Hello! Hallo! Hola! Pick a language you like! I’m Zig, and this is my story.

I was born in Germany. My parents and I emigrated to the USA when I was very young. Although I grew up in the United States, I had a European upbringing which included the abundance of food, the dysfunction of stuffing feelings with food, the love of learning, and the ethic of working hard. I am an only child. Consequently, I was a lonely, heavy teenager who was considered a "brain", and spent quite a bit of time reading!

I first joined WW in college after I saw myself on video during pre-student teaching. I lost 40 pounds and got to LIFETIME on the really old, really restricted program, but I left WW when I graduated college and moved away from my hometown. I taught school, got married, had two kids, and entered the viscious cycle of lose weight / gain weight on my own for 20 years doing the usual stupid diets.

In 1992, I went back to WW, got to LIFETIME again losing 46 pounds, and proceeded to gain the weight back, about 30 pounds of it. So, for the last time in 1998, I went BACK to WW, got back to LIFETIME ( 10 pounds lower than goal), and decided one of the ways to keep accountable and keep the weight off was to become a leader when they asked me.

Now, I still teach school...still have two kids ( but, I am going to be a grandmother)...I am superintendent of my Sunday School, and I have kept off the weight for 2 years and 3 months as of this writing. I have been a WW leader for 2 years, and hope I am helping people in their weight loss journeys. Many things have changed this last time I have gotten to goal, included a burned down house...but I have learned so much about so much...I hope to continue working for WW...I love it!

In my rare spare time, I love to walk...read...draw...and get on the computer with my friends.