Anyone going it alone???
 

I've done WW in the past and I have all of my materials, but can't afford to pay the membership fees and such. I'm going to try and follow the plan w/o going to the meetings. Is anyone else do this??

Thanks,
Becky

Your post caught my eye because the meetings was the thing that kept me away from WW -- I love WW online though - it's how I ended up here.

If calorie counting hadnt worked out so well for me I would have def done the online WW membership - I know (because I am doing it) that you can subscribe to WW emails, updates and read the message boards at no charge(but not post) along with the people here at 3fc doing WW. All the best!

Yes I am doing the same thing. I just hope it works. I have 60 lbs to lose. I am down 5 for this week, but I started walking and I haven't dropped a pound. I am getting very sad about this but I am not giving up. This time around I am not telling myself I am on a diet, I am just learning to eat right for the rest of my life. :D

i'm doing the same thing. i did ww in the past and have all the materials. when i was a member i didn't really attend the meetings very often. my co-workers and i are working on a "great in '08" plan and encourage each other everyday to make healthy choices and to get our bodies in motion. so i have them for support and i found this website, which i absolutely love! i have been doing ww for almost 2 weeks now on my own and i am down 9 pounds.

I did WW a couple of years ago for the second time and went it alone. It worked for me for a couple of weeks, but then the accountability piece was missing, and I also wasn't "scared" of weigh-ins :) I think part of it was I had to scare myself into actually eating healthy, which was a problem in it's own.

So, my advice is that it works... just stick to it! You can do it!!

Hi all,

I wasn't planning on posting tonight since I just started today but what the heck? I did WW three years ago and I loved it until I hit a plateau. I was just following the Flex Plan and not exercising at all. I lost about 10 pounds but sadly became discouraged and (sadly, again) gained it back. I have been battling the same 30 pounds for what seems like forever! I have tried other plans in the past and WW is the only one that is doable and seems to make sense for life. The success stories are so motivating and everyone seems so supportive on this board. When I say that I started today, I have started counting points but am leaning toward doing WW online instead of the meetings. Everyone wish me luck while I work hard to get these pesky, ugly, stubborn 30 pounds to vacate the premisis once and for all! And good luck to all of you, of course!!!

I restarted again 12/27, and I could have written the first two posts :) Ten days later -- I don't know why, but I knew I had to go to meetings, and I don't like the meetings. Too many people :) What drove me back was that, despite at least 8 different scales over the past 10 years, I cannot find one that is even remotely reliable, and I had no idea whether WW was "working." I also wanted the materials. And I guess I wanted, just once, to be successful at this.

Everyone has his or her own road, and there are a lot of people doing WW successfully online. The tools are great, and there's a lot of information there (and here). Try it and see if you like it. If you don't, go back. They recognized me, they laughed when I said this was the 24th time I'd come (at a conservative estimate) and they didn't laugh once :)

I have kept all the materials in case I wanted to start again and I am so glad I did. One of the reasons I wanted to try online is that I travel and it's not convenient to try to find meetings in other cities. Hopefully, I can give it a go.

I may have a good scale tip for you. My fiance bought ours at Costco and it is very accurate (damn thing!). It's not a digital, it's the big white one with the huge dial in the middle.

Good luck. And good for you for going back for a 24th try. I always say that you only fail when you stop trying.

Me! (Sort of.) I joined at a meeting for $12 (free registration) and then signed up with eTools for three months for $29.95. I am a member of TOPS ($50 a year) so that I have an official weigh-in. So... technically I'm going it alone at least in the sense that I am not attending Weight Watchers meetings but I am finding support online and in person -- just not paying a fortune for it.

I was doing calorie counting ( from end of October through Mid-December) and then switched to weight watchers. I'm also doing it alone... kind of. I'm not going to meetings or paying for it online. My mom is also doing it though so that helps, and my hubby keeps me accountable for weigh-in days.

I live out in the country and we only have one car ( dh has to use it to go to work), so it's just not really possible for me to go to meetings anyways.

Hi, I am also doing WW without the meetings. I have all the materials from when I did it several years ago. I will be weighed at the doctors office every 3 months <his idea lol not mine>. I have a scale but they are way off so I have decided not to weigh except for doctor visits. My motivation is the fact that i am 35 and have a medical record of a 70 year old!! I also have 2 young children 12 and 10 and my 10 year old is disabled. I would like to be here a long time to take care of them.

babybear101:carrot:

yeeeess, it gets lonely sometimes, don't it?

I am going to try doing it alone as well due to finances. On Sunday I joined Weight Watchers on-line free trial. I am finding it a little confusing but have been going to websites and/or blogs like this one to help me. It looks like this site might be one that will help me greatly.

fergymom one of the biggest things that has helped me is the fact that i attended a few meetings awhile ago at WW. I bought the dinning guides and all the info. So, I can use it all at home without going to the meetings. I know it is hard to try and figure out. Look on ebay and see if you can get the kit for a low price it will be easier to use.

Tina

To Broke to WW too
 

I have gone to meetings a few times. But I just can't afford to pay for them now. I have all the info I need to get going again, and I have a ww suport friend to email and call. Plus at work we are having a "Biggest Loser" so I have weigh ins that make me accountable. So really I'm just looking for estra suport and friends here.

I am for a while! We are starting WW at work but it doesn't start until Februaury 4th and I needed to get going before that to lose 20 by spring break. I also want to lose another 20 by June 1st. My motivation is to take my son swimming without being embarassed. I don't want him to not get to do things because I can't control what I stuff in my face:)!! He is 11 months old. I started last week I borrowed materials I lost my old ones. I lost 6 lbs. I'm sure most of it was water weight since it is that time of month. But I will take it and it's a good jump start!!

I am doing it too without meetings. I have all the materials I purchased last year when I joined online. Started again Sunday. I was going to join online again, but then I discovered WW groups here on 3fc that I think I can get what I need here. I don't like going to meetings and don't really don't to spend the money for them and I know I can always go back and join WW online again if I need to. My sister who lives in TX goes to meetings and shares things with me.

Trish

I'm doing it on my own as well! No meetings and no WW online either. I do have an aunt who is doing WW as well, and if I have a problem or a question (that I don't ask or look for an answer here!) she helps me out. I just hope that without having something to be accountable for, like the meetings, that I won't stick with it. However, my aunt seems to be quite good about emailing me on weigh in day to see how I'm doing, and I do the same for her on her weigh in day. It seems to be working, as I have lost a bit of weight already, and I am journaling everything I eat like my life depends on it! :)

I'm going it alone, too. Last year, I had two roommates, and we all followed it together. Even though we didn't share our weight, we kept each other on track. We also supported each other a lot. Now I live on m own, and find it harder to keep it up. When I moved, I slipped into all of my old habits and regained 25 of the 30 that I had lost.
I want to be successful in doing it at home, but I'm a but worried that I'll veer off course. I'm a but of a cheater, but financially, I can't join just yet.

Let's just cross our fingers and offer each other support. We can do it if we keep our minds focused!!

I have been splurging on fresh fish on fridays... I keep saying "it is cheaper than going to WW!" Between the cost of the meetings and the time to go, I have just been finding it easier to go it alone... EXCEPT, really, I am not alone, b/c I keep coming here for support and to read everyone else's stories, and get help with questions... And my ticker shows how much I have lost, so if I don't lose... everyone... will... know... :sssh:

Hi there...I am doing this on my own too...well, not really anymore since I found this place and so many wonderful people....I have the info from the first time I did it. I have this thing where I will only let myself be weighed first thing in the morning before I eat anything and since I cant get to a meeting because of work and school in the mornings...decided to just see if I can do it on my own...I think if I run into problems I might rethink that decision and go to an evening meeting but, Im afraid (knowing myself) that I would try to not eat anything that day until I was weighed...I just wish I trusted my scale more...if anyone has any ideas on a really great digital scale that has proved itself over the long haul, I would love to find a better one....Ive tried and returned 3 different brands

me!

I have the Chefmate Digital Nutritional food scale from Target. It looks like metal, but it's just a silver plastic. It works GREAT! It comes with a booklet full of codes for various food items so that you can find out exactly the nutrients of the food you are weighing. (And you can add up to 99 custom foods too.) Or you can use it strictly as a scale to just weigh the food (without entering codes for the nutrition info). It has the other features a person needs like being able to tare and weigh in grams or ounces. It was $39.99.

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I am doing it at home also. I actually went to the center and bought the blue kit with goodies..but then ordered the At home kit also because I decided I wanted the magazine, cookbook etc..and figured I could always put the dining out and food companion books in my car and keep one in my house.

Anyway so far so good. I love it! I just really do not want to go to meetings. So here I am.