I was a yoyo dieter for most of my 47 years and in the past I tried about every type of diet there was from WW to physisican directed diets, to many of the fad diets of their time.... grapefruit diet, liquid protein ... you name it. I remember well those feelings of frustration and failure each time those short-term efforts ended and the weight I had lost, piled back on with another 25 pound extra-bonus.

Having tried so many approaches and finding that their benefits were only short-term, made me that more determined to find a nutritional approach that was both healthy and worked for me over the long haul. While I'm not on WW and their point system doesn't work for me, I do think their underlying balanced approach is very solid and its benefits far outweigh any short-falls for most people. I count calories and strive for a lower-fat, high-fiber, very limited refined carbs selections from all the food groups, with a fairly typical carb/protein/fat grams balance of about 56/24/20, so I'm not straying too far from WW's overall approach, nor from the standard food pyramid.

I feel that anyone courageous enough to look at an unsuccessful nutritional approach and thoughtfully consider what worked about the plan and did not work, deserves a tremendous amount of praise. I don't think anyone could ever fail themselves when they thoughtfully seek to become educated and they seek to find to a lifelong, balanced and enjoyable, approach to nutritional health. It does exist.

Your success with any plan that requires challenging behavior CHANGES, is to find a way for those changes to evolve into your daily life in small, measured steps that you feel and can EXPERIENCE as consistently do-able.

If your experience with pre-natal care is like my sister-in-laws, I would suspect your doctor will encourage you to eat healthfully with a balanced approach (taking care for the added nutritional demands of pregnancy) so to me, any change you might consider to a plan like WW, in your weight loss effort now, would be very consistent with your plans for pregancy later in the year.

I would just encourage you to ask questions, become educated about nutrition and weight-loss plan alternative approaches and seek to find an approach that is balanced, healthy, and something that will help you learn the tools to develop the skills needed to make this a lifelong lifestyle change. :) Never be afraid to be open to change ... the only way to find your answers in life is to be willing to ask questions and seek out those answers.

Blessings
Debbie

Start/Current/Healthy4Life range/H4L Weeks

277/132/133-135/20 weeks

"Be grateful for all the difficult situations in life because you can learn something from each one. The way my people take care of something that we're not happy with is to honor it and say, 'Thank you, you've taught me a lesson.'" ---Bear Heart, Muskogee Nation