Slim People in Progress

Weight Watchers Maintenance Plan

I made it!  Finally! After two months of struggling with the same damn pound, I finally dropped 2.6 this week and went past my goal weight.  That puts me on the Weight Watchers maintenance plan now for 6 weeks.  I guess the idea is that I cannot gain more than 2 pounds over my goal weight in order to stay on maintenance and get to Lifetime.

According to the plan, I can add some points now.  However after my struggle for the last two months, I think I'm going to attempt to stay in the point range I've been working on to assure that I don't gain weight.

My goal was to hit my goal weight in April and I did it with one day to spare.  Onward.

Weight Watcher Lost and Found Winner

Weight Watchers recently held an essay contest for members to write about what they had "lost and found."  Here's the winning entry of the Lost and Found contest.

Dannon's Light 'n Fit Yogurt

Just discovered that Dannon's Light 'n Fit 0% fat, 60 calorie yogurt is only 1 point.  That's for a 6 oz. serving.  I have to say it also tastes better and a lot less artificial than the Weight Watchers 1 point yogurt.

Portion Control

Portion control is really the key for me staying on track with my weight loss program. And the key to that is weighing my food.  I use a Soehnle digital scale that I like a lot. I ran across this article on portion control on the Diet Articles site, that's pretty interesting: Food - The Proof is in the Portion.

UPDATE: Another good place to find a scale is on eBay.  You can see all Weight Watchers listings here.

Hoodia Gordonii

If you get spam, you've probably seen numerous email about Hoodia Gordonii.  I usually ignore stuff like this but then I ran into a post on a blog of a colleague I highly respect.  Dave Taylor has a popular blog called Ask Dave Taylor where he answers questions on just about everything.  One reader asked about Hoodia and if it was for real.  Surprisingly, it is.  Here is what Dave dug up on Hoodia.

For more on Hoodia, check out the articles at the Diet Articles Directory.