A Weight Watcher Lifetime Achiever--for the third time

What does that mean?  Not my third lifetime but rather I’ve fallen off the Weight Watcher

‘wagon’ and gone back to my old ways of eating and not exercising, with the resulting weight gain —twice before.

No, I don’t work for Weight Watchers.  Rather I’ve paid them to be a part of the program

more than once—my fault, not theirs.  If I had kept my weight down, I would have been a free member for all these years.  I do think it’s one of the healthiest lifestyles and it works well for my husband, David & I—when we work it. 

I would never say keeping my weight within a normal level is easy—I know better, I’m living

proof that you can slide backwards down that slippery slope of being lazy and eating what we

Americans like to eat—sugar, salt and my personal favorite, ‘carbs’.

My most recent Weight Watcher adventure began last January 2010 when David & I joined together.  We both lost 30 lbs (each) and now we’re working to maintain.  We’ve made our success by being accountable to each other and being supportive.  (Do you know how hard it was last January to tell my husband how much I weighed?)  But I did it and he supported me.  We still attend our weekly Weight Watcher meeting every Saturday to be inspired and keep our focus. 

So do I think choosing a healthy lifestyle is easy?  Not.  Do I like exercising (that’s a topic for another blog post)?  I do believe for many of us—choosing a healthy lifestyle is a choice we can make.  Not the easiest choice, but a valuable choice.