Weigh in day! (new pictures!)

Weight watchers works! I've lost 45 lbs; I'm at my goal weight! Yay! ... but I set a high goal weight. I figured I wanted to get at least to this weight, and then when I got here I'd kind of just be happy with whatever weight I am at after that. That's why I've created a new Tracker. My first tracker shows that I lost 45 lbs and reached my goal, the 2nd one is just to keep track of how much weight I continue to loose after that. I will be fine anywhere within that 20 lbs range. 20lbs being the max that I would want to loose- that's like my dream- but I really am happy to be anywhere within that range. Now that I've had 3 kids, I knew it would be hard to judge exactly what weight I thought I could get to. So I'm not going to stress about it, I'm just going to continue to try to eat healthy and start exercising reguarly. I'm back in my old clothes again, and I'm feeling good. I'm so excited to feel healthier and more like me again!!

Billy also looks great! That's an understatement. He's at 182 now, and he'd still like to loose more, but I've always thought he looks good. Sometimes I look at him now and I feel like we're newlyweds again b/c he's starting to look just the same as he did back then. His face is thinning, and I think that makes us both look a little younger. It's exciting.

One more thing, it's such a great compliment to me that some people have asked what we are doing, and then told me that we motivated them to loose weight! Wow! That makes me feel so good to be the one in that position.
So I thought, if it helps, and if anyone would like some tips I could tell you a couple things we have done in the last couple months.

First of all we are following the weight watchers guideline. To find out how many points you can have per day, go to http://www.peertrainer.com/LoungeCommunityThread.aspx?ForumID=1&ThreadID=47011. Here is a list of foods and how many points everything is, http://www.quiddity.cc/rachel/diet/wwfoods.htm#top I have this along with a bunch of good weight watcher receipes in a notebook. If you want to find out how many points restraunt foods are I found a couple good sites: http://www.healthdiscovery.net/restaurants/index.html, and http://www.dwlz.com/restaurants.html (scroll down to see restaurants).

I have been told that the difference between mantaining and loosing weight is 3 points, so if you go a couple points over your point allotment everyday you might not loose, that's why it's important to right down every little thing you eat. One tip that I would really recommend is get a marker and everytime you go to eat something, check out the nutrition facts and figure out how many points is in a serving and then right a #2 or however many points it is on the box or bag. Then you know if you can have half a serving or 2 servings or whatever. Then like I said right down everything you eat so you can keep track.

We have numbers next to every nutrition label in our house, and it is so helpful b/c you only have to figure it out once and then you know for the next time. I have an actual weight watchers calculater but there is also one online. It's http://www.webmilhouse.com/pointcalc.php. Hopefully it's ok w/ the weight watchers people to give out all these websites- anyone could find them if you know how to use a search engine. So I hope that's helpful. That's about all you need to know to do weight watchers.

Oh, and I'm learning that fat free/ low fat stuff actually tastes good! I think it tastes just the same as the high fat stuff. We now get low fat italian dressing (only a point, 0 points for fat free), low fat mayo (tastes great), fat free sandwhich meat (they have some in the great value brand and it tastes just as good as the other stuff), anyway the list could go on, but you get the idea.

Good luck!