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Name's JJ, 212lbs, 5'2", plus sized all my life.

Long term Goal-reach 140 lbs, or a BMI of about 25.

Short Term Goal- lose 20 lbs in 10 weeks.

Restarted Weightwatchers today.  Pretty Optimistic so far.

I hope this works as some inspiration for some people

Check out my weight loss website:

Hi there.  I'm new to this community and am so excited to have found a group like this!  I've done weight watchers in the past and have been successful but, as soon as I go back to school I find that I can't stick with it.  Most of my friends are skinny boys who can eat all they want and never gain weight.  Since I live with two guys and spend so much time with others, I wind up eating like they do and that definitely doesn't work for me!  I'm also a music major which means lots of late nights in the practice room and eating out all of the time.  I love to cook but, I wind up going out and eating junk more often than not.  And finally, drinking.  It's hard to avoid in college and I'm not really willing to give it up.  
When I attended weight watchers meetings, I noticed that all of the above problems did not really exist for the other people there because they were mostly 40+ women with 9 to 5 jobs and families to feed.  

Anyway, it's a new year and I'm sick and tired of being a fatty.  My older sister just passed away and I've spent the past two weeks eating nothing but chocolate and other sweets that people have sent to our house.  Then, two days ago I went to the doctor and got a real slap in the face.  I weigh more than I ever thought I would weigh in my life and I really need to do something about it...If not just for my health, for the fact that I'm training to become a classical singer and there is an increasing focus on thin opera singers these days.

So, I'm hoping to keep a food diary on livejournal and keep checking up on here to keep myself going!

My current weight is 182 and I'm 5'4"
My long term goal is to be around 135 or 140 lbs. 
I'd like to lose 10 lbs in the next month. 

I started WW about a year ago and in the first 4-5 months, lost 30 lbs pretty dang quickly. But then I had a slight gain of 5lbs of the 30 lost back and am going on my 12th month of WW and am still about a 29 lb lost. I still have 16 lbs to go to goal. Has anyone else done really awesome on the program and then just started to drop off??? I mean, my life has changed significantly since I lost the original 30lbs--I went through a breakup, graduated college and moved home to my parents house where I was cooking for my whole family, moved BACK here to school for my teaching credential where I live with my boyfriend (the one I recently broke up with) and am not just cooking for myself anymore...I'm cooking for him (and he, like most guys, is a garbage disposal) and usually another two people (a couple we do lots of things with). But for the most part, I typically stay within my points. I don't think my eating habits are much different from what they were when I was doing really awesome on the program. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any tips?

Thanks guys!

Thanks for all the compliments on my pics!  That was so nice and just what I needed on my first day back on the diet.  It's been less than a week, but still...  Today has been going well so far.  I really wish that I could start working out again, but I'm going to give it until Thursday because that will be a week from my surgery.  I'm about to go to Wal Mart to pick up some groceries.  I'm going to cook some sort of brown rice mexican casserole I got off of etools tonight.  We'll see how it tastes!!  What are yalls favorite diet foods??

I don't know if anyone's heard of the weight loss pill Alli. It's now being advertised a LOT on tv and in magazines and is supposed to be taken with a diet/exercise program to make the program more efficient. Blah blah blah. We were talking about it in my meeting today and one woman had taken it when you could get it by perscriptions. She told us horrible stories about the side effects....the worst one being that you basically have to wear a pad or adult diaper because it gives you uncontrollable ...anal leakage. Lol. Sorry for being so gross, just thought I'd warn anyone who was thinking about trying it!

i know i've been absent in this community for a while. i hadn't really been following the program much lately. i graduated college and moved back to my parents for 5 months where, to help my parents out, i'd cook dinner for my family every night. i didn't feel like making TWO meals so I'd have something healthy to eat, and plus they were always eating something really yummy. Anyway, I didn't gain overall in those 5 months, but when I compared my progress in the last 5 months to the first 5 months I was on the program (which I've been on for about 10 months), I was disgusted. It only took me 5 months to lose 30 lbs. I was 10 lbs away from my goal weight and I just ....lost motivation. Oh yeah, my breakup in December definitely didn't help. And then in the last 5 months, I had only lost 3 lbs.

I finally moved back to my college town as I'm now going through a teaching credential program, and am back at the WW center that I like (the one by my parents' house didn't have very good meeting leaders and the people that attended the meetings were downright annoying), my bf and I got back together, so life is grand, right?

Pretty much except for the fact that I moved in with my boyfriend and his roommate and so there is always Ben & Jerry's in the freezer, SOFT chocolate chip cookies on the counter (cuz you KNOW soft is better!), cake in the fridge (because it was my bf's bday on Sunday), and all kinds of other temptations. So I'm faced with...dessert...apple slices or SOFT chocolate chip cookies? Hmmm.... Anyone have any suggestions for how to handle this temptation? I'm 15 lbs away from my goal and I don't want to take another 5 months to get there. And telling them not to bring it into the house is not an option.
Thanks for reading!