Here We Go Again....

I am hesitant to say this is the last time. It is ALWAYS the last time I am going to have to lose weight until it isn't the last time. Every time. What is it about weight loss and dieting that has us all so flummoxed? I know I am not alone. The sheer size of the diet industry and diet food industry is proof that I am in good company.

I always feel better when I have lost weight. My feet feel better, my back feels better. I have more energy and much higher self esteem both when I am losing weight and when I have lost weight.

I am a lifelong Weight Watcher member, since age 12. I even worked for Weight Watchers when I was in my early 20's. Not many kids can claim that they have dieted more than 3/4 of their life. Oh boy! That claim is not something I am proud of, it is just a part of who I am.

I know how to lose weight. I have done it lots of times. I am good at that. It is the keeping it off and keeping the old bad habits from returning that I am not as good at. I am a life long exerciser too so I have that on my side. Even when I am fat, I am more " fit" that a lot of thin people are.

I am still waiting for that miracle pill that will be the equalizer for us long suffering dieters. No more will skinny people rule. We will all be skinny except some of us will also be pretty! HA! Take that you ugly but tall and thin supermodels! We may not all be tall, and may not all get paid ridiculous amounts to strut on the catwalk, but we will all look our best when that skinny pill comes out and you won't be special anymore.

With my luck I will be old and wrinkly beyond recognition when that pill finally gets FDA approval :-( Until then I will have to do it the old antiquated way....stop eating so much and moving more.

If this mini blog sounds a little cranky, it is because I have re-started my diet for the umpteenth time along with the millions of other New Years Diet Resolutioners. I saw many of them at the gym today. Boy was that parking lot packed. My experience tells me that the parking lot will be a LOT quieter by about March when most of all of the Exercise Resolutioners have given up. Then those of us that are lifers (in the exercise category anyway) will have the place to ourselves again.

I might also add a personal note; one big reason I am restarting my weight loss efforts is because I will be hitting an age milestone, a very big one, this year and would like to cross that threshold in better shape than when I crossed the last one. That is a tall order to fill, I know, but I have to at least try!! Wish me luck!