results of week 4

[alenxa_classic]

Tuesday's weight: 178.0
Down by: 1 from last week, 9.5 total

Black pants fit fine. Yarrrrr.

Comments

Yay!

[akabetina.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Well done! How do you do it?

I've never done Weight Watchers. How much does it cost?

Re: Yay!

[alenxa.livejournal.com]

Erm......to be honest, I don't know how much WW costs. The first time I used the system, it was through a series of Xeroxed handouts, copied from the official glossies the women in the office had collected the year before. They had had enough people willing to sign up (before I arrived there) that they were able to get a meeting held at the office. The year after, there weren't enough, so they improvised. I was the only one of about 15 to successfully stick with it over 2 months and not immediately put all the weight back on. This time, I'm using as much of my archive and old resources as I can find, and building more as I go.

If you listen to experts (and a lot of my officemates), they'll say that WW works partly because of the support system and accountability. Frankly, I found the group to be a better sounding board than cheer squad. It's not that I don't appreciate support; I very much do. (I'll talk for hours on random nutrition trivia if my conversational partners don't manage to sneak away.) I just think that for me, part of the triumph is in bucking the system. Not as in getting something for nothing, but as in showing that what everyone thinks is right doesn't always apply. I'm just weird like that.

And things I can't do this without, in no particular order: Health Valley vegetable soups, rice cakes with goat cheese, the about.com calorie counter, stevia, latte mugs (for drinking water), my Excel spreadsheet points calculator, rum and Diet Coke, dwlz.com, Food for Life bread, nonfat iced lattes with Sweet 'n' Low, and meringue cookies. (And Pirates, but you can't eat that.)