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After a friend joined Weight Watchers we began to walk a few days a week
November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I am an active forty three year old female that over the years began to see my weight creep up. Each year I would look at myself and say that the weight I was at was okay for a woman my age because I was getting older and wasn’t expected to have the body of a nineteen year old.
Then I got a reality check. I went to the doctor and heard that I need to make some changes. For a while I was in denial and continued enjoy every sweet and salty thing I could get my teeth into.
I guess I never saw the real me when I looked in the mirror until one day I was shopping with my daughter and discovered that I couldn’t fit into a size sixteen anymore and was going to have to go to the plus size department.
I am only five foot three inches and much too short to be wearing a size eighteen or larger. I went home that day and began my weight lose journey.
At first I tried to cut back on the sweets. I lost a few pounds. Then I joined Weight Watchers and began to see some changes in my body. I began to see signs of the girl I once was. After a friend joined Weight Watchers we began to walk a few days a week.
Before I knew it I was purchasing a treadmill and was walking three or more miles a day and even running at times. I can’t believe how good I felt.
I lost forty three pounds and went from needing a size 18 to buying a size 8. That was two years ago and I have let ten pounds grab a hold of me again.
I have had a great deal of stress in my life in the past six months and have the tendency to eat during stressful times. But I am hopeful this time.
I am back to Weight Watchers and I am continuing my walking routine and recording everything I eat so I have to be accountable otherwise it is too easy to go back to old habits.
Whenever I feel the urge to indulge, I find an activity to keep me busy, even if it is cleaning the bathroom. Those ten pounds will be gone before you know it.