My wife and I have been using the Weight Watchers system to lose weight since January, and I have to admit it has been successful despite my own actions. But yesterday my wife cried “Uncle”, the meeting style support is just not her bag. So we are going off the reservation, embarking on it alone with just each other for support, or will we? Most of the folks in the group are friends, and we will see them at Church multiple times a week, so perhaps encouragement won’t be a factor.

The e-tools provided by Weight Watchers although interesting have never been a real factor in adherence, more a tool supposed to help you see why what happened on the scales happened. But if that were the only way I knew what happened then I would be delusional. I was there, I know I ate the Arby’s BLT and a Beef n chedder, and that’s more than I should have. But I have a better attitude now toward making these incidents occur further apart than they used to. The old me paid little to no attention to the frequency of these binges. Now I am more thoughtful, I want to succeed and lose weight, so I actually think about what I’m ordering. I realize the only way to successfully lose weight is to exercise and watch the portions and type of foods I am eating.

So where am I at, we’ll I am adjusting to my new scales from the Weight Watchers ones. Since they appear to be about 5 lbs. lighter than the WW ones I will subtract 5 lbs from my starting weight and call it good. As long as the numbers are decreasing thats a good thing, I didn’t gain it all in a 6 month period, and I can’t get rid of it in one 6 month period. But I might be able to do so in 4, so I will keep after it.

I pray my wife will also continue to be mindful, I want to grow old with her in a good way, where we can go do things and be comfortable and healthy. She is a tremendous gift from God and seeing my Dad go through a painful illness with my mother makes me appreciate the days I have with her now even more. Pray for us to be stronger and continue the walk toward a more godly healthy lifestyle, weight control and godliness that’s another topic, I’ll hit that one in the future.

Oh, and to date I believe I have lost somewhere around 57 lbs. I’ll try and check in here weekly since I won’t be doing so at the group, and I’ll pocket the $80 I used to send to Weight Watchers.