Video summary
The video begins with the host, Anita, addressing her audience from a Monday morning setting, humorously noting the arrival of landscapers before diving into the serious topic of her personal struggle. She explains that during a recent shutdown period, she watched her weight gain significantly because she had lost her sense of purpose or "why." This lack of direction led to feelings of depression and aimlessness, particularly after her grandson moved out and returned to his father's home. Anita realized that for years, her life revolved around raising the child, and when that responsibility ended without a new goal, she felt useless and questioned the value of losing weight or maintaining any routine at all.
Her turning point arrived unexpectedly when her grandson asked her to take him to school, reigniting her sense of being needed. This simple request restored her purpose, giving her back the excitement and motivation she had felt in the beginning of her Weight Watchers journey. She describes feeling "born again" as she immediately cleaned her car, dressed properly, and prepared for the day, realizing that she still has a vital role to play. Anita shares that this renewed sense of purpose is crucial for overcoming mental barriers and self-hatred, urging viewers who feel stuck or unsure about their goals to reflect on what gives their lives meaning right now, whether through writing it down or simply talking to themselves.
To help others regain their footing, Anita emphasizes the importance of keeping things simple and returning to the basics of the Weight Watchers program. She advises viewers to weigh and measure their food accurately rather than eyeballing portions, as this prevents slipping off track. Additionally, she stresses the necessity of drinking water, suggesting that if plain water is unappealing, people can add lemon juice or use enhancers to make it enjoyable. Her philosophy is to avoid overcomplicating the process with excessive planning or trying to cheat the system, but instead to do exactly what the program instructs while finding joy in simple foods like yogurt and overnight oats that she currently enjoys.
In conclusion, Anita expresses her excitement about restarting her weight loss journey and filming new content once her equipment is back, promising to share more recipes like a Monte Cristo sandwich. She thanks her community for their support and encourages anyone struggling with their "why" to remember that they all have a purpose to discover. Her final message is one of hope and simplicity: drink your water, follow the program's guidelines without trying to cheat, and trust that the weight will come off if you stay consistent. She ends by wishing her viewers a great day and reminding them to know where their bathrooms are before signing off with a cheerful goodbye.
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good morning good morning good monday
morning
it's monday
we all know what monday means
the landscapers are here and they're
coming around my side of the building
that's what that means oh my gosh
let me see if i close this door if it'll
help hold on
uh if you don't have your water take
this time to go grab it while we have
this quick little chat okay good morning
well i'm gonna do the best i can because
i want to talk i have something on my
mind that's been on my mind all morning
that i think is really important
and if i wait for these guys to split i
might lose it i might lose the thoughts
that are looming around in this noodle
of mine
i'm gonna take a drink of water
first one of uh we'll see how many i can
get in today see how many you can get in
today
i apologize
for the lovely sound
i should have known
they were here when i came back
so i want to make this a brief video but
i want to see if anybody else
all right
i'll be back
[Music]
all right sounds like he shifted paths
and is on the other side of the building
i want to start off by telling you this
is just a little chatty video some stuff
that i want to get out
the type of video that you'll take into
the bathroom with you when you're
cleaning your toilets
when you're making your bed
going through the car wash and you just
need something to listen to
the beginning may sound a little
down but please stick with me till we
get to the top of the mountain and over
the other side and it will all make
sense
i don't script my videos
when i have something on my heart that i
want to talk about when it comes to ww
and weight loss and all that good stuff
i just kind of come on here and talk
so if you're new here welcome
i hope you'll stick around my name's
anita this is chit chat paddy wack we
have a wonderful wonderful community
here
everybody is i don't have lipstick on my
teeth do i
stick around
uh if you like this video hit the like
but hit the subscribe button and join us
as
as some of me and my buddies
get back into the swim
but you must always have your water when
you join me okay
i have made a huge
deduction
okay while we were shut down i saw my
weight
climb
and climb and climb and i would say to
myself at the next this point i would
give myself you know this
next 10 pound mark or 5 pound mark right
we got to do something about this okay
but it just kept going it just kept
going
because i had no why
and this is all about my why okay so i
had no why i was sitting at home sitting
on the couch watching tv
uh helping oliver with his schooling
it just
it didn't matter and then and then the
depression crept up stick with me guys
it's not gonna be a sad video i promise
quite the controlling
okay so then in april
my grandson who's lived with me since
kindergarten moved in with his dad
and unbeknownst to me
i went into a huge stage of mourning
that i wasn't prepared for
and wasn't aware of
and then i got to thinking about it
uh i felt as if i had no
purpose
my children are grown one's getting
married next month the other one's
thriving neither of them live near me
uh steve's a pretty self-sufficient guy
but my life for so many years was
raising and taking care of my grandson
and then that was no more
and i wasn't consciously realizing the
effect it was having on me
and then i my mind went to really dark
places like well why
lose weight i'm you know i'm just gonna
what does it matter what does any of it
matter i have no purpose
yesterday also as you know that about i
told you a couple weeks ago i've clicked
back in and i am excited and i have been
on track perfectly on on track
and i'm tracking everything i'm drinking
all my water
uh i'm not moving as much as i should
but that's gonna take a turn today
yesterday
i got a text from oliver saying nana can
you take me to school tomorrow
you guys
it did a number on me like you wouldn't
believe i jumped up at first i answered
and said of course yes i can't wait
you have to keep in mind i've been in
charge of this child's schooling since
kindergarten in fact the reason he came
to live with me is because nobody was
making any attempt to get him into
school finally i just took over and he
was with me from then on
i got up i took a shower i got dressed i
took my car through the car wash because
i wasn't taking my boy to school in a
dirty car and my car is so dirty because
i never go anywhere
and that was my why
is back and so is the landscapers
[Laughter]
anyways anybody else who's out there who
i've gotten dms from and even in my
comments and stuff people who have
gained during the shutdown
and
are in the same boat as i am
are you perhaps having any trouble with
your why
and maybe not knowing it because boy
howdy it seems like that's what was
going on with me
and i got up early today and i have that
feeling back of being needed
and got dressed i've had a banana i
haven't had breakfast yet i've had my
water i drink coffee sometimes sometimes
i don't sometimes do today i don't
didn't
i went and picked him up and i saw him
and in his little tween face you know
because he can't give away too much
anymore he used to be that nana all over
me loving because you know he's at that
age now that doesn't happen anymore but
i could tell that he was happy to see me
i could tell that he was excited for me
to see his new big humongous school
and i just have a spark back
and it's my why
my why is back i am not
not needed by my grandson or my
son-in-law
i believe from some information i've
been gathering they were just trying to
give me a break after all the years that
i've been in charge of everything and i
took it personally thinking that they
didn't love me anymore and they do and
we all know better than that
what are you trying to say lady i turned
you on i thought this was a white
watching channel we don't know about you
and your grandson and not wanting
it
this is for anybody else who might be
struggling with their why
and they don't know it and they don't
realize it because that's what was going
on with me
and i'm so happy to have it back and i
feel
i feel born again i do i feel completely
born again i feel my routine is back
when we were shut down
and oliver and i were just stuck here at
home and he was do you know i used to
walk him to school and then i would
continue on my walk around all of the
town i'm the town walker was the town
walker but i will get back there
and then i'd pick him up and walk some
more and then in the evenings i'd walk
and we i had this great routine
and then
when you know what happened it all fell
to the wayside
and then he moved out
but you know what i'm back
and i'm feeling so much better because
he does need me they do need me and i do
have purpose
and you have purpose too
and if you're feeling like
what's that purpose or i know i have
purpose but i just don't feel like
losing weight right now or i can't
figure out what the problem is give it
some good thought give it do you really
know what your y is or what my why has
changed in the four years i've done ww
weight watchers and what what
my why has changed
many times
and my why is back and it's way more
important right now this morning this
time out
than it's ever been in the past
and i'm excited and i just wanted to
share that excitement with you
and see if maybe i could be of any help
to anybody else who
is kind of a float out there in the
ocean of
what the heck
because during that time that we were
all
you know doing nothing honey
not all of us but most of us
it did a number on us mentally it did a
number on us physically and it's time to
get our poop in a group as i like to say
and get back there and i'm on my way and
i'm also
i'm gonna take it slow
i'm
i'm just
i've got the feeling back i have the
honeymoon feeling back remember when you
first joined weight watchers
how excited you were and you're gonna do
everything right you went to the market
you got all the stuff that you wanted
and needed and went through your app or
at the time the books and what foods are
good and what foods are not all foods
are there's no bad foods but what's good
for you
on on this big
change in your life
i'm feeling that again
i think the weather has something to do
with it being out of lockdown definitely
has 99.9
to do with
it
and i just wanted to share
in case there's somebody
within the sound of my voice
that is or was in the same place i was
and you know what i was giving myself a
hard time for feeling that way it's like
come on anita snap out of it you know
every day i would wake up and it's like
i'm just gonna go back to sleep why why
get up what do i have to do i don't know
there's nothing to do
i can do laundry and dishes and mop and
do all that stuff in my sleep but i just
felt like i had no purpose but you know
what i do have a purpose we all have a
purpose you have a purpose
if you're not sure what your why is
right now sit down and maybe
write some things out or if you're like
me and you hate writing
i hate writing don't ever tell me to
write something down because i ain't
gonna do it
uh or have a talk with yourself and look
around
because it's so important at this point
right now i'm just babbling but i had to
get that babble out there my why is back
my uh
excitement is back
self-hatred is is slowly leaving
my home and my heart and my head
i
try not to look in the mirror because
sometimes it's like oh my gosh look how
far you let this go anita how did you
let this get so out of control
but i'm not gonna do it anymore
i'm starting at the beginning again and
we're gonna do this
and those of you who i'm in dms and
whatnot with i know you're there to do
it with me one last thing i want to say
for anybody who's new here and did
listen to this thank you
i appreciate it i'm so happy to have you
on board
a couple of things that i always repeat
in my videos is i keep it very simple
i'm just a simpleton
i have
pretty much the same foods only because
i enjoy them now if i stop enjoying
those foods i switch them out for
something else right now i'm enjoying my
normal breakfast is a yogurt and an
overnight oats i have a playlist here if
you look around
of a lot of
cook with me's that i've done
my overnight oats all sorts of different
flavors and kinds that are delicious now
some of those oats aren't made anymore
so you're gonna have to use a different
one if you have any questions
please put them in the comments below
i'm more than happy to help
so i keep it super simple because the
more i think about it if i inundate
myself with all of it and it's like oh
all i think about then
you know
you have to drink your water you have to
drink your water if you don't like water
which so many people do not find a way
to like it get some water enhancer at
the market i put lemon juice in mine
every time i fill it up
my husband goes to the 99-cent store and
buys me bottles of lemon juice that he
keeps on hand in the refrigerator
downstairs for me
that guy i couldn't do this without him
find a way to make yourself enjoy it
uh luckily i like it and i also like it
ice cold
so keeping it simple drinking our water
uh you gotta weigh and measure
especially well not especially if you're
new everybody needs to weigh and major
sometimes we kind of get off track and
eyeball it we think that's right i did
that with some cottage cheese the other
day
i put it in the bowl and then i thought
i'm gonna see how close i was and then i
got my half cup out and i was over
so way in measure if you really want to
get it off which i do
go back to the basics go back to the
basics weigh and measure
drink your water
keep it simple do whatever you have to
do if you're a planner then plan away
i'm not a planner
do what's right for you
but do what wwe tells you to do don't
try
don't
try cheating the program
i don't know if that's the right word
just do what they tell you and i can
guarantee you
the weight will come off because it did
for me
when i do it the way they tell me to do
it
and that's about it
i just wanted to get on here and talk
i'm picking up my ipad today i'll be
able to shoot with my camera again i
have a monte cristo ww moni or which
drizzle
drizzle me skinny
recipe for monte cristo sandwich this
sounds great now is it the disneyland
monte cristo sandwich no because that
would be about 500 smart points
but let's try it out i'm gonna film it
as soon as i get all my stuff back and i
can do it the way i'm used to
i thank you for hanging out with me and
listening to my little spiel i hope your
toilet's nice and sparkly now
hope that that if you unloaded the
dishwasher you're done
you can move on with your day
but most of all thank you for coming
back and hanging out with me as i embark
on round two of getting
this weight loss off weight loss off
that's that right
drink your waters
let's try that again
drink your water
and know where your bathrooms are
have a great day and i'll see you soon
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