On a more positive note, I just realized it has been exactly a year since I got my bike. I can't believe I've stuck with riding for a whole year. I should find some way to reward myself-- maybe get those new tires? Actually, before I switch out the mountain bike tires, I need to finally take that ride through the redwoods that I've been meaning to do for, like, ever. Maybe next weekend! I will try and put it on my calendar.
- posted by mo @ 11:06 PM

 
I don't want to talk about it.

Apparently, I am very easily demoralized.

Tomorrow, thank god, is another day.
- posted by mo @ 10:44 PM

 
Where did I go wrong?

I went to the meeting tonight only to find out that I had gained .2 of a pound! Which isn't very much, but what the hell?! If you stay on the program, you are supposed to lose weight. That is the WAY IT WORKS. Feh. This is very unsettling.

I have a few theories. I might have been retaining water. Maybe the retirement party was more points than I thought it was. Maybe since I worked out this week, I built some muscle. Maybe I didn't eat enough vegetables. Maybe.... I don't know. But it is very DISTRESSING to me to discover that I gained weight. I really counted all my points and stayed within my range... and the thing is, I feel that I've lost. So maybe the weigh-in lady was right and it will "show up" next week. Or maybe it is the muscle. Or maybe the fact that I had bacon last night means I was retaining water... I don't know. I don't know.

I guess all I can do is keep trying this week, and see what happens.
- posted by mo @ 11:03 PM

 
I am getting antsy for my weigh-in on Thursday. I am glad I don't have a scale, I'd probably hop on it obsessively and make myself crazy. I feel like it's been a good week, but at the party this weekend I didn't count points at all. I don't think I ate that much, but I was probably over on points since I had like eighty-seven drinks. I counted the whole party as thirty points. I wonder if I'll make my two-pound loss this week?

I am aiming for two pounds a week. I was doing the math and I realized that if I do lose that much, plus the five pounds I already lost in the first week, I will have lost 20 pounds by my birthday, 30 pounds by the time I go to Vegas in May, 60 pounds when I go to Holland, and 75 pounds by Journalcon: Austin. That's a lot of weight. I can't even imagine it, but I guess I had better start. Visualizing your goals is important, no?
- posted by mo @ 8:57 PM

 
I think I will post bike-riding-related things here too. So today I got off work a little early and one of my students postponed our tutoring, so I had about an hour to squeeze in a ride. I fixed my bike seat all by myself, using ingenuity and tools and stuff, and went on a quick 5.2 mile ride. It was gorgeous today. I listened to the Chicago soundtrack. Perfect.
- posted by mo @ 8:40 PM

 
WW has already taught me some interesting things about eating, and I'm only in week two. While I was in L.A. this weekend, I went out with my sister and had a salad for lunch. (Good choice.) Later on, I went out to dinner with another friend. I had 12 points left, and was faced with the prospect of another salad or maybe a sorry piece of grilled chicken, which made me feel deprived. Then I realized I could get a plain green salad for no points, and spend all of my points on a piece of chocolate mousse pie instead. So that's what I did!

This is also in line with my habit of rewarding myself at the end of every day with chocolate of some type. Thus far, it's been a couple squares of milk chocolate, which is yummy. My mother let me try a Healthy Choice fudge pop and that was awfully good too, and lasts longer! So maybe I'll get some of those and switch it up a little.

Speaking of my mother, she gave me $100 when she found out I was doing WW. It is to buy things "for my health" such as new road bike tires. Sweet!
- posted by mo @ 7:39 PM

 
Wow, setting up this blog was remarkably easy. It took me about fifteen minutes, max. Excellent. Well, anyway, this is here so that I can babble on and on and on about Weight Watchers. No doubt this will be fascinating to some people.

Hey, how do I turn on the comments on this thing?
- posted by mo @ 7:11 PM