As those close to me may already know, I joined weight watchers a while ago and so far I could not be happier with my results. To date, I’ve lost 87.3 lbs. from my highest weight of over 400 lbs. This is to give everyone some idea of what the road has been like so far, my ultimate goals as well as keeping everyone up-to-date on my weekly progress. I’ll provide some of my challenges, self-realizations and some great recipes, workouts or motivations that I stumble upon along the way. This post is primarily about catching everyone up on exactly why I lost 87.3 lbs.
I joined weight watchers after being pleaded with by one of my closest friends. She was concerned about my health. Like most families we have a plethora of genetic diseases in the family: heart disease, high blood pressure, heart attacks, cancer, diabetes & Alzheimer’s disease. She was concerned that if I didn’t start to take my health seriously that my lifespan would be increasingly shortened. I have to admit, I wasn’t very receptive at first. Like most over-weight people I’ve heard the lectures from doctors and TV personalities, even my family would constantly nag me about my weight and my lack of concern for my own health. In the end I only joined because that friend of mine made me a bet. She offered to take me to my first NCAA division 1 football game. I’m still not at my goal but that bet no longer matters. I am still part of weight watchers not because I want the tickets but because I like feeling healthier, I like looking better, I like feeling better.
I may have started weight watchers because of a bet but I stayed because it works with my lifestyle. As you may or may not know, I’m an IT specialist during the day & a web developer for a company I founded as well. I’m also a creature of habits that was raised in the Midwest on the meat & potatoes type of a diet. Weight Watchers has allowed me to continue to eat all the things I grew up with and enjoy but I still manage to lose weight. How you might ask? First, let’s get this out of the way, I’m not a spokesman for weight watchers, so I might get some of the details wrong but the knowledge I pass along is from my own personal observations from my experience with the program. The best way I can describe the philosophy that hooked me with weight watchers is this: “if I don’t learn how to have beer & pizza when I’m losing weight when will i?” that seems like bad infomercial, right? Think about it though? Its true. If I don’t get to have the things I enjoy when I lose weight how am I going to have them once I reach goal without putting all the weight back on? I won’t, not unless I learn a process or a way of making better decisions in the food & drink choices I make on a daily basis.