Weight Loss – Live Well with Lisa Proctor

I made a decision a couple of days ago. I’m going back to WeightWatchers.

I admit, the last time I went I was a bit baffled by the number of people who go back over and over. Why didn’t they just stick to the plan? Then life kicked me around for a few years, I ended up significantly heavier than when I first went to WW in 2019 and I got an important lesson in how, sometimes, things happen that are out of your control and all you actually can control is how you react to them.

The first time I went I was pleasantly surprised. It was really easy to stick to, I lost weight consistently and hit my target weight in exactly a year. I didn’t even really do any extra exercise. Unfortunately, the week I hit my target weight was also the week we went into lockdown in March 2020! Stress and boredom kicked in, along with lack of activity and relaxing my diet, thinking it would all blow over in a few weeks. How wrong was I? Mobility issues and perimenopause struck, along with COVID, long COVID and ME/CFS, and that was the beginning of my weight gain.

Luckily, my husband gets Vitality Health insurance through his job and they currently offer deals and discounts with 3 different weight loss programs – Second Nature , Boots Online Doctor and WeightWatchers, so support is available to me at reduced rates. I chose WW because I’m familiar with it, I know it can work as well and it is based solely on lifestyle changes. The other two either use GLP-1 injections or offer them as part of the plan. I have no issue with weight loss jabs at all but I can’t afford them to be honest, so I’m going to try without them first. They are also online only whereas, for now at least, there is still a local in-person WW group that I can attend, which will get me out of the house now and again!