Is it just me?

I have been pondering today...
decided to go back to the WW website - why not? I pay for it I may as well use it.
I do use the App all the time but its very limited.
Didn't find any of my Farm girls there :( oh well...

As a Life timer I could get e-tools for free.... BUT... there is always a catch!  You have to be at goal or within 2 lbs of goal weight to get it free.   Well, I am not.
Working on it, but not there yet.

Anyway, that isn't what I have been pondering about.

I have about 30 pounds to lose.  I went on the boards and I looked at some of the blogs but for me,  most encouragement doesn't come from a gal struggling to lose 10 lbs (unless she has already been on this journey for some time and has lost lots of weight already).   I get my BIGGEST encouragement from those gals and guys that have 100+ lbs to lose.    I figure if they can do it, "I" can do it!  It puts my issues in perspective... I "only" have 30 lbs to lose - they have way more.  I understand when they say they can't look at the whole picture cause its overwhelming and they would get discouraged quickly.  I get that!   Heck I feel that way with only 30 lbs to lose!  Well, it doesn't feel like "only" 30 lbs to me...   but I get it! 

At my last WW meeting a gal got an award for losing 6 lbs.  Normally I clap and hurrah for the recipient.  But when a chick stands up to receive it and if she turned sideways she would disappear... I wonder why she is even trying to lose weight.   Now WW has a rule that you have to have at least 10 lbs to lose before you can join.  I was trying to figure out where this gals 10 lbs was on her body to lose. 
You see, I have a MIL like that.  She will pat her thighs or butt and say "oh, I gotta do something about this 5 lbs I gained"................ My MIL is a stick! seriously she is a stick! The size of a Broom handle, shovel handle - what ever you want to call it.   Every time she says that my eyes get big and my eyebrows raise... what I wouldn't give to have only 5 lbs to worry about.   (If my MIL is reading this... no offence ;)

One could call it jealousy - it has been my choices that got me to the place I am at now.  Then again, sometimes I feel that being skinny comes easy to some.  Its their make-up.  Although my grandmother on my fathers side was relatively thin... I don't know about my mom's side as her dearest mother passed when my mom was 3 years old.  From the pictures I saw of her though she looked pretty good!

I don't know, maybe I just worry about all this too much.  I have to admit when I am reading articles and they are saying do this and don't do that or eat this but not that... then the next month it all changes - I have come to the conclusion that it is all marketing ploy - eat healthy, drink lots of water and it will all fall into place - or fall of the place ;)

I have to admit I did watch that show Supersize Me    this guy only made a pig of himself and did not "chose" to eat healthy.  I am not an advocate for McDonald's but I do firmly believe that if you ate there all the time they have improved their menu where you can eat very healthy - I can't speak for the USA but I certainly can for Canada.  Why didn't it show him eating fruit n yogurt parfaits?  They have apple slices... salads... and McD's very kindly puts the "additives" in separate packages so you have a choice whether you want to add it or not.  AND you can now fill your own beverage so why not fill it with ice then put in the beverage - that's what I do.  Oh and McD's sell water too - so you don't have to have pop or juice.    Yes, I firmly believe Supersize me was a hoax.

Which brings me to the next documentary I have watched and I thought was awesome!  It blew Supersize me right out of the water and had a lot of truth to it!   The show is called Fathead and I highly recommend you watch it.  If you have Netflix its on there.  Or I also believe the whole thing on www.youtube.com  

I don't know if I can say I have strayed off topic... I did say I was pondering.. sorry if my mind did too much wondering.  

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain