I wore a 24 just 3 years ago…and had someone bet me I’d ever step one foot near, let alone into! a bikini again I’d have bet the house and car…perhaps even the kids, against it. I hate to preach any weight loss program, but I never could have done it without weight watchers. Not because they have any spectacularly different approach, but because I made friends there, who I wanted to be successful with, and it kept me accountable. It took a long time…and I had originally planned it all out…5 lbs a week meant I’d only need around a year to get it all off…ha ha ha. There are weeks you gain, weeks you lose .8 of a pound, and weeks you lose 7. It all came off, albeit slowly, and last November I went to Mexico in a size 10 bikini…who woulda’ guessed???