The last three weeks at Weight Watchers has opened my eyes up to an important fact.

The program works.

I know that sounds silly but hear me out. 4 weeks ago when I weighed in I was at 38 pounds lost. I was pretty excited about that and was looking forward to being past 40 pounds. Well, the two weeks following that weigh in were not good for me. In fact, I gained exactly .6 pounds each week. Since it was less then a pound I was not entirely upset but I was really hoping to get past that 40 pound mark.

I was sure I would lose those two pounds those weeks by eating much less than I am supposed to. In case you are not familiar with Weight Watchers I will explain the program quickly. Factors including, weight, gender, and occupation determine the amount of points you can eat each day. All food has a point value. You are supposed to eat all of your points each day. When the points are gone, you are done eating. Until the next day of course.

Being a heavy guy means I get a lot of points to eat each day. For those two weeks I cut myself short to try and boost the weight loss. I was ending the day with about 10 points left. It did not work. So last week I decided to eat exactly the amount of points I am allotted each day and I ended up losing 3.8 pounds which put me at a total weight loss of 41 pounds.

I brought this up at our meeting Saturday morning and our facilitator said that we have to eat to lose. Of course we need to eat the right kinds of foods, but we do need to eat! My brain does not want to believe that. Common sense says less food means more weight lost but that is not the case. Metabolism is a major part in our weight loss so we have to eat to lose.

Bummer.