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Rejoining WW... new here...
first: post as often as you like.
second: It is good you got rid of those clothes, you now have motivation to lose, if the bigger clothes were there you would just put them on. Third: walk into that meeting with your head held high, YOU ARE DOING A GREAT THING!!! Lee wishing you luck spaceyjane wrote in message . .. Hi tanukiki! I'm so with you and supporting you. I'm sorry for the stress that has been going on at your house, with your husbands accident and all. This is such a frustrating position for us to be in... knowing that we have succeeded in the past, felt the greatness of things fitting better, etc... and then now, I find myself looking in my closets and drawers for something, anything, that I can wear... because I had the crazy notion last time to give away my old clothes that became too big for me, because of course, I knew I'd never need them again! Baaahahaaaahaaaa! Now I'm crying daily because I can't fit comfortably into anything I have. It's horrible, and it has to stop. Already I'm thinking ahead that if I can just drop 5 pounds in the next 3 weeks, I'll feel so much better... and I know for me, the only way to get back on track is to go and commit myself again. Despite my illogical desire to lose weight before I go back so they'll think I was somewhat successful at keeping it off.... as if they really care. I'm hoping that the girl who weighs me just says "we're glad that you came back! welcome! it will be ok..." or the like. right? Of course she will not say "you are so lame. you suck at this." NO! She will be cordial and welcoming, and maybe she'll give me a new card! A new start! A new starting weight! A new 10% goal? ugggh... that one I'd like to keep as before, hahaha. I'm glad you posted tanukiki! We can do this. Even though you can't make it to your favorite Saturday meeting... maybe there will be another one that can fill in it's place? I never seemed to have gotten used to going to one meeting or another... maybe that would have helped me before to stay with it? I just know I need the ability to interact with others in this same fight. People who can speak into where I'm at, and or others where even if they have nothing to speak into it, at least they can commiserate with me ; ) hhaaaahaha! When I tried tracking on my own for the last few weeks (with everyday being a new day to succeed at it, unlike the day before where I failed after lunch!) I just couldn't for the life of me remember by lunch or mid afternoon what my origional plan of the morning was! Drove me furious, and then deeper into a hole of mourning my-selfs loss of self. Ya know? Just kinda this deeper pit of dispair that I will never be able to battle the bulge of. The roll at my waist is making it all the more painful. I feel it sitting there as I sit here, or in the car, etc.... I had managed to lose that last year spring... but... somehow I found it. Join me tanukiki! I'm going to post here once a day... I'm starting my meeting tomorrow night at 5:30... I'll let you know what they say as I walk in with my head hung low "tanukiki" wrote in message news:EHESh.10591$jS1.6845@trndny07... I'm in the same place you are right now. I joined 01/06, lost 25 pounds in 3 1/2 mos, my DH was in a car accident at work (he's a cop), I fell off the WW plan and just half-a$$ed followed it. I was maintaining okay until a couple of months ago and now I've put back on 20 of the 25 I lost. My smaller clothes are too tight and I'm into my intermediate clothes. I'm petrified at the thought of having to get out the bigger clothes. I just can't seem to get back on track and can't seem to ever make the Sat am meeting I enjoyed so much- so much has been going on. I also have been afraid of letting them see how far I've fallen off :-( Good luck with it. I hope I can find my strength to get going again but right now I'm really depressed and not in a good place. This is the first time I've posted in here in a LONG time. Tanukiki "spaceyjane" wrote in message . .. Greetings everyone! I'm new here, but not new to WW. I joined WW in January 06 and was on the plan for about 3-4 months... I'm 5'11" and my starting weight was 213.8 and I got down to 197.2 and then plateaued and just kinda fizzled out amidst a busy summer which included selling a home and buying another and moving, etc. and all that. Anyway, steadily and slowly... the weight has crept back on, to where I am now 211.4 and tomorrow I vow to go to WW and start over. I have "tried" counting/tracking my points over the last few weeks, but I think without the meetings I'm not invested enough, or accountable to anyone other than to my own scale. *rrrgh!* So... I told my husband I am going to a meeting tomorrow night, and I'm going to start again. I looked back at my last Weigh-In card thingy and saw that last time I started, I lost 9.4 lbs total in my first 5 weeks... I would be so thrilled to repeat that again, can I just tell you? Honestly, I'm so sad about this... and embarrassed that I've let this happen... A-gain. You know? Want to hear something so silly? I have been wanting to rejoin WW and go to meetings again, but what has stopped me is that I've wanted to lose some weight first, so I didn't look like a complete retard gaining back all that I had lost! HOW PATHETIC IS THAT? Hysterical logic, I know. Any words of wisdom, and encouragement you could spare would be greatly appriciated. Have any of you had to rejoin and have a do-over? I'd really like to b e successful and meet my long term goal of getting down to 170-175 lbs... at my height that would be perfect! But, you know, it's hard to see that number and think it's attainable? It seems so far away! Also... I hate excercising... I've asked my husband if I could get a treadmill or an elliptical, but the jury is still out.. .probably because he wonders if I'll really use it. I need something though... I swear. Anyway, sorry to be so long-winded... I'm just hoping to find somewhere to fit in. (no pun intended) I've been to the Forums at WW before, but it was a little cliquish for me and I didn't find a home so to speak. Thanks for listening, jane |
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Rejoining WW... new here...
I haven't read the other replies yet, but I know what a lot are saying "BEEN
THERE!" You are so not alone in this!! As a leader I hear similar stories all the time (not to mention the fact that I've soooo been there myself). There is no shame to this, no guilt. Weight loss isn't a moral issue, it's a lifestyle issue. 1- Forget what you did before, you might lose faster, slower. What you did before isn't any indication of how you'll lose this time. 2- If you think you'll use a treadmill, get one, but what about walking outside? It doesn't cost a thing, all you need is comfy shoes. Get a buddy, or a dog, and just get out there, it's spring! When it come to exercise, it's not what you do that matters, but how much you stick to it.. go dancing, do some yard work, go for walks, go for a swim... anything that you LIKE doing.. You're not pathetic, you're human. Get your behind in a meeting, chose a plan and stick to it, if you fall off the plan, jump back on immediately... The only possible failure is quitting... Will~ "spaceyjane" wrote in message . .. Greetings everyone! I'm new here, but not new to WW. I joined WW in January 06 and was on the plan for about 3-4 months... I'm 5'11" and my starting weight was 213.8 and I got down to 197.2 and then plateaued and just kinda fizzled out amidst a busy summer which included selling a home and buying another and moving, etc. and all that. Anyway, steadily and slowly... the weight has crept back on, to where I am now 211.4 and tomorrow I vow to go to WW and start over. I have "tried" counting/tracking my points over the last few weeks, but I think without the meetings I'm not invested enough, or accountable to anyone other than to my own scale. *rrrgh!* So... I told my husband I am going to a meeting tomorrow night, and I'm going to start again. I looked back at my last Weigh-In card thingy and saw that last time I started, I lost 9.4 lbs total in my first 5 weeks... I would be so thrilled to repeat that again, can I just tell you? Honestly, I'm so sad about this... and embarrassed that I've let this happen... A-gain. You know? Want to hear something so silly? I have been wanting to rejoin WW and go to meetings again, but what has stopped me is that I've wanted to lose some weight first, so I didn't look like a complete retard gaining back all that I had lost! HOW PATHETIC IS THAT? Hysterical logic, I know. Any words of wisdom, and encouragement you could spare would be greatly appriciated. Have any of you had to rejoin and have a do-over? I'd really like to be successful and meet my long term goal of getting down to 170-175 lbs... at my height that would be perfect! But, you know, it's hard to see that number and think it's attainable? It seems so far away! Also... I hate excercising... I've asked my husband if I could get a treadmill or an elliptical, but the jury is still out.. .probably because he wonders if I'll really use it. I need something though... I swear. Anyway, sorry to be so long-winded... I'm just hoping to find somewhere to fit in. (no pun intended) I've been to the Forums at WW before, but it was a little cliquish for me and I didn't find a home so to speak. Thanks for listening, jane |
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Rejoining WW... new here...
"tanukiki" wrote in message news:EHESh.10591$jS1.6845@trndny07... I'm in the same place you are right now. I joined 01/06, lost 25 pounds in 3 1/2 mos, my DH was in a car accident at work (he's a cop), I fell off the WW plan and just half-a$$ed followed it. I was maintaining okay until a couple of months ago and now I've put back on 20 of the 25 I lost. My smaller clothes are too tight and I'm into my intermediate clothes. I'm petrified at the thought of having to get out the bigger clothes. I just can't seem to get back on track and can't seem to ever make the Sat am meeting I enjoyed so much- so much has been going on. I also have been afraid of letting them see how far I've fallen off :-( Good luck with it. I hope I can find my strength to get going again but right now I'm really depressed and not in a good place. This is the first time I've posted in here in a LONG time. Tanukiki People at the meeting won't judge you, that's what everybody needs to understand. That's what WW is all about. Nobody thinks "Oh my, did you see how much she gained?" People think "Oh good, she's back!!!" Sitting by yourself feeling guilty isn't gonna help your weight, or your depression. Go in and feel the love! ;o) Will~ |
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Rejoining WW... (thank you all...)
What a wonderful group this is! I'm so relieved to have found you! I am
reminded of my children's favorite book, Oh the Places You'll Go... in that today is my day! You've all already been such an encouragement to me! Thank you all again for your words of wisdom and sharing your knowledge! Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go. You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street. And you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town. It's opener there in the wide open air. Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry. Don't stew. Just go right along. You'll start happening too. OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights. You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don' t Because, sometimes, you won't. I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true and Hang-ups can happen to you. You can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You'll be left in a Lurch. You'll come down from the Lurch with an unpleasant bump. And the chances are, then, that you'll be in a Slump. And when you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done. You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both you elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win? And IF you go in, should you turn left or right... or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite? Or go around back and sneak in from behind? Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind. You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place... ....for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or a No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a sting of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Everyone is just waiting. NO! That's not for you! Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing. With banner flip-flapping, once more you'll ride high! Ready for anything under the sky. Ready because you're that kind of a guy! Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. there are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't. Because, sometimes, they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you. All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot. And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on. But on you will go though the weather be foul On you will go though your enemies prowl On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. On and on you will hike and I know you'll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are. You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3 / 4 percent guaranteed.) KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS! So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way! ---Dr. Seuss |
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Rejoining WW... new here...
Jane you and I are twins! And almost to the pound too! I am the same
height and have the same goal! We even have almost the same story! I joined WW 3 years ago almost to the day. Year one I lost almost all the weight I needed to lose (about 75 pounds). I came to within a 1.2 of goal. I then gained some back. Another year (for a total of two) I farted around with the same 5 or 10 pounds up and down up and down. I was getting bored with the program, was frustrated I was never getting to goal, and I slipped away. In truth I was not giving 100% to the program anymore, but didn't realize it. I was in the 180's when I left I needed 175 to be at goal. SO CLOSE. For the year I was away I spent most of it disgusted with WW. I followed plan pretty closely even though I wasn't going to meetings, but I didn't track and didn't realize how much I was grazing between meals. That year I was away I found I could maintain like a pro and didn't gain weight except for on vacations. BUT when I did gain the weight I couldn't get it off (the grazing). 5 pounds here, 2 pounds there, etc., etc., etc. Well, Let's just say I crept up over that year away to only a few pounds less than where you are starting now! That's a lot of weight to regain! I decided I wanted to go back to WW (the first thing that HAD to happen in my absence - wanting to go back). For awhile I was waffling on the idea and wanted to lose weight before I went back (sound familiar?!?). Finally the light switch went on and I just said I am going and I went. That was 6 weeks ago! Prior to my Easter weekend pigout (I chose to eat the food and live with the consequences - and the scale showed it!! LOL!) I had lost 6.6 pounds. I was 3 pounds away from "One"derland (less than 200 pounds) again. I hope to be there again next week now that I have passed Easter and I get the Easter gain off. So to sum you are not alone...and not only are you not alone, I'm like your twin!!!! We can go it together!!! I'm confident we will both get tehre this time! Just take it one pound at a time! Melissa in NJ |
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Rejoining WW... new here...
Thank heaven for you Melissa! Your story is just what I needed to hear! I
love that you got down to the 170's... that is like a place I don't remember well, I was there in college, and now at age 36 I have totally forgotten what it feels like to be there! I remember well the clothes I used to wear when I was there though... so cute they were. And, shopping off the rack, what a concept that is. I tell you, this is going well already and I haven't even gone to my meeting yet! It's funny how I sabatoged myself over this last year... I mean I didn't even come close to the success you had, and I didn't even make it to my 10% goal... I was just a few pounds away, but somehow just didn't put too much pressure on myself to achieve it, nor did I achieve any "real" goal, want to know why? I didn't set them!! What was up with that? I left all the worksheets blank when it came to goal setting... I left all the area gray and fuzzy, kinda like I didn't want to commit because that way it would make it so that I couldn't fail, even if I failed, you know? I'm glad to find a twin... I shall be with you in this!!! We will triumph together! I loved it when you said "One"derland! That totally was so shocking to me to get there... under the 200 mark... what a concept. Hugs to you and thank you for sharing your story! I needed to hear both the success that you've had, the trial that you had in sticking to the program, as well as the recommitment you've made. Knowing I'm not alone is a huge thing in this.. smiles, j "Melissa in NJ" wrote in message ups.com... Jane you and I are twins! And almost to the pound too! I am the same height and have the same goal! We even have almost the same story! I joined WW 3 years ago almost to the day. Year one I lost almost all the weight I needed to lose (about 75 pounds). I came to within a 1.2 of goal. I then gained some back. Another year (for a total of two) I farted around with the same 5 or 10 pounds up and down up and down. I was getting bored with the program, was frustrated I was never getting to goal, and I slipped away. In truth I was not giving 100% to the program anymore, but didn't realize it. I was in the 180's when I left I needed 175 to be at goal. SO CLOSE. For the year I was away I spent most of it disgusted with WW. I followed plan pretty closely even though I wasn't going to meetings, but I didn't track and didn't realize how much I was grazing between meals. That year I was away I found I could maintain like a pro and didn't gain weight except for on vacations. BUT when I did gain the weight I couldn't get it off (the grazing). 5 pounds here, 2 pounds there, etc., etc., etc. Well, Let's just say I crept up over that year away to only a few pounds less than where you are starting now! That's a lot of weight to regain! I decided I wanted to go back to WW (the first thing that HAD to happen in my absence - wanting to go back). For awhile I was waffling on the idea and wanted to lose weight before I went back (sound familiar?!?). Finally the light switch went on and I just said I am going and I went. That was 6 weeks ago! Prior to my Easter weekend pigout (I chose to eat the food and live with the consequences - and the scale showed it!! LOL!) I had lost 6.6 pounds. I was 3 pounds away from "One"derland (less than 200 pounds) again. I hope to be there again next week now that I have passed Easter and I get the Easter gain off. So to sum you are not alone...and not only are you not alone, I'm like your twin!!!! We can go it together!!! I'm confident we will both get tehre this time! Just take it one pound at a time! Melissa in NJ |
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Rejoining WW... new here...
you know self sabotage is a major player, when you recognize that one you
already have it beat. I mean you know when someone else is pushing food/bad behavior on you and you can resist, or like Michelle, you can take a day off with responsibility for yourself, but when your own head sabotages you and you don't see it that sucks and is very hard to get a handle on, good for both of you, Lee spaceyjane wrote in message . .. Thank heaven for you Melissa! Your story is just what I needed to hear! I love that you got down to the 170's... that is like a place I don't remember well, I was there in college, and now at age 36 I have totally forgotten what it feels like to be there! I remember well the clothes I used to wear when I was there though... so cute they were. And, shopping off the rack, what a concept that is. I tell you, this is going well already and I haven't even gone to my meeting yet! It's funny how I sabatoged myself over this last year... I mean I didn't even come close to the success you had, and I didn't even make it to my 10% goal... I was just a few pounds away, but somehow just didn't put too much pressure on myself to achieve it, nor did I achieve any "real" goal, want to know why? I didn't set them!! What was up with that? I left all the worksheets blank when it came to goal setting... I left all the area gray and fuzzy, kinda like I didn't want to commit because that way it would make it so that I couldn't fail, even if I failed, you know? I'm glad to find a twin... I shall be with you in this!!! We will triumph together! I loved it when you said "One"derland! That totally was so shocking to me to get there... under the 200 mark... what a concept. Hugs to you and thank you for sharing your story! I needed to hear both the success that you've had, the trial that you had in sticking to the program, as well as the recommitment you've made. Knowing I'm not alone is a huge thing in this.. smiles, j "Melissa in NJ" wrote in message ups.com... Jane you and I are twins! And almost to the pound too! I am the same height and have the same goal! We even have almost the same story! I joined WW 3 years ago almost to the day. Year one I lost almost all the weight I needed to lose (about 75 pounds). I came to within a 1.2 of goal. I then gained some back. Another year (for a total of two) I farted around with the same 5 or 10 pounds up and down up and down. I was getting bored with the program, was frustrated I was never getting to goal, and I slipped away. In truth I was not giving 100% to the program anymore, but didn't realize it. I was in the 180's when I left I needed 175 to be at goal. SO CLOSE. For the year I was away I spent most of it disgusted with WW. I followed plan pretty closely even though I wasn't going to meetings, but I didn't track and didn't realize how much I was grazing between meals. That year I was away I found I could maintain like a pro and didn't gain weight except for on vacations. BUT when I did gain the weight I couldn't get it off (the grazing). 5 pounds here, 2 pounds there, etc., etc., etc. Well, Let's just say I crept up over that year away to only a few pounds less than where you are starting now! That's a lot of weight to regain! I decided I wanted to go back to WW (the first thing that HAD to happen in my absence - wanting to go back). For awhile I was waffling on the idea and wanted to lose weight before I went back (sound familiar?!?). Finally the light switch went on and I just said I am going and I went. That was 6 weeks ago! Prior to my Easter weekend pigout (I chose to eat the food and live with the consequences - and the scale showed it!! LOL!) I had lost 6.6 pounds. I was 3 pounds away from "One"derland (less than 200 pounds) again. I hope to be there again next week now that I have passed Easter and I get the Easter gain off. So to sum you are not alone...and not only are you not alone, I'm like your twin!!!! We can go it together!!! I'm confident we will both get tehre this time! Just take it one pound at a time! Melissa in NJ |
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