Track! Remember to track!

Last night an old friend came over for dinner. I started talking to her about WW and showed her some of my books and a little bit of etools. Just introducing her a little to the WW lifestyle and what I like about it. I told her how when I am diligent with my tracking I can't go wrong. I will lose. Even if I have a week where I am not making the best choices with my food intake. It's when I get out the tracking and think I can do it on my own, that is when I fail. I either don't lose anything and stay the same weight as my last weigh in, or I gain.

After she left I did my tracking for the day and I started to think more about it. Then my leader's words this past meeting were ringing in my head again. 'Are you a fulltime member? Or a part time member?' I have already established that for awhile I was the part time member for months just because of all the chaos in my life. But even though I vowed that I was going make it a priority to be a fulltime member, was I?  I went back into my logs for the past few days to double check myself and see how my tracking was doing. I have tracked everyday since that last meeting. Was it accurate? No. Every bit of food, licks and nibbles were accounted for, but I failed to keep up with that little bottom right hand corner of healthy checks for water, fruits/veggies, healthy oils and vitamins. I also don't track my activity. I never had as I didn't want to see the extra points and give myself permission to eat them. But I am realizing I need to.

WW makes it so easy for us not to fail, and yet I find myself losing focus and failing. It's always when I don't track. Tracking does work. I know it does. Why is it so easy to lose track though?? Last week I missed everyday of tracking. So needless to say, I wasn't surprised when I stepped on the scale and gained a pound and a half. I can't blame anyone but myself for that. But I also can't beat myself up. I just need to pick myself up, just myself off and get back to it. It doesn't matter how many times you fall. What matters is that you pick yourself up and you continue on. It shows your strength, determination and your passion to reaching your goal.

So what am I going to do to make sure I stay focused and track everything. Including my activity from now on, well that is the tricky part. I am just going to have to take it one day at a time. One meal at a time and one work out at a time. I think I will sprinkle a few reminders aroung the house to remind me to track. Like leaving the WW window up on the computer all day so it's in my face when I open it up. Leaving the WW magazine out in plain sight, have a few tracker books lying around in the kitchen and work out areas of my house. I think I will have my husband bug me to to make sure I track. I also have a few friends that are posting in the group about tracking to. Always super helpful! Love those ladies! :)

I know WW doesn't work for everyone, and I am not pushing it on anyone. I am also not getting paid to advertise for them and they have no part inme writing this blog. These are just my own thoughts and opinions on it. :) It works for me and I really like it. So I am going to stick with it!