Week 1: Complete

I've finished my first week on Weight Watchers online and I feel good about my progress. I could have done better for sure. But I could have done much, much worse.

I know because I had been doing much worse. I'd been eating like I had no sense: cookies, candy, 2nds & 3rds. Eating way too much of my favorites, but also too much of things I don't love. Unconscious, mindless, can't-seem-to-stop-myself, eating. Crazy.

It's a telling thing that poverty runs rampant in this country, leaving many Americans starving, while way too many people, like me, choose to use food inappropriately, thereby gaining excessive weight. Why the dichotomy? Where's the middle ground? It makes me sad when I realize that I'm part of the problem. I'm part of the reason the middle ground is lost.

But I don't have to stay in the extreme, do I? Choices. For me, it's all about choices. I can choose to make decisions that benefit my health. People who are starving do not have the latitude that I have. Because I can do what is right, I must do what is right.

Tomorrow I start week two. And if I eat right and exercise, I'm guessing that I will in fact decrease.

Aileen

PS Would love your comments--just so I know you are out there. :)