My final January weigh in was another 1.5 pounds, bringing the month to 9.5 pounds. That is the best month I've had in... Holy Cow, 14 years? I might have pulled it off once with Atkins induction or maybe South Beach Phase 1...but if I did, it was the end of the weight loss. Both of those plans initially gave me weight loss, but it immediately ricocheted because I couldn't stick to the plan, and the beginning weight loss was simply water.
When I did Weight Watchers back in 1998, I lost 50 pounds in something like 5-6 months. It was actually easy. Then I had some health issues arise - I had a nervous breakdown, and while mending from that, the doctor discovered a large tumor, and I had to have a hysterectomy. It wrapped up with an unhealthy depression that led to gaining back all my lost weight, plus some. I never got my mojo back. Most of it was psychological - mental barriers. Some of it was physical - PCOS with insulin resistance. So after all these years, it has come back to Weight Watchers, with a great month.
I still have to be careful with sugar and simple carbs, due to the insulin resistance, but it's easy to incorporate that in to the Weight Watchers plan. The hardest part for me is to not make my grain/starch the main portion of my meal. I'm not a vegetarian. I'm a pescatarian, but I only eat fish once or twice a week. The rest of the time, I eat vegetarian meals which can easily be carby. I still have to keep that in mind, but the WW plan is flexible enough to make it work for anybody. If I can do this - after 14 years of failed weight loss - anybody can. I'm looking forward to seeing more of the same results in February!
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