As some of you may know, in the past few months I’ve lost over 40 lbs. I’ve had four children and with each pregnancy, I gained way too much weight. I’ve lost it, got pregnant, lost it…you know the cycle.
This time, I’ve been on a diet plan through my doctor that worked awesome but didn’t leave for many choices – it was a shake/bar diet high in protein, low in carbs. Though it was great to get started quickly and see fast results, it is very expensive and probably not the most healthy plan for the long term. I don’t regret spending the money because I feel so much better about myself. I feel healthier, more active, and my clothes finally fit me. However, we are tightening down the budget (or as my daughter calls it – “acting like we are poor” – hey we are acting like it so it doesn’t happen!) so I needed to find a more afforable alternative.
In 2002, after the birth of my oldest son and then a pregnancy loss, I started Weight Watchers Online. I was able to lose 30 lbs by following their points plan. With this previous experience, I thought this would be a good option to try to lose that last 10-15 lbs. So after contacting Weight Watchers, they agreed to give me and one reader a 3 month subscription to Weight Watchers online. I’ve completed my second week and have lost 2 lbs. Now I want one of you to join me!
While there are free sites you can use to track your calories and weight loss, I find it is so much easier to track “points” than calories/fat/etc. Plus, if you are paying for something, I find I actually use it since I’m spending my hard earned money on it. There are bargains on Weight Watchers Online. I recently posted about how you could sign up for Weight Watchers online for just $15/month through CashBaq.
What’s New with Weight Watchers? Their Momentum Plan. With the Momentum Plan you learn to eat healthy, make good choices, avoid hunger, and beat your stress eating. This will all help you to create healthy lifestyle changes and is not just a quick fix!
Getting started: You simply enter some basic information in like height, weight, age, etc. You will then be giving a daily points “target”. Points are a formula based on calories, grams of fat, and grams of dietary fiber. Fiber is good for points because fiber is subtracted out of the calculation for calories & fat. Though, you don’t need to worry about the actual formula because you can enter the information quickly online and the points calculator will give the points value. My start weight is 144 (darn holidays!) and my first goal is 5%, which makes my goal weight 137 lbs. In addition to a daily points allowance of 20 pts, I will get 35 points to spread throughout the week.
So now that you’ve signed up, time to start tracking those points. Here you track your daily food diary with “points”. They also recommend you drink 8 glasses of water, eat 5- 7 fruits & veggies, take a daily vitamin, and get 2-3 servings of dairy. This is a plan for life as you can eat anything as long as you stay within your points. 
Exercise. This is something I need to fit more in. The old excuse “I don’t have time” has been quite fitting lately. The first week, I exercise two days. Which earned me some points I can use or not use.The exercise formula is based on weight, intensity, and duration.
There are so many awesome tools on this site, I can’t go over all of them on this post. You have recipe planning, tools/quizzes, community, articles, success stories. Each week, when I give you the weekly update, I will explore something new on weightwatchers.com.
So now that you are excited about losing weight and reaching your goals, How can you win a Free 3 month subscription?
I’m looking for someone who will be willing to share weekly or every other week their status. Someone who will help me give my readers some insight into how the plan is working or not working for them. It doesn’t have to be long or formal and you don’t have to have a blog. If you do have a blog, it would be fantastic if you posted a short summary each week. So please be willing to share if you win!
How to Win?
Easy Entry: Tell me why you want to win this subscription AND tell me if you win if you are willing to share your journey/suggestions, etc. with your fellow readers of Bargain Briana!
Bonus entries (Up to 4 additional entries):
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Leave a separate comment for each extra entry. It is very important that you leave a separate comment for each additional extra entry.
Ends January 28th around 8am EST. (As long as you can still comment you can enter!) Winner, chosen by random.org, will be announced by 1/29/09 and I will contact you to get you set up online. (If winner doesn’t respond to my email within 48 hours, I will pick another winner.)
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I would love to win this. I need to lose so much weight, and this would be the motivation I need.
I would love to share my experience with others
I would love this! I need to lose weight and this is just the thing to jumpstart me! I don’t have a blog but I would be more than willing to share my experience with others through your blog.
I would LOVE to win this! I have been wanting to join WW but don’t have the money at this point. I have been trying to loose weight on my own and have gotten on a exercise routine and I lost 15 pounds last year (WAHOO!), but the last 20. . .I would love this!
I did weight watchers once before with good results. After my divorce I fell into some bad eating habits and put the weight back on plus more. I’ve been slowing working on ditching some of the bad habits but need a good kick to really get going. Having to share my success & failures with you and your readers would be that motivation. thanks for the oppurtunity.
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I really would love to win this, I had already started to work on my own to lose weight and wish I had to money to join weight watchers! I would love to work through it with you and share my experiences, the would be so much more motivation to actually get it done! Thanks for the chance.
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I need to lose 40 lbs and would love to try their tools! I would definitely be willing to share!
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About two years ago, I joined weight watchers and went from 151lbs to 125lbs in about 7 months. The most amazing thing about weight watchers is that you learn how to eat better given the food you choose to eat. I never did well with the meal substitution bars/shakes. Well, after becoming a lifetime member I got tired of waking up on Saturday morning to get to my 7:30am meeting. I did okay at first because a lot of the food choices become habitual, but one should never try to go it totally alone without their handy food journal because you and I both know you will forget about the doughnut you ate at breakfast when you eat dessert after dinner. Well, I am now sitting at 130lbs and I try to avoid the scale in the morning. Not because I am overweight, but for the fact that I am sure that number will continue to rise if I don’t do something now. So I would like to be considered for this and would love to share my experience.
I blogged about your give away.
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I would love to win this because I haven’t gotten rid of the last 20 pounds that I gained with my third child. I’d love to be accountable and post about my progress!
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I added your button to my blog.
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I subscribed!
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I did weight watchers a long time ago and it was wonderful. Although right now I don’t have the extra $$ to go sign up again. I just started back on my diet and this would be a great help.
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I just found your site tonight. I love it. I am also doing WW online and have lost over 5 lbs. in 2 weeks. ) good luck
I’m a subscriber through google reader and I would love to win this giveaway! Thanks!
I need to do something about my weight and I know weight watchers works. I would absolutely share my progress with everyone!
Sounds like fun! I’ve also accumulated way too many lbs..four pregnancies and a serious obsession w/ anything smothered in bacon and cheese and icy cold Mountain Dews didn’t help either!
I would be happy to share my journey!
I am subscribed.
Oh gosh I would LOVE this! I’ve got 20 lbs on my tummy that has needed to GO for almost 3 years since my youngest was born. I’m really into my Wii Fit and over a couple of months lost 10 lbs with it, but got sick for a week and gained EVERY POUND BACK! I’m even willing to create a separate weight loss blog.
I lost 80 pounds going to Weight Watchers meetings just before my 40th birthday. I am a Weight Watcher’s Lifetime member who is now over my goal weight. I have also subscriber to WW online, used it, and loved it. I am interested in finding out about the new Momentum program I have seen advertised. With this economy I am trying to climb back on the healthy lifestyle wagon and keep an eye on cost at the same time. I have many healthy suggestions and I would be glad to share them – and my journey – with your readers.
I would love to win this! I went to Weight Watchers a couple of years ago and it was great. However, I couldn’t afford it any longer and found when I wasn’t accountable it was too easy to slip back to my eating badly. I would be happy to share any success/failures/challenges with your blog!
I am subscribed.
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I have been looking into WW. I am so overweight that I am just miserable and I have tried lots of things, but never WW. I have just been hesitant because of the money involved and the meetings. I am basically very shy about my weight and just didn’t want to go. I would love a chance to try it out online. I am trying to walk at least every other evening and get on track for my health so this would really be great. thanks for sharing and good luck.
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I would love to win this! I am trying to lose the last of my baby weight right now and I think this would help.
I subscribe via email.
I would love this. I have 3 kids and my body is just not what it use to be. I just recently quit smoking and I have started eating in place of it. I am ready to be healthy for myself and my kids. I have been overweight, underweight, average weight for my height, but I have never felt healthy. I am ready for a plan that helps my reach the goal I am trying to reach.
Will be willing to share.
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Thanks again!!!
I’m already a subscriber!
It would be great to win this because I have to have a hysterectomy in a couple of weeks and I’m seriously contemplating getting back on Weight Watchers to not only lose the weight I currently want to lose, but to NOT gain the usual 10-15 lbs. most women gain after the procedure. I know WW works because I’ve done it on my own and lost 50 lbs. a few years ago. I think it would work much better if I actually had the WW tools to utilize, instead of just “winging it” on my own. I would definitely post about it, because that would be great motivation! Thanks for the chance!!
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I am a subscriber.
I need to win so that I can loose the rest of my pregnancy weight. I still don’t quite feel right in my pre-pregnancy clothes and we don’t exactly have money for me to go out shopping. I would definitely share my tips with the readers. Thanks for the chance.
OH, this would be so sweet! I have been wanting to join weight watchers for so long now, but my husband says it is too expensive and a load of junk… this would be great to show him that it is effective, so I could continue on after the first 3 months! I packed on almost 100 pounds during my last pregnancy, and although I’ve lost most of that, it seems so hard to stay on a constant positive track, joining a group that I’ve heard such wonderful things about would be so amazing! Oh, and I would so totally give blog updates to ya’!
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I would love this subscription. I have followed the weight watchers plan off and on for years and would love to renew my focus!
I got your button. Rightside on my favorite scroll!
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This is exciting. I would love to win. If I have to post about it…….I will not be able to eat my chips & pepsi at midnight while I am blogging :) It would help me be accountable :)
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Oh Briana I really need this and I would gladly share my journey with you and your readers. I am now praying to the random integer god to watch out for my number. Please, please, please.
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I did WW four years ago, and the online subscription is a great resource! I am going back to WW meetings this year, and would love to add this to my weight loss arsenal. I’d be happy to share my story if I win.
Hey I would really like to try to lose some weight and I think that weight watchers might just help me out.
I would like to give it a try. I need to lose about 20 pounds. My dads wife just got to her goal weight using ww and lost 85lbs in one year. I would be wiiling to share how it goes.
I really need to loose weight and maybe by getting back on 1st shift and cooking healthy foods again for the family I can loose some but WW would be a great way to get started. I am in my late 50s and need to lose weight so I feel better.
Karen
Not me! I swear by SparkPeople.com. Of course, I’ve been slacking off lately. :( (Darn holidays anyway!) But they have food and fitness trackers, exercise videos, and loads of really sane, useful advice. Plus a really great, helpful community. And it’s even free, for those of us who don’t necessarily have any extra room in our budgets right now.
Whatever motivates you though! :)
I subscribe.
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I’d love to win because we are trying to eat healthier and I would share my journey.
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Good luck! I lost 35 pounds with WW this past year. I’m frequently on the website as I did the plan online also, that and I’m a message board ‘ho. Lots of great supportive people there.
I have some recipes on my health blog and some links to other WW recipe sites. Enjoy!
I would love to win this. I’ve had 3 kids in the last 3 1/2 years. Yes back to back to back. I haven’t had time to get any of the baby weight off cause each time I’m about to start I get pregnant again:) I don’t do well losing weight alone so this would be a great opportunity to challenge myself.
I would really like to win this! Like many moms, after having my first child, I lost most of my baby weight, but have about 10 to go. The problem is that the 10 lbs. are not so much that it motivates me to lose it…it’s almost like I’ve just accepted that I now weigh 10 lbs. more. I would love to share my journey with your readers…and hopefully inspire someone who is in the same situtation. Thanks for the chance to win!
I subscribe via Google Reader.
I’d love to win this and would be more than happy to share my progress! I’m ready to make some positive changes in my eating and work towards results. I’ve heard great things about WW and would love this chance to try it for free.
second entry: i just blogged about your ww giveaway!
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I’m a true WW believer. I tried it a year and a half ago and lost 20 much needed pounds. I kept them off for quite a while until I fell back into my original eating patterns (not healthy ones) and have gained the 20 back.
I think WW recipes are great; my family enjoys the meals I make with them. I was hoping to join again but because of various things going on, I have to keep the money tight. Winning would be great because, as I said, I know it works.
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i would love to join you! since the BIRTH of my daughter, i have gained 45 lbs…yes, you read that right..45 lbs…this year i made the resolution to get healthier and lose at least 20 lbs (but i want to lose more than that obviously!!) i feel so sluggish and i need some more energy..not only because my daughter is now a toddler, but because we’re hoping to adopt a baby this year..and i’m going to need all the energy i can possibly get!!! i would also love to be held accountable by someone else.
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Just signed up for the daily email. Like I said…WW has worked for me in the past and I’m ready to get back on the wagon!
I would LOVE this. I did WW on my own last year and lost 25 lbs., so I know it works! In my area there is only one meeting option once a week and it doesn’t work for me. WW online would be perfect and I could get back in the game!
I also just signed up for your news feed via Google reader!
This would be a fantastic opportunity for me. I am a mother of two year old twin daughters and I am trying to get back into shape and lose weight. I currently have been tracking my calories in a journal, but it would be easier to do it online. Of course I would be willing to share my experience with your other readers!
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i just signed up for the daily email :)
I would so love to win this! We moved to the boonies and it has been hard to find someone to been accountable with.
I am very passionate about health and love to encourage others – so I would for sure be excited to report my experiences!
I would love to win this. I have been putting it off for quite a while and need to be accountable to others in trying to lose weight. I would be more than happy to share!
I am a subscriber! (I know – first one never wins, but someone has to be first, right?!)
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I so want this! Not only bc it would be free for 3 months, but because if I were to be held accountable by somewhere other then my own blog, I would be more likely to do it!
thanks for the chance.
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