Weight Watchers
I just spoke to my friend who had joined WW March '04. She had gained a lot of weight over the years because of health problems. She had a surgery about 5 years ago but before that is when she gained most of her weight. The doctors had put her on soooo many prescriptions including steroids. So she needed another surgery but the doctors wouldn't do it until she lost some weight. She has been my best friend for 17 years, when she was pregnant 10 years ago, I had gained weight along with her so we went on Phen-Fen together. But after that, which we had both gained the weight back when it was taken off the shelves, everytime she would gain weight, I would lose my weight. A few years ago, I joined LA Weight Loss. I lost 25 lbs. but quickly gained it back and a helluva lot more. I am up 80 lbs from my LA Weight loss plateau when I gave up. I quit waaaay too easy.
Anyway, she had joined WW to help her lose weight so she can have the other surgery. I joined WW with her in May but quickly cheated and once again quit. I have not gone back to a meeting since the end of May. But she had her surgery about a month ago after she lost 119 lbs! She has lost another 14 lbs since then! But not on purpose, she is actually trying to gain some of the weight back but can't! Can you f*****g believe that!! She can't stop losing weight and I can't stop gaining weight! Apparently she was on ice chips for a week while in the hospital and lost 10 lbs in a week and lost the other 4 within the last month since she's been home.
At her daughter's birthday party two months ago she looked great! The party was at a f*****g gymnastics complex, she was running around doing cartwheels, where as I was barely catching my breath while watching my nephews. I love her to death but I felt so alienated. Which she has never purposely made me feel that way, I know I was totally doing that on my own. Her husband and his family are really skinny too. They also did not purposely make me feel alienated, but this fat, ugly shy girl standing next to all of these skinny people put me in a very depressed mood. And I am still depressed. Just now I couldn't catch my breath just walking and talking to her on the phone.
So I decided to go back to WW. I can't afford it so I can't really go back to the meetings, but I do have a lot of the pamplets, points and so on here. So I will be doing it on my own. We'll see how long I last with WW this time.
Anyway, she had joined WW to help her lose weight so she can have the other surgery. I joined WW with her in May but quickly cheated and once again quit. I have not gone back to a meeting since the end of May. But she had her surgery about a month ago after she lost 119 lbs! She has lost another 14 lbs since then! But not on purpose, she is actually trying to gain some of the weight back but can't! Can you f*****g believe that!! She can't stop losing weight and I can't stop gaining weight! Apparently she was on ice chips for a week while in the hospital and lost 10 lbs in a week and lost the other 4 within the last month since she's been home.
At her daughter's birthday party two months ago she looked great! The party was at a f*****g gymnastics complex, she was running around doing cartwheels, where as I was barely catching my breath while watching my nephews. I love her to death but I felt so alienated. Which she has never purposely made me feel that way, I know I was totally doing that on my own. Her husband and his family are really skinny too. They also did not purposely make me feel alienated, but this fat, ugly shy girl standing next to all of these skinny people put me in a very depressed mood. And I am still depressed. Just now I couldn't catch my breath just walking and talking to her on the phone.
So I decided to go back to WW. I can't afford it so I can't really go back to the meetings, but I do have a lot of the pamplets, points and so on here. So I will be doing it on my own. We'll see how long I last with WW this time.