From Sharon:

Today I became a Lifetime member of Weight Watchers!
To do that I reached my goal and then maintained it for 6 weeks. An accomplishment in it’s self. When you become a Lifetime member, you no longer pay.
You have to stay within 2 lbs. -/+ of your goal weight to stay free.
The gentleman in the picture is my meeting leader, his name is Donn. Very supportive person.

Congratulations!

My wife, after a year in Weight Watchers, has reached her goal weight. Cheers Nanna J!

Weight loss is a precarious and personal thing.  My wife and I have struggled with it for years. Until recently we’d not had much success in longer term and consistent weight management. A couple of things changed this year.

My wife chose to give Weight Watchers a try.  I was skeptical at first. This was the group where a bunch of folks sit around every week and console each other right?  This was the group that wanted you to buy all of their food products right?  The group where folks are always trying funky things to lose weight. You can see I had some rather biased opinions.

I agreed to put aside my concerns and disbelief for my wife’s sake.  She was ready to make a new commitment for us both to get healthier. I have my own reasons that I need to lose weight, she has hers.  So we embarked on this part of our journey.

Nanna J has lost 50 lbs since that first meeting.  It’s a dramatic change.  She’s been really making it happen.  And she’s bringing me along.

Since we started, I’m down from 284 to 248.  It’s not been easy though.  Constant choices need to be made.  It requires making decisions not so much minute to minute, but planning in advance what we’re going to choose.  It’s also been a decision to more consistently weigh and exercise.

The truth is that we’ve done one other thing – learned to accept that we’re human.  We’ve decided to accept our own failings.  That includes knowing we’ll sometimes have Dairy Queen when there’s no healthy reason to choose that for dessert.  It’s knowing that we’ll skip exercising days that we should.  Being able to allow for those days has been a huge help.

Many people give up when they have a bad day, but you can’t do that.  The best help though is a cheer leader.  There are never enough in a person’s life when that person is struggling with weight management. My choice here has been to cheer my wife on as much as possible, and to follow her path as best I can. I believe it’s helped.

So today I’m sharing this with you because I’m extremely proud of my wife.  She’s always been beautiful to me anyway, but it’s great to see her taking me at my word and finding a way to see herself as beautiful and fulfill her own vision of herself.

Please join me in cheering her on. You can leave a note here, or just click through to her picture above.  She’ll know you care.

Thank you.

Big picture for big news. My wonderful wife has reached her 10% weight loss goal today. She’s really been making an incredible change in her lifestyle this past few months, and you can tell.

She and I started following the Weight Watchers plan a while back. It’s starting to pay off. But not content to just take the pounds off by diet, she encouraged our purchase of the Wii Fit for the family.

The Wii Fit has gone from the occasional play thing to a daily fun time for her. She’s even been bugging me about not letting my Mii get lonely. Ha.

Please join me in cheering this wonderful woman’s success.