Stay on target...

So here we are, one week after deciding to make weight loss a priority. With the help of Weight Watchers I've manager to drop a whole 2 lbs. bringing my number down to 290. It's still a tough number to look at but it's by and far the right direction. 

Even Porkins had a tough time keeping under his WW points

I know after doing this for a while keeping up with my points will be substantially easier, but in the meantime I need little encouragements. I keep hearing Porkins telling me to stay on target when I feel like chicken fingers might be the way to go. I know the Dark Side has cookies but with the help of "The Porkins Mantra" I can resist even the pushiest of Sith Scout Girls. 

I'm weird but stuff like this helps me. We're huge geeks here (though hopefully less huge in time). If I need to connect to the force to hear the dearly departed Jek "Piggy" Porkins tell me to "Stay on target" to get through these first habit forming months then may the force be with me.

Darth Vader sold enough Samoas to win a new bike and a trip to Alderaan

But let me tell you about the Dark Side. MY Dark Side. It doesn't just have cookies. It has Fish and Chips. It has BBQ potato chips. In my dreams Emperor Palpatine has a slow cooker filled with Bratwurst and a fridge filled with ice cream. Can the Jedi beat that with it's quinoa and protein bars? Not really. I love food and more than that I love fatty fried decedent food. Maybe if they wrapped the protein bars in bacon and beer battered them. Weight Watchers allows me to dip into the Dark Side of the menu now and again provided I focus on portion control and am willing to sacrifice the rest of the day. If I'm to stay on target I need to remember that sacrifice is what's needed, but also remember that it doesn't have to be as bad as it may seem.

The sacrifice is worth it. The Jedi way lets me live a longer life with my family. It lets me have plastic light saber duels with Kegan for a period of time longer than a couple of minutes. It helps me work harder. I can sleep better. I can sleep quieter which means my wife can sleep better. Sure that means I have to have baby carrots and hummus instead of cheese curls. Yeah, that means I need to resist the urge to have ice cream by replacing it with an Outshine Bar. And of course it means that a few minutes of the day should be spent working out instead of playing the flavor of the month game on my iPhone. It's worth it. It's worth it ten times over. 

I just need to stay on target.