Weight Watchers

As my dad (and only reader) has pointed out, I haven’t added anything to my blog in a while.  As many of you may be able to appreciate I am very busy.  Did I mention very busy. 

Today I am choosing to write about Weight Watchers.  I am in it.  I love it.  It is working for me.

I joined right after Christmas, when my weight was very near to 190.  I would like to mention that I was never super skinny, nor will I ever be.  However, when my first daughter was born, I weighed 180.  So the fact that my non pregnant body weighed more than my 9 month pregnant body, was really getting to me.  It had taken a while because I consoled myself with, 22 then, 30 now.  I decided that excuse was not going to fly, anymore.

Are you there readers?  It’s me, Katrina?

I found out that I can get reimbursed through my medical insurance.  So I went for it.   It was not cheap.  I paid $120 for 13 weeks of meetings, and online access.  I would get $50 back once I completed the 13 weeks, as long as I attended 11 meetings.

I love the iPhone app.  I would not be able to do it at all without the iPhone app.   The iPhone app gives you access to everything, calculator, food database, recipe database, restaurant information.  It also tracks your points, food, activity, and healthy checks. Perfect!!

I was also attending the weekly meetings.  I really like the little brochure that they give you each week, and my leader is cool.

What is Weight Watchers? –For those of you who don’t know.

Weight watchers assigns foods a point value.  There is a formula, it’s complicated.  Then they assign you a point value, based on your height, and weight.  Your “target points”, my target is 29.  This means I should eat 29 points per day.  They also provide you with weekly flex points, everyone gets 49.  You can spread them out, or go crazy one day and eat them all.  That would still be considered “on Plan.”  I wouldn’t recommend eating all 49 points the night before you weigh in.   I am not going to go into any more detail here, check out their website, http://www.weightwatchers.com/ or find a meeting near you.

The reason that I love it, it puts everything into perspective.  I get 29 points to eat, a cheese Coney is 9.  ONE CHEESE CONEY!!.   I live in Cincinnati, HELLOOO SKYLINE!!!.  (I mean GOODBYEEE SKYLINE L ).  Don’t get me wrong, I still eat cheese coneys, but I no longer have any delusions about them “not being that bad.”  I will take off half the cheese, and pull out the hot dog.  (Believe me, I find that just as ridiculous as you do.)

Little by little, you find ways to improve.  Before you know it, you are cooking turkey burgers, drinking water with everything, eating fruit for breakfast, and mixing cauliflower into your mashed potatoes. 

This has been working for me.  I have lost 12 pounds in 13 weeks.  (there were a few bad weeks, with extra coneys involved).  I would recommend this to anyone who wants to lose weight.  At least the online tools, to put your food, and activity into perspective.  As a friend of mine said, “I’m going to wait to see if Katrina can stick to it.  If she can do it, I’m sure I can do it.”  I would have been upset, but it’s true.  I can’t diet, I hate to diet.  I love food.  It makes me happy.  But I feel great, and the weight is coming off.

Maybe one day I won’t want to eat coneys anymore.  I hope that day never comes.