I ran into a girl I went to school with the other day. I see her from time to time, and I kno
w she's been going to the Y several days a week for over a year. This photo is from 2006. (BTW -- I think I bought that shirt at the Goodwill!) Anyway, she is mere shadow of her former self. She said she's lost 75 pounds, and she just looks great.We started a "WW" thing here at work three weeks ago. Buffy, Carrie, Jeanine, Jennifer and I all put $1 a week in an envelope and get on the scales. The first two weeks I gained 0.6. This week, finally, I lost 2.4. The reason? I started doing the low carb diet again.
I have no doubt that low carb is the way to go. The amount of carbohydrates Americans eat is just downright hideous. Jeanine went to a meeting yesterday and said she had a bagel, 2 cookies, some Triscuits, and numerous other carb-heavy foods all through the day. No wonder we don't lose weight, I thought.
Even when I was going to WW, the WW program didn't work for me. The only thing that DID work was cutting the carbs. That's another reason I quit WW; it's ridiculous to pay them $10 a week just to weigh me, and one of their main pushes at those meetings is to sell their WW foods and snacks. Crazy!
And on the low carb diet, I can eat salads until I'm just stuffed, and I will still lose weight. Lettuce just doesn't have that many calories! :-) I think that's one of my problems -- I must like to be full. Full on salads is good. Full on potato chips and ice cream is not.
Oh well, we'll see what happens next week. But I gotta stay on this horse and try to get a new snapshot of my former classmate. She's done an awesome job and is a real inspiration to me.
