Gradually getting motivation back!

Okay, I've been thinking about it long and hard.. Even went as far as phoning up and leaving a message for local Lighter Life counseller. I've sat down and written out the pros and cons. What I have so far is:

Pros of LL - Fast weight loss.
Cons of LL - Cost, it's very strict (no eating), and I have to learn to eat again once I've lost the weight.

Pros of WW - I know how to do it, I can still eat, and I learn to eat whilst doing it.
Cons of WW - Slow weight loss.

I'm planning on staying on WW and seeing how I've done overall at my last weigh in of the month. (Monday 29th January). I'm still going to get weighed weekly - but weight does flutuate! Even when I started CD last year, the counsellor said that some people stay the same for a couple of weeks and then lose a months worth over one or two! So weight does flutuate, I just need to stick at it and look at my overall goal after four weeks on it!

I just need to keep upbeat and motivated, that's the most difficult bit.

So... Review Date - Monday 29th January!

WW

I hope you choose to stay with WW over LL.  I don't know anything about LL but it sounds like Jenny Craig or Nutrisystem.  Although I've never tried them and I'm sure they're really effective, I feel like it would be very hard to learn how to eat after you're done losing all the weight.

Yes, you'll lose weight slower with WW, but you will already know how to eat by the time you're done with it and you'll be very used to eating that way.  I've lost a lot of weight 3 times in my life and this time it is easy to maintain because I took it more slowly.  By the time I reached my goal I was used to eating this way so maintaining hasn't been a problem, whereas in the past I was so strict during weight-loss that when I was finished I just started eating whatever I wanted again and gained the weight back.

Just do the best you can!

Leanne