End of Week 3

I love being “in the know.” I’m finding it a lot of fun to watch the news as 50 Shades of Grey spreads through friends and the media.  I’m almost through the second book in the trilogy and haven’t lost interest yet – I liken it to my obsession with True Blood – I believe I saw a hard copy version of the latest in the Sookie Stackhouse novels at Costco the other day but restrained myself!

On 50 Shades, during my 2 ½ hour drive to get to a work conference this morning, I listened to a radio station as they took calls about the new sexual freedoms women are finding while they read the books.  The Announcers were making fun of u 50 year old women who were into the book and that it was gross to think a 50 year old woman as being sexual or sensual.  Foolish boys, don’t they realize the woman who wrote the book, EL James who is a 50+ year old woman.  Don’t they know that woman in their 50s can be interested, intrigued, active!  sexually.  What they could learn, if they were lucky.

This is the end of week 3 on Jenny Craig and although I started this journey as I have every other weight loss attempt expecting to lose weight at the same rate as they do on “The Biggest Loser”…oh but then I’d have to work out for hours every day, not go into work, not have a family or oh yah, have a 3 hour commute everyday!  So I’m down 12 lbs in the three weeks and I’m happy.  A little obsessed with hopping on to my bathroom scale and the scale I keep in my office every day (I’ve got to break myself from this habit…that and always having to pull three – three, not two, three - paper towels every time I  wash my hands in the office washroom).

Jenny Craig seems to be working for me.  Food program has plenty of food for how I eat – I’ve flipped the afternoon treat, if there is one, to the evening snack.  Evenings are my challenge, so if I save the treat of the day to have around 9pm then I don’t start foraging for other food which is my downfall time.

Tonight I’m attending a retirement party which includes a night out at a restaurant (going to eat off the menu) and much drinking involved.  As I write I plan not to lose sight of my goals, but the work mates I’ll be celebrating with are ones who can easily lead me astray…Lord knows we have fun when we see one and other the four or five times a year.  So, we’ll see next week how this night of debauchery affects my new life style.