{"id":4699,"date":"2009-01-20T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2009-01-28T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T15:26:11","slug":"3-reason-weight-watchers-worked-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/3-reason-weight-watchers-worked-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons Weight Watchers Worked For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roni of RonisWeigh.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Roni from RonisWeigh<\/a> is our guest blogger for January. You\u2019ll recall she recently took runner-up for Best Diet Blog and her site GreenLiteBites<\/a> won Best Healthy Recipe site category in our first Diet Site Awards<\/a>. On her sites she shares her experiences with weight loss and maintaing a healthy life with her family.
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I’ve tried everything from Atkins<\/a> to the Zone<\/a> to lose weight. In between there was the grapefruit diet<\/a>, the Negative Calorie plan<\/a>, Xenadrine<\/a>, Phentermine<\/a>, low-carb<\/a>, no carb, no fat, fasting, you name it, I tried it. Nothing seemed to work. My weight fluctuated as much as 50 pounds throughout my 20s.<\/p>\n

At age 29, after the birth of my son, I discovered Weight Watchers. I walked through the door desperate to get a hold on this weight issue thing and put the yo-yo dieting behind me forever.<\/p>\n

To my surprise it worked! <\/p>\n

Why did Weight Watchers succeed when everything else failed? For me, it was the combination of quite a few things, but these three stand out.<\/p>\n

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  1. I was ready to learn.<\/strong> No more of these quick fixes. Fifteen years of dieting finally taught me there was no such thing as overnight weight loss. When I attended a Weight Watchers meeting<\/a>, I listened. I had a living, breathing human to ask questions of. I really looked at it like school. I was there to learn and soak up everything they were willing to teach me. You don’t get a college degree overnight.\n

  2. I used a journal.<\/strong> Weight Watchers gives you these nifty little food trackers. I committed to keeping mine. It may not have been neatest thing in the world, but I threw perfect out the window and decided to commit to the journal. No matter what, I would write down what I ate and how I felt.<\/li>\n
  3. I’m fairly competitive.<\/strong> I’ve never been an athlete but I like to “win”. Who doesn’t?\u00a0 Going to those weekly meetings motivated me to “show off” in a way. I wanted to report how great my week went. It gave me the extra accountability I needed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m three years at my goal weight and these three reasons still keep me going. I’m happy to put the diet mentality behind me and, honestly, I have Weight Watchers to thank for that.<\/p>\n

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