I Joined Weight Watchers

Over the last two years I have gained about 20 pounds that I just can't seem to get rid of no matter what different diet and work out plans I have tried.  I'm kind of feeling at the end of my rope, which has led me to the point of where I am willing to pay money to get help. About a month ago I decided to join Weight Watchers. Meetings are held on Thursday evenings at 5:30.  As soon as I convinced myself that I really would go to meetings and I really would pay the money, my Thursday afternoons became incredibly busy to the point of where no matter how I arrange my schedule something always popped up right as I'm walking out the door.  It was so frustrating! I already feel like I have so many barriers to losing weight and that just added one more.  For this last week I contemplated joining Weight Watchers online and I finally did it on Friday night.  I have spent my weekend learning about the pointsplus program and figuring out all of the values on the foods that we already eat.

The pointsplus system is kind of crazy, but I think I'll like the message boards and the other "community" things they have. We went grocery shopping yesterday and I bought the normal things that we usually get, I'll just have to make sure I'm calculating and tracking points which will take some thinking and preparing ahead. But I was glad to find that most of our normal stuff can still work with pointsplus.

So far the weekend has been good. I've stayed within my point limit and we even went to lunch at Olive Garden yesterday! I looked up what I wanted ahead of time and stuck to it. I only had one bread stick! I was so proud of myself! I felt like I was still able to enjoy going out, but didn't feel guilty the whole time or sick to my stomach after from over eating!

I need to lose about 30 pounds to get to a healthy BMI.  It's so hard to tell people this, especially people I work with, because I know that I'm not all that "big" necessarily.  The weight is definitely there, and I definitely feel it, but I guess to some people it doesn't seem like I need to lose that much.  And I don't want to be snobby or one of those people that's always just eating salad or something, but I want to and need to lose the weight for my own personal reasons, which I guess they don't understand.

One of the biggest problems I've had in the last few months is just a lack of motivation mixed with a lack of time and energy.  After joining Weight Watchers and having two successful weeks of working out I feel hopeful that this time I'll be able to stick with it.