After a little bit of umming and ahhhing, yesterday I joined Weight Watchers and their new ProPoints Plan.

I’ve finally reached the bottom of the curve – my life and weight seems to yo yo every four years or so.  And I am fed up with being fat and unhappy (on the inside).
About 6 years ago, I lost close to 60kg.  I have not put it all back on, but enough of it has snuck up and reattached itself that I am pissed off with myself.  It’s not like this is hard – put less in your gob and work your body more!!
I had spent quite a bit of time last year wondering why this wasn’t working for me – I exercise a bit (not as much as I would like), I eat reasonably healthy – but again not as good as I would like.  However my main problems are not eating breakfast and allowing my metabolism to basically hibernate.  And alcohol – all those empty calories.

So here we go – no booze for 6 weeks and the ProPoints plan!!

I have been reading some tweets from girls that I know, both in real life and only online, about how they were excited and motivated to start the year anew.  They gave me the motivation to do something for myself.
One of my best friends, and a woman that I admire and constantly look up to, has made a stunning change to herself over the last year – and I want to do the same.  I know that when I need it, I will have the support that I require.

Whilst I was a bit annoyed at Weight Watchers for their “Join for $1” advertising … considering it is not $1 – it is actually $89.95 Australian dollars (you just get the $1 as a joining fee when you sign up for 3 months online) … I got over that pretty quickly when no less than 12 others said they had decided to do the same thing and we all joined a private Facebook support group.
I also spent some time looking through the ProPoints Plan information and was buoyed up by how easy it appeared to be.
I thought the proof would be in the pudding (excuse the pun) at the end of the day and it was.  By bedtime, I was not hungry, I still had 3 points left to consume and the only reason I took a trip to the markets was for some fresh chicken.  I have also arrived at work today with lunch!!

I have downloaded a Weight Watchers application to my iPhone (what can’t I do on my baby?!) and the recording of points is super easy.
The app tells me that 60 mins of scuba diving is worth 18 points – which is almost an entire day of eating!!

I have set a small, but reasonable and achievable, goal of 5%.  I am happy with this.

I am also going to use the measurements tracking.
They have obviously spent a lot of time and thought on this points/food/weight tracker and as I am paying the fees, I may as well get the most out of it as I can.
And as the screen itself tells me ….“You may find that your measurements change even when your weight doesn’t. That can be very motivating.”

My 2010 summary post asked what the theme of this year would be – and that theme was ME. So here we go!