End of Third Week

JOHN

Still at 351 pounds. Got a new scale at GNC. Scale was capable of weighing up to 450 pounds but alas it was not meant to be--the scale was defective.

End of Second Week

JOHN

At the end of the second week I am down to 351 pounds. I can't believe 350 is in sight. It has been more than 10 years since I have seen 350 on a scale.

First weigh in

My first official weigh in was this morning. 274.8. I'm down 2.2 pounds this week. (6.9 pounds from my start of 281.) Slow and steady wins the race!

First Week and Success

JOHN

At the end of the first week I find a pay scale in front of our local GNC Store. and according to that I am already down to 353 pounds. YEAH! I am off to a good start.

Off and Running

JOHN

Weight Watchers has changed immensely, over the years, and what once seemed just another horrible dieting experience, only with built-in peer pressure, now looks not only like something that is do-able, but also looks like something I could comfortably continue long-term.

I don't have a scale that can weigh me at home and my current work schedule doesn't afford me the time or proximity to stop in regularly at my doctor's office or some other place that would offer me regular access to an accurate scale. So, for now, I will have to use the last known accurate weight from a doctor' appointment a few weeks ago of 380 pounds.

And, I am off and Running.

Why am I Doing This

JOHN

My wife and I got fat together. Our biggest problem stems from the fact that we have always seen ourselves as lifetime fatties. Looking back now, knowing what it really means to be fat, we realize there was a large portion of our young lives where we were never really that large, let alone fat at all. Yet we saw ourselves as fat and because of that we both eventually became the individual blobs we saw ourselves to be with our mind's eye.

Our struggle with attempting weight loss has been a difficult one to attempt together. I cannot use Nutrasweet/Aspertame without getting an instant migraine and most other sugar substitutes, if they don't cause me uncomfortable to severe side effects they cause me sensory overload issues due the common overpowering sweetness accompanying most non-nutrative sweeteners.

Then there is the fact that almost every trend diet or just dieting in general has undesirable effects on me. Either I get very ill or my body goes into starvation mode and adds fat on, rather than watching it melt away.

My wife has had various success with different diet and exercise programs that she has tried, but because she often had to try them alone or ended up having to try and continue without me, she has has little successes that usually end up to be milestones on the path to giving up one more time because it is too hard to do something that is such a drastic change alone.

Recently my wife entered into the discipline of Life Purpose Coaching. She is admirably trying to make some major changes in life direction, personality hangups, self-identity, person self-worth, etcetera. One of those changes that she determined to make and see it through to its conclusion.

Not wanting to see her fail again or be the reason she didn't have the long-term will-power to make it through the rough times, I decided to not support her from the sidelines only this time, but to join her. I have more weight to lose than she does, so it would greatly benfit me in numerous ways to walk this journey with the one person that means more than anything to me.

My wife won a three month free trial to Weight Watchers. She had the choice of in-person meeting or Weight Watchers online. She chose the online format and after looking over the program thoroughly, I decided to surprise her by letting her know that I was determined not to make her walk this road alone again--I was joining her and we were going to make it work this time.

Off to a good start

My first day went really well. I ended up under points. But the best news of all, is my husband is going to join me! So I created this new blog. Instead of blogging alone at Less of Julie, John and I will be blogging together at Thinner Together.

I'm starting off at 277 pounds. John is starting at 380. My Weight Watchers' points value is 35 per day. John's is 44 per day. We are excited to start this journey together.