"Low metabolism".... means new shoes?

Today at my WW meeting I shared my ThyCa experience with the group. I decided to just because the topic was metabolism, and there was a lot of talk about how people say their metabolism is s/low. I was a victim of slow metabolism as I could not, for years, take off the weight. Well, I also love to eat food, but no matter how much I exercised or ate what I thought was a healthy diet, since 1997 I had problems losing weight, but no problem at all putting it on. So I explained how and why my thyroid problem was found, all the way up to my two surgeries. But what I really wanted to share with the group was that one of the Thyroid disease books I bought actually named Weight Watchers as being a recommended program to help with weight maintenance if you are hypothyroid. So although I joined before I even knew about my disease, I was already going in the right direction.

As much as I want to do well again on WW, I have to admit I am struggling, and this is only the start of week #2 for me. Somehow I did manage to drop three pounds. But I have to preface that with the fact that I decided to eat like I had no cares in the world the week before I joined so I could get all my cravings out of my system. I don't think that worked too well because right now I would really like to eat some creamy brie cheese with Trader Joe's Kalamata Olive bread, or a giant tub of PinkBerry plain tart froyo, or.... pretty much anything and everything that is now off limits, or rather put into moderation. ARGH! I just have to keep in mind that if I did stay on track last week, perhaps I would have lost five or more pounds....

So I turned to retail therapy to help motivate me. Yes, I bought another pair of 'toning' shoes. I have a pair of the Reebok EasyTone shoes that I got last year before Thanksgiving. Those shoes are Ok, but now I can leave them at home and use my new pair at work, or vice versa. The new pair I got are by New Balance, the 850 TrueBalance shoes. Much different technology than the Reeboks. My hams were sore after my walk this evening, so I guess they are working! So I have a new pair of walking shoes. I think I may need another pair of running shoes too, but I think I'll give it a couple more weeks before I start seriously thinking about new running shoes.

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