Weight Watchers Chat - Part II

[Sandi]

Day one down - back for day 2 - goal for today - tracking and water!

I was up most of the night with a sick puppy - no fun! I did manage to get a 30 minute work out in this morning though - yeah for me!

Do any of you use the WW scanner on your iphone or the mobile ap to track your points? I love the scanner - I was a scanning fool last night - can't wait to go to the grocery store today. You can scan the barcode and it brings up the item and tells you the points value - then you can save it to your favorites and add it to your tracker when you eat it - way too cool.

Sorry about your puppy. Hopefully s/he'll be all well soon.

I love the WW apps for the Iphone. I do a much better job tracking with the Iphone than I ever did with my blackberry. I do scan some foods -- it's particularly nice with frozen meals -- Lean Cuisines, HC, and WW.

 

[JDBlair]

Day one down - back for day 2 - goal for today - tracking and water!

I was up most of the night with a sick puppy - no fun! I did manage to get a 30 minute work out in this morning though - yeah for me!

Do any of you use the WW scanner on your iphone or the mobile ap to track your points? I love the scanner - I was a scanning fool last night - can't wait to go to the grocery store today. You can scan the barcode and it brings up the item and tells you the points value - then you can save it to your favorites and add it to your tracker when you eat it - way too cool.

I find that once I get on a good water drinking habit, I can't drink soda. DH brought home a soda for me with my dinner last night, I took 2 sips and couldn't drink any more, way too sweet.

I also love the WW iPhone apps, they're awesome. I use the scanner. I just love how much easier it is to track on my phone as opposed to pen and paper.

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

I was down 0.3 today at weigh-in. I was hoping for 0.5 each week but since I'm a little bit ahead on my 7lbs-in-14-weeks goal, I guess 0.3 is alright.

I had severe munchies yesterday and Monday but I managed not to go over my points and just in case you were wondering, there are 5 Mars Bars left out of the six that I had in my purse at my meeting last week! And I split that one with my DH.

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

So I had been toying with this idea for a few weeks and I finally decided to make my idea reality.

What was my idea? I decided to create a blog of all the healthy recipes I'm cooking. I'm calling it Homemade Skinny.

I still have another week or two before I can really start cooking (still waiting for the house to be done), but I will be posting some no-cook recipes until then. I'll be attempting to calculate the calories and the weight watchers points for the dishes too, just to make life that much easier for everyone

I just started it today, but please check it out (and maybe follow it, if you like it?).

Homemade Skinny

I think that's a great idea! I checked it out and I like how you're putting the WW points on the meals. I'm also hoping that once you get your kitchen back, you'll be able to put pictures of everything up there.

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

It took us just over a year for our first WW thread to reach maximum posts. It will be a year at the end of March since this was was started. Can we make 50+ more pages by then??

 

[Sandi]

I was down 0.3 today at weigh-in. I was hoping for 0.5 each week but since I'm a little bit ahead on my 7lbs-in-14-weeks goal, I guess 0.3 is alright.

I had severe munchies yesterday and Monday but I managed not to go over my points and just in case you were wondering, there are 5 Mars Bars left out of the six that I had in my purse at my meeting last week! And I split that one with my DH.

0.3 is success in my book! I was down 0.2 for my WI today. That's 4 pounds over the past 2 weeks, so I'll take it. I'm hopeful that I'll see a larger drop next Wednesday. I'm motivated.

It took us just over a year for our first WW thread to reach maximum posts. It will be a year at the end of March since this was was started. Can we make 50+ more pages by then??

I bet we will be at our max by the end of March again. As I get ready for our Spring Break trip (3/30 thru 4/7) to WDW, I know I'll be checking the boards more frequently. Whenever I check another board, I check here, too, just to see what's going on and to see if I can contribute.

 

[Sandi]

With Tammy back with us, I got to thinking about Toni Ann. How are you doing?

 

[mlktwins]

Before and after....

JILL, YOU LOOK AWESOME!!!!

I haven't been on in a while for 2 reasons:
1. Each page on DIS boards takes SOOOOO LONG to load . Anyone else with this problem?!?!?!?
2. I haven't done well on the plan since my trip to the World in early December :-( !!!

The last time I posted, I mentioned our leader was leaving -- I REALLY liked her. Her last meeting was on a Tuesday. I went to the Sat meeting to see what it was like. I was up 1 lb and didn't really feel a good vibe from the leader. Went back the following Tuesday and lost .8 lbs. Tried the new leader. She might be pretty good -- will give her a chance. I'm just not motivated to track or excercise though. Ever since I was taken from 29 to 26points with the new plan I can't get into the groove again. I went yesterday and was up the .8 I lost last week and the Sat leader was there filling in for the new girl. Apparently the new girl is a regional something or other and had a meeting that day she couldn't be absent from.

Anyway, so they talked about tracking yesterday and the different options available to track. One thing discussed was tracking your 24 hour points period starting with dinner and then finishing with lunch the next day. I thought maybe this would work for me since I seem to have so little points left for dinner at the end of the day. So...I started last night and I stayed in points today. I am so excited. I've told myself if I don't track the next week or 2 and see some weight loss, I'm done. I really want to be at goal by Memorial Day -- that is about 15 pounds.

Sorry for being so long winded . I do want to recommend something yummy I had for dinner last night. It's a Kashi pizza (thin crust with 3 cheese, spinach and mushrooms). Only 6 points for a 3rd of the pizza and it was YUMMY!!!! There are a couple of other flavors I haven't tried, but this was really good.

 

[JDBlair]

Anyway, so they talked about tracking yesterday and the different options available to track. One thing discussed was tracking your 24 hour points period starting with dinner and then finishing with lunch the next day. I thought maybe this would work for me since I seem to have so little points left for dinner at the end of the day. So...I started last night and I stayed in points today. I am so excited. I've told myself if I don't track the next week or 2 and see some weight loss, I'm done. I really want to be at goal by Memorial Day -- that is about 15 pounds.

I do think you have to find a method of tracking that works for you. I normally eat more points at dinner and on the weekends because that's when I'm with my family. So I try to save my flex points for the weekend and about half of my daily points for dinner. That works for me.

Don't give up! You can keep at it. You're not a quitter!! I love my leader so I can understand what you're saying. But I know that if my leader left and I gave up, she'd be disappointed. Is there a way you can find a contact email for your old leader so she can also tell you to keep at it?!

 

[slp1650]

I think that's a great idea! I checked it out and I like how you're putting the WW points on the meals. I'm also hoping that once you get your kitchen back, you'll be able to put pictures of everything up there.

I will definitely be taking pictures when I have everything. I'm working with paper plates and plastic utensils right now so the pictures will be getting better! I'm glad you like it!

 

[averill94]

I was down 0.3 today at weigh-in. I was hoping for 0.5 each week but since I'm a little bit ahead on my 7lbs-in-14-weeks goal, I guess 0.3 is alright.

I had severe munchies yesterday and Monday but I managed not to go over my points and just in case you were wondering, there are 5 Mars Bars left out of the six that I had in my purse at my meeting last week! And I split that one with my DH.

.03 is awesome as it is a loss!!!!

5 Mars bars in your purse now that is a SUCCESS OMG Mars bars, Iused to love them so much. Havent seen them around (NY)here in years!

Talk about willpower.

 

[mrzrich]

Here I go again guys. Wish me luck today.

 

[dthogue]

I was down 0.3 today at weigh-in. I was hoping for 0.5 each week but since I'm a little bit ahead on my 7lbs-in-14-weeks goal, I guess 0.3 is alright.

I had severe munchies yesterday and Monday but I managed not to go over my points and just in case you were wondering, there are 5 Mars Bars left out of the six that I had in my purse at my meeting last week! And I split that one with my DH.

Congrats on the loss - you're on track to reaching your goal!

Huge Kudos in regards to the Mars bars - I know I would have eaten them by now - candy is a major weakness for me.

 

[Sandi]

Here I go again guys. Wish me luck today.

Yea! Good luck Toni Ann. Good to have you back.

 

[cepmom]

hi WW friends! It's been a long time since I posted here!! Things have been nutty for me since my last post at the end of November. Had finals to contend with, Christmas shopping etc, at work we opened a new WW store right after the New Year that kept us busy, busy, busy and in the middle of all that, I have had some health issues to wrestle with.

Back in 2007 I had Uterine Artery Embolization for uterine fibroids. The fibroid shrank, things were great for 4 years, then it started to get ugly again around Thanksgiving. In early Decemeber I found out the flipping thing grew back and was getting uglier and uglier each month that went by. Exercising pretty much stopped begining/middle of January due to this issue; I ended up having a hysterectomy and am now 1 week post op. I am looking forward to getting my life back now!!

anyway...just wanted to say "Hi" again and hope you all are doing well!

 

[Sandi]

hi WW friends! It's been a long time since I posted here!! Things have been nutty for me since my last post at the end of November. Had finals to contend with, Christmas shopping etc, at work we opened a new WW store right after the New Year that kept us busy, busy, busy and in the middle of all that, I have had some health issues to wrestle with.

Back in 2007 I had Uterine Artery Embolization for uterine fibroids. The fibroid shrank, things were great for 4 years, then it started to get ugly again around Thanksgiving. In early Decemeber I found out the flipping thing grew back and was getting uglier and uglier each month that went by. Exercising pretty much stopped begining/middle of January due to this issue; I ended up having a hysterectomy and am now 1 week post op. I am looking forward to getting my life back now!!

anyway...just wanted to say "Hi" again and hope you all are doing well!

Oh, my goodness! I hope you're doing well since your surgery. Hopefully that will help a lot and these health issues will be behind you. It's enough with the rest of what life hands us. Good to see you posting and I wish you well.

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

Have any of you discovered these yet??

The ones in the 4/pk are 1 point each with the exception of the rice pudding which is 2.

http://www.kozyshack.com/prod_no_sugar_puddings.html

I just had the rice pudding and it's really tasty!

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

.03 is awesome as it is a loss!!!!

5 Mars bars in your purse now that is a SUCCESS OMG Mars bars, Iused to love them so much. Havent seen them around (NY)here in years!

Talk about willpower.

Congrats on the loss - you're on track to reaching your goal!

Huge Kudos in regards to the Mars bars - I know I would have eaten them by now - candy is a major weakness for me.

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

Here I go again guys. Wish me luck today.

Go Toni-Ann!!

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

hi WW friends! It's been a long time since I posted here!! Things have been nutty for me since my last post at the end of November. Had finals to contend with, Christmas shopping etc, at work we opened a new WW store right after the New Year that kept us busy, busy, busy and in the middle of all that, I have had some health issues to wrestle with.

Back in 2007 I had Uterine Artery Embolization for uterine fibroids. The fibroid shrank, things were great for 4 years, then it started to get ugly again around Thanksgiving. In early Decemeber I found out the flipping thing grew back and was getting uglier and uglier each month that went by. Exercising pretty much stopped begining/middle of January due to this issue; I ended up having a hysterectomy and am now 1 week post op. I am looking forward to getting my life back now!!

anyway...just wanted to say "Hi" again and hope you all are doing well!

Hey, its great to see you again! Sorry you had to have surgery but I do hope your recovery goes well. Sounds like the last couple of months have been pretty stressful but we're glad to have you back.