I wanted to make the blog more public and get some more readers and to be more honest with more people (YAY!) But then last week I got a little blog shy after I saw the page views and realized that I didn't know who of my 400+ friends on Facebook was looking at my blog. But that is part of the deal with a blog and making things public. Right? I did get excited by the data that blogger gives you though. Perhaps, I should have been a statistician...I love graphs. I'm sure by next week I'll be my normal self, plus I think it will be time for my first guest kitchen photos!
In the past, I have had problems going to my WW meetings on a consistent day every week. I would hem and haw and think to myself that I have to pick a certain day and meeting because of this work thing or that work thing or that I didn't want to wake up early and go to ww before getting up early during tech. This time I decided that I would pick Sundays because it has meetings at all possible times and the all have the same leader. So even if I move the time around, I still have the same leader and thus some consistency. I can go early early, so that I can go before 8am work, medium early so I can go before 10am work, and later if I want to sleep in. Most excitingly, I have been going every week without fail, with work, sleeping in and it all. I truly believe that for me I need the meetings. I need the support and community and the eating/exercise.
I've created a Sunday ritual. Walk over to ww, then go to my favorite neighborhood cafe (complete with hipsters and delicious delicious SF roasted expensive coffee) and drink my coffee (and sometimes eat breakfast). I love that it is full of neighborhood people with their kids. I quite enjoy the people watching. I am so excited to report that I have a newspaper subscription!!! I am a grown up who reads the real newspaper. I am getting the Sunday New York Times. I think this will be the perfect addition to my Sunday mornings. What better way to spend a morning?
Guess what? Drinking coffee every Sunday is totally making me loose weight. No...not really, but I am being very, very successful! So far I've lost 5% of my starting body weight. And I have to think that going to meetings once a week on the same day are helping me with that. I am glad that when I slide on tracking everything that I go to the meeting on sunday and immediately I want to track. I get instantly re-engaged and re-committed.
I took this on Monday before I went to work, as I had to go right from the coffee shop to work.
I am hopeful that I can keep loosing weight over the holidays if I continue to go for walks and am careful not to drink up all of my calories. (Which is hard especially when my dad gets giant bottles of Anchor Christmas Ale. I'll take a picture, I think it is the size of a bottle of wine.) If I keep on this trend I am going to need to get the dress I am wearing in my sister's wedding altered and hopefully quite a bit! (Ahem, Amanda, my dear dear friend the fashion designer, there is something I may need your help with in June.)
I am so committed to my Sunday ritual that I am actually kind of sad that Christmas is on a Sunday. I get to drink coffee brewed by my favorite barista, my dad and I get to figure out how many points are in my favorite family food, Swedish Coffee Bread. I am curious to try other meetings, so I think that I might go to a meeting on Monday in my hometown and take some guest kitchen photos.
Trying to look modely, but instead I look silly.
accidental close up!!! look at my face lit by the blue of my computer screen.
