Some Things Never Change

Even though I canceled my Weight Watchers subscription back in May, I am still getting their weekly e-mail that reminds me "I don't have to do it alone" or "Get back on the bandwagon NOW". Well, today I was ready to give into the harassment and sign back up for Weight Watchers online. In all the e-mails it said they would waive my registration fee. Good enough for me. So I click the link and in the payment section it does not waive my fee. Hmm. So I contact customer service and explain the problem. They respond that if the offer does not show up I must not be within 6 months of my original cancellation. I next visit Chase's website. Sure enough, weight watchers had debited $16.95 from my account in May...that's within 6 months right? Perhaps I have ignored the more important phrase, original cancellation. If you want to get technical weight watchers online, I originally canceled you back in 2004. I signed up for the first time in June of 2003. That is a lot of weight watching.

Within this time my life has gone so many different directions. I have graduated college, bought my first business suit, moved to Chicago, moved to Lincoln, and moved back to Bloomington. I have lived with 4 boyfriends and had lots of failed relationships including romantic, friendships, and work-related. I have walked out a job and worked for a man who is now running from the feds and another who would be had he not died. I have gone from 4 nieces and newphews to 10 and have had 3 siblings get married. My life is like Illinois weather, if you don't like it, wait 5 minutes, it will change.

The only thing that seems to have remained constant during this time of never ending change is my worry of weight, or weight watching. While I may have cancelled the service an immeasurable amount of times I never officially quit weight "watching". I wonder if there will ever be a morning I wake up and don't think I should weigh myself, which by the way, a daily weigh-in works 1 of 2 ways. If you like the result it reinforces the good things you've done and encourages you to keep doing them, and if you don't like the number, it reminds you that you can't eat McDonald's for 2 out of 3 of your daily meals and expect not develop that second chin.

I guess there really isn't a point to this blog. I just realized I hadn't blogged for awhile. I also realized that maybe I should expand the horizons of this space to more than just food and weight issues. I can certainly be fired up about more issues than food and weight, although those just seem to be the contants. Maybe I should change the url to www.sarahstopthinking.blogspot.com.