as a child i was always thin. until i graduated college i never needed to pay attention to what i ate. it took me awhile to admit that i had packed on the pounds. it finally had dawned on me that if i did not take drastic measures i would be that dreaded "f" word. i would be fat.
when i realized that i needed to reduce i had no clue how to achieve my goal. i didn't want to be just svelte . i wanted to be svelt and healthy. the first time around i went the start fresh (a boro park based weight loss program) route. i lost thirty pounds in three months.
while start fresh helped me achieve a goal weight that i maintained for quite a few years eventually i regained the weight and then some. i wanted a new weight loss route so the second time around i chose weight watchers.
through weight watchers i reached my goal weight after seven months of hard work. the weight watchers diet was not as rigid as the start fresh version was which was just what i needed the second time around.
while the weight watchers diet was better for weight loss , i'm not sure it was as good as start fresh was for weight maintenance. then again, the second time around i was a little older so that might have been why it was more difficult to maintain.
i am back at weight watchers. now there is a new plan. there are also new weight watchers meetings leaders and a new way of counting points. both of these things are making my third weight loss journey more "exciting".
the best part of weight watchers in brooklyn are the meetings. you get a multi-cultural crowd. there are a lot of frum jews and a lot of catholics and everyone speaks to each other. though there are mostly women in the group there are also always a few men even a few frum men. (gasp!) its also fun to see how even non jewish weight watchers leaders make sure everyone knows which weight watchers products are jewish. there is even one leader who made sure to talk a little bit about how to deal with an upcoming (shavuos) holiday at the end of a meeting because she knew a lot of the members were frum.only in brooklyn!
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I have also had to deal with weight loss several times and have done weight watchers twice. I hate to contradict you but in my Baltimore meetings and my in-law's Silver Spring meetings, we all discuss the kosher products and jewish holidays.
the first time around when i did weight watchers they made a huge deal when christmas and thanksgiving rolled around but not a peep about even rosh hashana. there was a huge frum crowd there at the time . they did try to let everyone know which products were kosher if i recall. this time around they are more frum friendly.
its good to hear that there are other cities that have weight watchers meetings that actually discuss how to deal with jewish holidays when they come up when there is a large frum membership in the group.
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