On The Diet Side: Hitting Maintenance

Weight Watcher's Maintenance means I have learned to live on nineteen points a day without starving. Reaching maintenance also indicates I've successfully controlled my thirty-five extra weekly points. Holy Hallelujahs! I did it!

Three years ago I found my mother-in-law's WW points system. I liked it, so I counted points in a journal at the end of each day. Needless to say, I always went over; usually by forty points! Even so, I lost ten pounds within a year.

After that, I hit a plateau. For a year I stuck at the same weight. I finally drove down the street and signed up for the program in an actual WW office. When I started subtracting points throughout the day from my total daily points allowance, I finally lost another ten pounds. Then I hit a second plateau.

I held strong in this second plateau, since last September, 2009, by eating MUFA's (monounsaturated fats) at every meal. But still, I ate approximately thirty points a day, overall.

Recently, through the help of a buddy, SHARON!, I lost five additional pounds. Sharon and I set specific goals together after every meeting, and we logged them in our WW books. For me, operating on only nineteen points a day and learning how to manage my weekly thirty-five extra weekly points, especially in restaurants, delivered maintenance! Woot Woot!