No way!

Years ago, I was a faithful Weight Watchers follower. Counting my points religiously; I lost weight! Strange thing though; as I got smaller I became fearful. I never lived life as a thin person. Just wasn’t ready to leave my comfort zone. Weird, I know. Well this time, I’m back to tracking my food intake; this time on SparkPeople.com. It’s a wonderful FREE service that tracks food and exercise. They have wonderful communities just like the WW site. I highly recommend!

So since I’m tracking calories and other nutritional values I was really stunned about how much sodium I consume in a day. Large doses of sodium in places I wasn’t prepared to see them. I never knew this on Weight Watchers…all you do is count your points and you’re done. Who knew bread had such a significant amount of sodium?

I’m eating consciously and it requires a bit of planning. It’s definitely about choice. Do I want to blow all my calories on this or is there something else I can have? Better yet…am I even hungry or is this stress talking? Maybe I’m thirsty. I do remember the term grazing from WW and it’s a tough habit to break. My last class had a profound impact on me. I want to prevent illness; not treat so I’m changing the way I care for myself and my family.

I won’t give up on me.

If I did it once before, I can do it again.

As a matter of fact; I am.

My SparkPeople user name says it all; last_time_lisa!

This is it everybody!