My name is Blair Driscoll blairdriscoll , and I am I live in Tampa, Florida, and work as a medical administrator. I started Weight Watchers and walking for weight loss and lost over 60 pounds. My weight was an issue for as long as I could remember. I tried all the crazy fad diets in my teenage years, and that continued into my adult life. I have hEDS, or hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which is a disorder that impacts your connective tissues.
In my case, this causes frequent joint dislocations, which makes being active more difficult. The extra weight was putting more pressure on my joints, which were already fragile due to EDS. At my heaviest weight, in January , I weighed pounds. I was just tired all the time. I'm a very competitive, hard-working person, but my weight and eating habits had made me feel like sludge. In January , my husband and I made a list of things we wanted to accomplish that year.
I knew WW formerly Weight Watchers could help me lose weight for good. There were no weird pills, shakes, or frozen meals you had to eat. It involves using a points system to help you track what you eat, but you can eat real-world food, and you can make it work with your lifestyle. It truly is a lifestyle. I also knew that in order for me to be successful, I had to accept that "celebrations" were okay: a cocktail on a Friday night, pizza with friends, a donut every now and then.
WW really does work if you are honest about what you're eating and you track everythingβthe good, bad, and ugly! It holds you accountable, and my results prove that it works. I did not intend to start working out right away. I was much more focused on losing the weight. But our walks got longer and longer over time, and one day, we decided to start clocking our time and pushing ourselves to go farther, faster.
We've now been consistently walking for nearly a year, and we do a few 5K's a week! I also do some lower-body strength training to keep my joints strong, which is necessary with EDS. These four changes made the biggest difference in my weight-loss results.
