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The Big Picture

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When I started on this journey with Weight Watchers on 3/2/17, I was determined to not make the same mistakes I made the other times. You see, I am a repeat offender. Each time I've done this before, I've let things get in my way and cause me to quit. These have included getting to the point where I thought I could go it alone and keep losing, letting the negativity of others drag me down to the point where I quit, setting unrealistic deadlines, trying to "improve" the plan by eating less than my allotted points, and getting so focused on details that I lose sight of what I've accomplished overall. It is my intention to expand on all of these in future posts, but for this one I want to focus on the last one. The old saying about not being able to see the forest for the trees is true. Oftentimes we get discouraged when we have a lower loss than we expected, or worse yet, a gain. Sometimes we obsess over the number on the scale to the point that we fail t
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Starting Over

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The past few years have been pretty rough for me. I had a wife who didn't want anything to do with me and wouldn't talk to me and tell me why. I thought that if I could lose weight it may change her attitude toward me. We had done Weight Watchers together years ago with great success, but each time she became upset when I started losing faster than she was (I followed the plan more closely) and tried to make me feel guilty about it. When she saw that I was still staying on track and losing (I lost about 80 lbs that time), she started accusing me of only going to Weight Watchers to look at the leader. Not wanting to cause any further stress in our marriage, I quit going even though the accusation was absurd. I tried to follow the plan on my own, but soon my weight started creeping back up. After we got a new Weight Watchers leader in our area, we tried again a couple of times, but not for as long and without as good of results. My weight got completely out of control
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