Where should I begin…. That has actually been my problem. Some Weight Watcher (WW) friends gave me the idea to start a blog. I loved the idea and was so excited to get started on it. I immediately talked to my husband and sister about the idea. They were excited too! We spent our camping weekend talking about what kind of things to put on the blog…..that was in March! I’ve been struggling with where to start. What great topic should I start our new blog with! I finally decided (with urging from a lot of people – Maren, Vauri and Shaila!) to just start! So here goes….
My husband and I are big fans of WW. About 5 years ago we were able to lose 50 lbs! As so often happens, those pounds have snuck back on (more on me than on him). I have tried at least 3 times to go back to WW which usually ends up a few weeks of success then for some reason or other we miss a meeting which turns into two. Before you know it we’ve stopped going and went back to old eating habits. Well to cut to the chase, last July my twin sister and I turned 50! (She turned it 5 minutes before me!) Our husband’s had a great birthday party for us! When I looked at the pictures I knew I couldn’t stay this way. Who was that person looking a lot like me only blown up like a balloon! Not to mention the video my daughter took as our family went out for my birthday dinner. At the restaurant the servers dance at least once a night to country music. With the urging of my family I got up and danced with the servers! When I saw the video I couldn’t believe it was me, when did I get that big stomach! Both of these occasions were the motivation I needed to make my thoughts turn to action.
On Monday July 30, 2007 my new life began! I made a spreadsheet to track my points on and wrote down the first thing I ate…a banana. My spreadsheet is the first thing I open (well after my email) every morning and keep it open throughout the day to remind me to track and what I’m eating. I continued this tracking my points and following the WW plan without actually signing up and going to meetings. Embarrassed by all my other attempts, I just didn’t want to face going and signing up AGAIN! In September my husband, Merrill and our co-worker started going to WW meetings. He convinced me that I would have better success if I attended the meetings. So reluctantly I started going Saturday mornings and surprisingly no one pointed and said “you’re back again!!!” In fact I really loved our leader Irma and felt comfort hearing other people’s challenges and successes.
To tell you the truth I’m getting pretty bored with the background story so lets just move ahead to the idea for this blog…. After exposing at a meeting that I don’t cook and that my husband and I eat out every night, except Sunday, two WW friends – Maren and Malisa - came up with the idea for me to put my eating out tips online. To include ordering ideas and variations to menu items of the restaurants we go to. These are just our tips, no official point count or WW information. Just our REAL LIFE tips! Feel free to modify your own tracking if you think points differ from anything stated on this blog. For myself, I make the best effort to count points accurately but as any of you real life WW’s know that that is not always possible and a good guess is sometimes as close as you’ll get. I guess it works for me! As you can see from the previous entry my daughter posted... Last Saturday I met my WW goal!
With all the times I’ve tried in the past I really never met my goal so I’m pretty darn excited that I did!
