longer?

Yes, honestly, I am asking you readers to give me suggestions. 

I have been saving a lot of my points during the day so that I can have a dessert at night.  I am not sure that is a good idea.  I think that the dessert isn’t the issue as much as the volume of dessert and the fact that I am consuming it right before falling asleep.  What do you think?