{"id":2685,"date":"2009-09-30T13:03:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T11:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2685"},"modified":"2010-05-16T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T11:22:34","slug":"project-fatass-heads-into-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/2685","title":{"rendered":"Project Fatass Heads into Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"30lb\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Check it out, it\u2019s Michal Keach again<\/a>!\u00a0 Still no idea who he is, but he\u2019s still serving a purpose for me.\u00a0\u00a0 For the 2nd time in the past 3 years I am once again down THIRTY POUNDS (14 kilos \/ 2.1 stones)<\/strong>!!\u00a0 Well, 33 lbs as of today, but 30 lbs as of my last weigh in on Monday.\u00a0 So we\u2019ll go with weigh in day so I don\u2019t jinx it!<\/p>\n

Only this time it didn\u2019t take me 2 months to lose the 5 lbs between 25-30 lbs lost, and I have Weight Watchers to thank for that!\u00a0 It has taken me a little over 3 months to lose the 30 lbs and I\u2019m keeping my fingers crossed and working hard in hopes that the next 30 lbs goes just as quickly.<\/p>\n

Look at the size of that fish!\u00a0 That\u2019s how much of my body I am not carrying around anymore!\u00a0 I wish I could say I found it to be really noticeable, but I don\u2019t.\u00a0 There is some difference in my face, and some clothes fit a bit differently but I have not yet reached the point where people go \u201cHEY!\u00a0 You\u2019ve lost weight!!\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 That can be a bit disheartening, but I will get there.\u00a0\u00a0 I try to tell myself these little things to keep me motivated\u2026<\/p>\n

Did you know that 30 pounds is the equivalent of 120 sticks of butter<\/strong>?!<\/p>\n

I have lost the weight of an entire average two year old<\/strong>!!<\/p>\n

The 30 pounds I\u2019ve lost could make up an entire average sized Beagle<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n

Ok, so it\u2019s not so noticeable.\u00a0 It still feels pretty damn good!<\/p>\n

Any longtime follower of my blog knows that Project Fatass<\/a> has been going off and on for the last number of years.\u00a0\u00a0 Each year it follows the same pattern\u2026 in the winter I feel rotten and eat my face off, gain 10-20 lbs then I feel rotten about it and in the spring I am all gung-ho to do something about it.\u00a0\u00a0 I diet \/ exercise from about May\/June \u2013 Nov \/ Dec and then somewhere between December and January it all falls apart.\u00a0 Repeat.<\/p>\n

I think this year will be different.\u00a0 I know I\u2019ve said that in previous years but I\u2019m basing this on the fact that my experience over the past few months has been different than in previous attempts.<\/p>\n

I am not going to be foolish and be all I AM GOING TO DO IT like years before, because then I feel like such an asshole when I fail.\u00a0 I\u2019m just going to say that I feel positive about the fact that I am in the right state of mind for it and have finally found a program that works for me.\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping that this will make my attempt to get through the coming winter more successful than before.<\/p>\n

Since June 15 I have been following the program on WeightWatchers.nl<\/a> and it\u2019s taught me so much about what I should and shouldn\u2019t be eating, and most importantly, portion control.\u00a0\u00a0 In the past I\u2019ve followed the general eat less and move more method, and I\u2019ve also followed the program on Sparkpeople<\/a>, both of which failed me terribly.\u00a0 Not that these don\u2019t work for other people, my mother lost over 80 lbs on the eat less and move more method, and I know a lot of people reached their goals with Sparkpeople as well, but they weren\u2019t for me.<\/p>\n

The eat less move more method didn\u2019t work for me because I can rationalize my way into anything.\u00a0 I generally ate less but didn\u2019t eat MORE of other things to make up for it.\u00a0\u00a0 I cut back on what I ate, but often it meant skipping breakfast so I wouldn\u2019t feel so bad about what I ate at lunch, or having a smaller lunch so I could still pig out at McDonalds that night.\u00a0\u00a0 So didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

Sparkpeople was fantastic in regards to community and moral support but I found their method of tracking food so tedious.\u00a0 Partly because of the system itself, having to find that delicate balance between carbs, protien, fats and calories, but also because the program is largely aimed at Americans so very few (if any) Dutch products were on their lists.\u00a0 So for everything I ate, I had to sit with the packaging and enter it detail by detail.\u00a0\u00a0 Their system was an activity vs calorie intake program where you had to track all your activity and calculate how many calories were burned, which required you to do a certain amount of physical activity every day.\u00a0\u00a0 It also got extremely irritating trying to put the puzzle together of all the different nutritional values.\u00a0 I\u2019d set up a meal and one thing would be too high in fat so I\u2019d replace it with something else and then it would put my carbs too high, so I\u2019d try something else and then I\u2019d have too much protein.\u00a0 It was like a jigsaw puzzle, and I don\u2019t like jigsaw puzzles.<\/p>\n

I love Weight Watchers because they make it easy.\u00a0 Everything has a point value and while there is still some calculation involved it\u2019s nothing like with other programs.\u00a0\u00a0 It makes it easy for you to still fit in the foods you love while maintaining a healthy diet.\u00a0 It also encourages you to eat a lot of fruit and veg as they are very low, or even zero points, so you eat those when you can to save points for other things you enjoy.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s quite idiot proof and it works for me.\u00a0 It\u2019s not so strict that I feel miserable, and while I can earn extra points through activity, the program doesn\u2019t require me to do any certain amount of exercise per day.\u00a0 Instead, it calculates your points based on your activity level so if you aren\u2019t very active you will still lose weight, but if you want more points then you need to exercise to earn them.\u00a0\u00a0 Although, I earn extra points through my aqua jogging and other little exercises I do but I rarely \u2018spend\u2019 them anyway.<\/p>\n

Wish me luck over the next few months!\u00a0 If I can get through this winter I\u2019ll know for sure I can really do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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