Weigh-in: Year 3, Week 45
My wife and I made some tough decisions this week. We have to truly cut expenses and anything that is not truly necessary. This meant the farmer’s co-op will make it’s last delivery next Tuesday. We had been throwing some food away because it was too much and we’ve been going out too much also.
After some further discussion, we realized that we had not been getting much out of the Weight-Watchers program, but not to fault the program, only our commitment to it. Since we have not mde any progress in the last several months, we decided that money could best be used to pay off some of our other debts. Therefore, the last Tuesday meeting before Memorial Day weekend will be our last meeting for a while.
We know that it will be very difficult to keep losing without the program, but we have the materials, the knowledge, and the experience of having lost weight. We also know that we have to cut out the restaurant trips (breakfast, lunch and dinner). This means we’ll be cooking at home, and we definitely cook healthier than we consume eating out. In this case, we may actually do better at weight loss by cutting back all of our spending.
So what does this mean for the weekly weigh-ins? Well, that’s where our Wii Fit will come in. It is the most trust-worthy scale we have in the house. Plus, it may encourage us to work out more on it.
Though it seems we’re losing so much by dropping Weight-Watchers, I think the pluses outweigh the minuses right now. We’ll really miss our friends there, but we’ll keep in touch as much as possible and get back to the meetings when we get our lives back in order.
Starting weight: 319.0 lb
Previous weight: 272.4 lb (two weeks ago)
Current weight: 275.0 lb
Current loss/gain: +2.6 lb
Total loss/gain: -44.0 lb
Cross-posted to FatBloggers.net
April 21st, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Boy, it is tough having to give things up. You can keep on losing though. Just stick to the principles you know and you will be fine.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:32 am
You can become healthier without WW, Like you said you have the materials and the knowledge.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:55 am
Thanks, guys, for the encouragement. We’ll see what the coming months bring.
April 25th, 2009 at 8:43 am
I know we can do lose w/o the meetings. When I first started WW, it was at work. When the meetings had discontinued due to not having the minimum number of members required to have the meetings at work, I continued on my own and had lost over 30 lbs by the time I joined a regular WW meeting location near home. So I have experience that it is possible. Just need to do it!