I'm not on weight watchers (although considering it when we are better in the financial area, hopefully soon). I had gastric bypass in 2004 and it was highly successful. Even though I've gained back, it isn't an amount that frightens me, just an amount that I KNOW has to go and realize was a result of increased issues with MS that eliminated my ability to do what I used to do at the gym (I hated the gym, but learned to love it, and boy I miss is). Anyhow, as I said, I'm not doing weight watchers but seeing the comments in this thread a couple things came to mind that I'll share.
The comment about ditching prepared foods is a good one. The ingredients labels never help paint a easy to understand picture, and sure they usually have calorie counts for portion size blah blah blah, but the additives and whatnot put in to keep them shelf stable so long have all kinds of effect on our bodies and weight issues that we never really see clearly (until our hips expand!). My easy child struggled with some extra points most of her childhood (about age 6 she started gaining). I no longer keep a scale in the house, and have never focused on her weight, just tried changes that came across as normal. She stopped gaining but wasn't losing. Since she hasn't been splitting with her time at her dads (starting last June), she is home every single day and suddenly I had 100% control over the food she eats. I wanted to not focus at all on "weight" because I knew it was a touchy subject (especially since she is now 13 and we all know the importance of appearance for teen girls at that age). Instead I have not once ever told her the changes I made around here were done to help both her and I try to lose weight. I rarely ever use prepared food anymore, convenience may at times be missed, but the results have been well worth it. Since June I have lost 2 pant sizes. easy child on the other hand, I have watched lose a double chin, develop a cute defined waist, have the cutest cheek bones appear, her clothes look fabulous, the change for her is night and day. Part of it obviously is some slight height growth plus that hormonal change at that age into a shape more like a young lady than a child. But I know the biggest attribute to the shift with her is the end of prepared food. I began cooking from scratch, freezing leftovers (I cook more than we need for dinners just for this purpose) for the nights I don't want to/can't cook. That way our new form of convenience food is no longer frozen prepackaged chemical infused food (Also save a TON of money, which is great!). She (and I) are much more satisfied and have less urge to "graze". We eat smaller portions because the food is just more filling. We are no longer hungry so quickly following our meals, so much less "grazing". And we love veggies (fruit a little less) so we "graze" on those a LOT. We don't deprive ourselves of treats. We LOVE food and I LOVE cooking and (eek) baking. Luckily my S/O never gains weight and has a huge sweet tooth. So for us, if we want a baked treat, I bake it. easy child and I treat ourselves with a reasonable portion and by the time we want more or it "calls to us" from the kitchen to go for more, S/O has wiped it out and we don't get to indulge again lol.
Greek yogurt is so thick and creamy that even for me, not a HUGE yogurt fan, it ends up being a dessert type feeling when I have it. Since on WW so many fruits are zero points, and since like me you seem to not enjoy plain yogurt, I buy the plain and add a little splash of fresh (or concentrated if it's what i have) of lemon (you could use lime) and a small amount of vanilla. I keep that in the fridge and when I want a dessert like treat, I put a portion into a bowl and load it up with fresh fruit that adds the "sweet" in. The natural juices (especially strawberries!) sweeten without any added sugar. Alternately, we use the jazzed up plain yogurt as a fruit dip. We do at times, when having it as fresh fruit dip, add in a little bit of splenda brown sugar, which turns it into a near knock off of those caramel fruit dips that are wretched for someone that they sell near the fruits at the store. It's delicious and tastes so indulgent. Not sure how something like splenda works on WW though, so you may want to skip that. I probably shouldn't use it either, but do in small amounts at times because I tell myself it is better than straight sugar and because largely I've eliminated packaged stuff with chemicals in them, so this is minimal compared to previous eating patterns full of all manner of stuff now that I mostly cook from scratch.
I know you work, which makes it tougher to do from scratch, especially with two teens and all the rest on your plate. A crock pot can be your best friend! Easy prep within minutes in the morning, arrive home to wonderful luring smells and a dinner ready to serve. The upside being there would be leftovers for another meal for the whole family another day. It helps hugely to keep on track with cutting out prepared food, without the time consuming issues that come with a lot of recipes. The slow cooking also allows flavors to meld and enrich the taste, and we focus now much more on the rich flavors of our meals and enjoy each bite much more than flavorless prepacked foods that we ate in much larger portions.
We by no means are losing steadily as I hear those on WW do, but we ARE losing steadily and with no feeling of deprivation at all. It hasn't seemed at all like we are even trying to lose. We somehow even lost (or at least didn't gain) over the Christmas holidays, despite me baking up a storm (trust me, I baked a TON) and having all manner of comfort food type dinners which for us, are part of our love of the holidays. I can only wonder if we exercised better how much more we would have lost.
I am proud of you. Not really even over wanting to lose weight and doing something about it (Which obviously is awesome!). More, I am proud of you that you are doing something positive for YOU. You deal with a lot and I know you are pretty alone in managing you and your kiddos life. It is so easy to never focus on something YOU want, and yet it is so important. You deserve to put some of your time each day into loving yourself and doing something that motivates you and lets you take the focus off others needs and back onto yourself. So I'm incredibly proud of you for putting yourself first for a change with something, and wish you the best of luck!