Failure and Success All In One

January 2, 2003

Happy New Year everyone!!

I went away after Christmas through New Years to a cabin in the mountains

with my friends and am just now wading through the hundreds of list e-mails.

Congratulations to all of you who have been losing and maintaining through

the holidays and welcome to the new folks - I trust we will have a wave of

new friends early in the new year!!

I wanted to give a little report on my time away since it brought me both

failure and success. At first I thought it was just failure until I

realized how much WW has helped with my perspective on failure (and so many

other things). I went off program the whole time I was away. I had planned

this and left my journal and materials at home on purpose. I brought plenty

of healthy food and decided not to sweat it. Well, I definitely didn't

sweat it and ate my share of unhealthy, fried and processed foods. I

managed to slip some fruit, veggies, water, 2 pt. and Pria bars into the mix

and went on a short hike almost every day. I was feeling chubby and

unsuccessful upon my return and guessed I had gained about 6 lbs. because I

ate and drank booze liberally. Well, I weighed myself this morning and I

only put on about .5 lb. It got me thinking about how I ate on my trip and

I really realized that I did great. Sure, I ate some junky food but my

portions were probably 1/3 of what I would have eaten at this time last

year. It really showed me that I am internalizing a good deal of what I

have been taught in my meetings and here. It is becoming second nature. I

never thought I would be able to eat " normally " without really focusing on

it and trying.

This morning I am completely back OP but so thrilled that I come into this

New Year 23 lbs. lighter than in September when I started WW. And even more

thrilled that my resolution this year isn't to lose weight because I have

adopted this amazing lifestyle change with one benefit of many being weight

loss!!!!

Cheers to everyone!

Lynn McNutt

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197/174/135

Christmas challenge goal: 174

135 by 9/7/03

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