Weight Watchers Rocks: 24 Pounds Gone in 4 Months!

Can you believe that any woman could get to be 58 years old and never cook with fresh garlic? What about getting to that age and never buying and preparing a fresh pineapple? Well, I’m that woman. And the silly thing is that I never used the fresh garlic or the pineapple because I wasn’t sure how to “peel” them. Now, in the age of YouTube, you can learn how to do just about anything.  (See videos below.)

About four months ago, on March 24, 2009, I joined Weight Watchers. I haven’t written about it before now because I wanted to be sure that my commitment was real and that the program really works.

Well, I am here to say that Weight Watchers rocks! This is the best weight-loss program, by far, that I have ever tried. In 16 weeks I have lost 23.4 pounds. That’s an average of just about 1 ½ pounds per week. If I continue to lose at this rate that means I will lose 78 pounds in a year, which is about the amount of weight I want to get rid of.

The Weight Watchers people have really done a super job with this program. As I began following the plan, I immediately lost my cravings for sugar and I am rarely hungry. But, I didn’t have to give up sugar totally. What a concept!

In fact, I didn’t really have to give up anything I like. The program is based on a points system which allows me to eat basically anything I want as long as I account for it and include it in my plan for the day or the week.

Best of all, I am eating much healthier and trying foods that I never ate before, such as the fresh pineapple and fresh garlic that I mentioned.

Here are a couple of videos I found on YouTube that teach you how to peel garlic and pineapple.