Well, a trip out of town and a visit from relatives in the past weeks and my weight shot up. I managed to gain five pounds in just a few weeks. How discouraging. Then I couldn't get back on track. At one point I was ready to give up and even delete my blog. Then, a turning point.
I have several friends going to Weight Watchers these days. Advertisements pop up often on TV with people giving their Weight Watchers testimonies. Learning about the Weight Watchers point system as opposed to counting calories has never appealed to me. It sounded to complicated.
A few days ago I decided to give Weight Watchers another look. It's not easy to find out the particulars of how it all works without joining a meeting, but I worked my way through Google's lists and finally found enough places that explained the Weight Watchers program. The formula they use to figure out points does make sense. Instead of calories alone, they've developed a system that figures in calories, fat and fiber. If you join at a meeting they even give you a little cardboard calculator. But that is still way to much work to appeal to me. I don't want to spend all my time reading nutrition labels or figuring out how many points foods are worth. I finally managed to find a page where someone has made a points list of nearly every food under the sun. I pasted it into a Word document and it's pages and pages long, too long to print. But it gave me a starting point. I was able to download the list to my iPod so it's handier to use.
I've been working with the Weight Watchers point system for 4 days. This is day five. I was thinking I wasn't doing that well with it. There's a formula of sorts to figure out how many points you can have each day, depending on your weight, your age, your activity level, and your height. My number works out to be 21. I've been shooting way past that each day. They also give you an extra 35 points to "spend" each week. I used up my extra 35 points in the first three days. Yesterday I did better. I think I've got it down now.
The amazing thing is that my weight dropped down to my lowest ever. I dropped the four pounds I'd gained in past weeks, making it 8 that I've lost since December. It could just be a fluke and I might be up on the scale tomorrow. But it was so nice to see that number on the scale. It encourages me to stick with this.
Who knows if I'll make my goal of 12 pounds by Christmas. I only have a couple of months. I don't think it'll happen but it'll be a nice present to myself if I can do it.
Will I join Weight Watchers? Part of me wants to and part of me can't see spending the money if I can do it on my own. There are so many other ways I'd rather spend my dollars.
I'm looking into joining a fitness club where I work. They've put together a room full of machines very similar to Curves. If I can convince my sweet hubby to join with me I'll be more motivated to get myself over there a few times each week. I joined Curves for awhile in the spring and I do like their program, but for a number of reasons I dropped out. Having a partner might make all the difference. He doesn't need to lose weight but the exercise would do him good. He sits most of the day in his job and eat ice cream at night, yet he isn't overweight. Baffling.
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