What's Working

So I started this journey in mid-March 2009 at 272 lbs. I walked into the Weight Watchers office on a Friday morning, stepped up on the scale, and recommitted to being reasonable about my approach to weight and food.

I stated this blog in July 2009. I have attened a Weight Watchers meeting every week and have lost 25+ lbs. It's a good start!

What's working?

• the accountablility of attending the meetings.
• playing the game of finding the foods that meet the points values that I can eat in a day and lose weight.
• finding ways to be more active
• getting into clothes that haven't fit in a while.

I am seeing, feeling, and receiving positive feedback which increases my motivation to continue to stick to the program. The feedback and accountability that is built into the Weight Watchers system is what works for me.

Where to start?

I am not a yo-yo dieter. I have tried to lose weight once before and I was successful, I lost 60 lbs. I went from 280 to 220 in 6 months. It felt good and I was doing consistently well.
When Christmas time came around I decided to take a "break" from my plan to enjoy the holidays. Big mistake!

I told myself I would go back on program and lose the remainder of the weight before I turned 40. And then I would live happily ever after...

That was the end of 2006.

I wandered back to my wicked ways; eating poorly, eating too much, and eating unconscientiously. Not a good way to maintain weight loss and certainly the worst way to try to lose weight. Needless to say I gained back the weight I had lost, all but 8 lbs.

So here I am, back again where I was, my clothes are too tight and I am out of breathe after walking less than a block. In mid-March I decide to finish what I started and fulfill my original goal of weighing 140lbs. I won't make it by the time I am 40 because I am now 42. I realize that the age milestone doesn't matter.

This time I am setting the goals based upon my weight and physical abilities. This isn't a place in time in my life. This is the rest of my life.