weigh in

On Saturday morning, I made my way back to Jenny Craig for a weigh in.

I didn’t have an official consultation on the books since Candace wasn’t available. Committed to getting my weigh-ins in, I did a drop-in appointment. Over the years, I’ve become an expert on the “drop-in” appointments. Ideally, I call ahead to submit my food order and quickly jump on the scale. I write my updated weight on a post-in note, and zoom out with my food.

This morning was pretty close to that! And, as a bonus… the number I wrote on the post-it was less than last weigh in! Woo Hoo!

This Week’s Weight Loss: -0.6 lbs

Total Weight Loss: -79.0 lbs

As part of Team Jenny, I have a chance to interact a little more closely with Jenny Craig corporate. When they emailed me to let me know that Jenny Craig was featured in the May issue of Oprah’s O Magazine, I headed out to Target to pick it up and see what all the buzz was about!

For those of you who subscribe, Jenny Craig has an article included on page 94 of this month’s issue.

The article in O Magazine tells a fantastic story of mother and daughter, Linda and Pam, who lost a collective 57 lbs on the Jenny Craig program as they were planning for family cruise to Alaska. The ease of the Jenny Craig program + the support they lent each other made their weight loss possible!

I don’t know about you, but I love reading about people that are changing their lives and getting healthy. It’s so inspiring!

The two-page spread also includes information on an exciting new contest from Jenny Craig and O Magazine that’s going on! Here are the details, and how you can enter to win:

AH Moment Contest

Are you inspired to make a change? In honor of Mother’s Day, share your “AH Moment” to getting healthy and enter for a chance to win! You could win a trip for two to NYC to attend Jenny’s 30^th birthday party, a free Jenny program, 30-days of Jenny food, a tour of the O Magazine offices and a night on the town complete with dinner and a Broadway show! Visit www.omagonline.com/jenny for more information on how to enter.

Plus, share your inspired “Ah Moment” on your Twitter page using #Jenny and be entered to win one of 100 Jenny prize packages

Also, don’t forget to visit http://www.jennycraig.com/heart-walk to learn about how Jenny is supporting the American Heart Association’s My Heart. My Life.™ initiative. Here, you will be able to sign up for the American Heart Association’s Heart Walks taking place in over 300 cities through 2013.

While your official entry to the contest will have to go through this link, I’d love to hear your AH Moment . What made you pause and decide to get healthy?

For me, it was two things:

1) This picture that I took with friends outside of Garcia’s way back when, which made my weight gain all too obvious.

2) My friend Robin making the decision to schedule gastric bypass surgery.

Both opened my eyes to the fact that I was ignoring my weight, and missing out on my life. Two and a half years later, joining Jenny was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

A NTTC Feature on Diets In Review.com

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My Current Struggle

I’m struggling a little bit this week.

I’m having trouble with not feeling NORMAL.

You heard me: NORMAL.

Sometimes, I just want to go out to lunch with a co-worker and not feel a little guilty when I eat a few fried pickle chips.

One day, I want to feel okay accepting plans with friends that involves food and alcohol without first thinking about my weigh-in, what the impact will be, what I will be eating, etc.

I feel like this is what NORMAL people do. People who are CAREFREE… people who are LIVING.

The interesting thing: I know that the people who do behave as I’ve described to be “normal” in most cases aren’t trying to lose weight. They haven’t just lost 80 lbs. They’re not actively participating in a weight loss program.

Also, in reality… while they may not stress about what’s for lunch, about how they’re going to work off the breadsticks they ate, there are other things that worry them.

So, why do I compare myself to these people who clearly have different goals than I do?? Deep down, I know I shouldn’t… but I still do. I hate saying no to social outings, and frankly… I wanted to eat pizza this week.

So… I did! This week, I had dinner with Tiffany, and I did what I usually do… I led with a restaurant choice that has healthy choices. When she suggested we try Sexy Pizza… how could I really say no?? I mean, yes… I wanted to have pizza, and Sexy Pizza sounded delish!

Now, we ate pretty well. We split a salad (avoiding that cheese) and each ate two pieces of pizza. In my past, I would have easily devoured about 1/2 of that pie, but I just don’t eat like that anymore…

Even though that was pretty good, I felt horrible about it. For maintaining my weight, this meal is totally doable… but when I’m trying to lose, extra sodium and extra calories don’t typically lend to a positive weigh-in. Food guilt is the WORST.

On the positive side: I packed great snacks every day of the week and really stayed on track during the days. I even avoided a Chick-fila catered lunch… that’s impressive!

So… how did my weigh-in go? Well, I didn’t go. The scale and I had a disagreement on Saturday morning, and I just didn’t feel like going to Jenny Craig and talking about it. I knew what happened this week. I knew that I hadn’t been to the gym all week long. I hadn’t forgotten I ate the pizza, and I knew that I wasn’t in the mood to drive across town to rehash what I already knew.

So… I skipped the weigh in.

I decided to instead do what I needed on Saturday, and I decided not to compare it to what “normal” people would have done… or to what I “should” have done… I took the day off.

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