wilma-bride
Full Member
Hi all, my name is Jo and I just joined WW online last week - for much the same reasons as the rest of us I imagine.
I am (almost) 42 and what is commonly known as a yo-yo dieter (although more recently I've just been a yo - and not the first part either). I lost nearly 4 stone on Weight Watchers back in 2009, absolutely loved the way I looked and was finally happy with myself. Then, for some inexplicable reason, I put all of the weight back on and more in less than a year. For the last 4 years I've probably lost and gained the same stone and a half or so. Very frustrating but nobody to blame except myself.
In the meantime, I've tried calorie counting, Slimming World, plain old healthy eating and exercise and nothing really worked for me. Whether I just wasn't in 'the zone' I don't know, but I decided last week to give WW another go. I haven't done WW since it changed to ProPoints so I was concerned that I'd find it hard. I briefly considered the F&H option but I really need the restrictions of staying within my points, while still enjoying the freedom that counting gives me.
I have also recognised that I am not doing enough exercise but I don't feel fit enough or confident enough to do too much at the moment, nor do I really have the time or the option to go to the gym in the evenings, so I bought a Fitbit last week and am working on increasing my daily steps. I'm embarrassed to admit that there were days over the past few months where I did less than 500 steps at the weekend. I am aiming to do at least 5000 steps a day at the moment (which is an increase on what I was doing) and hopefully make it to 10, 000 by the end of the month. I will update each daily entry with my Fitbit stats too.
Anyway, I joined last Monday but didn't start until Tuesday as that was my first day back at work. I weighed in this morning with a 7.5 lb loss so very happy with that for the first week.
Since I am an expert 'first week' dieter, I know it only gets harder from here though so I am hoping that keeping this diary and sharing here will help keep me on the straight and narrow and, hopefully, give other members some inspiration - although, truth be told, I'm a pretty boring eater!
I hope you will follow along or just pop in to say 'hi' from time to time
I am (almost) 42 and what is commonly known as a yo-yo dieter (although more recently I've just been a yo - and not the first part either). I lost nearly 4 stone on Weight Watchers back in 2009, absolutely loved the way I looked and was finally happy with myself. Then, for some inexplicable reason, I put all of the weight back on and more in less than a year. For the last 4 years I've probably lost and gained the same stone and a half or so. Very frustrating but nobody to blame except myself.
In the meantime, I've tried calorie counting, Slimming World, plain old healthy eating and exercise and nothing really worked for me. Whether I just wasn't in 'the zone' I don't know, but I decided last week to give WW another go. I haven't done WW since it changed to ProPoints so I was concerned that I'd find it hard. I briefly considered the F&H option but I really need the restrictions of staying within my points, while still enjoying the freedom that counting gives me.
I have also recognised that I am not doing enough exercise but I don't feel fit enough or confident enough to do too much at the moment, nor do I really have the time or the option to go to the gym in the evenings, so I bought a Fitbit last week and am working on increasing my daily steps. I'm embarrassed to admit that there were days over the past few months where I did less than 500 steps at the weekend. I am aiming to do at least 5000 steps a day at the moment (which is an increase on what I was doing) and hopefully make it to 10, 000 by the end of the month. I will update each daily entry with my Fitbit stats too.
Anyway, I joined last Monday but didn't start until Tuesday as that was my first day back at work. I weighed in this morning with a 7.5 lb loss so very happy with that for the first week.
Since I am an expert 'first week' dieter, I know it only gets harder from here though so I am hoping that keeping this diary and sharing here will help keep me on the straight and narrow and, hopefully, give other members some inspiration - although, truth be told, I'm a pretty boring eater!
I hope you will follow along or just pop in to say 'hi' from time to time
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