Weight Watchers Chat - Part II

[keahgirl8]

I signed up for it, but I thought all we had to do was track activity. It seemed to me like that activity profile was just a suggestion.

 

[tinkerbell3747]

I signed up as well. I thought the weekly schedule they generated was just a suggestion based on your activity level. I don't think you have to follow that plan. I thought we just needed to log our activity. Hopefully a meeting goer will chime in with more info.

I'm going to join too! I need to earn some activity points hopefully this will help motivate me to get moving. My WW name is Islandgirl by the way!

I logged a loss of 3.2lbs this week....gotta keep tracking it really deters me from the eating the bad stuff....

 

[JimShockz]

I'm going to join too! I need to earn some activity points hopefully this will help motivate me to get moving. My WW name is Islandgirl by the way!

I logged a loss of 3.2lbs this week....gotta keep tracking it really deters me from the eating the bad stuff....

It seems that a few days of not watching what you eat,takes a few weeks to take off.

-JS

 

[sjms71]

hey everyone! It's been forever since I've been on. I myself as a lifetimer am staying steady with my weight. Which is good however, I was hoping to lose a few more pounds. Well, hoping isn't going to get me anywhere, doing will . Anyway, up date on my dad is brain tumor was not cancer and he is recovering well. Today was the last day of school for DD and DS and I am proud to say I am officially the parent of a high schooler . Can't believe it. Here we are:

 

[sjms71]

I have been reading everyone's posts and everyone is doing great! Keep up the good work to those who have loss and those that had a bad week, good job on picking up and moving forward .

 

[pwdebbie]

I'll explain what I got when I looked into the LiveLifeActive program. I received an email a week before getting the green square promo for it at WW meeting. So I checked it out based on that email, not the promo from the meeting.

I put in that walking would be my chosen activity. In order to "compete" I had to reach certain goals which were delineated for six weeks. By the last day of week 6, they had me walking three times a day for 35 minutes each time. Sorry, but that just isn't going to happen! 105 minutes of my day can't be spent walking. It was more like a couch-to-5k program than just simply tracking my activity.

 

[NC State]

Great news on your dad, Stephanie and you have a beautiful family!

 

[disneydreamin247]

Can I join in too? I just signed up for WW the other night. I have had trouble with weight my whole life. I lost 100 lbs, then got pregnant with DS and gained it all back. I finally lost it and got pregnant with DD and gained it back again plus more after giving birth. I have to get on the scale but honestly I'm afraid to. I used an estimated weight when I registered. I don't even have a working scale in my house at the moment. I'm ordering one tonight.

 

[pwdebbie]

Can I join in too? I just signed up for WW the other night. I have had trouble with weight my whole life. I lost 100 lbs, then got pregnant with DS and gained it all back. I finally lost it and got pregnant with DD and gained it back again plus more after giving birth. I have to get on the scale but honestly I'm afraid to. I used an estimated weight when I registered. I don't even have a working scale in my house at the moment. I'm ordering one tonight.

Glad to have you here. Congrats on doing something about that baby weight now instead of waiting like I did. My last baby was born in 1982 and it took until now for me to join WW -- and I joined with "my baby" who is now trying to lose the weight from her four kids. The youngest are 4yo twins and she decided not to be like her mama.

Welcome aboard!

 

[averill94]

Just WI and I am down 2.4 What is more exciting and scary is that I set my "goal" with my leader!!!

The bad news is I lost another daily point!

How do you guys handle that? (Obvious answer is eat less but just looing for strategies I guess!)

Here is to a great week for everybody!

Margaret

 

[Mermaid02]

I'm jumping back in! Started last Wednesday. Do you all have a group on the WW site or just here? My username is Lorelilo!

 

[keahgirl8]

Weigh-in day...I lost 2.8 pounds. I am now down 46 pounds total!

 

[NC State]

That's great on your lost! Doesn't it feel good?

 

[keahgirl8]

Thanks! Yes it does! It is getting really noticeable now, so people are commenting on it too!

 

[keahgirl8]

I saw this when I clicked on a link on the WW Facebook page. It is about the LiveLifeActive challenge.

Whether you walk, jog, dance, or swim, it all counts! Track your activity in Plan Manager and aim for 14 Activity PointsPlus® values per week for 6 weeks. This week, decide what type of exercise you’ll be doing. Will you exercise at home with a DVD, train for a 5K, or meet a friend at the gym? Whatever workout you chose, make sure it’s something interesting and enjoyable. For some great ideas, take our Activity Profile.

This sounds to me like as long as you get 14 activity points per week, it doesn't matter how you get them. The activity profile just serves to give you suggestions if you're not sure what to do.

 

[pwdebbie]

That sounds so different from what I saw. I wonder if there are two different challenges going on at the same time?

 

[keahgirl8]

I'm not sure! Do you have a link to what you saw?

 

[bumbershoot]

Weigh-in day! I am down 1.6 pounds for a total of 43.2, which is also my 10% target!

I'm chiming in late, but congratulations!!!!!!!!! OK that was a lot of exclamation marks, but that's because it's exciting.

 

[bumbershoot]

Long update:


We were up in Canada last week, eating crepes (though to be honest I only had one of my own, and just bites of DS's, who strongly requests a crepe-a-day diet when in Vancouver) and Japadogs (a hot dog cart with Japanese inspired toppings...if interested, they have a website...of course, for us, we order the veggie dog version), and not drinking *quite* enough water. Either DS and I had to leave early so I could go to the weigh in on Saturday, I had to skip the meeting entirely, or I had to go to a meeting in Vancouver. Given the eating...I was afraid! DH kept reminding me that I tracked everything the best I could, that as far as I could tell I was "on plan" and totally fine, but I still worried.

Well, I decided not to leave early, so I was left with two choices.

It was down to the *hour* before the weigh in, and I decided to go. Walked briskly there in the chilly air,and entered the very warm room, and started sweating! I wished I had brought a washcloth to get rid of some of that water weight from my head!

Anyway, they were wonderful, and took my Monthly Pass (BC takes the same MP as the US has, but 3 of the other provinces do not, FWIW), and...I lost. Got to 26.4 total, and got to celebrate my 25 pound moment with total strangers! But they were awfully nice strangers, and I just couldn't stop smiling. I was just so happy I had gone. (and sad that hubby was working and simply couldn't get away to do the WI)


While there, I found out that WW-in-Canada was having 5K walks all over on Sunday, it was free, and I was welcome to join! I signed the three of us up, and we walked to the start (they were hooked up with a chain of running stores so we met there), walked the 5K, then walked back to the hotel. All in all nearly 6 miles of walking (can you say SORE?). The walk to the store/start was downhill, so you can imagine what it was like going back to the hotel, LOL.

I'm not sure if that will count for the 5K charm that some meetings have (mine does), but I'll ask! And if they don't, no biggie, since I'm doing a local 5K walk on Saturday that WILL count (I already asked). I'm hoping the soreness goes away by then! I'll have to take it easier for the upcoming one, though, since I'll have DS with me. Last week he walked with DH and I went ahead, but DH is on the second leg of his work trip and won't be here.



Now...I'm the first to say "ah, well, the crepes etc just hadn't been converted to fat yet, you'll see the gain next weigh in", and I am trying to steel myself for it! Trying to drink lots of water to make sure the traveling and dining out waterweight leaves ASAP.

We'll see what happens!

 

[pwdebbie]

I'm not sure! Do you have a link to what you saw?

I deleted the email right away. Oh well.

Down 1.8 last night.