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[sailortena]

Weight Watchers has been the best diet plan for me. I joined at work in mid-July 2006 and as of my weigh in on Tues. I have lost a total of 52.5 pounds so far! I am two pounds until I am finally under 200 pounds! (My goal is to get down to 170 or so.)I am on the Flex program. With my lifestyle I feel Core would be too difficult. I like eating whole grains too much!I am starting to fit into my size 12 "goal" jeans ... I wore a 12 in high school! Maybe I can get down to a size 10. Lol. When I was at my heaviest I wore a size 20-22. That was really bad. Looking back I can't believe how much I hated myself by eating and eating.
People look at me different these days ... when I wear properly fitting clothes (most of my stuff is still too big. I wear 14s and 16s ... 12s are still a little uncomfortable). One coworker said they didn't know how much weight I really lost because I was hiding it! LOL. The bad thing is that a lot of times when I look at myself I still see fat Tena and not the slimmer Tena. I wonder how I can change that around mentally.

 

[lisacb77]

Thanks Kathy. I just hope the scale moves this week the right way! I still have about 12 lbs to lose before Hawaii in June!

 

[MicheleC]

Tena,

Way to go! I just joined WW last month and have lost 8 pounds so far. I go to my meeting tomorrow and am hoping for another pound or two. My goal is to lose a total of 60 lbs. I've really let myself go and have gained about 10 lbs just in the last year (one of the bad parts of PC!) If I reach my goal I will be at my goal weight and actually weigh less than I did in college. I'm turning 40 next year and I want ot reach my goal weight before then.

Thanks for starting this thread and good luck to everyone in reaching their goals.

 

[Kathytnt]

I started doing Core to get into the too small wedding dress I purchase - Wohoo It worked. I have stabilized and kept off about 25 lbs. I had gastric bypass surgery 9 years ago and was originally 310+ lbs.

I can eat way more than you would ever think a person who had surgery could eat. I can't call it a failed surgery because I have lost over 120 lbs and kept it off.

I just walked 8 miles - Training for a my second half-marathon in May I did my first 2 years ago.

Still need to drop about 40-50 more lbs.

 

[Joyful]

I had my first weigh-in yesterday and lost 2.5 lbs. Yeah! I know it's not much, but it's a start. I would like to lose about 40-50 lbs. altogether.