Becoming Both Physically and Fiscally Fit

Joining Weight Watchers was a great idea! Saved on the overall cost and now I'm getting more physically fit as we get fiscally fit. The foods that are on the perimeter of the aisles in the store are always fresher and healthier than the items in the middle of the store and ususally less expensive. And that is where most of the foods I'm eating for WW are coming from.

I bought a large container of yogurt, 32 oz. (sounds like a lot but I really eat a lot of it. It's good for you and the doctor recommends eating some everyday.) Anyway, looking at my Weight Watchers book it is a power food. Usually I have bought Activia or Yoplait flavored yogurts, but they are expensive for their individual packaging. I saved money by purchasing the bulk yogurt. But it is plain. No problem, adding the sugar-free gelatin to it gives it flavor. I know I mentioned it before, but this time I'm not adding it to vanilla individual yogurts. So I can have peach, raspberry, lemon, cherry, strawberry and other flavors all from one container and inexpensive off-brand gelatin.

Also, in Dave Ramsey's book he recommends eating foods like beans and oatmeal. So for breakfast I made some oatmeal. Another power food. Comes in bulk, is recommended by Weight Watchers, and is an inexpensive alternative to boxed cereal. I cut up an apple to go in it and it really fills you up for less money and fewer calories. On the WW program most fruit is free and so it is there to help you eat fresh, get the nutrition you need and keep you full. I think joining was one of the smartest things I've done in a while.

Last night I made goulash. I did something to incorporate more vegetables into the family staple without it being noticeable. I don't know if I cooked all of the nutrition out of it, but I steamed it till very soft, and put it in the blender and pureed it. I can't eat it raw, and I don't usually like it cooked unless there is butter involved. So, after I pureed it I mixed it in with the hamburger to make it moist, cooked it and you could not even detect the color or the taste. So there I am getting some extra vegetable nutrition that is hidden, and made the hamburger go just a tad farther and kept it moist. Bob loved it.

Being so amped about these new changes, I made another change, I joined a pilates class. Went to the 12-12:45 class yesterday. Now when a person joins Weight Watchers it is not usually when they are feeling their best. I was disgusted with myself for gaining the weight and knew I had to do something. So when I went into the pilates room with the wall of mirrors staring back at me, I wasn't very happy at what I saw. Since I lift weights I am pretty muscular, but I am not very flexible, so I thought pilates would help with that. I found out I was highly inflexible. So, while we were through part of the class a man came in with a large camera. I didn't think a whole lot about it, I thought, "great, what a good time to take photos for their brochure.." but that was about it. He was aiming it at the instructor from the back of the room so hopefully I would not be in it. But then he moved it to the front of the room and aimed it directly at my body, my being in the front row on the corner. There is no way the rest of the class could be seen very well past my stomach. Crap! Oh, well, picked a good day to start a new fitness class looking great in my sports bra under my bland grey too-tight shirt and wearing my husbands black sweats!

It got worse.

It turned out it was a camera man from the local tv station and he wasn't taking snapshots for any brochure. It was on the news last night. I didn't watch. I told the guy and the anchor woman afterward that I was very uncomfortable and hoped they didn't get much footage of me. Kind of hard when the camera is facing directly at you. If I had known ahead of time that this is what was going to happen in that class I wouldn't have gone. But hey, it all comes with starting something new. Where I am at physically, I wouldn't have been happy if they took a picture of me reading a magazine.

Today is a new day, eating right, keeping the money in the bank, getting healthy in the debt department and where my body is concerned. I'm making wiser choices. I did spend $.84 a package for four packages totalling 24 metal clasp envelopes in which to send my book. My children's book called, "The Visitors of Pompadour."

Setting and reaching for goals. It keeps a person looking forward. And as a friend said, seeing as I didn't watch the news last night, "If you don't see it, it didn't happen." I don't agree with that statement, but I'm borrowing it for the sake of my self esteem. Things don't always go the way you want, but I'm still going to keep up my class. I just hope they don't show up for the "Shape and Bend" class!

Have a great day, you'll see less of me next week I hope, and more money in the bank.