Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. --Author Unknown Are you worried about tomorrow? If so, stop it! Say to yourself: Take care of today...today; worry about tomorrow...tomorrow. Obviously, we must plan for the future, but if we worry unduly about it, then we are wasting a lot of time and energy on what could end up being irrelevant. Will I stick to my healthy plan tomorrow? I hope to, but I'd rather concentrate on today because today is NOW, and I have some control over NOW. Tomorrow is not yet accessible to me, and the past is over and done. At my Weight Watchers meeting on Monday, "Red," another member, said that she came to WW to lose just 5 pounds. Just 5 pounds. So far, she has lost "just 5 pounds" several times. Red says that if she thinks too far ahead, the worry overwhelms her, and she gives up, so she sets small goals and celebrates when she meets them. Red has it right--what with her wit and humor and positive outlook on life, she's

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a [keyboard] and open a vein. --Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith I started this site on January 10, one week after I restarted Weight Watchers (almost four months after I started my healthy life style). I had heard about the new PointsPlus and 0 points fruit and thought it was worth another try. After three months, I'm still here and going strong! Yes, as the above image reveals, I'm a Lifetime Member; my first stint with Weight Watchers started in 1973, which obviously dates me (LOL). I lost 43 pounds and made it to Lifetime status within six months, but I hadn't really changed my relationship with food. I still viewed "diet" as a temporary state, that once "the diet" was over, I could eat whatever I wanted. The old WW diet didn't help much; it was a draconian regimen, requiring at least 10 ounces of hard-core protein a day, very little bread, no potatoes or pasta, and a required servi

Exercise to live, never live to exercise. --Jack LaLanne Moving our bodies is a good thing and can extend our lives by years. We were given arms and legs for a reason. If we were meant to be blobs, we would look like amoebas! Also, older people can avoid, through exercise, or at the very least lessen, the possibility of ending up impaired or infirmed at an earlier age. However, at what point does exercise become an unhealthy obsession? 1. When exercise becomes the main focus of your life, above and beyond everything else. 2. When your body is constantly achy and sore. 3. You're always tired. 4. You are becoming too thin. 5. Your loved ones are starting to make comments about the time you spend on your treadmill or other equipment. Yesterday, my husband reminded me that I don't have to jump on the treadmill every single day, that taking an occasional day off actually helps my body recover. I took his advice, and I do feel better today. Take a reality check, my cyber friends!

Today's thought: Throw away all diet and lifestyle dictums and advice that don't work for and with you. This website and all the diet and lifestyle plans can give you all the advice in the world, but if it doesn't work for you, then it doesn't serve you well. Ultimately, you and your doctor need to find the diet balance that will best help you lose weight and develop your optimal lifestyle. I am insulin resistant, which is a precursor to type 2 Diabetes. If I manage my resistance, I am less likely to develop Diabetes. A few years ago, I was on a very low carb diet, but, ultimately, I could not sustain it, no matter how hard I tried. I just hated it, I felt deprived, and I was depressed. No matter how much my doctor tried to rah-rah me into staying the course by telling me that the goal outweighed the sacrifice, I just couldn't buy into it. So, of course, I ultimately slipped off the diet wagon and gained all the weight back and then some. More importantly, I was ris