Trrrraaaaacck----iiinng? Track---ing? Tracking!

Oh boy. During my first 7 weeks on WW I would track my food every day- good, bad, in between, I just did it. I would go to meetings and hear people say that they didn't lose any weight but that tracking alone was something to celebrate and I would clap and smile along with the leader but I certainly wouldn't MEAN it- what kind of lazy slack-jaws couldn't login to WW or press buttons on their phones? Well, now I get it. I've been Johnny Adrift ever since we got back from our Thanksgiving trip.  Tracking and regular workouts have been (TEMPORARILY- and no longer) replaced by eating anything I want and laying on the couch. Foods that fall under my own personal  'anything I want' category include egg nog, chips and guac, pastries from Bouchon, miniature peanut butter cups, store-bought mashed potatoes, ice cream, Southern Comfort, loads of wine, and lots of other shit I can't recall.

I know that Weight Watchers purists would gently remind me that I can truly eat anything I want, all in moderation- and I get that. Lately, though, I've been going for it with abandon and it's not only affecting me mentally - mild depression, lethargy, general grumptastic mood but also physically- fingers and face are swelling up again, lower back pain, and then there's the real deep-tracks embarrassing stuff that no one talks about - for example, if you're very overweight and you're on the toilet for too long your legs fall asleep. Yup, there's that.

So now we're at two weeks and a few hours until Christmas and I am going to give myself the gift of tracking and getting back on my chosen plan- Weight Watchers. This coming Saturday we're helping Adam's parents move so we'll be away and then I will actually weigh in again on Saturday December 22nd. That will officially put FIVE WEEKS between my last weigh-in and my next one. Unfortunately I feel like I'm up about 5-8 lbs so it will be serious work just get back down to my previous weight... and I will be hoping for a loss.

Thank you to any new readers who cruised by here in the last few weeks- believe me I am also disappointed that I'm not actually weighing in and posting new losses; I promise to go back to Saturday updates and stop hiding from the scale.

Chunky Rants will NOT be relegated to the blog graveyard; I am going all the way. 

My head is out of the sand and I'm off to read your blogs. Hope you have an amazing week!!