The Glade 4.0

As some will remember, Oonagh and I were hugely successful doing WeightWatchers a few years ago. Between the two of us, we lost around 100 pounds and we were both feeling great.

...then we got pregnant, well she did anyway.

For the first 5 months of her pregnancy, I remained mostly 'on-plan' and maintained at no more than 2 lbs above my goal weight. Problem was, I was getting careless to a point. I didn't stick to it so rigidly and began allowing myself to eat more points than I should have and I slowly gained the weight back. As I got further and further from my goal weight, I just about lost all that I have learned from WW and was back to my pre-WW eating habits: no regard for points/calories, eating even if I wasn't necessarily hungry just because the food was there, ordering things at restaurants knowing how many points it is that I would have NEVER eaten when on-plan.

About four years ago, I weighed 227 lbs. This was the impetus for starting WW. In about 2 years, with their help, I got all the way down to 170 lbs and was thrilled and I felt better. Now 2 more years beyond that, I have risen back up to almost 200 lbs. I feel the weight, I feel sicker to my stomach more often and I just get depressed that I have fallen off of the wagon when I was essentially a poster child for WW. (Really, they did an interview and put an ad in the paper with my picture all over it)

I am turning that around starting today. We may find a way to get back to the meetings (they really do help), but regardless, I will be tracking points and taking care with what I eat again. I have put half of what I lost back on and I don't want the other half back too. This ends today and with the help of a good wife and the validation of posters here, I will get back to the leaner, meaner, sexier me. With heart disease running in my family, I don't need obesity as another risk factor for me.

I hope to be posting regularly in this thread updates on my weight loss. If I do not, I give permission to any who so choose, to chastise me for not sticking to it and losing my motivation once again.

I refuse to disappoint myself, my wife, or those here who so care to follow in my endeavor. I need to do this so I can be happy with myself in this aspect of my life.

Here's to a healthier me!!!

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Good luck man! You can do it (again) for yourself and your family

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Do it man.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

Right on, more power to ya.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

more of you to hug!

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Good for you!

Good luck!

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Hey Foamy! Mind if I latch on to your thread and goal. I just started WW today...I'm at 208 (heaviest I've ever been) and want to drop to 180. I plan to weigh on Sundays...I'll post results here.

No problem! Maybe it'll keep me motivated as a reminder if I stray from being on-plan.

/Joe Swanson
LET'S DO THIS!!!

(Family Guy reference for those who missed it.)

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Ok, I have only been back on plan for about a week now, but I present my first update.

I weighed myself this morning (I make sure that every home weigh-in is at the same time in the morning and after I have...ahem...taken a Screeling)

I am down 3 pounds from my initial weigh-in at the start of my endeavor. As far as WW is concerned, a big loss is usually expected for the first week as your body is shocked by the change of diet. This is reassuring to me as I know that I have begun to rework my body's expectation of what food it will be getting.

So 3 lbs for the first week and it should level off to anywhere from 0.2 lbs to 2.4 lbs a week should i continue on-plan. During my previous successful run on WW, those were the losses I posted each week, so this shouldn't be out of the ordinary.

To any mod: May I suggest this be moved to the Health forum? Figured it would be better there as I will be using this as a journal as the weeks pass by. THANKS!

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Glad to hear it.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

My wife has mandated my weigh in day be moved to Tuesday (to match hers), so no official update today. I know you all are disappointed, but I don't live with you.

You kinda do live with us...we are here all the time :p

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Woohoo glad to hear the progress is starting!

I had a weak weekend. Over a friend's house for gamenight and ate just a bit too much. I guess my lack of willpower so soon is somewhat to be expected.

I am slightly disappointed in myself, but as the week begins, have started a new entry in my points book for keeping track this week.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Lost 5.2 in my first week (+2 days), but as Foamy noted, that's expected at first. Time to buckle down and own it now.

This weeks extra special challenge: business travel (hard to buy the 6" Subway sandwich, when the corp card will get me pretty much anything I want).

Only lost a quarter pound this week. Given the situation over the last few days, I'll call that a tactical victory.

Down 2.4 pounds this week (7.8 since I started). Pretty good considering my wife and I spent $200 on her birthday dinner Friday...and didn't have leftovers. Lent starts tomorrow which always involves additional foodwise sacrifice for me (and video games this year), but better motivation. We'll see how it goes.

Foamy....Represent!

Having a hard time. No forward progress to report.

Whatever willpower I had when I was actively onplan with WW, I seem to have lost.

Been really weak over the past two weeks. I don't know what it is that will keep me held to my weightloss goals this time around.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Lost 1.4 pounds. Down to 199.4. Did a terrible job of tracking points this week, but still kept myself from grazing too much.

Foamy...if friendly competetion with me doesn't motivate you, then you are dead inside. DEAD I say.

Seriously just get back on the horse and start again. This time it will take hold.

Sounds like a good reason. Going to give it another go and see what happens.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

The best advice I can give you Foamy is to treat each weight loss experience as a separate journey. What new habit do you want to learn and integrate this week? Just one is all you need this week.

Another good way to stay on track is to work for the organization.

Down .8 lbs this week to a total of 10 lbs even. I thought for sure I would gain (didn't track, my dad brought a bunch of weight gain friendly food), but I'll take it.

Well, I have given up trying to do this on my own. I have proven to myself that I am, for some strange reason, incapable of maintaining the willpower to eat as I did on Weight Watchers without the weekly weigh-ins and meetings.

Oonagh and I are going back to Weight Watchers tonight. Hopefully, this will turn us around and get us firmly back on track to our weight loss goals. This is our best hope and I am ready to go at this full-on once again.

Wish us luck.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.