I need some advice here. I have been listening to The Jillian Michaels Show, and she always talks about how you shouldn't have too much of a calorie deficit (calories burned vs. calories eaten), you won't lose weight and have enough energy. She is not the only person I have heard this from. Since I am on Weight Watchers, I am not counting calories. Does this mean I need to use all of my activity points? I don't want to stop losing weight because I am exercising too much and not eating enough. Any advice?
Some people do need to use APs, some don't. You're still losing, right? And I see you're having a problem hitting your points anyway, so I wouldn't worry (just like wvjules said) about it yet. If things slow down, or if you don't have energy, if your workouts suffer, then think about adding them in.
Today was my 1st weigh in while following the SFT. It is my 12th WI on WW. I ate all 49WP and 37 of 40AP. I lost 3lbs!
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If you are having trouble eating all of your points then don't use FF cheeses or milks or light breads - use the full calorie versions. That should eat up those extra points. Also, nuts will use them pretty quickly too.
Oh Well maybe I should give SFT another go...I was up .8 today
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So disappointing since Friday night we celebrated my Mother retiring and I was so good and then we were at thebeach all day yesterday and once again I was so good. Guess Iwasnt good enough...I even exercised for 6 days this week.
Several people on the WW message board have reported being a bit swollen with water weight, and they think it's because of the heat. It hasn't been overly hot where I am, but I was a bit swollen too this week, and not for the usual cyclical reason. I wouldn't be surprised to be at a beach before weigh-in, and to be up in water a bit.
And see the above conversation about exercising and weight gain! If it's new exercise, it's easy for the body to retain water (it's part of the healing process for the muscles, it seems), and even if not, sometimes the body just wants to hold on to weight if you're not fully nourishing it (this is my opinion). So maybe toss in a few APs into your diet, see what happens?
Lastly, as they say on the WW boards...sometimes you owe the scale, and sometimes the scale owes you. .8 up this week, and staying on plan the exact same way you did the week before could result in a 3 lb loss the following week. I do meetings, and hubby and I are chatty there, so we hear people lamenting small gains then celebrating big losses week after week after week...they just seem to follow each other with many people!
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I fell short of my .8 hoped for loss (which would have gotten me to 25 down), BUT I'm proud to brag on hubby, who finally lost enough that he lost one point from his dailies.
He was at the max daily points, and at 23 lbs down he now has to eat one point less per day than before. He is quite happy, and looking forward to a continued drop in Daily points.
And now in our household it's nearly neck and neck. I'm a naturally fast loser (when I try) and hubby's a naturally slow loser (like everything else in our relationship, yes, this is opposite most male/female couples), but I'm at 24.4 down and he's at 23, so he'll surpass me soon. Well, I will have enjoyed it while it lasts, and I'm just SO proud of him to be doing so well!
We've always planned for a vow renewal (I was thinking of it in my head as we danced our first dance at our wedding, since the whole wedding was a series of compromises without much of ME in it), and next year will be our 10th anniversary, and we can finally see ourselves actually doing the renewal for the 10th, and looking pretty, too!
