Update on WW
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IMLTHO, it's about time!!!!
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I’ve tried explaining this here and not sure how successful I’ve been. I came for the weight loss and stayed for the weight loss. When I started the number of returning members who had regained everything, frequently with extra, was alarming. I did not want to be in that group. One thing that the retainers seemed to have in common was that they quit the meetings. So I didn’t. The meeting was close home. It was at 11 on Sunday morning. It was easy to go.
I had been going for about 4-5 years when I was really put to the test. I had that long string of passing weigh ins. It wasn’t so much that I was connected to the people other than the people who worked there because the meeting members had rolled over so many times. And fact was, as a guy at WW, and a guy who was succeeding, I hadn’t exactly felt the love from the other members. That was not true about the workers though. They liked having someone they could point to who had made it.
But the day came when it was the last day of the month to weight in, and I wasn’t sure I would make the goal + 2 lbs Lifetime line. Should I go and eat crow or just fade away? Well, I went. As an active proponent of WW is “a set of things to do” I couldn’t just duck out on a WI. The result was GW + 2 lbs right on the nose. My string of Lifetime free meetings was preserved. That day I started tracking for real. That’s opposed to faking it like I had been doing.
Think I’m saying I felt connected to the process. The people not so much.1 -
Should I go and eat crow or just fade away?
George - where those two road diverged in the wood, you went left and I went right. That, as Robert Frost would say, made all the difference. I spent the next five and a half years regaining and so far another two years and eight months re-losing, while you kept on keeping on.0
