Hi there ~
I have been doing the WW plan (going to meetings) for exactly 6 months. I've lost 40.2 lbs so far and am approx. 10 or so pounds from goal. I'm getting so nervouse now because next Saturday, only 6 days from now, my husband and I are leaving for a 7 day cruise.
I think I've made some real changes in the way I eat and the way I think about food but I just know that I'll be bad with my eating anyway........I add all this, not as my purpose for this post (although it's an important fact in my life right now) but just because it's something that is coming up to put a small disruption in my eating plan.....
My purpose for this post is to find some people who have been in or ARE in my position.....so close, so very close.....I don't want to mess up this late in the game. This is probably my 7th time joining WW. Each time, I go for about 6 or so weeks and then think I can do it on my own. Obviously, I can't and never have. So this time, the shock of sticking with it this long is just so amazing to me. Of course, the leader and her exhuberant nature has a lot to do with it. Marsha is GREAT and anyone in the Fort Worth area that needs a good meeting needs to go to hers. OH, I got side-tracked there...
I just wonder how those of you in this situation continue to stick to the program. Those of you who are lifetime memebers and/or on maintenance ~ any pointers how I can get there in a decent amount of time and not start 'cheating' now? I don't consider any over-eating to be 'cheating'. Since I know that WW allows you to have ANY food (as long as you count the points), let's just say that I bank too many in the BEGINNING of the week and have to make them all up during the next 6 days. I've been doing this for the last few weeks, maybe since the holidays ~ it's not hurt me ~ in 6 months, I've had only 1 gain and that was the first week in Jan., after the holidays were over and it was only POINT 6. So here I am, so very close to goal (I'm 5'7" and think I should be somewhere between 148-153), and the day I weigh, I have been eating too many points. First of all, I need to stop doing that. Second, I need to really concentrat on my vacation coming up. I don't want to be miserable with the thought of "I can't have that" but I also do not want to over do it.
Well, I've rambled on enough here. Thanks to anyone who is listening, even if you don't answer.
Zoe ~ Soaking up the "SON" in Texas
199.4/159.2/148-ish