I Joined Weight Watchers

Back in October, I thought about joining Weight Watchers.  However, I was afraid of failure because of the upcoming holidays.  So, I decided to wait until the the holidays were over.  Now that the holidays are over, as of two days ago, I am happy to say that I joined Weight Watchers last night.  I went to the meeting, weighed in, got all the information and am scared to death exited to start.  

With this blog being my weight loss journey, I am going to be open and honest about my triumphs and struggles.  The first struggle is my weigh in.  So, here goes.  My starting weight is......235.2.  YIKES!!! 

I can't believe I weigh that much.  If you remember back in my post in November, I weighed 226.  So, I did gain quite a bit of weight during the holidays.  Oh well, I am just going to get out there and do this and get this weight off!  

Weight Watchers goes by a daily PointsPlus system.  They give you a target number to stay under and every food has a PointPlus assigned to it.  Therefore, instead of counting calories, fat grams, carbs, etc., you counts points and stay under your given target.  My PointsPlus Target at this time is 34.  So, as long as I stay under 34 points, I should lose weight.  To me, that is a huge number.  I should be able to stay under that number.  No, I WILL stay under that number.  Of course, this number goes down as your weight goes down.  

I think what I will do, instead of boring you with what I eat everyday, is I will post a weekly recap of the points that I ate each day.  I feel this will also give me some feedback each week on why I lost or gained weight.

If you are a Weight Watchers member, I would love to hear from you.