Going Online

After nearly a year back at Weight Watchers I have decided to give WW Online a go.

Why ??

Well why not, over the last few months I have found getting to meetings more of a struggle than an enjoyment.  A mixture of Hubby working late so I don't stay as I have Jack, or something else comes up and becomes more important.  Then the meetings died down to very few people over the summer and i missed the support of other members, the meeting is small anyway so when only 3 or 4 people stay I wasn't coming away with anything.  Some weeks I was paying to stand on a set of scales - seems a waste.   And now the dark and cold nights are here and I really don't want to be going out on these nights so here I am an online member.

I didn't want to give up and I want to be subscribed to ww for when i get to goal and want to become a leader myself (well maybe). So after weeks of trying to decide what to do I decided to go online, £11.95 a month ( much cheaper than my meeting fees as i didn't have a monthly pass).  I am weighing at home every Saturday morning with Alan as my support, we are doing it together and he will keep me right. 

I have been online a week and I am already addicted to the WW app on my phone and Ipad, tracking everything as i go and not in my journal at the end of the day.  Its funny how seeing it on there makes it so much more real, you cant "tweak" or "guesstimate" how many pp are in things as the app is telling me how many. 

I have switched to have a few filling and healthy days, which are now alot more approachable for me than before.  I now choose them on busy days on a weekend, the kind of day when I know I will be too busy for snacking so no temptation to use weekly points, and too busy to have to worry about counting and measuring.  I still plan them in advance though to make sure I have the right things in.

I am loving Saturday morning weigh in's, weekends have always been my weight loss hot spots, the times it can all go wrong, then i would spend the next three days leading up to my midweek weigh in, either trying to starve myself, wracked with guilt, or thinking I had already blown it so start again Thursday.  Now if my weekend goes a little off track it can be my 49 weekly points, it was lovely last week not panicking for getting myself back on track for the Wednesday night.

My first week online resulted in another 3lb gone, this is more than i have lost in a few weeks, to the point I had been gaining again and heading backwards.  Making the decision to join online seems to have lifted a weight of my shoulders that I didn't realise I was carrying.  I feel good, I have had a great week and have another great week planned. 

It saddens me to think that my Yo Yo ing seems to have jeopardised my aim for 50lb this year, i was so determined to get there but I need to be realistic and just keep aiming to lose every week and not focus on how much, by when and for what.  Just for me to lose each week and get to goal sometime in the near future is enough.  No pressure !

Wish me luck x x x