Marlaine83

Went to weight watchers last night and re-joined for the fourth or fifth time… I’ve lost count. What I do know is that when I do the programme properly, it works. When I stop tracking or start missing weigh-ins, it doesn’t.

The first time I did WW was in ‘07 and I was in a really different place in my life—living with my folks in Texas and working as a nanny. It was a really sheltered existence, but did the trick to helping me lose 60lbs that year. Each time I’ve come back to WW in England, I’ve struggled with keeping it up.

I couldn’t tell you what’s going to be different this time around, we’ll just have to wait and see if I deliver! But I do know that if I try to look forward too far in advance, I lose my focus. I have to take it one day at a time, one meal choice at a time. Little victories for the win!

I weighed in at 15stone last night (that’s 210lbs for you Americans!) I’m 5’6 and the high end of my healthy weight range (according to the BMI) is 155lbs. That would be a wonderful day, but to be honest when i was 170 back in 2007 I felt freakin’ amazing. So we’ll just see how it goes. Really trying to not put pressure on myself to be a certain weight by a certain date—as doing this makes me a slave to the scale and i can get obsessive about weighing myself at multiple times of the day on different scales. And this is what leads to my burn out.

So I like to think I’m in it for the long haul, not the quick-fix (I’m not disciplined enough to lose this weight super-fast anyways!!) I just want to be able to enjoy myself, enjoy the foods (and drinks!) that I love all in moderation. And I’ll have my not-perfect days, my not-perfect weeks, my plateaus, lots of frustration, but I’m committed to keep going to my meetings for my weigh-ins.