Well reading Beth Ann's waaaaaaaaaaaaaa thread gave me the incentive to post this. Thank you Beth Ann.
I had posted when I returned from Paris in late June that I had gained weight (11.5) lbs to be exact. I was bummin....then I got back on track only to come unglued over two consecutive weekends. Total gain of 13 lbs and was now heavier than I was on May 13th, my last visit to my weight loss doc (endricronologist)
So instead of a bit of a slip, I was in a full fledged slide....the first slide since I began this journey in Jan of 2001. To make matters worse I had also stopped exercising.
I suppose this had to happen some time during this journey but like Beth Ann (who only had a tiny tiny gain) I felt like everything was coming apart.
So after a lot of "poor me-ing" I knew I had to reinvent my food/health journey....have been doing the same things for so long that I had lost focus. Trust me when I tell you all that reading your posts helped me so much. I joined a gym, have hired a personal trainer (not for long---too expensive), bought a WW cookbook and got back on track. Happy to report that I have lost 6 of the 13 I gained.
It is very scary when you fall down especially when you haven't fallen in a while....hurts a bit more.
Thanks for just being here. Again it is sooooooooooo hard for most people (friends, people at work, people in my WW at work program) to relate to someone who gains 13 lbs in approx 2 weeks and two weekends. Someone told me to get my thyroid checked that there had to be something wrong. Nope, this is just me and this body that I am in.