My new religion

Give me a pat on the back, because I had every excuse to chicken out and not attend that WW meeting yesterday. We had a -40 windchill going, I had a lot of work to do and staying in my cozy warm office, instead of braving the cold to walk five blocks seemed like a much better option.

But I went and I signed myself up for six weeks dammit. The first surprise--I was convinced my scale at home was lying to me and that I'd get on the WW scale and it would say I was like 10 lbs heavier than I thought, except that it said I was actually one pound LESS than I believed I was (143.6 lbs). She stamped my little white sheet, which kind of made me nostalgic. I remember when my mom used to be a WW member when I was kid and I was always so envious of her little charts with the squares she got to check off. I'd often do it for her after she'd eaten something. Well looky, I now have my own squares to check off. Aint I lucky?

After I weighed in, I went to sit down for the meeting and just listened to the conversation around me. I felt like I had found my church. Everyone was talking about food! The woman behind me was telling the lady next to her that she'd gone bowling on the weekend and she'd pigged out on hot dogs and french fries. I loved it--these people truly understood what it was like to be 'spoken' to by food. In real life, the only place I can really bitch about how hard it is to lose weight is online, but I now have another avenue.

My leader is very loud and vivacious. At first, I was wondering why she was shouting and was on the verge of disliking her. (What can I say? Girls were mean to me in high school and now I have a healthy distrust of everyone I meet.) But then she started to go off on someone for whining that a 1 pt brownie was chalky. She then told us "What's one point? You have a sneeze and a fart and you burn that off!" It was at that moment that she won my heart. Anyone who would say something like that, can't possibly take themselves that seriously. And I can appreciate that.

Yesterday, Sherre commented that many of the women at her meeting don't look like they need to lose weight, and that they're all there to just lose a few pounds. Well she was right. In fact, I thought most of the women there looked just fine, which of course led me to all kinds of curiosity. I wondered if some had been very overweight at one point and they had lost it? Or were they like me? Just a little self concious and wanting to feel better about themselves? I really need to get a life.

Anyway, I was on OP yesterday and plan to be for the rest of the week. I've got my little books and charts to help me along the way. Who knew losing weight could be so much fun?