Re: Weight Watchers Question

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Dear Donna,

You have to attend at least 1 meeting to start weight-watchers, and you do

have to go weight in, and its a pay as you go kind of thing.

However, the meetings are NOT onerous or heavy, nor do you have to participate

a lot. They DO provide support that I have found very helpful. I am one who

hates being asked to explain myself or my feelings in public, so I can

understand anticipating the meetings being awful, but I'd say your friend would

do well to

get off it about that and try the meetings for 16 weeks and see what happens.

No one will try to drag any secrets out of him or analyze him.

The meetings are only 1/2 hour - I do mine 8am Saturday morning, and then go

have a hearty breakfast and burn some flex points!

I started in January, and I've lost 82 pounds so far, ~150 to go! Yes, I am

a big fellow.

I think Weight Watchers is a really solid program, and worth the expense. Even

more, your friend is worth the expense and the time the meetings take.

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Weight Watchers Question

>

> Hi Everyone!

>

> DH has expressed an interest in trying to get in shape and lose

> some weight

> -- (YAY!) I mentioned weight watchers to him and the success many

> of my

> on-line and off-line friends and co-workers have had with it - and

> he seems

> interested -- the only thing is he doesn't want to attend meetings

> - is

> there a way to do WW w/out attending meetings? DH is not a

> meeting kind of

> guy....

>

> And, if there is a way to do it w/out meetings - how does it work?

>

> TIA!!

>

> Donna

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[Guest guest]

Thanks, ! I'll pass the info on! CONGRATS on all your work & success

so far. My DH is a pretty big guy, too. I also hope to be able to motivate

him somewhat to workout. But at least he is considering these things!

Donna

>

>Dear Donna,

>

>You have to attend at least 1 meeting to start weight-watchers, and you do

>have to go weight in, and its a pay as you go kind of thing.

>

>

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Dear Donna,

On the workout front, I actually started working out first, then a year

later started Weight Watchers. I think at the very beginning (estimated,

didn't have a scale big enough at the time) I weighed 450. I started Body

For Life by Bill , bought his book, and a $99 dumbbell bench, and a

small set of dumbbells - 1lb - 20 lb. I started with the 1 lbs. (I know it

seems wimpy, but at the time I could barely move any more) and worked my way

up from there. When I need new sizes of dumbbell, I bought them, now up to

60lbs after 2 years. And now I need a personal trainer to help me off a

plateau I've been on.

Bill has an eating plan which was fine except for one piece of

advice you should never ever give to a guy my size: Bill said that one

day a week, eat whatever you want. Well, I can eat a whole week's worth

of food in one day, so that doesn't work for me. The entire 1st year

I'd lose weight during the week, and then gain it back on that one day.

Sad, but true.

Weight watchers helped me have a practical limit, but I can do essentially

what I think Bill had in mind by saving all my weight watcher flexpoints

for Saturday. But its not " eat all you want, no rules " . And I'm happier

for it. I absolutely do not feel deprived in any way. I feel enriched,

and I enjoy the food I eat much more.

The first 12 weeks of the Body for Life program was pure hell for me, but

there is a section of Bills book that speaks the truth about the personal

commitment you have to make, and I guess I was finally ready to hear it.

The 2nd 12 weeks was better, but still very hard. But by the 3rd round of

12 weeks, I was amazed at how much better I could move, how much more energy

I had. And my lung capacity dramatically improved. The dance aerobics I

was doing no longer sufficed, and I started kickboxing (at our very own

's suggestion!). I thought I was going to die the first few times,

but I impressed the hell out of my daughter who was predicting a disaster

the first time I went kickboxing, but wound up being wow'ed at her old man's

tenacity and the fact that I was still standing at the end of the class

which she said kicked her butt too.

The real thing you should let your DH know is that if DH make the required

commitment to just do it 3 days a week for 20 min(aerobics) and 3 days for

45 min (resistance), there is a miracle built into the body just waiting to

happen.

But you have to work for it. My body has taught me this about miracles in

general - you most often have to work hard to get them to happen.

Good Luck! I'll be praying for DH to get inspired to go for the miracle.

Re: Weight Watchers Question

Thanks, ! I'll pass the info on! CONGRATS on all your work & success

so far. My DH is a pretty big guy, too. I also hope to be able to motivate

him somewhat to workout. But at least he is considering these things!

Donna

>

>Dear Donna,

>

>You have to attend at least 1 meeting to start weight-watchers, and you do

>have to go weight in, and its a pay as you go kind of thing.

>

>

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Hi ,

Thank you so much for your inspiring post! I am going to save it and let DH

read it --- thanks for the prayers, too, they really help.

Donna

>But you have to work for it. My body has taught me this about miracles in

>general - you most often have to work hard to get them to happen.

>

>Good Luck! I'll be praying for DH to get inspired to go for the miracle.

>

>

>

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