I joined Weight Watchers in May, right before Memorial Day. This was after doing three weight loss sessions at our local YMCA and trying to do it on my own. I decided I needed the support and the weekly weigh-ins. I love Weight Watchers, but I have some kind of mental block on all this.
For about the last four weeks, I haven’t tracked anything. And not surprisingly I’ve gained weight all four weeks. I’m back to tracking this week and feeling better about things.
But I do have a question about this whole, “it’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle” thing that WW keeps saying. My sister-in-law has been on WW for a few years and when she started my brother told me that she said it wasn’t a diet; it was a lifestyle. I’m trying to get into that mindset, but as my daughter pointed out, homosexuality is a lifestyle, this is just Weight Watchers.
Yes, I want to make it to my goal weight and yes, I want to be a lifetime member and I even want to be a leader, but I struggle with the thought that I’ll have to write down what I eat every day of my life, for the rest of my life!! I mean, when I’m eighty and have survived all that time since my transplant, you bet I don’t want to be writing it all down every day! Heck, if I make it to 55, meaning that I lived longer than my dad who had the same kidney condition, I want to have the biggest blowout party this family’s ever seen and I don’t want to write it all down!!
So, what’s the deal? What do they mean by a lifestyle???
I just don’t get it.
Hi, Nanc! I just joined WW too! Lost 4 lbs first wk. I really like it a lot better than LA Weight loss. I probably would have lost more, but it took a few days to get used to the whole points thing. As for the ‘lifestyle’…I dont think they mean that forever you have to write it all down! (I hope not!), but that we learn the right stuff and amounts of stuff to eat. That’s my take on it, anyway. Hang in there…and I better be invited to that 55th party!
Cel