DW. It's a mixed bag but DW does almost all of the shopping & cooking. Never stopped buying junk food which she seemed to think was essential food group for the kids.

But as just one example- she made me gallons and gallons of zero point soup. And brown rice and grilled chicken that I weighed and measured before mixing it into the soup. I've had that for dinner 100's of times.

Even though the house was never purged of bad choices, the good choices were always right where I needed them.

Greatest impact on weight loss - WW meetings of the past, which focused more on healthy well-balanced food plans, and how to stick with them. And especially at-work meetings where we were a small group of work friends and acquaintances who supported each other throughout the work day and work week.

Greatest impact on weight maintenance - WW message boards, especially the maintenance board, which is where I actually learned from wise people who shared their experience about how maintenance can be done - something I never really got at any WW meetings. We've moved to another location now, and I'm there with them.

In real life DH is supportive but also is part of my downfalls at times, but he does support the effort and participates and always tells me how good the food is etc. and although he is not a strict WW'er...he has seen benefits from my adopting the lifestyle.

My real "buddy" is the boards of the past, this board and Connect. Knowing you are not alone in this effort had a big impact on getting to goal. I did WW multiple times at meetings and just never got the type of support/knowledge/enthusiasm as I have in the "social media" realm. I assume it is due to the volume of people you can interface with versus a meeting environment. And I do not participate in social media otherwise. I also was not a huge participant on WW social media, but I consumed the information regularly...tossed in my thoughts when I thought I could help others.

TOL, who, by the way, married me 52 years ago today.

Well since most of my weight loss was done while I was only an Online WW member. It was this group in its previous form. You were my meeting leaders, mentors and examples of how to do this lifestyle. When life got too busy to listen to come to my daily meeting, I lost my way.

Well our youngest son gave me "The Talk" at Thanksgiving 2012, that got me to join WW in Jan 2013. His words were my "Aha Moment" that changed how I looked at what I was doing to myself and to my family at 376 pounds!

DW then told me to try WW "one more time" after I told her I was scared to go through with WL surgery. She said "You know it works." We both had been on WW and lost weight in the past. She lost a 100# in 1970s and was a WW ML. But we both had gained and lost weight our whole life because we treated it as being ON a diet and never really changed our Lifestyle. DW made WW Lifetime goal in 2013 and keeps me aware that there really is NO FINISH LINE!

I go to my weekly WW meeting religiously. I have the same WW staff and ML from day one in Jan 2013. They are my touchstone to keep going no matter what. The regulars in the WW meeting group have seen me shrink -137# so now I am inspiring to some there.

(And this very AUGUST group of GoaDies.)

DW is supportive, and this group is hugely important.

Happy anniversary Al!! I'm still a rookie at 33 years with my DW.

Definitely my partner. She does all the shopping, food prep, cooking, even dishes most of the time. Let me say that I was fully prepared to do all of it in the event she didn't want to but without a doubt, her willingness to do all of the above made my part a lot easier. In fact, we joke now that all I had to do was bang my fork. The food magically appeared and I ate it. What was so hard about that???

I'm fortunate to say there are plenty of also-rans, but that's for another LTL...

Hey give TOL a peck for me too!!! Congrats.