Losing Weight

Well, I've officially gone and done it. Tuesday afternoon, we got an email through our district email system telling us about the formation of a "Weight Watchers At Work" group. You pay a fee up front to attend meetings at your work place for 6 weeks. During that time you attend one meeting a week, weigh in, get the membership materials and benefit from the knowledge shared at a meeting by not only the leader, but also by other WW participants. One of my co-workers, who knew that I was struggling with my weight loss, suggested that we join together.

Now, when I started getting serious about losing weight, my husband and I had an agreement that I could either join the gym or go to WW meetings, but we couldn't afford the monthly fee of both. So, I chose the gym and figured that I could watch my eating on my own. It went really well for quite a while. I'd been officially down 30 pounds since I joined the gym and started working out on a daily basis. Then I gained some of that weight back. In October, with yet another round of the NBC show "The Biggest Loser" (which I totally LOVE) starting up, one of my co-workers initiated a "Biggest Loser" contest at my school. You know, it's one of those things where everyone who wants to participates pays $10 to join in, then at the end of the designated time, the person with the largest percentage of weight loss gets the big pot of money. Well, the contest came and went (mind you, this was over Thanksgiving AND Christmas holidays) and I'd lost 9 pounds. So now, I'm back down to a net loss of 30 pounds since I started losing weight almost two years ago. But now my weight loss has come to a standstill.

Enter my friend with the idea to join WW at Work together. So, I called Kevin and asked him if it would be alright for me to join this 6 week long program (not that I'm asking permission mind you, just that he's the one that knows if we can afford it at this time.) Being the wonderful, loving, supportive husband that he is, he said that I could do whatever I felt would help me out with this. (Isn't he the best?!) So, yesterday at 3:45, we headed to the school that will be our weigh-in and meeting site for the next six weeks. We got all of our materials and had our first weigh in. Now, I'm not going to list all of my statistics, because I'm just a little too self-conscious to have it all out there like that, but I will post updates. Maybe knowing that I will be keeping an update going here will hold me a little bit more accountable.

I think I've started out really well. Last night before bed, I packed my gym bag as usual, packed my breakfast, snacks and lunch and wrote it all down in my food journal. I read through all of my literature from WW before going to bed. I've "done" WW before, but the first time I didn't really have the drive or the willpower to carry it through. The second time I got "serious" about losing weight, I did really well, but didn't join WW, I just followed the program materials from the first time I had joined. So I'm thinking that if I combine the accountability of a "weight loss partner" and going to weekly meetings with the drive that I had to follow it and be successful on my own, I may finally do it this time.

I was supposed to meet with a Personal Trainer at the gym this morning, but we got confused and missed our meeting. I was thinking 5:45 a.m. (which is when I'm at the gym each morning) and he was thinking 5:45 p.m. So after missing our connection, we rescheduled for 4:30 tonight. I'm really looking forward to connecting all the pieces of weight loss together to achieve the success that I so desperately want and need. I still did my cardio -- 30 minutes on the elliptical machine and my floor work -- abs and squats, so I felt pretty good. Tomorrow is Friday and water aerobics.

Wish me luck!