Week Zero

Here’s the history.

In February of 2014 my wife and I joined Weight Watchers after a particularly junk food filled Christmas and New Years. I don’t think either of us were really that motivated and we let it fizzle out after four or five weeks.

Next came Labor Day weekend. My wife and I had a pretty difficult conversation regarding the state of our health. We both felt sick all the time and were concerned that we weren’t going to be around much longer if we didn’t start making changes. We talked about going veggie. We talked about going juice veggie. In the end we stepped back from the ledge a bit and decided to give Weight Watchers another try.

From Labor Day weekend through mid-December I lost about 37 pounds. Then the Christmas temptations got in the way. I went to one weigh in in late January and I had gained a few pounds back. That was it. The mountains of snow that came after that sucked any desire I had to do anything right. I told my wife that I would choose a date in early Spring and make that the back on the wagon day. The date changed a couple of times, but it’s finally arrived.

During the snowpocalypse of this winter I had an issue with my debit card. I slid it into an ATM and it was gone forever, never to be seen again. When the new card was sent to me I tried to update my weight watchers account but for some reason I could not get it done online. Eventually my account was cancelled. I was sad. Not really, I just knew I’d have to re-up. I didn’t know if I would have to start a new account or if I would be able to reactivate the Labor Day account.

The back on the wagon day arrived today. I ended up with a brand new account that is not tied to my Fall numbers at all. I still know what those Fall numbers were, of course, and todays weigh in was ugly. Not, however, as ugly as I had feared. I’m still around 15 pounds under my Labor Day weigh in. I was pretty surprised with that. I felt as though I had put every ounce of lost weight back into my gut. That does not matter though. I’m starting with a clean slate. This week is week zero and my weight loss count sits at 0.0 pounds.

Jen and I went food shopping this morning and bought all the things that we were eating while having success last year. I’m going to have fish for dinner tonight. 12 months ago that would have grossed me out to no end. Today? I can handle it and I know it’s for a good cause… my health.

Wish us luck.