I’m Hungry!

I’m HUNGRY. All the time. I love food. All of it. Good for you. Bad for you. Fine dining. Fine diners. I tend to like food on the sweet side. I love fried, fatty, flavorful, fun food. I once considered becoming a chef as a profession after taking a series of classes at the California Culinary Academy.

I’ve been many weights in my life. I was a fat child, a skinny teenager, a skinny then fat college student, a fat then skinny woman in my 20’s, a skinny then fat woman in my 30’s, and a fat and now skinny woman in my 40’s. I’ve had a life-long battle with food, weight gain and loss…and I’m HOPING that this time, this time I’ve won the war.

How? Weight Watchers. I joined Weight Watchers Online (I’m not a “Kumbaya” type of gal, so meetings were not in the cards for me) in September 2007 and started my husband and I on a new journey to a healthy lifestyle. We’ve tried diets in the past. I tried diet pills (Meridia), but once the pills stopped, the weight came back on. We were on the Atkins diet for over a year, and while we both lost weight, we couldn’t sustain the lifestyle. My husband gained all his weight back, and I gained back 10 of the 30 pounds I lost.

Today, 6 months into our new lifestyle, I’m down 30 pounds (down a whopping 50 pounds total from my highest weight), and my husband is down over 40 pounds. I’ve reached my original weight goal, but I’m thinking about losing an additional 5 pounds, and my husband has about 12 pounds to lose to reach his goal weight. We’ve really enjoyed Weight Watchers, and we both feel like we’ve never been healthier than we are today.

This blog will chronicle where we’ve been, how we got here, what we like, what challenges we face, and what has worked for us. I hope it helps you on your own journey!