Hi, my name is Kelly and I am affectionately known in social media circles as The Egg Lady. The Egg Mom. That Crazy Egg Lady. I love my Egglettes so I claim all those names and more. I’ve been following the Weight Watchers program for 20+ years.
This blog is dedicated to my fearless Weight Watchers leader, Gwen. She is the bravest and most transparent weight loss partner I have. After five or six half hearted but well-meaning attempts with WW before, my dear friend Karen and I decided to give Gwen’s group another go. This time was different though. We were both staring down the barrel of the big five-o (although Karen much closer to the barrel than I was hahaha!) and I was dealing with aging parents who both had significant health issues as a result of years of food abuse (and in my father’s case alcohol abuse as well. (Update: my father did pass away Easter Sunday 2019). I wasn’t going to let my lifestyle lead to insulin shots and dialysis like it had for them. This egg had to be cracked!
Queue Gwen. If you need to turn yourself in for the very first time or a half dozen tries later, you want a chick like her in your weight loss hen house. A word of encouragement, a knowing glance, I could keep going but just suffice to say I wish every Weight Watchers group had a Mother Hen like her.
20+ years later I hatched goal in the Points Plus program with Gwen chirping me along and have been a successful Lifetime member since 2014. The new Freestyle Program? I’m in love! (Zero-point eggs and all!)
The yolk of the story: among the many Gwen-isms we enjoy each week like finding an “accountabilibuddy”, referring to naturally skinny people as “civilians”, and a quote to close the end of each meeting, my all-time favorite -ism is Gwen’s confident declaration that no matter what else you have in your fridge, “If you have an egg, you have hope”. An egg could be just that, an egg. Or it could be a salad, a sandwich, an ingredient in an infinite number of meals or recipes. Gwen is right, if you an egg… just one egg… you have hope.
So this is my Egg… and I pray it gives you hope!
My blog and YouTube channel are my gift to other Weight Watcher-ing women (and men!) and the countless hours myself and my daughter KC spend researching, posting, producing, and more is our free gift of hope to others on this weight loss journey.
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LOVE BUCKS (AKA EASY WAYS TO SUPPORT THE EGG)
We get asked all the time, “How can we help? Where can we send money? Is joining really FREE?”
The best way for you to support us is by sending what we like to affectionately call “Love Bucks.” These are free things you can do to encourage and motivate us as well as helping other find out little corner of the Internet.
Our favorite Love Bucks include:
- Subscribing to our YouTube channel
- Liking, sharing, and commenting about us on your favorite social network
- Following us on Instagram (When we reach 10,000 there will be a big giveaway!)
- Tuning in for Facebook Live Chats on Sunday nights at 8 PM Eastern
- Visiting the If You Have an Egg Pinterest boards with Freestyle Smart Points
- Shopping with any of the affiliate sponsors that appear on the blog or YouTube channel
- Simple Living Air Fryer (Kelly uses the 5.8 quart digital air fryer)
- Kitchen supplies from KC Kitchen Center
- Joining the EggLady Squad
- Rocking your favorite If You Have an Egg apparel from our Spreadshirt store
