Success!

Early in the morning for me to be blogging, but I'm feeling very triumphant.

We weigh ourselves first thing in the morning on the first of the month. You urinate first, strip down to your nudie cutie, and step onto your accurate digital scale. And it tells you that you have lost five pounds since you started the program. Whoo hoo! Of course, this is when I still need to lose a good bit, and part of it is water weight, yada yada yada. The weight loss will decline as I get closer to what I really should weigh, but this was just a great reaffirmation that my decision to do this was a good one.

I also attended a great meeting yesterday morning. The speaker is not a religious person and has trouble/issues with the spiritual side of the program. Even the meditation is just not very effective for her and she does not believe in a higher power (not even mother nature, apparently). The program, however has worked very well for her and she has lost her weight and kept it off for some time. She is very funny and kept us laughing all through her talk. It is amazing how inspirational a stand-up comic can be.

For those of us who have less than 50 pounds to lose, the people who have lost 100 or more pounds are just beyond belief. Even though the spiritual side of the program seems to be very good for me -- and I'm off to my corner to meditate as soon as I sign off -- it is nice to know that if some part does not work for you, the overall program still can. It is also nice to hear from some of the people I call fairly regularly, that when I reach maintenance goal some foods I like will be added back in. No, not brownies. I'm having more than enough food right now (it was hard to finish everything last night) but I am also looking forward to the summer farmers' market where I can get fabulous veggies and fruits.