Restarting Weight Watchers

Today is my 6th day on my rebooted Weight Watchers program. I had a lot of success with WW back around 2000, but I took a "break" and the weight creeped back on. I considered myself as continuously on WW, even though I stopped going to meetings 2 years ago. I just wasn't seeing any progress. And this is because I wasn't on program. Also, because of Points Plus--it was just too big of a change for me. Points work great, especially when you have a lot of weight to lose. Points Plus is better for those people wanting to get rid of their last 10 pounds. So now I'm back on the old Points. I'm trying to get some old Points books from ebay--I wish I hadn't recycled mine. I was so keen to switch to the new program, hoping it would make it interesting again, something I could commit to. But the commitment had to come from inside.

I feel committed now. Last weekend I finally got tired of being controlled by sugar cravings. I wanted sugar all the time, and it was never enough. So I turned to WW. The 3rd day was the roughest. My stomach was gnawing itself in hunger, and I was drooling over my husband's ice cream. I had a bit of a setback today: 2 slices of pizza, 2 chocolate jingle bells, some pumpkin dip and graham crackers, nachos with 7-layer dip. But there were successes too: I ate less overall than I would have if the party had been last week, and I had a lot of veggies and fruit. I estimate that today I had 52 points, which is 17 over my target. That puts me 13 over for the week. Well, I've had worse weeks. :)

On Monday I'll weigh in and report on my loss.