I've been overweight for a long time - a long time.

A little more than a year ago, I was diagnosed as diabetic. Fasting blood sugar numbers typically ranged in the high 120s to low 160s. There was a likelihood that things would get a lot worse if I didn't change how I ate.

Being a member at Weight Watchers, I was losing weight. But not fast enough for my doctor. I was pretty rigorous on the program and so it was a mystery to me as to why "it wasn't working for me."

So I arranged for a mid-year appointment with my doctor and my diabetes care manager to discuss it. And the answer was that my metabolism was very slow. So I had to eat less than what Weight Watchers suggested.

The beauty of Weight Watchers is that they can accommodate this without it being disruptive of the meetings (which I do not miss), and they not only allow me to tell my story, but they encourage it and some have found it inspirational.

The result of some changes (and I'll describe more of them going forward) is that I'm now at the lowest weight I've been since the early 1990s (down more than 30p), and my blood sugar is now in the low 100s and sometimes even in the 90s! My vision has improved - I now wear weaker glasses than I did this time last year (when was the last time you heard about that from a middle aged guy)?

Do I attribute this 100% to Weight Watchers? No. But there is no way I would have done it without Weight Watchers.  Do I recommend it? Absolutely. Do I guarantee results with it? Nope.  We each have our journeys and my path will most likely not look like your path. It took me more than 2 years to get serious enough to really do everything I needed to do.

The good news? Weight Watchers can work with you as you walk on your path.

Highly recommended.