Thursday, 5 September 2013

Battling the kilos with Weight Watchers! :D



Dear readers,

As some of you might now, I have been battling the kilos for a while now. As weight loss is quite a hot topic lately, I thought I should share my experiences with you. Since I can imagine some people are just anxious to know if the diet works and would not care to read about my motivations for starting a diet, I have divided this post up in two sections. Feel free to jump to the second section if you are just interested in the program itself. And for those of you who really don’t give a hoot about diets: don’t worry, this is one of the two posts in total that I will post on this topic. The second post is of course going to be when I actually attain my goal. 

Why did I go on a diet?
Many of you may wonder: why did I want to lose weight? More importantly I was starting to feel really insecure about myself. I was pretty much whining to myself about not liking the fat on my back and that I started to outgrow my clothes (seeing that I am rather proud of my collection of cute, adorable and witty shirts, this was a pretty big issue for me). I was basically now stuck in between normal sizes and big girl sizes. One day I was getting really sick of my own whining (which I mostly did to myself, so most of you will not have known that it was an issue at all lol), I looked it to diets picked one and signed myself up for Weight Watchers. Although I have a tendency to grow a little impatient with people who complain about something which they can easily change, with myself I absolutely have 0 tolerance for this hahaha. (Please note that I don’t mean that losing weight is easy for everyone! Some people really struggle to lose weight and still only lose a few pounds. 

Ever since I started studying (which is now about 7 years ago) I started to gain weight. When I started at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, which is a University College, I weight 68 kg. When I started Weightwatchers I had gained 13 kilos (over 6 years); I weighted 81 kg! So yes, time for a drastic change. I decided that I wanted to lose 12 kilos, which would put me on my healthy weight (my height is 169 so I should weigh 69 kg) and a healthy BMI. 

Why not aim even lower and be all nice and skinny? One word: HIPS! I have naturally wide hips (those are bone, not fat), so if I loose too much weight, I will end up like this (but without the sexy vibe):

(All credit to Amy Mebberson for this awesome artwork!) 

Although this might look cute (and awesome!) on the artwork, in real life we would call this disproportionate lol.
 
Ok, so does Weight Watchers actually work?