Weight Watchers Chat - Part II

[rusafee1183]

I have a question about the points on the website. I looked on the site to see what my best option would be for lunch at Subway. It looked like the 6" roasted chicken breast on wheat bread was 10 points, but the same thing on the 6" flatbread was only 8.

So I got a 6" flatbread roasted chicken breast with lettuce, tomato, green pepper, cucumber, banana pepper and sweet onion dressing.

But, then my friend said that she looked at the Subway site and that the flatbread looked worse than the wheat bread - so I looked. And sure enough, when I ran the numbers the flatbread was 6 points and the wheat bread was 5points.

Which numbers do I trust?? My sandwich was either 8 points (like it said on the WW site) - or 9/10 points

 

[BabyTigger99]

Just back from weigh in, and oh man, was it good to have our regular leader back! She was on vacation last week, and the sub we had was a dud!! Lost another 1.2 pounds. Hopefully, with some great tracking and exercise this week, I should hit 50 pounds next week!!!

 

[sjms71]

Okay, can I join you all? I've been reading for awhile so I thought I should post instead of stalk

Anyway, to introduce myself. My name is Jennifer. I'm in no way a newbie to WW, only to this thread. I've been slim to average my whole life (ranging from a size 4-8), never having a weight issue, except for the year I quit smoking in which I gained 50# (going from a size 8 to a 16). That year I joined WW just because it seemed like a fun thing to do (I have OCD so tracking food using points seemed like a game). I quickly lost that 50# and then some (getting down to a size 4 after losing 70# ) and kept it off for years. Then, a few years ago, I started working full-time again and returned to school to get my teaching degree. Yes, very stressful and the weight slowly came back. I never stopped doing WW, so I'm at a loss as to how it actually happened--honestly--other than probably stress hormones! The weight was not only NOT coming off, but I was gaining instead. Still, I never gave up. I am a runner, and I admit my running is not always consistent because I'm a teacher and with my schedule and lack of energy, sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. Before you say that's my problem, know that last summer, I ran 8+ miles every single day and lost not one ounce.

I have never been to a meeting just because of my schedule not matching theirs, and the fact that I don't need to answer to anyone else. I am my own worst critic! I lost the first 70# online and will do it again. But still, it would be nice to be able to chat and commiserate with people fighting the same battles as I am. Can I join you all? You seem like a very friendly bunch!

hey Jennifer, good luck you did it before you can do it again, . Like robin said are you eating any of your activity points?

Just wanted to say, I went to WDW for 11 days on the deluxe dining plan and only gained FIVE POUNDS!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO so proud! haha

now that's something to be happy about.....I think . No really it will be off in no time. I am up that much myself do to dining and not deluxe and 7 days. But usually 1/2 of mine is usually water weight.

Thank you! Just to be accountable to someone other than me , I gained 1.8# in the past 2 weeks. Dusting myself off and back on track today.

Have a great day everyone! Happy tracking...

What's done is done, like you said dust yourself off and move forward

Just back from weigh in, and oh man, was it good to have our regular leader back! She was on vacation last week, and the sub we had was a dud!! Lost another 1.2 pounds. Hopefully, with some great tracking and exercise this week, I should hit 50 pounds next week!!!

Woohoo OMG, 50 is amazing you can do it!

 

[AKbabe]

This is a friendly bunch and you are welcome here. The WW plan changed in November of last year. Did you make the change or are you doing the former plan? Just curious. I love my weekly meetings. I really feel empowered after going to the meeting. I schedule it like I schedule my other meetings and commitments. Sometimes I have to miss for court or client meetings, but I nearly always am able to find an alternate time that will work. Our center even does meetings Saturday morning and Sundays. We have a couple WW employees on this board and they might be able to help you address some issues, but I'm wondering if making time to talk with a leader about your challenges might be helpful to you.

Hi Sandi! Yes, I started the new plan last year and I love it! As far as going to meetings, that won't help, because I'm pretty sure it's a medical thing (I do have thyroid issues). When I actually have time, I will get to the the doctor's office. And I really can't do the meetings when they have them. I DO lose weight, just not as much as I should especially since I do exercise, and that's from doing the plan perfectly! (from experience; after losing 70# your pretty much become an expert, LOL) And I've never

Thanks for the welcome!

 

[AKbabe]

Welcome Jennifer!

Since you say that you're OCD and tracking points is a kind of a fun challenge, are you still tracking? Have you wrapped your head around the new system? I know that 29 points (PLUS 49 weekly points) must have been quite a shock to you when you were used to eating just 18 points. Lastly, are you counting and eating your activity points?

Hi Robin!
Yes, I still track points, both online and on my phone. The new plan is actually easier, so I adjusted pretty quickly when they switched last year. The ONLY thing I sometimes do that is wrong is under-eat. Not on purpose, but because I fall asleep I plan my menus out several days in advance of what I'm going to eat, but sometimes I fall asleep before I've eaten all I need to. I can't help that unfortunately. I'm a teacher and I'm lucky if I can stay awake until 7:30 at night (that'll get better as the school year settles down). I also play around with using my activity points. Sometimes I lose when I use them, sometimes I don't. I know there's no magic formula or I wouldn't have put most of the weight back on. I know it will eventually come off. I just like having friends to talk to who can "listen" when I need to talk (such as when I get up at 4 AM). They don't have meetings then, I'm afraid.

Thanks for the welcome!!

 

[sjms71]

I have a question about the points on the website. I looked on the site to see what my best option would be for lunch at Subway. It looked like the 6" roasted chicken breast on wheat bread was 10 points, but the same thing on the 6" flatbread was only 8.

So I got a 6" flatbread roasted chicken breast with lettuce, tomato, green pepper, cucumber, banana pepper and sweet onion dressing.

But, then my friend said that she looked at the Subway site and that the flatbread looked worse than the wheat bread - so I looked. And sure enough, when I ran the numbers the flatbread was 6 points and the wheat bread was 5points.

Which numbers do I trust?? My sandwich was either 8 points (like it said on the WW site) - or 9/10 points

I would probably pick the number in between so 9. If it's something you may have again maybe recalculate it off of subways website ahead of time to see what number you get. I have found WW website different then the actual restaurant website on a few things but not much.

 

[shinysparklybubbles]

Hey everyone! I'm back on the WW wagon tomorrow, I started earlier in the year, lost 21 lbs and probably gained it all back. My weight has been a struggle my whole life. I feel like crap, look like crap and it's got to stop. I pray that I can get my butt in gear and stick with it!

 

[rusafee1183]

I would probably pick the number in between so 9. If it's something you may have again maybe recalculate it off of subways website ahead of time to see what number you get. I have found WW website different then the actual restaurant website on a few things but not much.

Thank you

I was thinking the same thing, so I logged it as a 9. It was just frustrating because I am new and trying to be super accurate and its very confusing.

 

[sjms71]

Hey everyone! I'm back on the WW wagon tomorrow, I started earlier in the year, lost 21 lbs and probably gained it all back. My weight has been a struggle my whole life. I feel like crap, look like crap and it's got to stop. I pray that I can get my butt in gear and stick with it!

Welcome back to WW. Making lifestyle changes are never easy. But you're getting back on plan. I never thought I could do it but I did so I know you can do it too.

Thank you

I was thinking the same thing, so I logged it as a 9. It was just frustrating because I am new and trying to be super accurate and its very confusing.

Hang in there it will get easier to track and estimate if you need to as you go along .

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

I'm actually looking forward to weighing in tomorrow! I've had a pretty good week I think. I didn't eat much fruit again and this time only used 7 of my WPA points and usually I eat all of them. I also tried 4 new dinner time recipes which helped to make the week better because I was getting a little bored with supper lately. I will admit though that I was hungry a few times but I ignored it and I only had chocolate twice. Tonight I had a strawberry dipped in melted milk chocolate and rolled in crushed butter finger pieces.

Good luck to with all the weigh-ins tomorrow!

 

[averill94]

Hey everyone! I'm back on the WW wagon tomorrow, I started earlier in the year, lost 21 lbs and probably gained it all back. My weight has been a struggle my whole life. I feel like crap, look like crap and it's got to stop. I pray that I can get my butt in gear and stick with it!

Good to hear you are back on WW!

I on the other hand am having a real tough time just messing around with the same few pounds. Got on the scale this morning (at home) and started to feel discouraged. Weigh in is on Sunday. The other day I gained .8- not huge but not the loss I REALLY need.....

Thanks for being here !

 

[AKbabe]

Tonight I had a strawberry dipped in melted milk chocolate and rolled in crushed butter finger pieces.

You're killing me! YUM!!

 

[sjms71]

I'm actually looking forward to weighing in tomorrow! I've had a pretty good week I think. I didn't eat much fruit again and this time only used 7 of my WPA points and usually I eat all of them. I also tried 4 new dinner time recipes which helped to make the week better because I was getting a little bored with supper lately. I will admit though that I was hungry a few times but I ignored it and I only had chocolate twice. Tonight I had a strawberry dipped in melted milk chocolate and rolled in crushed butter finger pieces.

Good luck to with all the weigh-ins tomorrow!

Good luck Jess!

 

[robinb]

I had, as expected, a good week . I lost 4.6 lbs even though I was 18 points over. I tracked every.single.point along the way, including pre-tracking my Badger football Saturday bratwurst and beer.

 

[robinb]

I also tried 4 new dinner time recipes which helped to make the week better because I was getting a little bored with supper lately.

Anything good? I made Rachael Ray's Chicken Provencal Stoup. I figured it came out to 10 cups total and it was 4 points per cup.

 

[Sandi]

I had, as expected, a good week . I lost 4.6 lbs even though I was 18 points over. I tracked every.single.point along the way, including pre-tracking my Badger football Saturday bratwurst and beer.

Way to go Robin! I'm impressed that you were such a faithful tracker.

 

[DisWeightWatcher]

Just wanted to say, I went to WDW for 11 days on the deluxe dining plan and only gained FIVE POUNDS!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO so proud! haha

Wow! That's fabulous! The last time we did deluxe I gained 8. That would not have been so bad except for the fact that I continued to eat that way for another 5 weeks after we returned.

Just back from weigh in, and oh man, was it good to have our regular leader back! She was on vacation last week, and the sub we had was a dud!! Lost another 1.2 pounds. Hopefully, with some great tracking and exercise this week, I should hit 50 pounds next week!!!

Wow! Great job! I can't even imagine how good approaching 50 must feel!

Hey everyone! I'm back on the WW wagon tomorrow, I started earlier in the year, lost 21 lbs and probably gained it all back. My weight has been a struggle my whole life. I feel like crap, look like crap and it's got to stop. I pray that I can get my butt in gear and stick with it!

Hang in! I am feeling the same way. I am just now finishing my second week (weigh in later today), and starting to feel a little hopeful.

I had, as expected, a good week . I lost 4.6 lbs even though I was 18 points over. I tracked every.single.point along the way, including pre-tracking my Badger football Saturday bratwurst and beer.

Wow! Amazing! Good job on the tracking!

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

You're killing me! YUM!!

How do you like me now??!

 

[shinysparklybubbles]

Just back from weigh in, and oh man, was it good to have our regular leader back! She was on vacation last week, and the sub we had was a dud!! Lost another 1.2 pounds. Hopefully, with some great tracking and exercise this week, I should hit 50 pounds next week!!!

That's awesome! Great job!

I had, as expected, a good week . I lost 4.6 lbs even though I was 18 points over. I tracked every.single.point along the way, including pre-tracking my Badger football Saturday bratwurst and beer.

Great loss! Good for you for pre planning!

How do you like me now??!

Not nice! Lol

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

Anything good? I made Rachael Ray's Chicken Provencal Stoup. I figured it came out to 10 cups total and it was 4 points per cup.

I was hoping you would ask!

Of the 4 dishes, this one was our favourite...Chili Pasta. I never would have thought to put chili sauce on top of pasta but it was wonderful. There are no beans in it, just ground beef, onions, chili powder, ground cumin, turmeric, beef broth and pasta sauce. There are 12 points on the plate.



This was the Ginger-Lime Chicken. These two flavours were great together and gave the chicken a little bit of a bite. It also called for sweet Thai chili sauce which was new for us. It's really good and now we've started putting it on other things. The zucchini was cooked with Mrs Dash garlic & herb salt-free seasoning. It was supposed to be served with plain basmati rice but I had leftover curry rice in the fridge so I just used that. There are10 points on the plate.




Our second chicken dish was salsa-cinnamon chicken with couscous. It's shown here with rice but we're having couscous with the leftovers tonight. I'm going to add salsa and dried cilantro to the couscous this time. It was made with boneless skinless thighs. This was really good and the cinnamon made it smell great. The raisins added a bit of sweetness which was nice. There are 10 points on the plate.



Lastly, our oven pork roast with applesauce. The roast slow-cooked all day in the oven. I put it in for 20 minutes at 450F in the morning then turned it down to 180F and left it for the rest of the day. About 30 minutes before serving it, I turned it up to 350F. It was cooked to perfection! I could hardly get it out of the pan in one piece. It was supposed to be served with gravy but I decided not to make it because of the points it would have cost me. I served it with mashed potatoes and zucchini noodles. Some cinnamon was added to the apple sauce. There are 11 points on the plate. (My 2 oil points are included in the zucchini)

Well, I hope you all enjoyed my dining review from the Dinner Survival cookbook! Feel free to comment.

Coming up this week, Spiced Cheddar Burgers, Sweet & Sour Chicken and Udon Noodle Soup. Stay tuned.