Just realized there would be a WW thread in this forum.
DH and I have belonged before. I was doing WW in 2000 just before meeting him, and of course after meeting him (20 lbs from my pie-in-the-sky goal) it all went to heck (going out, staying up late, having dinner with him, etc) and I quit. Then we joined about a year before our wedding; was 40 from the big goal on our wedding date (but Pilates had shrunk me in so much no one believed my weight), and then I got pregnant immediately and quit. Sigh. Gained 60 pounds, lost a LOT in the first 2 weeks once DS arrived, dragged my poor hurting self into a meeting when DS was 2 weeks old so I could get "credit" for the loss. Lost FAST (of course I did, DS was a nursing fiend!) then hit a plateau I coudln't get out of. Quit 5 pounds above wedding weight (but it was all in my chest, I realize in retrospect).
So here we are again. I joined on the 21st and DH joined the following Saturday. He asked me to go to the Sat meeting, so my first post-join weigh-in was actually longer than a week from the first. DH and I both lost the same amount, 5.4, which surprised all the employees there.
And I felt like I did nothing! I loved the plan back in '00 and each time I rejoined they had tweaked it and I disliked it, so I was wary...but I really LIKE this new tweak of theirs. It feels so easy to do.
Poor DH, because they changed things around with their points plus, and because he's a bit heavier than he was the last time he was there (he does have a pituitary tumor that has wreaked havoc on things, but that's almost gone, and he admits the more recent gain wasn't b/c of that), he's at the max points. 71 points! He almost cried, both at how much food he "has to" eat, and also at the reality of his weight.
But he's finding that eating enough REAL food has really curbed his evil cravings. We think he was in diet mode with real food, and then would get so hungry and have such cravings, and we have a strict food budget so he couldn't just go to the store...and so he would scavenge at work (the much-hated food-on-desk-taker without ever repaying the desk-food person). I'm finding all this out now; soon I'll have him take food back to those desk-food people...he didn't even realize it's kind to pay people back when you regularly take from their public-consumption bowls.
Our meeting has been very welcoming of our son; there's no where else for him to go, and he sits and looks at his
Lego books or plays games on Dh's old iphone, and it's been fine. I'm so thankful that the people at this meeting are so kind about us bringing him.
As far as the different clothes evryday...when I weigh in at my meeting I have a "uniform"! I cant wear anything else but some black exercise pants(yoga pants?) and a t shirt. Come warmer weather it will be the same pair of shorts and t shirt. It always HAS to be the same
I'm trying to be lenient with myself about clothes this time, but in the past I was known to weigh my clothes!!!! I wanted to wear the same weight of clothes each time, even if I didn't always have the same exact clothes clean for the meeting.
I have a question for everyone: Do you typically eat all your weekly points and your activity points each week? I rarely use any of them - and I have a hard time some days just eating all my daily points. I find myself with anywhere from 1 - 5 points left at the end of the day and I don't want to eat something just to use the points - especially if I'm not hungry, you know? Just wondering what others do about the weekly and activity points.
Thanks, in advance!
If you aren't hungry and it works for you, you don't have to eat all those extra points. I ate almost all my weekly points the first full week, then I was changing over to my new weigh-in date and my weekly points got recalculated, but I haven't gone as far into them as I did the first week. We'll see how that works for me.
DH, with his tremendous amount of points he has to eat, has used ONE point from his weekly in his 2 weeks of tracking.
But if you find yourself stalling out, it might just be that you need a bit more good food, so you might want to experiment with adding a few extra points in.
My meeting leader eats ALL of her weekly points and ALL of her activity points. If she calculates that x minutes of exercise gives her 6 points, but x+5 gives her 7, she will do that extra 5 minutes to get that extra point, and she WILL eat them all. It works for her!
So it's very specific to each person.
I think you should try to eat your daily points, though, or at least know to add them in if your weight loss slows too much or stops.
Started actively walking on our treadmill 5 days a week for the past two weeks, and had two celebrations with temptations everywhere and food I had no clue how to count, so that may be part of the holding steady part. Still about 2 lbs. away from my 10% so I'm not gaining- which is the good thing. But still frustrating that I'm not loosing anything even with the increased exercise. 
