The "big" announcement of the morning is that last week I officially ended my very-profitable-for-them relationship with Jenny Craig. I have not stopped dieting, though, and in the last week have lost another pound on my own ... bringing me to within a centimeter of 25 pounds total.
The deal is (if you care) that when I reached the halfway mark of my weightloss with Jenny, they started transitioning me to half Jenny food, half food I prepare on my own. And it didn't take me long to figure out that if I'm doing half the work, I don't want to keep paying them any money.
Since you lose weight more slowly the closer you get to your goal weight, I knew that I was probably going to continue to lose at about a pound to a pound-and-a-half a week ... and I felt like if I continued to make good food choices at home and counted calories, I could probably maintain the pound-per-week on my own. I know that Thanksgiving is coming, and I know I'll eat more than I should next week, but I'll be miserable if I don't make some concessions over the holidays. And I flat out just don't want to be sad while everyone else is eating sweet potato casserole!
So anyway, I ordered my last Jenny shipment and have about 40 meals in my deep freezer, so if I eat some on my own and eat some Jenny meals on a schedule, that food should last me until about Christmas. That's my plan. We have some time coming up -- between Thanksgiving, Christmas and Disney -- during which Grayson will take unpaid time off, and it just doesn't make sense to keep paying so much to do something I feel pretty confident that I can now do on my own.
I have to give Jenny props, though ... I did lose almost 25 pounds on the program, and it taught me much better eating habits. I highly recommend trying it if you have weight to lose and you're wealthy. I do NOT recommend it if you live paycheck-to-paycheck and/or if you have good self-control on your own.
I'll continue to keep you posted ... maybe not weekly, but in general!
