Skinny Mini In Training

I watched a TV program last night called "Super Skinny Me".   It is about 2 journalists that take a challenge to be a size 00.  They are both UK size 12 (which I was told is a US size 8)  They are given 5 weeks of crash diets and grueling excises regimes.  They did everything from all soup diets, lemonade diets, protein shake diets, detox centers, fitness trainers, and swimming in below zero water in hopes of speeding up their metabolism.  At points they restricted themselves down to only 200 calories per day.  It had alarming effects on their mental and physical health.  One girl even became so obsessed with losing weight that she became bulimic in only a few weeks of crash dieting.  She was asked to stop the experiment early.  The other woman who had never been on a diet before was feeling emotional and hated every minute of the 5 weeks. Her relationship with her boyfriend suffered, she felt angry because she felt deprived of the things that she wanted, and was driven by the urge to be thin.  One part of the program showed her crying because all she wanted was a piece of cake. She completed the experiment and fit into a size 00.  It was a frightening transformation for 2 normal healthy girls full of life to dissolve into emotionally unstable women that were consumed by the drive to lose weight.

When the experiment was over the woman that had to end the experiment early said "I think the only think I've proved is dieting makes you mental" and the other woman that reached a size 00 said "I love life to much too live like that"

WW always says that this is not a diet, it is a lifestyle change.  I don't have to cry because I want a piece of cake and I don't have to restrict myself to 200 calories per day.  I can eat those things if I really wanted to and just knowing that helps me to avoid those feelings of deprivation.  I want to enjoy my weight loss journey!  I want to enjoy the fact that I have lost 20 pounds and stop dwelling on the 22 pounds that I have left to go.  To help me do that I am going to stop weighing myself during the week.  I get on the scale every morning and every night.  It is very frustrating because you weigh something different everyday!  When I weigh in and lose 2.4 pounds I am not feeling happy because I saw the scale lower earlier that week.  No matter how you slice it I still lost 2.4 pounds!   That is a good week!  

I'm happy with the way that I look and feel!  I'm excited for what the future has in store for me but I am going to focus more on the present!  The way my clothes fit today!  The fact that I have more energy and I feel good!!  So bring it on!  No more pity parties for me! I'm going to enjoy what I have achieved because 3 1/2 months ago I didn't think I could do it.

Here's the link to the program.  Its on YouTube so its broken up into segments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY9LLMTCjwg

(This is one pound of fat... Get the picture?)