Empowered and Equipped!! Now What??

Well, I did it!! I went to my first (again) Weight Watchers Meeting yesterday on my lunch break!! I had belonged to WW before and lost about 25 lbs but hit a plateau and quit. Shame on me...LOL. Tony and I both quit.....and I gained most of it back. I hear that a lot of ppl gain all and then some back. Thankfully, I didn't.

I purchased a Tool Box Kit ($39.95) which included several things. BUT....first of all, things changed in WW. It is now called the Points Plus Program. We used to count calories, well, no more counting those. BUT.....we do count 4 things....Fiber, Fat, Protein and Carbohydrates. AND I gotta get moving more. Today we're going to the local walking track and obviously, walking. Gotta track those points too. That takes a lot of discipline...but I can do it. No problemo! My tool box kit includes the following:
1. A Complete Food Counter Book
2. A Going Out Restaurant Guide (invaluable if you dine out at all)
3. A 3 Month Complete Tracking Guide
4. A Calculator to track my progress and find out what points value food has.
5. A Starter Recipee Book
6. A Coupon Book for WW Items worth $20

Boy, do I sound equipped or what? I am so excited.....and have never been this excited to start a weight control/loss/life change program EVER!! I think I honestly "got it".....understood where this spiral has led me to now. AND I don't like it.....But I will like the amazing results when I achieve them!! I now see where I need to be in my life.....not just trudging through day to day "accepting" and hating what I've become (obese).

Now what? Well, I have to have a plan of attack. I started counting my points this morning and we're going to the grocery store today after Joshua gets a haircut. We'll be in Louisville so the choices will be MUCH better in the grocery store and especially the produce dept. I also made a "date" later today to go walking at the walking track. I have an elliptical machine that I'll jump on (after dusting it naturally) for a couple minutes as that is about all I can handle now...LOL!! I'm gonna stay on target and IF I fall, I won't beat myself up about it. I'll just pick up and keep going...STRONG and EMPOWERED!!!!!

Here are a few quotes that I find inspiring in this journey to better myself!!
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.   ~Mary Kay Ash

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.  ~Mahatma Gandhi

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.   ~Tony Robbins

You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.    ~Louise L. Hay

If our vocabulary did not contain the words trouble, adversity, calamity and grief, it could not contain th words, bravery, patience and self-sacrifice. Those who face no calamity will need no courage. mysterious though it is, the human characteristics we admire most grow in a soil with a strong mixture of trouble.    ~Dale Turner

For those of you thinking of joining something like WW.....do it.....and for those of you who are already doing so......congratulations on making that first step and all the steps you take daily to continue on your journey to betterment!!

~Tina