My weight hasn't changed - I still weigh 260. But I do feel like I'm on my way, making progress in small ways.
Curbing my eating is incredibly difficult for me. I am taking little steps -- no wine on weeknights, cutting wayyyy back on fast food (aiming to avoid it altogether), buying lots of vegetables and fruit. I found a case of Progresso vegetable soups at Costco today that said 0 Weight Watchers points. That'll help fill out portions that seem small to me. For some reason, I'm just not ready to join Weight Watchers and really commit to the food part. I'll get there, just not yet.
At the same time, I often find myself thinking of the many, many reasons to lose weight. There was the woman on the Today show a couple weeks ago who had a heart attack at 32. And that was after she'd already lost 80 pounds. I worry about situations in which my children would need me to carry them to safety or run with them - I wouldn't last very long.
Of the people who've died of swine flu, many had what health officials called "underlying conditions" that put them in greater jeopardy from the virus. One of those underlying conditions appears to be obesity. I can't imagine dying from being fat, and leaving my children motherless because I can't stop eating.
