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I joined Weight Watchers online in about September 2007, weighing 224 lbs. I did that for a few months but didn't achieve much and I quit. In April of 2008, my husband and I joined Weight Watchers and started going to meetings. I weighed 207.4 lbs. I was a very slow loser, often only losing .2 lbs. a week or less. I month later I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and put on medications. With diet changes and exercise my blood sugars dropped and after 18 months I was taken off diabetes meds. I have been able to keep my blood sugars under control since. I finally reached a doctor-set goal weight of 143 lbs. in October of 2012. I was able to maintain close to my goal weight for several years. Then life happened and I gained back fifty pounds. In 2019, my husband and I left Weight Watchers and joined Healthi (itrackbites at the time). We chose the Better Balance plan because it was similar to the Weight Watchers plan. After a while, I found my weight loss stagnated. With the advice of Head Coach Lisa and a private coach, we switched to Carb Conscious, which is the old Weight Watcher's Points Plus plan and the plan I lost most of my weight on. A year and a half ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had surgery and radiation. While I was still undergoing radiation therapy, my husband passed away suddenly. For a while I was having a really hard time eating, I just didn't have any appetite. Since then my appetite has returned to normal. I think, I am reaching the point where my body is saying this is where my weight should be, as I keep bobbing up and down the same 2 or 3 lbs. I may just accept that 150 lbs. is my new goal weight.
I used to be a custom dressmaker, specializing in wedding gowns. Then when I was 40 years old, I went back to school and got a nursing degree and worked in home health care for 27 years, until I retired in January 2023.
Being able to enter foods that are not in the app and favorite them
Carb Conscious
That you can set up the plan so it works with your lifestyle and you are successful.
