In 2005/6 I was a senior in high school. For my senior project, I decided I wanted to "be skinny." I was probably about 5'8" at that time and was about 145 lbs. Through mostly exercise (virtually no dieting), I got down to about 142. In ten months. Clearly my diet was not good. I worked, meaning I had money coming in. I lived with my parents, meaning I didn't have bills. Most of my money went to secret fast food binges.
Throughout college I gained. By 2008, I was in the 170s. On January 2, 2008, I went on the South Beach Diet. It went great for four months. I'm not quite sure how I did it, but in that four months I did not "cheat" once. I did not get fast food. Nor did I drink any soda. I got down to about 150ish. What derailed me here was a string of things. First, I went to In-n-out. I felt like a failure. You know, that whole "well I screwed up for lunch, now the whole day is ruined...the whole week is ruined...the whole month is ruined..." That was late April, early May. Then in May I got my first boyfriend. Along with that comes eating out and the like. And in July I moved to Montreal to study for a year. Fast forward a year and I came back to the states in the 170s again (oh, but the food in Montreal, YUM!).
Since returning from Montreal in May of 2009, I have "set out" to lose weight over and over again. Until July of 2010, all of those attempts did not even last a whole day. I did not have a plan. I pretty much set myself up to fail.
In July I joined Weight Watchers. For the past three years or so my mom has been on it and it has really worked for her. And I am a lot like her, so I decided to give it a shot. My first weigh-in was at 184.4, which was high, but not at all shocking (I'm about 5'9" now so 169 is on the high end of "normal"). In July and August, I lost about 9 lbs. The school started again and I've made it down to 172. That was at the end of November (the day Weight Watchers rolled out their new plan). Since that weigh in over a month ago, I have not been counting points, nor have I gone to a weigh in. I have been eating anything and everything. A major part of that was the fact that finals were exhausting, especially since it was my last semester. Then I had two weeks of vacation, and that leads me to 2011.
I am recommitting myself to Weight Watchers, eager to try out this new PointsPlus! program. I'll be weighing myself daily, but my weekly weigh-ins at WW on Thursdays will be my "official" weigh-ins. I'm also working on The Beck Diet Solution, a cognitive therapy program. And a spree of the moment buy, I'm reading the SuperFoodsRx Diet (not sure if I'll be following it at all, more for the information).
So that's where I've been and that's where I'm at. 2011 isn't the year I "lose the weight." It's the year I change my life. For me.
