Life Changes...

Life Changes that I CAN Live With Forever:

* exercise most days of the week

* eat vegetables and fruit every day

* drink a lot of water

* eat only when hungry, stop eating when satisfied

* make educated healthy decisions about food, most of the time

Life Changes that I CANNOT Live With Forever:

* exercise at least 5 days a week!

* eat mostly fruits and vegetables!

* drink nothing but water!

* eat a certain number of calories/points daily, and ALWAYS write it down!

* tweak all holiday meals and desserts to make them "point-friendly"!

* weigh youself weekly!

As you can see, some of the ww rules are things that I simply can't claim I will do forever. And I'm not going to do anything to lose this weight that I am not willing to do forever. I understand why ww has the rules it has, and I know that there are many members out there who can and will abide by them forever. Me, I'm a rebel. I'm redesigning ww for myself. I know there will be people out there who will dissaprove, but I officially don't care. This will work for me, and in the end that's all that matters. :-)

Starting Weight on IE-October 3, 2009--211.0
Current Weight on IE-November 28, 2009--202.0

That's still an average of more than a pound a week! I'm pretty content to lose at this rate. I have started to make water and exercise priorities. Hopefully that will help with the loss, too. I'm still doing Intuitive Eating and losing weight, which is great. I'm trying to not let this be the focus of my life, just how I eat.

Book Review: The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand

Finally. I'm done with The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. If I said that it was an easy read, I would be lying. I'm a pretty impatient person, but I was determined to read it all the way through before picking up my next book. And I did. And it was glorious! I loved this book. It was nearly 700 pages long, and it took me nearly two months to read.

The characters are all so complicated. I fell in love with most of them, hated a few, and wanted to know why they did what they did. Dominique Francon and Howard Roark were the center of the the story, the characters that I wanted to know more about. It had a love story in it, but it was mostly about ideals. Egotism versus altruism. Very interesting. It made me want to be an egotist!

Architecture is what the book wanted me to think it was about, but it was so much more than that. It was the story of a man who was independent to an extreme, and about how that was his downfall and his ticket to success.

After spending two months with these characters, I am a little sad that it's over. What happened to Dominique, Gail, Peter, and Howard? I am planning on renting the movie based on the book now.

Up next: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffeneger.