Today’s Weight: 122.5

The day I finally started to eat healthy.

I was always a skinny child and teenager. I had a fast metabolism and I ate french fries and burgers every day of my life. I should have been a chunky monkey but my good genes and daily P.E. (while in school) kept me in shape…. but then it happened.. I graduated high school and started college and then began my issue with weight. From lack of exercise I started to gain and gain and gain. I went from 115 pounds in high-school to my largest which was 135lbs. I even shocked myself. Some how it never occurred to me that I was getting fat and out of shape.

I tried a few different diets. Not many because I have no self control and a giant appetite. Slim fasts would keep me full for 2 hours tops. 3 if I was lucky. My other problem was I ate really bad. I hated vegetables and I did not even like fruit. I tried doing the atkins things which I would never recommend and finally one day I over heard one the woman who I worked with mention she had lost a bunch of weight on weight watchers.  That peaked my interest so I checked it out.

I found a weight watchers meeting location and went. I had no intereset in the meetings. I just wanted the point book. It seemed so simple. You only counted points not calories. It was a small number like 20 some points. but that was a lot easier then counting a 100′s of calories. Im terrible at math. :-p. And then!!! they even gave you a book with fast food options that I could eat and stay within my points.!! It was very easy. I learned a lot from that. I even learned to eat better. I found that I could eat more healthy food for less points and stay full longer then eat a small burger and fries and for the same number of points and then get hungry much sooner.

I know what I am saying seems like common sense but I was a really bad eater. You don’t even understand. When I was younger I used to think I probably would die from a heart attack at 20 from all the burgers and fries I had eaten in my teens. Again I was not fat but I was not healthy either. I got sick all the time and every time I would bite the inside of my mouth by accident it would turn into a sore that would take forever to heal and there I was with a mouth in pain. Even this problem went away when I stopped eating so many burgers and started eating real healthy food. Now for the most part when I bite the inside of my mouth it heals.

The other aspect of Weight Watchers is the meetings. I never went to the meetings because I am more of a solitary person. I’m not the type who needs re-enforcement from others to get to my goals. That’s just me. I’m not saying that it’s good or bad. I think for me. I don’t hang around to many people so I don’t have as much pressure to eat bad all the time because I’m not out with my friends seeing them eat yummy fattening food. So I don’t have much pressure in that respect. But I’m sure that it is probably good for some people to join the meetings. I had to site through one when I signed up and the speaker was giving good ideas on low calorie food.

In the end I feel like Weight Watchers was the gate way to the much healthier life style I live today. What I liked is that I had finally learned what is was to eat healthy, I started to see food in a different way, and the best part was I did not have to buy any special diet foods to follow a program. I learned how to deal with the food around me. (as a side note. I have a friend who did Jenny Craig and she lost weight but gains it right back when she is not eating there food. so sad.)

At this point I no longer follow the Weight Watchers points system. I’m down to a weight where I have to be more accurate with my calories to get the type of results I’m looking for. Those last 5 pounds are a pain to lose.  I now count calories and calculate my BMR to make sure I am eating the right amount of food a day.

I would recommend joining Weight Watchers to any one who does not know how to eat properly and needs some one to help guide them to a healthier life style. Eating healthy is a permanent change. Not something to do for a few months to get ready for Bikini Season or for their wedding.

for all those battling with their weight, I wish you the best of luck in all you do and  I wish you much success.

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