Found an old WW card - long

In going thru drawers, frantically looking for some jewelry that I thought I
knew for sure where it was, I located an old WW card. Spring 1999.

I thought I had destroyed all these awful little things with their blatant
numbers, but somehow this one escaped.

When I looked at the stats, I was a little surprised. My starting weight
was 219, not the 205 I have in my stats here. So, from my heaviest to now,
I have actually lost 70 lbs - the size of a 10 year old.

But the big news was that I showed it to my husband - someone I had hidden
my weight from (if you can say that hiding the numbers means actually hiding
the weight?) for about 15 to 20 years. This was a big milestone for me as I
have finally acknowledged just how bad it got and that I now am starting to
feel in control of it. Somehow actually showing the numbers means more of a
commitment to me - not sure why - just is. It's like I'm saying that was
the "old" me and this is the "new" me. I am fearful of those type of
statements as from what I understand, maintenance is the true challenge.
But you know what, I'm going for it. I am going to start to regard myself
as I stand now as my "true" self and commit to the maintenance regime.

I still want to lose 10 ish lbs, but I think my real goal is not to creep
up. (And now that my husband knows the real stats, I think I'm gonna have
quite a watchdog. Good or bad??- we'll see. I tend to be a contrariest and
don't take well to criticism. However, responding to his helpful remarks
(if they happen) by putting on weight is so self-destructive, that maybe
even I won't be so stupid.

I come to the group now to get motivation from some of you old timers who
have kept your weight off. Any tips are greatly , greatly appreciated.
Brenda W
205?/140/149 March 23, 2003

Brenda,

Congrats on having done even better than you realized!

The best advice I can give you about maintenance is to experiment, but log
what you eat and what you weigh over a couple of months until you have been
able to determine what works. For me, it turns out that what works is a few
more carbs but the same calories I was at when I finally got to my lowest
weight.

The other advice is that if you ever gain five pounds, go right back onto
the diet and take them off.

Five pounds can be done in a couple of weeks or a month. More than that can
often seem overwhelming, especially after you've been dieting forever and
are sick of it. For me, when I gained more than five pounds a couple years
ago, (as a result of a medication change), I said "to heck with it." and
ended up regaining everything I'd lost. So now I'm being more careful not
to let that happen..

-- Jenny

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"Brenda W" wrote in message
news:Jirub.425081$6C4.39246@pd7tw1no...
In going thru drawers, frantically looking for some jewelry that I thought
I
knew for sure where it was, I located an old WW card. Spring 1999.

I thought I had destroyed all these awful little things with their blatant
numbers, but somehow this one escaped.

When I looked at the stats, I was a little surprised. My starting weight
was 219, not the 205 I have in my stats here. So, from my heaviest to
now,
I have actually lost 70 lbs - the size of a 10 year old.

But the big news was that I showed it to my husband - someone I had hidden
my weight from (if you can say that hiding the numbers means actually
hiding
the weight?) for about 15 to 20 years. This was a big milestone for me as
I
have finally acknowledged just how bad it got and that I now am starting
to
feel in control of it. Somehow actually showing the numbers means more of
a
commitment to me - not sure why - just is. It's like I'm saying that was
the "old" me and this is the "new" me. I am fearful of those type of
statements as from what I understand, maintenance is the true challenge.
But you know what, I'm going for it. I am going to start to regard myself
as I stand now as my "true" self and commit to the maintenance regime.

I still want to lose 10 ish lbs, but I think my real goal is not to creep
up. (And now that my husband knows the real stats, I think I'm gonna have
quite a watchdog. Good or bad??- we'll see. I tend to be a contrariest
and
don't take well to criticism. However, responding to his helpful remarks
(if they happen) by putting on weight is so self-destructive, that maybe
even I won't be so stupid.

I come to the group now to get motivation from some of you old timers who
have kept your weight off. Any tips are greatly , greatly appreciated.
Brenda W
205?/140/149 March 23, 2003

"Brenda W" wrote in message
news:Jirub.425081$6C4.39246@pd7tw1no...
In going thru drawers, frantically looking for some jewelry that I
thought I knew for sure where it was, I located an old WW card.
Spring 1999.

I thought I had destroyed all these awful little things with their
blatant numbers, but somehow this one escaped.

When I looked at the stats, I was a little surprised. My starting
weight was 219, not the 205 I have in my stats here.


The same thing happened with me when I got a new scale and it was 10 lbs
heavier than my old one which popped me up from 210 to 220 as starting
weight eeeekkkkk!!!!


So, from my
heaviest to now, I have actually lost 70 lbs - the size of a 10 year
old.
That is a great way to look at it

But the big news was that I showed it to my husband - someone I had
hidden my weight from (if you can say that hiding the numbers means
actually hiding the weight?) for about 15 to 20 years. This was a
big milestone for me as I have finally acknowledged just how bad it
got and that I now am starting to feel in control of it.


I did the same thing with DH, I "confessed" just how heavy I had gotten.

--
Peace,
Lori
220/143/135
LC since 1/17/03
Nov Challenge 145/140
http://community.webshots.com/album/99840928pOTLCx

"Jenny" wrote in message
...
Brenda,

Congrats on having done even better than you realized!

The best advice I can give you about maintenance is to experiment, but log
what you eat and what you weigh over a couple of months until you have
been
able to determine what works. For me, it turns out that what works is a
few
more carbs but the same calories I was at when I finally got to my lowest
weight.

The other advice is that if you ever gain five pounds, go right back onto
the diet and take them off.

Five pounds can be done in a couple of weeks or a month. More than that
can
often seem overwhelming, especially after you've been dieting forever and
are sick of it. For me, when I gained more than five pounds a couple years
ago, (as a result of a medication change), I said "to heck with it." and
ended up regaining everything I'd lost. So now I'm being more careful not
to let that happen..

-- Jenny

Thanks Jenny - I think that 5 lb mark is an important one and will heed
your words of advice. I can see the importance of keeping it in a small
manageable amount as the idea of having to take off a large amount of pounds
would be really daunting to have to do again.
Brenda

"Lorelei" wrote in message
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I did the same thing with DH, I "confessed" just how heavy I had gotten.
Peace,
Lori
220/143/135
LC since 1/17/03
Nov Challenge 145/140
http://community.webshots.com/album/99840928pOTLCx

Lori - yeah, my husband has been wanting to go canoeing these past few
years and I have been saying no thanks. The real reason is I was afraid
that I would sink my side of the canoe and he would really know how much
weight I had put on.
Brenda W