The elephant in the room

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Hi All,One of the women in a large group I'm involved with has lost a considerable amount of weight through WW recently--and looks... to be 100% honest....great. She's probably lost about 100 lbs over several months. Has a bit more to go.I asked her if she feels hungry on WW, and a few other questions, and all her replies were "no--not hungry at all" and basically that "WW Rocks!"I have been on WW about 50 times and was always hungry, always miserable, and never successful.There is no return to dieting for me. Rock-bottom was definitely hit a while ago. BUT--she looks wonderful, and seems to feel wonderful, goes skinny-dipping with her husband in their beautiful in-ground pool after the kids are asleep, blah, blah, and here I am, struggling with my food intake, still using it, and definitely with no weight loss yet (and probably not for a long time--this process is slow).I admit it--I'm jealous of her weight loss, and jealous of her seeming effortless WW experience.The elephant in the room is not me--not referring to size--it's the FOOD PROBLEM. It is so disturbing--the fear that I'm kidding myself about IE, that I can't do it. I know that we are not supposed to focus on the weight--and I truly understand the rationale for that--but the weight-monster keeps appearing and re-appearing.I think about those times in young childhood when food really was only fuel--nothing else--except for the Good Humor ice cream in the summers when all of us would go flying for the GH truck and wait our turn. But that was normal, not using food.Any insights would be greatly appreciated. This sense of jealousy--of envy--and of fear that I'm deluding myself about IE--is very distressing.reputkow