I just finished reading this in about 2 days, which is really fast for me. For one, it promotes Weight Watchers. A lot of great books that I've read about weight loss, either bash Weight Watchers, or advocate some other plan. It always leaves me second-guessing myself and trying to uproot my core beliefs about weight loss and change my plan drastically. The author has been a lifetime member of Weight Watchers for nearly 20 years!
Here are some key points that I found VERY inspiring and helpful from the book:
1. Having a mantra. The author uses "INO", which stands for "it's not an option" as a powerful mantra to forge through situations where her willpower starts to weaken. I have already started to put this mantra to work. It's simple, effective, and empowering.
2. Realization. The author advocates realizing, accepting and reciting that, "you are not like everyone else." Accept it, and move on with eating what your body requires in order to lose weight and be a Former Fat Girl.
3. Hints for the future. She talks about food pushers, family members and friends who may resent your weight loss or not understand the new you. She gives tips on how to deal with it and how to not take it so personally. She also talks about how to prepare yourself for the other kinds of attention you may receive from others after you have lost weight (i.e., cat calls from men, how to accept compliments without making excuses, etc).
I plan on re-reading it soon to keep everything fresh in my mind as I go through what hopefully will be my last "do over" in terms of weight loss. I also read a blog this week talking about re-starting Weight Watchers. The author said that the hardest part was having her body get used to the amount of points in which her body needed in order to lose weight. That's when I had an a-ha moment. I haven't given my body a chance to forge through those first couple of "adjustment period" weeks before getting stressed out and giving up, or re-starting again. It's just not worth the guilt anymore. My plan is to use INO to get myself through the first and obviously more difficult couple of weeks. I've been cheating myself by not forging through on that lately. And as a result, I've been letting myself fail. That is one of the parts I think is hard about being an "old-timer" when it comes to Weight Watchers. You look back and say, "I had no problems with this before, why is it so hard this time?" And that's not entirely true. While the first time ever on Weight Watchers is maybe a little more exciting, it's still hard. But your brain plays tricks on you when the first time you walked into Weight Watchers was nearly a decade ago. So today, I'm accepting that it's going to be difficult to adjust for just a little while. But failing again is just INO!
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