Weight Watchers Update

Saturday, November 21, 2009
The last several weeks I've been a bit lackadaisical about my Weight Watchers program, and (of course) that lack of discipline was being reflected in my results. So this week I recommitted to the program, and lost 3.8 pounds, bringing my total weight loss to 31 pounds. My short term goal is to reach 35 pounds by the end of the year, a goal I think I can easily achieve, in spite of the holiday season. For those of you keeping track at home, I only have 1.5 pounds to go before I reach the 50% mark. 

So I'm back on track, and realized for the first time today how much I'd actually lost. I've had to start wearing smaller size jeans and such, but it's so hard for me to be objective about my own body, I just don't see it.  Which is, of course, how I got into so much trouble in the first place.

But inspired by Megan, I went looking for a "before" picture, intending to post it with my not-yet-taken svelte photo once I reach my goal.  I found one, and YIKES. I really have lost quite a lot of weight, which is something to be proud of. Now the trick is to keep my eyes on the prize, and continue with my plan and my final goal - 65 pounds in one year, followed by a lifetime membership in Weight Watchers*. Almost half-way there, and without depriving myself of Michelle's homemade Oreo cookies and the occasional high-fat meal.

Go, me.


*For those of you unfamiliar with the program, you achieve lifetime status in Weight Watchers when you maintain your goal weight for six weeks. Once you achieve that goal, you no longer have to pay for the program...provided you continue to maintain.

5 comments:

Megan said...

Yaaaaaay! You can do this!

Janiece said...

Thanks, Megan. You're a good role model!

Anne C. said...

That is awesome, Janiece! I, too, really need to start being more aware of things -- what I eat and what I do with my time being two main items.

I am very proud of you, my friend.

Janiece said...

Thanks, Anne. I'm hoping that part of my (continued) success will be maintaining an awareness of what I eat on a daily basis, including continuing to prepare low-fat, low-cal meals for most nights. Having an occasional splurge isn't what killed me...

nzforme said...

Go you, indeed!

(I just had a whole order of fries. I'm trying to tell myself it was better than the big chocolately dessert I'd been considering, but, really, it's back on the Elliptical for me.)