Friday, September 14, 2007
Alright, I'll give Weight Watchers a try...
So I joined Weight Watchers on Tuesday September 4th 2007. My cousin and her husband had started a week earlier and I expressed a want to join them. So when they were going to thier next meeting I wanted them to let me know so I could go too. They came over, whisked me away from my house and off we went. I got all registered and weighed. My starting weight: 307.2. I have been overweight my whole life, but never like I am now. I have tried for years to lose weight, everything from Redux/Phen Phen back in like 1994 to bunches of diets, even a personal trainer along with a meal plan. The results: NOTHING. Two years ago I was taken to the hospital with the symptoms of a heart attack. It ended up being a chest infection that had gone into the walls of my heart, thus mimicking a heart attack. At that time they did a cat scan to see what was going on. The doctor told me that they had found a lump. My first thought was breast cancer since cancer run in both my parents sides of the family. But he said that it was in my neck. I made an appointment to see my doctor who then ordered a ultrasound on my neck. Come to find out: I have 9 tumors in my next, thyroid tumors. After years of having my thyroid checked and having it be fine, here I am faced with tumors. The doctor told me that we were going to try to shrink them with medication rather than surgery. So for 2 years now I have been on meds to try to shrink them, its working, slowly but surely. In the meantime, now that things are starting to work, maybe that will afford me the opportunity to lose weight since the doc said that the tumors were preventing that. So here we are 2 years later and I started Weight Watchers. I started counting my points on Wedesday the 5th and from the 5th to the 10th, which was a Monday, the regular nights for my meetings, I lost 4.2 pounds. I was so excited that I almost fell out of my chair. Wow, in less than a week 4.2 pounds??? Holy Cow!!! So it made me so happy to know that it actually worked. It also motivated me to continue with the program. So I will be updating at least weekly with my weight progress maybe some times will be daily. This is just something for me to put it out there so I can have accountability. I am allowed 38 points a day and will try to maintain, so far, so good. I actually find myself having to eat something at night to make up for the still outstanding points. This will be a new path in life for me. It will be quite a change. Possibly a challenge. But I can do this... I have to...
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