Hi. I guess I'm cross-posting in this forum. I'm a repeat offender in the weight loss game. In my 20s I was 150 and dropped 30 pounds with QWLC in 9 weeks, which at the time was drastic calorie reduction but of course I didn't realize that. I was simply eating according to the plan. I was thrilled with the weight loss, but could never maintain it. Instead, when I gained, I'd start that diet again. It was a vicious cycle.
I had not gone over 150ish for years. Then I went through a divorce and lost 20 pounds as a result. After meeting my current hubby and having a baby (difficult pregnancy) and I only gained 17 lbs and dd was born weighing 8 1/2 lbs, I was thin immediately after, but it didn't take long for my health to go downhill and my weight to climb, despite efforts to take it off.
I'd join WW, have success to a point, and could never drop past 150 no matter what I ate or how much exercising I did. Eventually I was diagnosed as hypothyroid and years later, diabetes 2. I have been struggling with my weight for 20 years and weighed as much as 200 and as little as 150, but I haven't seen 150 for a long time.
As much experience I have with weight loss, and gaining, rinse, repeat, it never dawned on me to count calories. That would have been smart, right? Its something so basic. 1200 calories for a woman, 1500 calories for a man, minimum. Duh.
Last year, I starved off 20 pounds. I couldn't sustain the loss, nor that way of eating. When Weight Watchers at-work came to my office and I saw results, I thought I'd try it again--especially with the new Points Plus program. However, I quickly learned that the folks at work who were recently successful had followed a prior program and either never stopped it or returned to it because they weren't successful on PP. Some people who switched to PP are losing, but very slowly, and some I admit are doing well, or so they say. I don't know their weight, I only know what I see and what they tell me. Hilariously enough, someone told me she weighed 160...she looks bigger than me. Her very good friend told me this week she's lying about her weight, and I know for a fact she is ping-ponging the same few pounds over and over, and pretty much stagnant in her loss efforts.
Anyhow, after that long "introduction", I'm currently counting calories. I am dually tracking WW points because my at-work subscription ends in November. I have to attend a certain number of meetings to get a small rebate on my "tuition"...so I'll do that. It isn't that the program is bad, but I found it needed tweaking to work well for me, and someone suggested I count calories and see what the difference between 1200 calories and 29 daily points is. Its a lot. By restricting to 1200 daily, I lost 3 lbs in 6 days.
Currently, 1200 is my target and I've given myself a ceiling of 1400. I try to walk 30 minutes 2-3 times a week, and I do some light exercise (squats, pushups, etc.).
I have a feeling that come November I'll be posting here and not in the WW forum. Thus, this introduction.
I don't know if I have a lot to offer, but you all have a lot that I can learn from since for the first time in my life I'm paying attention to calories!
Thanks, and may you all have a super week.
Donna
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. I wait all year for this and my walk this morning was dreaaaaaaaaaaamy! My energy goes up about 800% when it is like this. I can EVEN do work outside, the pleasure and relaxation that it is reported to provide, being entirely overrated, in my experience. 
though I fully intended to wait until next Wed. when I have my MD appt. and was up .5#. Did not even make me flinch because I know it is the result of water/salt. In the past, despite the intellectual realization that I could not possibly gain ANYthing when consuming under 1200 cals, let alone .5#, it would have sent me into a tailspin, but not this time.
so glad to hear you are feeling more comfortable. Hey that might be a NEW intervention for the reduction of eating additional calories 
who wants to eat when feeling that uncomfortable?
as I had been in public. 
A lot of us, if not most, post on different treads. You will be welcome everywhere 
