We Played “Pass the Pumpkin” At My Weight Watchers Meeting This Week

I love my Weight Watchers leader. She makes meetings a ton of fun.

This week we played what she called “Pass the Pumpkin.” It wasn’t just any old pumpkin. It was one that weighed exactly 5 pounds and she knew this because she took her Weight Watchers scale to the farmers market and weighed pumpkins until she found one that was “just right” (actually she said her husband had to do it because she has an injured back right now – wish I could have seen that!).

The pumpkin got passed around to everyone at the meeting. While each person held it, they told the entire group how many “pumpkins” (5 pound increments) of weight they had lost (you could practically see people doing the calculation in their head as they were dividing their weight loss by 5!).

It was fun to congratulate everyone on the weight they’ve worked so hard to lose. For me it was a great reinforcement of how much good work I’ve done at weight loss since I tend to look at how far I still have to go rather than how far I’ve come (yes, I’m more of a “glass half empty” rather than “glass half full” kind of person).

It was so cool to be able to say that I’ve lost almost 11 pumpkins (54 pounds)! That’s a lot of pumpkin pie!