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I am inspired by Jenni to write about my weight loss again. I update people I know on Facebook with my progress, and it’s been slow but steady for the most part.

To date, I have lost 38 lbs and have gone from a size 16 to approximately a 6 (although the 6 pants that I’m wearing today seem a little big). I have about 10 more lbs that I want to lose but have seemed to have hit a plateau. I have had a lot of personal stress lately with my husband’s deployment and a death of one of Mike’s friends…so stress eating crept back in.

I still attend WW meetings, although I have stopped tracking what I eat. I generally keep track of rough point values and how many snacks I can enjoy after I put Alex to bed (100 calorie snack-pack or just an apple). Most of my caloric intake is after lunch. I don’t eat breakfast, usually opting for the caffeine on an empty stomach to get me going.

I walk a lot these days, and after 5 pm, I usually am running after my two year old. It has done me a lot of good to wear a pedometer to track just how much I am walking/running. I found that I walk between 10-15k steps a day, which is 5-7.5 miles. I highly recommend when trying to incorporate exercise into a busy schedule to work in additional amounts of walking. I now park further away from my lab, for instance. I volunteer to pick up supplies for others in the lab in between experiments.

So all in all, I have had success with WW. I still have some work to go, but I know how to get there. It’s tough right now since I have had success and can keep it off without much trouble to actually be motivated to lose the rest since I feel/look good now. I just have to keep reminding myself that 1) while I have lost all of this weight, I am still overweight and 2) that I will look even SEXIER without these last 10 lbs.

So I started WW 3 weeks ago. I’ve lost around 6-7 lbs already. Mostly water weight, I think – but I’ll take what I can get. My pants are already fitting better and when I ran up 2 flights of stairs this AM, I totally didn’t get winded! I’m amazed that I already am starting to feel the effects.

I guess why I am here is to get some addition external support. Sometimes I don’t feel like the people at WW are all that supportive. My husband says that he is proud of me in my endeavor, but then goes and gets really greasy food and eats it in front of me or drinks a huge thing of alcohol. I need to learn how to not have that effect me.