Hi from Lorna (the Losing!)

Hi Everyone,
I was so happy to be invited into this experience. Weight loss has been such a debilitating issue for me over the years.
This is my own wisdom to date. Diets, in general, don't work. If they did, most of us would be slender and healthy and happily moving on with our lives. I'm am pretty negative about the Dr. Bernstein's and Jenny Craig's of this world. The people who own them just get richer, and the rest of us are left feeling like failures. Because ultimately the main points for me are:
1) Eat less.
2) Whatever you eat, make is nutrionally dense and rich.
3) Exercise, move, walk more and more and more. Get that body feeling alive!
Of all of them, I think Weight Watchers has gotten the closest to being right these days. They have finanlly stopped that negative "all fats are evil" stance of theirs, and the pressure to use aspartame, which is a substance that is very hard on the nervous system and can cause reactive cravings. I went to few meetings again in the fall and for the first time, I felt they had the best weight loss support system going.
As for me, I definitely have been eating emotonally for a long time: loneliness, anxiety (my special life long friend), and boredom have been my big triggers. Eating is an instant gratification that puts all else at bay, for a short time. The long term damage though has been a low self body image and actually a reinforcement of the original triggers. But man oh man, those gratifications sure taste good.
So, lately, I actually have gone for some help to deal with the triggers, and I have a trainer and I'm working out 3X/week, which is my gift to me since I moved into the condo. No weight loss to date, but lots of new muscle and my figure, for what it is worth, is beginning to re-appear.
So, this invitation is a god-send, as I have been sporadically attempting to eat less and slow down those cravings of mine. I am way too much of a hippie rebel to go to any more meetings or to join some fad weight loss thingey again. I want to do this on my own, as my life is my own. The thing that scares me about Weight Watchers is way so many people feel addicted to their meetings and they cannot cope or slip off the plan when they don't go. I want to manage my life for me, whether I am busy at work or in Morocco surrounded by the best food in the world. I can no longer stomach feeling guilty about my weight and my choices.
Wow, this sounds a bit preachy. I don't mean it to be. I am just make a statement for myself.
So, my dears, I am in with bells on. I will be experimentling with power drinks and juicing and some raw foods, trying to figure out what best supports when I am away on the road all day for work and I cannot face another Harvey's veggie burger and diet cola. My trainer challenged me today to put aside 1-2 hours a week to actually prepare some foods for the week. New concept for spontaeous me!!!
By the way, what is the closing date?? Is it Christmas???
So, I wish both teams all the best and success up the wazoo! And, for my team - lats go out there and kick some butt - my own, to start with!
Love, Lorna