Health – Losing Weight

Not so good at Weight Watching

When March started, I made a cute little notebook that I hoped would get me on track with losing weight.  For the most part, I was doing well in staying within the recommended daily points for Weight Watchers.  But in the last week and a half – I just stopped tracking my points, and stopped caring about what I eat.  That is not good.

I know this failure in the system is entirely my fault.  It started with me being too lazy to prepare a meal plan.  

But it’s not too late, and I am not giving up.  My weight has been up and down all my life (but it’s mostly up, I must admit), and for once I want that to change.  

Last night, just before heading home, we stopped for dinner at Kenny Roger’s Megamall.  I made an adult choice and ordered Roast Chicken Salad.  It was great, I loved the dressing it came with, and the freshness of the lettuce.  I didn’t snap a photo though because I was disappointed at the service.  By the time I got my order, Alfred was already finished with his meal and it was 30 minutes after we ordered!

I was so disappointed because I was already thinking about how much I liked that branch. It was big and the seating was good for groups/families who dine together.  It felt so clean. And I liked the blown up photos of the food on the walls. And the colors!  But then the service sucked. Ugh.

I told Alfred that I could live on salad, if only it gets handed to me already prepared, haha. 🙂  I used to bring salad to work, I should do that again…

I swear, if I can’t stick to a healthy diet that I can work with, I’d probably be better off just reaching for the best diet pill and pop ’em like candy.  But I can do this the better way. Right?

27

Apart from that being the date today (and today happens to be my grandfather’s birthday), 27 is the number of daily points I have for Weight Watchers. I will start on Sunday, and still don’t really know for sure how I’m going to use up these points. I’m sure I can use it all up, the key is to actually find the right food to keep me full the entire day! 🙂

Tomorrow, I’ll prepare my journal and draw up a food plan. This is bound to be a challenge for the first week, but then I should be used to calculating my points.

Help!

Not much to say?

Strange. 

Maybe it’s because I didn’t have much sleep before I went to work last night. 

Or because I am a little sleepy now but my mind won’t let me sleep just yet.

But I think it’s actually because I want to work on something that doesn’t involve the computer. I actually want to go back to plotting a fortnightly budget to help me get on track with saving money. So maybe that’s what I should do.

Do you have a system that seems to work when it comes to budgeting and sticking to it? Do share.

There’s another project that I really hope I can start this March 1st, and commit to for the long term. Thanks for the inspiration from The Daily Digi Files #1:

jencaputo-weightlossjournal

To be honest, when I first saw this featured in the site while the 1st pack was up for grabs at the TDD (click the image to take you to the post featuring Jen Caputo, the designer), I didn’t give it much thought and even considered that it was probably the one thing I would never use in the pack. But when I opened up the packages, er unzipped the files I should say, this was the first pack I looked into. Just going through the instructions for the journal sparked something in me. I hope God actually gives me the strength to go through this undertaking. Seeing as I only have a few days before the new month starts, I have to act fast before the inspiration leaves me. 

But first, I must budget. Then the weightloss plan follows. Thanks TDD! 😉

Juice Fasting

I can only vaguely remember my mom telling me about this last week. She had mentioned that my Auntie Nellie, had tried it, and it worked wonders for her. She also mentioned that there was a program at St. Theodore’s Hospital in Sagada that administered this to people who were interested.

It didn’t register at that time. Not until I got round to checking my mail, and I found the link she had sent me. 

Reading through the testimonies on the Juice Fasting had me thinking about Joan Joyce, a dear fellow blogger, who had gone on a juice diet as her means to lose weight. She had the discipline to stick to it, and she saw the results. I can’t wait til she reads about this. 🙂

Anyway, so St. Theodore’s seems to have a Wellness and Healing Program, and this Juice Fasting for 30 days is included in the treatments it offers. Apart from my aunt (mom’s cousin) who has followed it, the site features the hospital’s chaplain too. I personally know the Chaplain and his wife, because he used to be the Dean of the Cathedral right here, many years back. Their reasons for undergoing the fasting were not really weight loss, but general healing. Inevitably though, they lost weight too.

So I was thinking. rather than filling my head with thoughts of quick fixes for my weight and health dilemmas, and before I turn to unproven pills like Lesofat and NV diet pills; perhaps I should do this fasting. They say that if it’s done right, I will still have energy to do my day to day duties. It shouldn’t affect my performance at work. There should be no impact on my energy levels.

But I think it’s better done with medical supervision. And well, it’ll at least look scientific if they do tests on me before I go through the fasting, and then again at a specified period.

So I told my parents, we should go up to Sagada and have this. But Sagada is a 12-hour roadtrip away. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to find common time to go, specially with my new rest days. But it won’t hurt to try. Plus I’m pretty sure i’d lunge at any excuse to go up there.

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I had forgotten to mention in my previuos post that I saw this huge poster for the movie version of Confessions of a Shopaholic in the cinema this weekend. Isla Fisher is playing Becky Bloomwood. I’m not sure I totally see her in the role, but I am totally looking forward to the film. 

I am almost tempted to buy the rest of the Shopaholic books at full price because I never see them in my favorite second hand book shops. Only the first in the series ever gets on there. I haven’t read Shopaholic Ties the Not, then the one with the Sister, and then the Baby. Then I wouldn’t know if there are others.

PhilAm Life to change ownership

Until today, I hadn’t really felt any direct impact of the fall of financial institutions in the US. I heard on the news today that PhilAm Life, possibly the biggest insurance company in the country, is being sold to new owners. Read the story here.

I knew that AIG had business in the Philippines, but somehow it had escaped my mind that that business included PhilAm Life. I have an insurance policy with PhilAm, so does my brother. My dad has two. Our relatives also have policies with them. Our agent is a family friend.

PhilAm Life is currently assuring policy holders of the company’s stability. No one less than their President and CEO Jose Cuisia, Jr. has come out for media interviews. He is up there confidently telling anyone and everyone that the company has a strong and stable portfolio, and that even if there is a change in ownership, they’re procedures and practices won’t change.

Well I sure hope so.

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