Oh good! I thought I was the only one! I don't want to pay the fee forever, but I am a little nervous about maintaining on my own!
If you're at all willing to go to meetings, there are some people who join meetings when they are closing in on the end. Then they hit goal then Lifetime as a meeting member, so they get the perk of free meetings and the code for free etools. It does mean a weigh-in per month, but it's free as long as you're in the Lifetime zone.
I know myself, and know that I will always need to do something official; all I ever managed to do on my own was gain, LOL. So I know that I would do that, if I had done online, so I could have the support and official stuff
and have it for free.
Together, DH and I have lost 98 lbs so far. Pretty neat. I cannot believe that I'm starting to close in on the end-of-losing. And it seems that when I'm smaller I look taller. I've had 3 people tell me that I look much taller than 5'3", and those same people have been really weirded out to know that I'm still ~20 lbs above the max WW weight for my height. Now, this is not a *problem*, to have people saying this to me, LOL...but it's confusing! I'm just barely coming out of official "plus" sizes!
Did you guys see the "success" quote on WW Facebook? "
Success will never be a big step in the future; Success is a small step taken just NOW." I love that. I'm so glad I took the small step of joining last February, after growing so sick of myself and my lack of health and my ankles swelling immensely while at Disney/Universal, and being in pain with every single step I took.... I'm so glad to know I have ankle-bones now. I really wasn't sure I had them anymore!
And I'm really looking forward to being in some pictures this trip!
That has reminded me...for those who still might not want to be in pictures, get in pictures! Don't be mean to yourself; you deserve to be in the pictures. Get in the pictures (anyone else have the 2005 planning video with Erin and Luke, etc? I'm reminding myself of "get in the photo....."). You'll be glad later.