Is there anything more terrifying to a professional dieter than the thought of taking a break? There goes my progress. I’ve failed yet again. Here comes the binge! These are all thoughts that will flash through your brain as you contemplate taking a break from weight loss for a while.
WW has helped THOUSANDS of people lose weight AND keep it off.Perhaps you’re not destined to be one of the thousands of people, and that’s okay! If the program affects you negatively, simply quit and move on. It may not be for you, but there’s something else out there for you – I guarantee it.That’s where I found myself in January, despite 10 on-again, off-again years with WW and hundreds of pounds lost (combining all the loses after pregnancy). Here are my reasons for moving on from the program:
I’m sitting on the better side of a 65 pound weight loss, and things are not as “better” as I thought they’d be at this point. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy and proud. I set goals, and I smashed them. I’ve lost SIXTY-FIVE pounds…I mean, I can barely lift that dumbbell off the rack at the gym, but I used to lug that weight around with me everywhere I went.
I get asked a lot about whether or not I tracked macros to achieve my 60 pounds (and counting!) weight loss. It’s definitely a hot, trendy way to lose weight right now, at least if you go by what seems like everyone is doing on Instagram these days.
All these years later, I’ve come to realize how weight loss really works. Instead of swinging like a monkey from one diet tree to the next, I decided it was time to take my destiny into my own hands. There had to be a better way. There is a better way.
I wasn’t fit as a kid, a teenager, or in my twenties even though I should have been. After all, I was supposedly in my “prime.” Don’t get me wrong, I always wanted to be in shape, but understanding how to get in shape was a different story. I never knew quite what to do, and honestly I never had the drive to figure it out. That is, until I had kids.
Dear Goal Weight, we need to talk..I have chased after you, and your promises of happiness, peace, and self-acceptance, my whole life. You have always teased and tempted me, and all I ever wanted was you. If only I could reach you, I’d have my happy ever after. I succumbed to your call, crashing into pieces with every failed attempt to attain you. You constantly denied my ticket to happiness by remaining unavailable, so I had no choice but to remain broken, miserable, and helpless.
Up to this point, I thought dieting was supposed to be miserable. I thought my life had to go on hold while I struggled to lose weight until I reached my goal, because only then could I eat foods I actually enjoyed again. Turns out I had been wrong about dieting all my life.
What’s the right diet for me? Trust me when I say, you have a much higher chance of success if you pick a diet that fits into your current lifestyle and includes the foods you enjoy.
When you’re a newbie dieter, as we all are at one point (or many points!), you might think weight loss is strictly about calories in vs calories out. While that is weight loss in a nutshell, there’s so much more to it! Now that I’m a dieting veteran, having lost 60 pounds myself, I know weight loss like the back of my less chubby hand.
