My story

Hi everybody.. thanks for stopping by my site!!  I just wanted to share how I wound up on Weight Watchers.  My sister has done Weight Watchers in the past and always had AWESOME success.  I always thought that counting points would be tedious and hard.  I NEVER wanted to do it.  Well, November 8, 2003 I went for my annual girlie dr appt.  I hopped on the scale and LOW-AND-BEHOLD there is was.. not just the number I promised myself my weight would NEVER be, but over that number by 3lbs.  203lbs to be exact.  Blaring at me in the face, the nurse said it out loud as she wrote it in my chart... crap.  I was sooooo embarrassed I couldn't tell my husband, but the next day I confided in a co-worker and she freaked out.   I vowed to get on some program and lose some weight.  10 days later my grandma passed away.  5 days of watching her breathe in and out... only 2 of those days was she even coherant enough to talk.. and eventually she just never woke up again.  I think with the holidays and me wishing my grandma would be out of pain for so many years, it all caught up with me, but by January of 2004 I was EAGER to get this weight off.  It was almost as if I had to do it, because all the people I loved so much that had passed didn't have the opportunity TODAY to better themselves.  I felt I had some kind of help from the "other side".  So January 17, 2004 I started Slim in 6.  It's a work out program with a healthy eating guide.  The eating guide is basically food in tiers.  The top 2 tiers being the kind of foods you should eat the most of.  The last tier you should only eat in moderation.  Well, I lost 20lbs in about 8 weeks on that program, then lost my drive to do it.  All year I ate as I pleased and didn't gain a lb back.  I couldn't believe it.  I was working out at Ladies Workout Express and I did have whooping cough all 3 months of summer.... anyway.. around the holidays I was eating tons of cookies, cakes, sweets, anything that was brought to my work.  I noticed I was gaining some of that weight back from the beginning of the year.  I decided that the gain trend was not the place for me... I started talking to a lady who works at my work out place.  I was complaining that I had worked out there for over 6 months and hadn't lost any weight, even when I was eating healthy!  So her and another employee challenged me.  They said, write down everything you eat for a month.  Okay.. so I figured if I was already journaling all my food then I might as well join WW.  So on January 17, 2005 I started WW.  My boss brought her WW books to work for me to figure out my points, and I looked things up on various WW member websites. Two other girls from my neighborhood decided they wanted to do WW and we decided to go to WW meetings together.  We signed up for 10 weeks of meetings, did the meetings, learned as much as possible, and now we support each other.   Between all of us, as of today, we've lost around 100lbs!! Amazing!!! We started a walking group, and started walking together a few nights per week.  sooo... Please join me in my journey as I lose my arse in the battle of the buldge!  

UPDATES

8/6/05 I MADE MY WEIGHT WATCHER GOAL OF 150LBS!! THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE SUPPORTED ME!! 

UPDATES 2007

8/6/07  Sorry I haven't updated in awhile.. so here's the scoop.  The day of my 30th birthday I weighed in at 141, the lowest I've ever gotten.  I was quite proud of that weight for exactly 8 hours until the eating started.   It all went downhill from there with a huge cake Tim got me, then the next day he took me to Texas De Brazil for my birthday... then the day after a food day at work.. etc.. then of course the entire week people were taking me out for my birthday etc... so my birthday wound up extending through the month (of course my mothers birthday the following week as well) .. anyway that brings me to November, parties, Thanksgiving.. then December the holidays including cookie exchanges, ending with New Years.. but no.. somewhere in there I decided to get a new IUD, the Mirena IUD which I didn't realize how much weight I could gain with that thing!  It was like an evil being living in my body.. no matter what I ate or how hard I worked out I gained.. 26lbs in 8 weeks.. not so much fun.. after the New Year I managed to get back down under 152 to weigh in a few times within the first few months of the year.   Some months I was over and had to pay, and the last month I went May 17th to be exact I was up with the flu all night.. I weighed in just under 152 and didn't pay.. since then I've been battling to get back on program.  I get on for a Monday or Tuesday or let my weekend extend to Wednesday so if I got 2-3 days of healthy on program eating per week that was good.   Somehow I was managing to maintain, but the weight I was maintaining was around 8lbs above my WW goal and 18 lbs above my personal goal weight.. 18lbs is a lot!   So here I am on Day 8 back on track.. I started on July 30th last Monday.. so far so good with the exception of a few days last week that I had only eaten 14pts for the whole day, it was 10pm or later and I was stuffed... but this weekend I went over my points by like 10 flexies!  ughhh..  I'm probably ok considering I never ate any AP's and there were days I shorted myself but really WW frowns upon using points that way.  Well I'm happy to report I started back at a whopping 161.4lbs and today I was 156.3 even after a weekend!  I've lost 5.1 in the first week back!  Not too shabby!  Let's see where this adventure lands me.. until the next UPDATE!