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so I’m back to online only. I wasn’t going to continue to pay $39.99 for a new program that wasn’t really working for me and for meetings I rarely made it to any more. Work is kicking my ass and I’m back to sleeping in on Saturdays so this was the best decision for me. I’m actually technically subscribed as eTools only which is cheaper than WW online was, but I have yet to figure out the difference. With this first WI, I lost 6 lbs of water weight. Yes, it’s not real weight, but it’s off. Gone. Had been hanging around and I couldn’t get rid of it. It actually could/would have been better if I hadn’t fallen into a vat of pickles last night. They are my undoing.

What did I do? I went back to the old points program and am using a hybrid of that and SparkPeople, which I’m finally getting the hanging of tracking with. There are days where I go way over points when I’m well within my calorie range, and then there are days where I’m not making the best food choices, but at least I can find the patterns. I’m curious to see how this goes and how it works for me.

Overall I’m still down 51.2 lbs from last March. Could it be a lot better if I wasn’t in a holding pattern since September? Sure. But it could be a lot worse. It’s still an average of 1.1 lbs/week and I’ll take that.

I started reading over The Girl Who Could (Formerly) Eat Anything, a blog from someone who posts on the WW boards and I realized that while I’ll never manage to post daily, I like how she does. I like her October challenge and I’m thinking about something similar for myself. I like the accountability. I’ve never been the world’s best blogger, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the period in which I was blogging the most is the one where I was losing.

food for thought.