I was talking to one of my friends yesterday and we were talking about ... what else? WEIGHT AND HEALTH.
I told her that I haven't weighed myself for almost a week now as I thought it was obsessive that I did EVERY DAY.
This is what she tells me.
"I weigh myself five times a day."
I think my jaw dropped. FIVE TIMES A DAY?! She said yeah, when I wake up, before a run, after a run, before I eat, after I eat, before I go to bed. I think that's more than five times, but when it gets to be *that* many... does it really matter? She told me that she can tell the difference when she drinks water and doesn't. (what?!)
UMM HELLO?! I then told her that I thought she needed to try to cut back on that because IT IS NOT HEALTHY! And she's lost a LOT of weight in a NOT HEALTHY WAY (aka not eating, having diet pills and running A LOT)... yet she still has the fat mentality that I know all too well.
Speaking of weight... I FEEL GOOD ABOUT NOT WEIGHING MYSELF! I am trying to not have that number define me! And instead of thinking I am going to have a bad day because the number doesn't read what I want it to (really, am I ever happy? lol), I decided to gauge it on how I am doing w/ my workouts, my eating habits and how my clothes fit... we'll see if I can last longer on not weighing. Not gonna lie, everyday I WANT TO WEIGH MYSELF but have resisted thus far. YAY! I might be waaaaay too curious later on this week and might weigh myself, but hopefully if I do, I can at least only weigh myself once a week!
Speaking of not fat mentality... I was talking to the boy the other day and I said that I think it is ironic that when I was *fat* (he says he NEVER has thought of me in that way) that I didn't think that I was *fat*. ONLY after I started to lose weight, I thought I was... only 10 more pounds... only 15 more pounds... etc. and "I will be happy"... hopefully I can change that mentality! And then I told him that it is hard when SO MANY PEOPLE here are skinny little bitches. ha. He said that's because it is what you are choosing to see. IT IS TRUE. I TRIED TO LOOK AT EVERYONE NOW and it was really what I was choosing to see!
Yesterday was supposed to be my 3 mile day... guess what?! I RAN 10K! That is 6.25 miles for you non-SI unit people!

It took me 1:14 which is about a little over 11 1/2 min. miles. You know, it's slower than I would like, BUT I FINISHED AND IT IS A GOOD STARTING POINT! And I did mucho mucho better on eating...
Bfast:
banana
milk
cereal
---340 cals, 6 pts
Lunch:
2 bbq sandwiches w/ ww cheese and light bread
---480 cals, 8 pts
"snack":
1 bbq sandwich w/ ww cheese and light bread (the boy's mom sends it back with him! IT IS MY FAVORITE!)
---240 cals, 4 pts
Then I ran...
ONE THOUSAND CALORIES (11 points!)!
went home and had:
3 mini-croissants w/ meat and cheese
ice cream (ff breyers) w/ sugar free/ calorie free / fat free syrup (0 points) and a little bit of nuts
1 c. cherries
---928 cals, 19 pts.
Grand total: 1988 cals, 37 pts minus 1000 cals and 11 pts: 988 cals and 26 pts. (Okay, this is where I think WW is flawed... less than 1000 cals but my total points is where I should be... A woman should never go below 1200 cals... We'll see what works when I *actually* weigh myself?