After much procrastination, I am on the wagon again.  I was doing well until March. I guess I just let my self control slip too much. I figured I would be able to break the rules here and there but I was wrong. I need to stick to the plan or I pretty much fail every time. It sucks to realize that I am an all-or-nothing kind of guy, but it was obvious.  They were right when they told me that it was a life change, not just a short term thing. I don’t think that I’ll attend the meetings, but I can still follow the plan.

Weight Watchers is not an RPG, but it can be approached like one. I am not sure if I fully agree with his article (at one point your Weight Watchers Points are equated to hit points then another time he refers to working out as gaining mana). Reading the article did make me realize that I have been off of the program for around 5-6 months now. In that time I have gained back around seven pounds. I started in early January at 263 lbs, then by mid-February I was at 232 and down to a smaller belt. Little by little, I let the program slip.

At the beginning I was doing the program with my friends Matt and Cory, but once we stopped attending the meetings, we didn’t even weigh in together.  We both kind of lost focus. Matt started it. It is his fault. Not really, but I’ll blame him for my bad choice. We started the competition together, and I seemed to be blasting him away. So when he was in New York and Washington DC, not losing weight, I decided to be sportsmanlike and tapered off the diet as well.

It wasn’t as if I was going to Jack in the Box and Pizza Hut every day but I wasn’t watching my points like I should have been. Overall, I am still eating better than I had before but I gained weight again. I didn’t return to my studly 263 but seven pounds is quite a bit of weight when I was doing so well.

So I decided I am back on Weight Watchers full time again.  I am going to avoid the “cheat days” we had during our first run-through of Weight Watchers, at least for the first couple weeks. I weighed in at 239, today, the 18th of August.  I am hoping to be below 220 before Thanksgiving. I am going to do my weigh-ins on Monday mornings, and I will not weigh in for two weeks, just so I gain that incentive for the first couple weeks.  See how big of a drop I can achieve.