Weight Watchers Chat - Part II

[Shannon84]

Hey everyone...glad I found this thread! I just joined Weight Watchers yesterday - the online program. I am already having some struggles (honestly I never realized how bad I was eating!)

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

I made chocolate chip cookies this morning! I haven't had one yet but any minute now....

 

[NC State]

I love hearing that everyone is getting into smaller clothes. I started in a 16W, with a 28 lbs lost I'm in a 14 now. I'll be glad with a size 10!

 

[Phil Cirrone]

Does anyone else find it so hard in the summer. I always thought it would be easier because I'm more active in the summer but the weight just will not come off.
Lisa

 

[sjms71]

I love hearing that everyone is getting into smaller clothes. I started in a 16W, with a 28 lbs lost I'm in a 14 now. I'll be glad with a size 10!

Maybe it's just me but are you getting worried about Irene? We have only been in NC 10 years and I remember Isabel hitting Raleigh area in 2003 as a TS and we had a lot of damage with all our trees coming down. I am starting to get a little freaked out.

 

[Sandi]

Hey everyone...glad I found this thread! I just joined Weight Watchers yesterday - the online program. I am already having some struggles (honestly I never realized how bad I was eating!)

Just take it one day at a time (sometimes we have to break it down into even more manageable chunks -- an hour, minute, whatever). Just learning that you should eat healthier is progress.

Check in here whenever you need some support!

Does anyone else find it so hard in the summer. I always thought it would be easier because I'm more active in the summer but the weight just will not come off.
Lisa

Last summer was when I made my best progress in terms of losses. It has been harder this summer because I'm closer to my goal weight. I think I have this problem where, because I think I'm exercising more, I should get to eat more. Unfortunately, the balance isn't quite there and I have a tendency to give myself more credit for exercise and not accounting for all the bites, nibbles, etc. Are you tracking the food carefully?

 

[Twingle]

Does anyone else find it so hard in the summer. I always thought it would be easier because I'm more active in the summer but the weight just will not come off.
Lisa

Me! Me! Me! This was the 1st summer I've been on program, and it was sooo much harder with my kids at home than during the school year. Very difficult to get to my meetings (I made it to 3!), and it was harder to stay within my points because a lot of times, my kids were eating "my" food. Having 10 bananas in the house in September lasts me a week, having 10 bananas in the house in July lasts 2 1/2 days.

For the most part I maintained, but I would've loved to have made goal by now. That being said, I have high hopes for tomorrow when my kids all go back to school, so that everyone can be on a more structured schedule.

 

[sjms71]

Omg, my house just shook and it moved, I think we just had an earthquake tremor.

 

[BabyTigger99]

I find summer is easier for me, because there are so many yummy fresh fruits and veggies out there. Also, I love to get outside for walks (which doesn't work in the dead of winter!).

Awesome job for all of you guys dropping sizes. For shirts, I have gone from an XL to a L. Pants, well, I am not sure where I am there. I started out in a 16, but I have not bought any new pants since starting WW. I figure once it gets cooler out, I will look at buying new ones. I can tell you that that khaki pants I am wearing to work today are literally hanging on me, so after today, they will be in the pile for Goodwill!

 

[sjms71]

Omg, my house just shook and it moved, I think we just had an earthquake tremor.

Ok, thought I was truly going crazy, earthquake in Virginia and I clearly felt it here outside of Raleigh, I am still shaking, that was the strangest thing to have your house just shift .

 

[Sandi]

I find summer is easier for me, because there are so many yummy fresh fruits and veggies out there. Also, I love to get outside for walks (which doesn't work in the dead of winter!).

Awesome job for all of you guys dropping sizes. For shirts, I have gone from an XL to a L. Pants, well, I am not sure where I am there. I started out in a 16, but I have not bought any new pants since starting WW. I figure once it gets cooler out, I will look at buying new ones. I can tell you that that khaki pants I am wearing to work today are literally hanging on me, so after today, they will be in the pile for Goodwill!

Yeah, you definitely need some new slacks. My WW leader was the one who told me to get some new pants when mine were looking sloppy. She said that I'd look better and feel better in pants that fit; she was right and it was a great motivator.

Ok, thought I was truly going crazy, earthquake in Virginia and I clearly felt it here outside of Raleigh, I am still shaking, that was the strangest thing to have your house just shift .

I know, right?! We got a message awhile ago that our DC office had to be evacuated for awhile and they were having some communications problems. 5.9 is something! Now you have to be on the watch for the hurricane. I'll take a snowstorm any day (well, not in August!).

 

[sjms71]

Yeah, you definitely need some new slacks. My WW leader was the one who told me to get some new pants when mine were looking sloppy. She said that I'd look better and feel better in pants that fit; she was right and it was a great motivator.



I know, right?! We got a message awhile ago that our DC office had to be evacuated for awhile and they were having some communications problems. 5.9 is something! Now you have to be on the watch for the hurricane. I'll take a snowstorm any day (well, not in August!).

I NEVER in my life felt anything like that and honestly I was scared. I called DH at work and he didn't pick up, I left him a messages saying, ok you are going to think I'm nuts but I think we just had an earthquake. But he called me right back saying everyone felt it there too but he didn't. So, like you said first earthquake, next a hurricane, 3 weeks can't go by fast enough, I need a vacation!!!

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

I NEVER in my life felt anything like that and honestly I was scared. I called DH at work and he didn't pick up, I left him a messages saying, ok you are going to think I'm nuts but I think we just had an earthquake. But he called me right back saying everyone felt it there too but he didn't. So, like you said first earthquake, next a hurricane, 3 weeks can't go by fast enough, I need a vacation!!!

I hope you're OK now, Stephanie. I've been watching it on the news and I was looking to see how close it was to NC. I haven't heard that anyone was hurt or that there have been any aftershocks yet. I didn't feel it but lots of people in the area did. I felt one a few years ago. I think it may have originated in Pennsylvania. It was morning and I hadn't gotten up yet and I felt the bed shake. DH was standing right beside the bed and he didn't feel anything.

I was watching the path of Hurricane Irene and it's supposed to hit the Carolina's around Saturday or Sunday. If it's going to be as bad as they say, I hope you and your family will be alright.

 

[sjms71]

I hope you're OK now, Stephanie. I've been watching it on the news and I was looking to see how close it was to NC. I haven't heard that anyone was hurt or that there have been any aftershocks yet. I didn't feel it but lots of people in the area did. I felt one a few years ago. I think it may have originated in Pennsylvania. It was morning and I hadn't gotten up yet and I felt the bed shake. DH was standing right beside the bed and he didn't feel anything.

I was watching the path of Hurricane Irene and it's supposed to hit the Carolina's around Saturday or Sunday. If it's going to be as bad as they say, I hope you and your family will be alright.

I am ok, but really freaked out. I am in a little town called Holly Springs, slightly southwest of Raleigh. I would say we are about 2.5 hrs from Richmond, VA area. Dh was at work and he didn't feel it, he said only women and cats must be able to feel it . As for the hurricane we are about 120 miles from the coast but we have had lots storms come inland and do tons of damage. We have these very tall pine trees that snap with a little wind. We have had most of them removed but still have two more to have cut down, hoping Irene doesn't take care of that for us.

 

[Sandi]

I am ok, but really freaked out. I am in a little town called Holly Springs, slightly southwest of Raleigh. I would say we are about 2.5 hrs from Richmond, VA area. Dh was at work and he didn't feel it, he said only women and cats must be able to feel it . As for the hurricane we are about 120 miles from the coast but we have had lots storms come inland and do tons of damage. We have these very tall pine trees that snap with a little wind. We have had most of them removed but still have two more to have cut down, hoping Irene doesn't take care of that for us.

I'm thinking of you Stephanie! Everything will be alright and then you'll be at WDW.

 

[Twingle]

Hope everyone that felt the earthquake is okay - I'm about 18 miles from the site! We're all okay, even though we've now been declared a disaster area.

 

[sjms71]

Hope everyone that felt the earthquake is okay - I'm about 18 miles from the site! We're all okay, even though we've now been declared a disaster area.

Glad to hear you are ok! I can't imagine what it must have felt like 18 miles away cause I know what I felt 150 miles away.

 

[kisaacs]

Wow, you're close. Glad you're okay. We felt it all the way up in Boston!

Kristen

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

Hope everyone that felt the earthquake is okay - I'm about 18 miles from the site! We're all okay, even though we've now been declared a disaster area.

Oh, that is way too close. I'm glad to hear that you're alright!

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

So baking chocolate chip cookies this morning was a huge, huge, huge mistake! Ate 5 of them, then I had a caramilk bar, then a bunch of milk chocolate caramel hershey kisses, then some chocolate cake and ice cream. There is no way that I'm going to make tomorrow my official monthly staff weigh-in! There gonna have to weight until next week!