And we're back!!!!!

So I've joined Weight Watchers...and it was with a great deal of trepidation. It took me three tries to get myself to a meeting and what I finally had to do was ask a friend to go with me, which ended up making me truly commit to going. I joined because I need more structure and support around loosing weight. I joined because I honestly had no idea what else to do. I joined because I am sick of being so fat!!!! I joined because I deserve the life I want!!!!

I am attending a meeting for people who need/want to loose more than 50 pounds. I went in thinking that I was going to have to have a huge debating conversation with some ridiculous person over how much weight I want to loose. I was wrong! I can choose what I want my final weight to be and that's all there is to it! I am SO happy about this! They also no longer read your weight out loud! They only tell you if you've lost or gained. The woman, Jayne, who leads my meetings has lost 115 pounds and passed around her "before" picture, which was astounding. It gave me a sense of relief to know that the slender woman at the front of the room understands what I am going through. I figure I'll use the meetings as a kind of therapy time and use all of the materials to my advantage! I even subscribed to their magazine.

So far I really love the internet tools. It makes keeping track of what you've eaten super easy (there's also an app on my phone.) You can even add in recipes and it will calculate the points for you. This is something that I struggle with on "diets" because I just want to cook my food and then eat appropriately but most diets make you eat weird food or not eat certain foods but WW lets you eat whatever you want, just keep within you points. They encourage you to eat more "power foods" than junky stuff and the more junk = more points but you decide what you eat! The whole points system is also causing me to think more carefully about the snacks that I'm choosing. Tonight I wanted something sweet but didn't want to hork out on ice cream, so instead I had a banana (0 points), 2 tbsp of crunchy peanut butter (5 points), and 4/5 of an ounce of some dreamy dark chocolate (2 points). It was divinely satisfying and delicious!!! There's also a rad weight tracking graph (I love me a good graph) and an exercise tracker! Super rad!!!

My weigh in day is Wednesday so I'll keep you posted on how it's going. I'll get a gold star sticker every time I loose 5 pounds and they have even broken down my total weight loss into manageable portions so that I have something that my brain can get around! Their expectation is to loose between .5 and 2 pounds a week. Most people in the 50+ pound range loose 1-2 pounds a week. Check out some of my goals:

5% = 16 pounds

10% = 32 pounds

I also made some goals for my first week...here they are:

1. Understand the WW point system
2. Loose at least 1 pound
3. Exercise 3 times

Sorry if I repeated myself here but I wanted to record everything somewhere!!! What are you up to? How are your goals coming???? Don't leave me hanging here!!!! I can't stand being the lone poster!!!!