Thanks!!! That makes much more sense. I haven't been hungry not eating the activity points so far, but now I won't feel so guilty if I go over my 26 and dip into them. You're doing great, congratulations!!!
Thanks!
Oh yes, don't feel guilty. I mean, if you go into Weekly/Activity and you track it accurately and over a period of weeks you're not losing, you *know* where to go, what to do. If you do continue to lose even while going into the "extra" points, then yay! But don't feel guilty.
Those are great tips Bumbershoot, thanks!
I love to snack on dry cereal and I always measure it out (well now I do, haha) but like you I would just pour a big bowl, I was probably eating 2-3 servings in one bowl!
Cereal was one of my downfalls, that's for sure.
I wish I could run. I try to build up my walking stamina, but my legs (mostly my shins) don't enjoy treadmill walking, and it is still a little too cold to run outside.
I was planning on doing a 5K in may, but idk if that's gonna happen unless I can get my stamina up.
I dislike walking with a passion. There's something about the way my hips are built that makes walking *hurt*. But I can run (once my lungs and leg muscles catch up with me) withOUT hurting. It's the weirdest thing. So I simply couldn't walk on the treadmill for exercise, and even while doing the couch to whatever-K programs it must be funny to watch, because I'll be running running running, then go to the walk portion and I limp. So weird.
Anyway, so when I was first losing and starting to seriously work out again, I just used the elliptical. That's what started getting my lungs and heart and muscles ready to MOVE again.
Thanks for the tips and support, Debbie and Bumbershoot. I do need to sit down and go through my materials. I have been using etools to track, which makes it somewhat easy to not read all the "stuff".
I hope I am not being overly ambitious with my 5K goal for February. I figure I can surely walk part of it if I need to. I am giving myself 3-4 months of walking/elliptical/initial weight loss before I start the C25K program. If I can start it over the summer or even by the fall, I should be in shape for Feb 2014.
Hi to all the other newbies.
etools does indeed make it easy to not really *know* the program. And then one day you'll be on vacation, or your internet/phone app will be out, or they are doing maintenance, and then you don't totally know what to do.
I don't think you're being overly ambitious at all.
I track everything, even if its something I probably should have said no to.
Good for you! I read somewhere in the last year that...your body tracks it all, so we should, too.
Can I join you all? I just started WW two weeks ago. I have about 30lbs I'd like to lose, though truthfull I should probably lose 50. So far I'm down 3lbs and I'm pretty pleased with the program.
My one concern before I started was that I am a runner, and I use that term very loosely, and after long runs I tend to be starving that evening or the next day. But so far I've done ok just using the Activity Points I earn.
I need to buy a food scale. Thats on my wish list!
Looking forward to reading all the tips/advice on here!
I got my OXO scale at BedBathBeyond. I hear they have coupons, but I didn't have one at the time. Wait for a coupon!
There are lots of people on here that do not eat their activity points, but I personally don't know what I would do if I weren't eating them. When I'm consistently working out, especially jogging, I become ravenous. Doing WW helps with that because I know that I do not get a huge milkshake for 3 miles on a treadmill, instead I get an extra *serving* of dinner, or 3 milano cookies, or whatever the points work out to, but I still do seem to *need* that extra food when I'm jogging.
And APs are calculated with a deficit anyway. "They" say to use 80 calories burned per AP (if using a heart rate monitor), and some use 100 (I use 80). Well if the very basic calculation for a point is 40 calories, then even with 80 you're already only eating half of what you've burned. Make sense?
Down 1.6 today for a total 81.2 off. Only 3.8 to reach my goal of 85 off by my next Disney trip (mid-April). I think it is doable in five weeks! My dd posted pics today of before and after on FB (she started maintenance last week) and someone asked where my pics were. I said I was going to take pics in Disney the same places I did in 2010 and then put those up for my before and in-progress-but-not-there-yet pics.
Woohoo!!!!!
I love that picture idea.
I read it all, and then I read it again when I need some more "motivation" the weekly handouts, the online articles--- and then I remembered the WISH threads. All of them keep me on track to my healthy lifestyle. (its not a diet).
