Weight Watchers milestone
Jul. 11th, 2005 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nlbarberA year ago I hit my goal weight at Weight Watchers. I'm about 5 pounds under that now, and have been holding around that mark (the 5-pounds-under mark, that is) since about last September. I decided to make the official goal the max. allowed for my height, but to really shoot for something under that. At my lowest, the total loss was just over 50 pounds--most weeks it's more like 48-49.
I've probably said this before here, but this is the third time in my adult life that I've lost significant amounts of weight. This is the first time (I think) that it has lasted anything close to this long. I definitely recall that the time I used NutriSystem I never reached their maintenance phase--as soon as I stopped eating the special food, the weight started to climb.
I'm still keeping a food diary. I still go to WW meetings every week if I can, which is almost every week. I can also still see how easy it would be to shift back to larger portions and much higher calorie foods (I'm not one who has lost her taste for the high-fat stuff!), so I plan to keep on doing what I've been doing to keep the weight off.
I've probably said this before here, but this is the third time in my adult life that I've lost significant amounts of weight. This is the first time (I think) that it has lasted anything close to this long. I definitely recall that the time I used NutriSystem I never reached their maintenance phase--as soon as I stopped eating the special food, the weight started to climb.
I'm still keeping a food diary. I still go to WW meetings every week if I can, which is almost every week. I can also still see how easy it would be to shift back to larger portions and much higher calorie foods (I'm not one who has lost her taste for the high-fat stuff!), so I plan to keep on doing what I've been doing to keep the weight off.
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Rodent Rhombas.....
Date: 2005-07-12 02:32 am (UTC)BRAVA!
WELL DONE!!!
That so -TOTALLY- rocks, and is like almost enough to make me haul ass across the street to my WW.
Way to go! I really, really hope you feel justifiably proud of yourself!!!
Re: Rodent Rhombas.....
Date: 2005-07-12 03:06 am (UTC)I also revel in seeing friends who haven't seen me in a while--it's all new enough that it's still happening now and then, and I love the reaction. Good reinforcement for sticking to good eating habits, too.
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Date: 2005-07-12 02:54 am (UTC)a nearly-year ago I thought I was going to have the resolution to lose before my cousin's son's (yeah, I know he's my cousin-once-removed, but this is clearer) wedding, but I haven't done it. Too much eating-when-upset-with-Mom.
And are you not drownding with Dennis?
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Date: 2005-07-12 03:13 am (UTC)I sympathize on the stress eating--I've thought several times that part of what made this work was being at a place in my work and home life when I could concentrate on getting new eating habits.
understatement
Date: 2005-07-12 03:19 am (UTC)I bloody well -WADED- across Argonne, Piedmont, and Juniper to get to work this morning.
All because m'too cheap to pay for parking (then I would have just had to wade across 10th).
My poor boss lost half his chimney to a tornado last week -- this weekend, he apparently had 1/2 of Dennis come pouring through his LR.
We still have not persuaded his mini-dachsund that it is safe to come out yet.
Re: understatement
Date: 2005-07-12 03:29 am (UTC)The Data Section chief asked me to change our precip display to mimic North Carolina's, which shows cumulative rainfall for various intervals up to 7 days. (Each State has some controls over what shows up in the national Web system.) It was pretty amazing this morning, with lots of sites showing 5-6 inches in 24 hours. As the rain has slacked off, you have to look at the 7-day totals now--but that's still a heck of a lot of rain per day, and we know it mostly came in the last 36 hours.
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