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I went to my first Weight Watchers meeting today. In their book it does say that scientific studies showed it to help with insulin resistance. So that’s good. That was one thing I was really worried about. I didn’t want to get there and find out that I couldn’t be low glycemic too. But I can!

There’s the core plan and flex points plan. The core plan is low glycemic, the flex plan allows you to choose. But you can still choose what to eat. So you can be low glycemic if you want, or spring to go out. I bought the extra book about dining out. I eat out a lot for lunch and dinner and I want to stick to my points.

I think people that join Weight Watchers thinking just doing the points or being at the meetings will make them lose weight, will be disappointed. You have to do the work yourself. You have to plan out your meals or at least have an idea so you don’t blow all your points early on and have none left for the rest of the day.

I tried losing weight myself. I went to a nutritionist, a dietician, tried sparkpeople.com, dietwatch.com, ediets.com. I tried diets out of books. But on the third day, or second week when you don’t want to do it, you have nothing good to eat and you’re starved, out the diet goes. No one will know except you and if you don’t care, then who cares!

So that’s why I joined Weight Watchers and am going to weekly meetings. It’s the accountability. People know. The people at work even know now. And it was very inspiring to see people get their 5 pound stars. Two people got 50 medals. One guy lost 5 more pounds to make it 132 pounds he’s lost. The leader lost 80 pounds 30 years ago and kept it off for 30 years! I’m really glad I went.

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After reading about the writer that lost so much weight with Weight Watchers and the support of the 100+ pounds forum, I decided to join. This will be the third time I’ve tried it.

The first time I tried it the leader seemed bored, not enthused, and not much of a leader. I think I only went twice. Then I tried it again at my job. They had the Weight Watchers at work thing. The problem with this is that the meetings would get rescheduled because someone booked the conference room and didn’t mark it down, or the leader couldn’t make it (a 40 minute drive from the nearest city), or I had a meeting, etc. It just didn’t work.

This time it seems like fate is involved. The place in the city with all the Weight Watchers meetings is 3 minutes from where I work! I can go to meetings over my lunch hour. And if I get the month pass thing, I can go to as many meetings as I need. Like AA except for eating!

So here’s to trying Weight Watchers again. First meeting is tomorrow over lunch.

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I can’t believe it’s been since July that I’ve posted. And in that time the dieting has been abandoned.

I got fed up with being self employed so I looked for a job and found one. Started new job. Dealt with family issues. And now it’s the new year and I’m not happy with my fatness. Seriously. I want to wear the cool clothes! I hate fat clothes as they either make you look like your parent’s couch or a big tropical fish.

The real reason I got inspired is the weight loss article I read on cnn.com. Her weight loss blog is here. I am so inspired. I haven’t read the whole blog yet, but I want to. I don’t weigh as much as she did, I’m 240 or there abouts (refuse to weigh) so I’ve got that going for me.

I’m going to go read how she got started as I think there’s some internal cleansing I need to do first, like she did.

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