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I did it my first year of college and lost around 10 lbs, it did give me some good eating habits for later in life. I think that what really made it useful for me was that each week some stranger was going to weight me then write it down.
FI and I did WW for a few months and we did see results. My mother lost like 80 pounds on it. She swears by WW.
I lost 50 lbs with WW, I gained it back because I got lazy, but I can't wait to join again for the new year. It really works great, but I just lost motivation.
Yup. Went from 185 to 135 using WW. After that I ended up maitaining around 140-145 ish comfortably. You have to stick with your new habits for life if you want to stay at a low weight, but Weight Watchers is a great tool to get you started. Its really helpful at teaching portion control, which was one of my main problems as well.
Wow - Ok, thanks for the feedback guys! I will definately be joining but I just dont want to get my hopes up for huge losses!
I had huge success with weight watchers. You can read about my "journey" (and see before and after pictures) in this thread!
@MandaMack: Your before and after pictures inspired me to join!!!
I had no success with WW but I lost 25 lbs. with sparkpeople.com and Spark People is a FREE program!
I've lost 6.2lbs in 3 weeks. And not just that, I'm THRILLED with the way I feel and I actually enjoy my Saturday morning group - it's fun and I feel like I owe it to those people to be successful.
Granted this week will have been a bust with a death in the family and all the traveling/family related food activities, but my goal is to lose 10lbs total by the wedding (20 March) and continue on WW and hopefully be down 50 or so by the time my future hubby comes back from Afghanistan in the spring of 2012.
I haven't personally used WW, but my mom has. She went from 180 to 140 in about four months, and has kept it off for seven years now! For her, the biggest thing was portion control, and the points system gave her a relatively easy way to keep track of that. :)
@bluespurrs: Thanks for the tip - i have tried similar online tools before, but I think i need the meetings to keep me motivated!
I am a big WW fan! When I originally did the program, I lost around 35 lbs. I stopped following the program and went back into my routine of making bad choices, so I gained it back. I am just starting up again and I am really excited for it! I'm getting married in June 2012 and I want to lose quite a bit of weight by then. I love the eTools--it makes tracking much easier! They just switched the program from what it was. It's nice, because fruits and veggies are 0 points. It used to be just veggies, so when I was choosing between a 2 poing piece of fruit or a 2 point cookie, it was a no-brainer.
Good luck!
@Miss Sydney: Awww, thanks! I'm glad to have been a source of inspiration for you! My greatest advice for you would be never discount the value of resistance training. Yeah, cardio burns fat right then, but building muscle makes your body a fat burning machine - it totally kicks your metabolism into high gear! I think that's why I'm having trouble maintaining (I keep losing weight beyond where I was supposed to) my metabolism is through the roof!
ETA: the more you embrace the plan the more it'll work for you - for me the best way to do that was a complete diet overhaul. I literally changed everything that I ate to help reach their good health guidelines and stay on my points. If you're resistant to the changes that the plan will require of you, you won't be as successful. Good luck! And if you have any questions along the way, feel free to PM me, I've become quite fanatical about it, lol (and I started just like you did, with a poll on weddingbee!)
I had success with it, so much so that I just signed back up today to get to my new goal for the wedding by June.
Ohh how I love bragging about my mom's success! She did the HCG diet, and it was very good for her! http://www.hcgdiet.com/ She lost 115 pounds in LESS than a year!!
I lost weight on WW and met my goal... for about 5 minutes. I couldn't stick to a point counting lifestyle.
Smartest thing I ever did was go to a nutritionist. Not only can you be sure you're getting sound medically relevant advice, but he/she will work with you and the foods you like to create a plan you can stick with. It will be based on your lifestyle, your activities, the food you like. Seriously - I can't believe all the time and money I wasted on other stuff before she taught me how to not eat like a dummy. I've kept at or close to my goal for a few years now following a nutritionist's guidelines.
I met my 10% goal. That meant 33 pounds of success :D
(that was over 2 years ago, going on 3 actually..)
I gained back about 12-15. And now have only 5lbs left to lose to be back where I was when I lost it ALL. Hooray!
It's definitely a lifestyle change and it teaches you how to eat the things you already love in a healthier, portion controlled way.
I had success. Once you learn the principals its easy to apply and if you stick to the guidelines there's no way not to lose weight. Like a previous poster stated if you go back to bad habits the weight creeps back up, which is why I'm now at my heaviest. The only reason I haven't rejoined is because I know I'm unmotivated and don't want to waste money going when I know I won't stick to it.
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I understand many women have been posting about their WW success - and I have also been hearing about it in "real-life" too! I am just curious as those who havent had success wouldnt usually be as vocal. I dont want to go into WW with unreasonable expectations that I will acheive great things!
Just FYI, I currently weigh 170 lbs and I want to get down to 140 lbs for my wedding in September 2011. I have been doing fitness boot camp for 1.5 months now (3 x 1 hour sessions a week and then i go for 2 runs a week also) and im not losing any weight so diet is clearly the issue, from reading the WW website and other info, it seems I am just choosing inefficient foods and my portions are too large!
Im not sure if my poll options are good or not?