Thursday June 02, 2005
my weight goal is... Weigh in this week was a little tense. I'd had a fairly large and sodium rich meal on Monday and wasn't sure I would shed the gained weight before Wednesday evening. I was fairly sure most of it was excess water as I had been good about calorie intake the rest of the week. I tried to flush my body out with a lot of water and increased my aerobic excercise. My hope was to come out between 1lbs down and even. As it turns out I came in at 2.8lbs down (for a total of 28lbs). One of the carrots of Weight Watchers is that you have several goals. First you lose 10% of your initial weight. Then you set a goal within their guidelines and once that is achieved and held you achieve "lifetime" and no longer have to pay for meetings (caveat you have to weigh in once a month maintaining your weight). Unfortunately their guidelines are based only on height. As far as I can tell they don't adjust for sex and I know they don't adjust for body type. I'm fairly tall with a long body (sounds better then short legs) which increases what a good weight is for me (I've been good in the past at confusing the carny weight guessers). The weight range that comes off the weight watchers charts is fairly silly having me lose another 33lbs. The local people say, sure we understand the issue and keeping telling corporate. They are listening, but doing nothing. Sounds like a contradiction to me. The only option if I want to be lifetime is to go to a doctor and get him to state that a certain weight is good for me. Maybe I should just be happy with my goal weight and go on?! Then I can stop giving money to weight watchers for meetings. This flaw seems to not be an issue for women who are most of their market so I doubt they really care.
( Jun 02 2005, 11:41:09 AM PDT )
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