Weight Loss, Weight Maintenance, Good Morning America, Weight Watchers, Oprah, Hard Boiled Eggs and Throw in Some Male Bashing

    

            I’ve written before about how maintenance after weight loss is harder than weight loss itself.  That’s true for me.  I have two friends who lost a lot of weight.  They both seem to keep it off with no problem, one uses Weight Watchers the other uses Atkins.  God bless ‘em.  I’m jealous.  My rant is not for them.

            People ask me, “Do you do the same thing you did when you were losing weight.”  No.  When I was losing weight I ate every 3 hours like clockwork low carb, high protein, mostly low animal fat but for hard boiled eggs, keeping calories per feeding at 160-300.  I did not travel.  I avoided parties, because they were so hard.  I cheated two weekends in a year, planned cheating. 

            Since I hit my low my weight has fluctuated.  I was hoping to find normal.  I am still working at it.  I was pleased enough with my weight this morning.    

            So this morning I have Good Morning America on and they are talking about the new Weight Watchers Plan.  Oprah is endorsing it.  Didn’t Oprah just buy stock in Weight Watchers?  I google it.  Yep.  C’mon, this isn’t news.  This is advertising.   I loved the Oprah show when it was on, but is Oprah your long term weight loss success model?  I hope not.  Scary.  I wish my two skinny friends mentioned in the first paragraph blogged.

            It gets closer to the time for me to leave the house and there’s some actor on Good Morning America.  They are flashing an emaciated picture of him in his latest movie.  He had to lose 30 pounds for a role.  They ask if it was hard to lose the weight and gain it back.  He said it wasn’t hard to gain it back, all he had to do was eat.  He said it was hard to lose it.  He said in the movie he didn’t have to do much acting because the acting required suffering and he was suffering.  He was asked what he ate.  He said hard boiled eggs and salad.  A friend asked me last week what I ate for lunch.  I responded I keep hard boiled eggs at the office.  “What?”  I responded that’s all I keep at my office if I get hungry I eat hard boiled eggs, except when I’m green juicing, so it’s hard boiled eggs or green juice. 

            So why am I not rail thin?  Because I do not eat like that all the time.  I socialize and go out.  I’m still searching for normal.  I’ll let you know when I find it.  I don’t plan on joining Weight Watchers.  I know it works for some people but I’ve done it a couple times.  That actor who is emaciated on hard boiled eggs and salad and is happy with how he looks when he eats, I’m jealous.  Of course, then again, he is a guy and they tend to love themselves, jealous.