• Worrywarts Guide to World Travel and Risk Free Adventure
  • Worrywart’s Guide to . . . .
  • Y R U Even Saying This?
  • About the Worrywart
  • Latest Entry

The Worrywart's Guide . . . .

Category Archives: Crush This Goal

Crush. This. Goal. . . . Ugh.

11 Wednesday Apr 2012

Posted by Julie in Crush This Goal

≈ 59 Comments

Tags

Crush this goal, determination, great walks, Jenifer Hudson, motivation, perseverance, San Francisco, Weight Watchers

chart2

“It sucked,” squeaked Claudette, her cheerful painted eyebrows making their best effort at a furrow.
”Pardon my French,” she whispered apologetically in her best kindergarten teacher voice.

I feel the same way.

Claudette was talking about her husband’s late night snacking on burgers and fries right underneath her slightly less pudgy weight watching nose.

I was talking about March.

I shared my new motto with the semicircle of men and women sitting thigh to thigh in the lime green plastic chairs; my Weight Watcher “anchor”:  Crush. This. Goal.

This is what I say to myself instead of huffing. and. puffing.  during  image class.

With each tortured breath:

Crush.

This.

Goal.

A life size Jenifer Hudson beams down on me with approval; “Believe!” she encourages with an airbrushed wink.

image

An “argument” breaks out in row two. There is always a disagreement between Arguing Woman (there always seems to be an Arguing Woman at any kind of meeting – sometimes I am she) and another random weight watcher about the point value of a food. The debate goes on for a ridiculous amount of time. Eyeballs, set in not so jolly round faces, are rolling. I mutter, “Always a debate.”

This sort of explains why world peace is so elusive.

I feel a little bad for Arguing Woman because I think she must be right about the points – she is the only person who has lost a noticeable amount of weight. Apparently, the rest of us are shedding pounds from our earlobes and big toes. I guess her obsession with detail, albeit really annoying, is paying off.

image

I know what you are thinking, rapid weight loss is a bad thing (say what???).

Well, it hasn’t been rapid! I have been using the prolonged and ineffective method of: lose three pounds, gain back two, repeat.

image

I stepped it up a bit in March by losing zero pounds and gaining back seven.
I do not recommend this method which I like to call the “Chutes and Ladders” approach.
As Claudette would say, “It sucked.”

The things I did this week to lose the seven I already lost (again):

1. I honed my helicopter parenting skills. Ralphie signed up for a triathlon. Thanks to my worrywartness (aka compulsion to know every detail of his life), I caught his enthusiastic and infectious DETERMINATION bug.

Ralphie

2. Accidental derriere photography posted on the fridge next to before photo – MOTIVATION.

image

3. Exercising every day (see chart above) including a morning walk and an after dinner walk around the neighborhood. Everything looks so pretty when it’s not a blur out the car window.

image

4. Putting the correct portion on my plate, but not eating all of it. When I feel full, I set my plate on the counter and tell myself if I’m hungry later, I’ll eat it for “dessert.”
My brain is SO gullible!
I usually do not eat what I left on the plate, so I can use the leftovers for a delicious lunch the next day (steak salad below).

IMG_20120405_133946

5. Trader Joe’s Homestyle Salsa Especial. This salsa makes celery sticks and yellow bell-pepper slices taste like chips. Once I fill up on vegies, I have two (yes TWO) chips to satisfy my crunchy salt craving.

IMG_20120407_103242

6. Green tea, water, water, water . . . . and very, very, very little Pinot Noir!

IMG_20120407_103221

Can you guess my favorite color?

IMG_20120404_1809247. Happy Hour smoothie (instead of Pinot Noir). It is filling, healthy, and drinking it doesn’t lead to the inevitable morning after question: “What happened to all of the chips?”

Question: How many ounces of wine does this glass hold?

Answer: 15 ounces!!!! That equals three servings of wine; in Weight Watcher speak: 12 points (almost half of my daily allotment). The smoothie is two points (Arguing Woman would probably beg to differ).

Smoothie recipe below post.

8. Planning and tracking.
image

image

9. Yummy salads for lunch (the key word here is yummy – this one is from One French Word’s blog – I substituted prosciutto for the duck and left out the bread. My salad looks different from her salad because, well, I don’t know how to apply heat to food. Thankfully, Tony does.
IMG_20120404_185118

10. It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day . . .  It’s April, damn it. Get up off the couch, get dressed, and crush this goal! Do it! NOW!

Smoothie recipe: One banana, one cup of unsweetened frozen pineapple chunks, one cup of orange juice, one teaspoon of wheat germ, a couple of handfuls of ice, one cup of sparkling water – blend. This makes two servings.

Photos from Sunday’s Three Hour San Francisco stairway walk.

image

Dawn
image
image
Filbert Street Steps

image

image
Steps to Coit Tower

image
Yoga in the City – this looks easier than it is!
image
Leftovers made a picture perfect picnic.

image

IMG_20120408_115338
Guess which one is my favorite.

image
Lombard Street Steps. “Good evening!” a young tourist greets us with enthusiasm and confidence at 12:32 p.m.
That’s me in any foreign country without the confidence, “Buona sera??? Buon giorno???  . . . Hi.”

image

image
A secret stairway (if this is like Chutes and Ladders, I’ll probably gain 10 pounds at the top).

image
It leads to the Easter Bunny! If you did not read Patrice’s post The Velveteen Habit, you should. As always, it was wonderful.

image
Homeward bound which means down.

image
Unless it means UP! My toe hurts. Did I ever tell you about the chances of dying from falling down stairs?
Hold on to the rail!

image

image
Greenwich Street Steps. Not nearly as beautiful as the Filbert Street steps, but after 40 years of of walking up the Filbert Street Steps, it’s nice to discover something new just a few feet away.

image
And look a fairy lives there or is she an angel? “Believe,” she urges or at least read Blog of the Impossible’s post on perseverance.

16 Pounds Later

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Like this:

Like Loading...

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Worrywarts Guide to World Travel and Risk Free Adventure

  • Tour Mont Blanc
  • Camino de Santiago
  • Bromo Bliss: How a Worrywart Found Happiness in the Least Likely Place at 3:11 a.m.
  • Worrywarts Guide to World Travel and Risk Free Adventure

Worrywart’s Guide to Contemplating Skydiving

  • Bromo Bliss: How a Worrywart Found Happiness in the Least Likely Place at 3:11 a.m.
  • How to Spend the Next Minute of Your Life
  • Bill Clinton Gives First of Lecture Series at Georgetown University
  • Why Not You
  • Teaching Shakespeare English?
  • The Art of Living Every Minute of Your Life
  • What to do if your tandem skydiving instructor chokes
  • Top 10 Things Moms (and Dads) Do That I am Pretty Sure Are Harder Than Jumping Out of an Airplane
  • Dude

Worrywart’s Guide to Losing Weight and other Household Chores

  • Tearing Down the Wall of Small Deaths Byte by Byte
  • Crush This Goal
  • It’s April Damn It
  • I Hate to Tell You This Mom
  • Eating Paris
  • Weight of the Nation
  • Today is Irreplaceable
  • If You Give Your Dad a Hammer
  • Reblogged from The Middlest Sister
  • What are you (really) going to do with your life?

Worrywart’s Guide to Looking Up (from the keyboard)

  • Heaven
  • Take Happiness When You Can
  • Ashlee
  • Bananas
  • Passion
  • Dear Self, Just Stop It
  • My Blog is Flatlining; Oh What a World
  • The “Bell Curve” of Life
  • Love Pass It On
  • The Long Story of How Liver Becomes Pate
  • 46 Days
  • Each Day Possibilities Create

Worrywart’s Guide to the New Year

  • Sizzle
  • Age Matters: Bucket List Tip Thailand
  • Eating My Words
  • Give a Little Take a Little
  • Before and After . . . Again
  • What is a Naked Rake?
  • Best Foods for a Nuclear War
  • Sake Bombs

Worrywart’s Guide to Everything, but Weight Loss

  • I wouldn’t be caught dead without my lipstick
  • If Your Dog Isn’t in Band, You Should Read This
  • What are you going to say when the police show up?
  • Naked
  • A Series of Fortunate Un-events
  • Turkey Trot 10k
  • Fat and Dizzy
  • Speed It Up a Little
  • My Eye is Bleeding; Just in Time for the Christmas Party
  • Fat and Sweaty or Skinny Bitch

Worrywarts Guide to Being Wrong

  • I May Have to Kill My Dog
  • Taking Stuff Back
  • The “Bell Curve” of Life
  • IKEA Meltdown
  • Making Peace With IKEA
  • Men in Bibs
  • Please Don’t Embarrass Me
  • Being Embarrassing
  • Middle Age Thoughts . . .

Worrywarts Guide to Traveling With Adrenaline Starved Thrill-seekers (Thailand)

  • The Airport Family
  • The Mechanical Bull
  • Flying
  • Arguing
  • Not Flying
  • Floating
  • Killing the Spider
  • Leeches
  • Pool Villa
  • Speechless
  • Getting to Pee Pee
  • Heart Break
  • Awesome and Amazing
  • Common Ground
  • The Bungee Jump
  • White Water
  • Mom
  • Men in Aprons
  • One Night in Bangkok
  • The Flight Attendant

Worrywart’s Guide to Survival (without carbs)

  • You Would be Perfect If You Didn’t Have a Dog
  • Before and After
  • Every Fat Woman’s Dream
  • Weight Loss – Day Two
  • He Said She Said
  • Breaking Bad Habits
  • Constipation
  • Rajdamnoen
  • Pasta and Biscuits
  • The Sizing Machine
  • The Deviled Egg Made Me Do It
  • Plan B Day 1

Worrywarts Guide to Feathering the Empty Nest

  • Our Dog is a Worrywart
  • Doggy Day Care
  • Barbeques Galore
  • Wok Pasta
  • DIY
  • Marin General
  • Marathon Mom

Copyright © 2011 J. Butler

Blog at WordPress.com.

%d bloggers like this: