Week: 10 Pounds Lost: 21.0 This week I achieved a second major goal: I lost 10% of my starting weight. During our Weight Watchers meeting, my husband and I were both applauded and presented with a 10% WW keychain as a reward. Then the leader asked us what we had done differently in order to have been able to achieve this goal. We both answered the usual kinds of things...writing down what we eat each day, making better choices, exercising more. I felt a little disappointed - like I should have been able to give the group a really... More »

Week: 9 Pounds Lost: 17.8 Ouch! I'm Up! Well folks, the inevitable has finally happened: last week I gained weight. Mind you, it was only 0.6 lbs, but boy, was it a blow! I'd been cruising along for two months in a sanctimonious haze of success. I'd lost weight every single week, I was feeling great. I hadn't even had a hint of a plateau. Then, on Saturday, there it was: a gain. To add insult to injury, my husband was down over 4 pounds and sailed past his 10% target! *Sigh* So, I did what any self-respecting weight-loser... More »

Week: 7 Pounds Lost: 18.4 YES! I exceeded my own expectations this week: I lost 2.2 pounds on my second week of vacation, and weighed in under 200 pounds! At this point in my journey - my first major milestone - I thought it would be fun to tally up some interesting facts: 1. I now weigh just 3 pounds more (give or take) than I did when I got married. Hmmm...maybe I'll go try on the dress again; just for fun... 2. Incidentally, that's also the same weight I was when I got pregnant the first time. 3.... More »

Week: 7 Pounds Lost: 16.4 In Pursuit of Onederland Ahhh...the elusive goal...to weigh less than 200 pounds...to be in ONEderland.  I had a very mixed reaction to my-weigh in this week.  I was pleased, on the one hand, to have lost 1.4 pounds, given that I've been on vacation and not exactly following my program.  I was disappointed, on the other hand, to still weigh 201 pounds!  I was really hoping that this would be my week to get into the "ones".  Sigh.  'Twas not to be. I've found it to be a very delicate balancing act - and... More »

Week: 6Pounds Lost: about 15 (my regular Saturday morning Weight Watchers meeting was cancelled due to the Canada Day weekend so I didn’t get to weigh in this week) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… …who’s the fairest of them all?  Me? Why thank you!  I have to admit it – at week six, for the first time in a long while, I feel good about my body.  Everywhere I go, I feel more confident and secure than I did six weeks ago.  But there is a potential downside to this newfound confidence.  In the end, although I know I’ve lost... More »