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Just Curious...When did you Begin?

Jimb376mfp
Jimb376mfp Posts: 6,236 Member
edited December 2024 in Social Groups
As Newbies begin in the New Year, I remember joining WW (again after many times) I joined in 2013. This time I did not quit. Actually learned to LTL! My first year I do not have a resolution to lose weight.

When was your NEW YEAR that began to LTL?


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  • lowbar31
    lowbar31 Posts: 7,154 Member
    I first joined WW in 1993. I made goal that year and then went back to my old lifestyle and gained the weight back in a year or two. I bounced in and out for the next 20 years. In 2013 I came back and got back down to goal and adopted the lifestyle. I've been at goal since then. I finally realized there is no finish line and you never graduate from the program.
  • imastar2
    imastar2 Posts: 6,470 Member
    edited December 2018
    11/26/10 was my start date. I struggled for almost 9 months then had sleep studies done and started on my bi/pap machine for severe sleep apnea. Lousy the vivacious appetite and lost 100 lbs in a little over a year. Then been yo yoing eversince.
    Tired of russett and ready for a change and get started being serious.

    SW 400.8
    CW 344.4 🙁+1.2 lbs
    1st 335.0 Goal
    2nd 300.0 Goal
    Final GW 185.0

    56.4 lbs Total Loss
  • gadgetgirlIL
    gadgetgirlIL Posts: 1,381 Member
    June 2011 I started WW at Work. I made LT March 2012 and have stayed at or below goal since that time. Having support this time around made all the difference over all my previous weight loss/weight regain journeys.
  • 88olds
    88olds Posts: 4,554 Member
    Well, I started weight loss 12/24/94 at 285 lbs. Lost on my own to about 215lbs. Joined WW in 2006 after more than a decade of not closing the deal. Made GW and Lifetime in the fall of 2006 at 184 lbs. I dove right into the WW KoolAid and never got out until we moved to Florida in the beginning of 2017.

    All this time never blew the WW GW + 2lbs. But I did do a WW WI a few years ago at 186lbs right on the nose.

  • Jerdtrmndone
    Jerdtrmndone Posts: 6,111 Member
    Prior to 2005 I lost 30lbs. and plateaued In 2005 joined WW lost 80lbs. and keep most of off until SP's came about now gained 60 lbs. and struggling.
  • cakeman21k
    cakeman21k Posts: 6,842 Member
    Joined 11/1/2006 1 week after a heart attack ultimatly lost 50 pounds in fits and starts. never made it to Goal, but never stopped going to WW either. Still planning for this to be the year!
  • Al_Howard
    Al_Howard Posts: 9,283 Member
    Re-started 9/2/2011 for real. Been working on it since. Got below 230 almost 5 yrs. ago, then slid back to the 245 range. Planning for a better year in 2019.
  • minimyzeme
    minimyzeme Posts: 2,708 Member
    I joined in 2014. I haven't left yet...
  • Al_Howard
    Al_Howard Posts: 9,283 Member
    minimyzeme wrote: »
    I joined in 2014. I haven't left yet...

    "yet"????????????????????
  • podkey
    podkey Posts: 5,261 Member
    I joined WW in the fall of 2006 I reached "goal" end of May 2008 and lifetime 6 weeks later. I joined the LTL boards somewhere along the way before reaching goal I think. I am still working at it.
  • linmueller
    linmueller Posts: 1,354 Member
    I think I joined WW in May of '12.
  • minimyzeme
    minimyzeme Posts: 2,708 Member
    Al_Howard wrote: »
    minimyzeme wrote: »
    I joined in 2014. I haven't left yet...

    "yet"????????????????????

    Each day is a new decision. I think we've all known or read about the people who swear their lost weight is "gone forever", but somehow they found it again. No such proclamation from me. I don't want to eat my words... B)
  • steve0mania
    steve0mania Posts: 3,255 Member
    It was 10 years ago that I joined WW! Over the holidays we bought a Wii for the kids, and when I stepped on the balance board, it called me "obese." That was a big eye-opener for me because I knew I was overweight, but I didn't realize how overweight I was!

    I signed up for an at-work WW meeting, and attended the first one on January 6, 2009.

    So, yeah, WW/losing weight was a New Year's resolution for me.



    On a related note, I don't typically make New Year's resolutions, but this year I again made a three-point resolution:

    1) Get my weight back down to my personal target (though I am currently under my official WW goal). For the first time in 9.5 years, I measured a weight over my WW goal (though, to be fair, I was away on vacation and not using my normal home scale; nevertheless, if I wasn't *really* overweight, I was pretty darn close!).

    2) Start running again (via restarting the Couch-to-5K program). I've been having a lot of nagging pains and things each time I restart running. As such, I thought I'd force myself to take it slow this time.

    3) Cut down on my alcohol intake to Shabbat-only. This will probably be a big challenge, as alcohol has become a real habit for me.

    If I can do these three things, I think I'd be making huge progress on my health!
  • minimyzeme
    minimyzeme Posts: 2,708 Member
    steve0mania wrote: »
    I signed up for an at-work WW meeting, and attended the first one on January 6, 2009.

    So, yeah, WW/losing weight was a New Year's resolution for me.

    Hats off, Steve! Congratulations on making a healthier you a priority for a decade now! I'd say "good luck", but we know luck really has nothing to do with it.

    Here's to a healthy new year, though!
  • myallforjcbill
    myallforjcbill Posts: 5,876 Member
    Started for the first time back in 2000 and lost 100 lbs. I eventually regained it and did it again in 2007-8. I restarted after a heart procedure in 2012 and was doing well till last year when depression and emotional eating blessed me with 50lbs. Back at it now though the holidays left me limping a bit.
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