Weight Watchers Lose for Good

I mentioned in a previous post that I’m a big believer in the Weight Watchers program.  I’ve struggled with my weight for most of my life (like since puberty).  Weight Watchers it the ONLY program that has ever worked for me.  I’m a lifetime member and a regular meeting attender.  It works ladies (and guys).  Really.

As if losing weight and keeping it off wasn’t motivation enough, now Weight Watchers is doing something REALLY COOL.  The company is kicking off a Lose for Good campaign through which it will donate one pound of food for every pound Weight Watchers members lose.  The donations will go to Share Our Strength, the leading organization working to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry, and Action Against Hunger, which helps feed people in trouble parts of the world. The campaign lasts through Oct. 18. 

This campaign hit home with me. A few months back, I was sitting in church watching this video of children in some other part of the world who were starving.  I remember saying to my husband, “Gosh. I wonder how those kids would feel if they knew there were people here who pay money for drugs that make them less hungry so they can lose weight, or who pay money to surgeons to put bands around their stomachs so they won’t eat so much.  It would be incomprehensible to them to know that some people have so much food that they need help keeping weight off, while they have so little food that they can’t keep enough weight on to stay healthy.”  Then, I opened my September/October issue of Weight Watchers magazine (which is a great magazine, full of motivational stories, ideas and awesome recipes), and there was announcement of the Lose for Good campaign.  The campaign dialogue,   which I will paraphrase here, is awesome.  “Why is that some of us have enough and some of us don’t? When did balance lose its balance?  What if you and me and he she started taking a little better care of we?  What if we could help each other by helping ourselves — by taking what we didn’t need and giving it to people who needed it –   not everything, just what we could stand to lose?  The more we all lost, the more they’d gain. Then one day, hungry might just become happy.”

Doesn’t that just make sense?  So if you are among the masses who wants or needs to lose weight, and if you’d love to be down on the scale before you have to start worrying about those extra pounds that are the unwanted “present” of the holidays, then now is the perfect time to join Weight Watchers.  Your loss will be someone else’s gain — for real.