My years of trying to practice “Moderation Management” with my food have sadly failed. But thanks to my sister’s polite perseverance, I signed up with the new Weight Watchers (WW) program on 26 JAN 2019 to try one more thing…and I am amazed at how well it is working! I’m so excited that I’ve shed 10 lbs, and feel very motivated to keep this up, one day at a time, one pound at a time, until I am back in my healthiest body.
Years ago, when I was a young teenager, I went to WW to shed more than a few pounds. It was a very negative experience for me at the time. I was fat-shamed, humiliated and often experienced physical and verbal abuse at home for gaining weight. In sum, when my sister told me how much she was enjoying it, I shuddered with PTSD and said, “Never. I will never go back there!”
Being someone who steadfastly remains open minded and skeptical (truly dialectic), I was eventually persuaded to give WW another chance. So this is just a quick note to share my enthusiasm, hope and joy for this first 10 lbs. It’s fun that WW has dozens of incentives built into their program. These charms pictured above that are given for weight loss are sweet. But there are even more incentives with the WW new app.
The WW app makes it super easy to develop an advanced mindfulness of what we are eating. We can track all of our food intake, scan the Universal Product Code (UPC) of nearly every packaged food out there, track exercise and make it meaningful with lots of rewards along the way.
Plus, scanning the UPC is a powerful education and exercise in mindfulness concerning food. For example, knowing that one granola has 9 points for 1/3 cup, and another granola has 4 points, helps me make a more loving choice when I think of having some granola as part of my breakfast.
I also enjoy the live WW meetings. The topics are relevant, well thought out and are enriched with useful collateral graphics and discussions. I usually attend two meetings a week, and get weighed once a week. I look forward to attending. The WW meetings are inspiring, uplifting and often full of laughter and some tears.
I feel liberated – I can eat any food in the world and still shed weight – as long as I stay within my daily points structure. It’s subtle, it’s simple and it’s even fun to work this gig.
If you are interested in trying WW, use my invitation link below to sign up and we’ll both get a free month added to our plans. I can’t wait to be on the WW journey with you!
https://www.weightwatchers.com/us/checkout/iaf/?iaftoken=20A6A0ED00
To your best life ever,
Lisa Wessan
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The Lighter Side of Transformation 
Well done! Do you have to purchase these milestones or do you automatically get them?
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You get them automatically at the WW workshops. It’s a very sweet validation and memory charm.
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