After a day of walking around and doing some shopping my foot ballooned up and was sore. The swelling keeps coming and going but the pain is gone. It did not swell yesterday at all so I got on the treadmill for half a mile this morning to see what happens. I really pushed myself for that half mile and I'm just going to watch and see what happens the rest of the day. If nothing happens, then on Friday I am going to try to get back in the groove of running three times a week. I'm thinking of adding the squat challenge to my workout routine also.
Ugh. I can't get motivated!!! Not tracking and completely off course since Boston.
Stay strong, be strong! You can start tracking again, I know you can! If you can't control the food yet, at least track what you are doing. No matter how much it hurts, just track it.
Do what I say, not what I did to myself, LOL. After my January of sickness and February of trying to feel better, apparently I was overeating, not tracking, and lying to myself. It took a good while for it to catch up to me (apparently it takes me WEEKS to create pounds of fat from concerted efforts at eating lots of food), but catch up it did! I still have my free etools vouchers for that to be free, but I'm getting to pay for my meetings! I've now paid for 3 meetings this month. Today I missed it by .4 lbs.
So I'll probably have my Monthly Weigh-In At Goal in the last meeting of the month...only to have to do it again the following week!
3 weeks of paying full price for meetings is more than DH's monthly pass. Augh.
So get back on track, or at least start trackING. You'll feel so much better about everything if you at least track.
How is your foot? Is it any better? Have you figured out what you did or how you did it?
I hope to get to that point someday. 
Take our victories where we find them! You are here, you are talking and sharing, you are yearning to get some exercise...you're doing wonderfully, I think. One, my taste has totally changed and I don't like the beers I used to like (I'm mainly a beer drinker)...two, my stomach can't deal with as much booze as I WANT to drink, LOL...three, total lightweight now, even more so than before...four, it destroys my own personal weight loss/maintenance efforts. So sad. But then we loop to #1 where I don't like much that I used to like, and I feel less rotten about it.
Mmm, adult beverages.... I, sadly, have nearly had to give them all up.
It's weird when I think about it, because emotionally it FEELS like as big a deal as it did 80+ pounds ago, but then I hear what I'm saying and realize I don't need to freak out quite yet. Then I have more rounds of circular conversation with myself and then go have a banana, LOL.
That's without tracking all week. I don't know how or why but I will take it. This morning I have already tracked breakfast and lunch. Hopefully I can keep it up tonight. That is where I am most likely to fall off. Hope everyone is having a great day!
Sorry to hear about your foot. At least the MRI will diagnose it.
and many try to run through anything!! Respect your body. You don't need to run to lose weight.
Sorry to hear about your foot. At least the MRI will diagnose it.
Don't let this derail you. Runners have a unique personality
Hang in there and good luck with the MRI. Coincidentally, my DD is having one tomorrow on her leg. The MD thinks either a stress fracture or something called exertional compartment syndrome. Really hoping for the stress fracture diagnosis!
Now for my good news, I'm in ONEderland for the first time in 6 years!
Let me know how it works out for you.
My insurance has not approved the MRI yet so they won't do it. So tomorrow I get to pick up that lovely boot. 
The best part is that my work is having a formal gala for a fundraiser. So I will be all decked out with my boot. lol , cried a little and then decided to find this thread. I can't afford to gain another ounce!!
Alright ladies and gents...
I REALLY need you!!
I hate the new pointsplus program, so I plan to follow the old points program at home but I totally need to be held accountable to someone and who better that Disney lovers like me?!?
What do you hate about PP? It's not really new; it's been out since, I believe, 2011. The only thing that has changed since then has been communication about it and Simple Start (but that's not PP). What program did you follow before? I first did WW in '00 and loved that program. Never hit goal. Went back in '02 and was OK with that program (though I still used it as a "let's see how few points I can eat" program)...never hit goal...got to my wedding day, 2 weeks later was pregnant, went off of WW. Went back a year later, refused to follow anything in the program, quit. 7 years later went back, thought I would hate Points Plus but followed it, this time ate ALL points coming to me, found true success.
My point is...there are many old programs.
I am starting today...I weighed in this morning
I have my tracking sheets all printed and filed in my binder and the house is filled with healthy food and a few low point treats.
At the beginning it's about portion control and doing what you can do to change your mindset, but don't forget that indulgences are a part of the program and life. I personally would have quit if the only treats I could have were low point. In fact it was that mindset that caused me to quit each time (apart from the being pregnant part...though I certainly could have continued to be mindful of what I ate, but then it's hard when you feel you have no support and all you are dealing with are food aversions where you eat what you can)...felt I couldn't have good stuff, would have good stuff without planning for it, would go over points, would feel guilty, would quit, time and time again. I feel that that is what makes this program and the communication about this program to be so different; they totally allow indulgences and as long as you plan for them, there's no need to have guilt over them.
I need to lose 100 pounds, which seems daunting but I'm going to set my first goal at 20 and start working towards that.
One day, one healthIER choice, at a time!
I generally walk 40 mins or so every day and as a family, we have set a goal to do one of the 5K training plans (this is week three of a nine week program) so that's 90 mins a week of walking/jogging.
My weakness for snacking hits between 7 pm and 11 pm and once I start, I just can't seem to stop myself. I have to find a way to stop eating when I run out of points!
Any suggestions??
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The slight change in plans between pre-wedding and post-baby drove me crazy, too. I can totally empathize with the big huge change you experienced!
What do you think it was that caused the gain? While they upped the number of points (er, pointsplus) we get from the old points programs, they also upped the number of points(plus) in various foods.
In all honesty...I don't know. Nothing changed but the way I was able to track stuff...I just couldn't wrap my head around the new plan. I was doing so well on the other program that being forced into a new one made me. I HATE that I can't just look at the specs and determine the points value based on calories, fat and fiber content. That's what keeps me from trying again.
It's funny what a mindgame that is for me; when I was doing WW in '00 I think I got something like 18 points (plus flex, or whatever those area called, which I never planned to use so if I used them it was a blow out and I would stop going) and to get 31 when I first started this program Feb '12 both boggled me AND made me feel happy. Apart from zero point veggies and most fruits (and that now I eat all Weekly and Activity points), I eat the same amount of food as I did then...so for me it was just a mental thing.
I'm not trying to combat you, by the way, I was really curious.
If you can truly follow the old program, yay you! (DS has been watching Suite Life of Zack and Cody episodes and I keep channeling London Tipton with "yay you", LOL) I remember trying, back in '04/05ish, but I just needed the official stuff, to BE officially in the program. [So that I could pay the company then refuse to follow it...I refused dairies, I refused oils, I refused to give up my massive, untracked, pieces of chocolate cake....oh man was I a mess then!
Then again, I wasn't a member here then, and therefore didn't have this thread for support.
This was my reasoning behind joining this thread. When I stay on plan...everything is great...I just need to report to someone so I STAY on plan.
My DH is too easy on me, too...and worse, when I overeat, HE overeats, then I try to match his food intake, which is a horrible mistake, and the cycle is bad bad bad. I hope you don't have that dynamic going on as well!
