Pick a Diet Plan or Move On
One of the suggestions that my new Kaiser NP suggested is for me to go on Weight Watchers. I have done this diet plan before (in fact a couple of times). What I find is that like more “diets” it turns into a major project for me.
I go to the first meeting and get signed up. I walk away with a sense of great hope that this is plan is going to make the difference. I read all the books, buy the food from the list and like any project I work on, I organize myself for success. Well after about 3-4 days I am burnt out. I am sick of counting, weighing and measuring. I spend so much time thinking about the diet I just want to give it all up, so much to the point that I even hate to eat and I avoid it.
One thing that Weight Watchers has that not all plans do is the support of meetings. I don’t remember now but I think you can go to a few meetings a week if you want (you just don’t get weighed in each time, just once a week). These meetings are great. You get great advice for success and learn from the others that are on the plan.
Over all it is a tried and true plan that has worked wonders for the masses. Well, it never worked for me. I stuck with it for about 4 months. I tried the point plan and the “other plan” that I can’t remember the name of. (in fact I see that they now have a new plan out called Momentum) The meetings were good, the food choices where great but it just wasn’t working for me.
It got to the point that I resented getting weighed each week. Even though the Weight Watcher personal were very kind and supportive. I felt like they would read the scale, see that I hadn’t lost anything and give me that look of disappointment. Maybe they were shocked that I didn’t have a look of disappointment. I just wasn’t feeling it because I knew the diet and I was not a match. After 4 months I didn’t want to waste their time or mine so I canceled my membership and moved on.
It was a good experience and I came out of it realizing that if something is not working for me, that I am bored or frustrated don’t keep pounding your head against the wall. Just move on!
I found a great list of 7 steps to take to pick a diet plan that will work for you! “How to Pick a Diet Program | eHow.com”
Tags: diet, weight watchers
Diet Plans | Jane | 
April 21, 2009 6:04 am
