Weight Watchers

I thought today I would write a little about my experience with Weight Watchers, since it ties in closely to my fitness goals.

A little history first: I was struggling with my weight even before I had babies (though the pregnancies definitely did a number on this Mommy’s body). In 2001 I was trying to conceive but also decided I needed to lose a little weight before I got pregnant. So I signed up for Weight Watchers. I found a meeting I could go to near my office. I think I’d lost about 10 lbs before I got pregnant and was surprised to learn that they wouldn’t let me come to meetings anymore. I don’t know why i was surprised, but I was. I knew I couldn’t lose any more weight, but I would have liked some help in eating healthy while pregnant. I know today if I got pregnant again, I could keep up online with the WW boards, but I don’t know if they had the boards then. So thus ended my first time on WW.

Fast forward a few years to 2006. I now had two kids and a post-baby body. Eek! After both births I lost the first 30 lbs or so pretty easily, especially considering they were both fairly big babies (8lb 14oz and 9lb 11oz--oh yeah, had that one by NATURAL birth--you know I’m tough). Anyway, after that initial 30 lb loss, I still needed to lose 20 lbs to get to pre-baby weight. At the time I was living in London, where they also have Weight Watchers, so I looked into joining again. I realized it would be tough with my two little boys, so I went to join online. I ended up having to actually join the American website, because I was using a credit card with our American mailing address which didn’t work on the UK site. I was losing slowly but surely until we moved back to the U.S. last September.

The mess of moving and the re-introduction to my favorite American foods was a bit of a setback for my weight loss, but I was still registered with WW online so I kept going. I ended up losing 25 lbs online, so I joined meetings hoping to make my goal soon and work on getting lifetime membership. However, I joined the meetings a couple months ago and haven’t lost much since, so I seem to be at another plateau. However, I am not discouraged because at least I’m not gaining and I know I can lose eventually. Also, my clothes size and my measurements have gone down in those couple months in spite of the lack of weight loss, so something’s working--I think it’s my workouts that are helping.

OK, I’ve already written a lot, but I want to get more specific about my eating plan (WW Core Plan) so I will post again on this tomorrow, as time allows).