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Originally Posted by sarahyu
The only thing keeping me from dropping is the fact that the weekly meetings tend to make me think and restart my weight loss conviction each week, it only lasts a couple days---maybe I should start going to more meetings each week. Maybe that will help my motivation.
Maybe I should go to more meetings.
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I think this makes a lot of sense. I also need regular support. And meetings are vital. My husband and I couldn't afford for both of us to go to Weight Watchers, so we joined TOPS instead (where you can follow any plan you wish).
TOPS is about 1/10 the price of Weight Watchers (and even cheaper if you're losing weight because you win cash and small prizes for weight loss), but the down side is that you really can only attend one meeting per week (unless you find another chapter willing to let you sit in).
With both TOPS and WW, you can only weigh in once a week (and that may be sensible for most people), but I feel I might benefit from two weigh-ins a week.
I don't let the scale stress me, so I don't think I'm in danger of being "discouraged" by the second weigh-in, especially since I weigh at least twice a day at home (and need to. If I don't, I tend to slack off).
A couple of the ladies in my TOPS chapter belong to both WW and TOPS and they agree that the two weigh ins a week keep them focused, and reduce their temptation to have a "cheat day." Their results seem to be bearing out what they're saying.
The only things keeping me from joining WW are 1. I prefer using my reduced-carb exchange plan and 2. The cost (especially if I wasn't going to be following the WW food plan).
If you need more meetings per week, or if you need another weigh-in day in front of an objective observer (or if you need anything else) to stay on track, do what you have to do, to get that need met.
Even $32 a pound is a bargain, if you keep the weight off. Giving up usually means gaining back. So if you want to switch to TOPS or if you want to add TOPS TO WW, or if you want to try anything else at all, go for it - but don't give up because that ends up with money spent to gain weight ('cause you always seem to gain more than you lose weight).
And the onlything worse than spending $32 (or more) per pound lost, is spending money to end up gaining.