Weight Watchers Chat -- Part III

[keahgirl8]

If we have to have problems, then this is one I don't mind at all.

Exactly!

Weigh-in day...down 1.4 pounds, 57 pounds overall!

 

[Love2Run]

Hey everyone. I just signed up for weight watchers online 10 days ago. I wish I could go to the meetings but I live in a remote area and the nearest meeting is 30 minutes away. My first week went well. I lost 4 lbs but I'm sure that is mainly water weight. I have a couple questions.

1. How many of you eat you weekly points? I feel guilty if I eat them but am finding it hard eat enough through the day and all the good health guide lines with only 26 pts a day.

2. Do you eat your exercise points and still lose weight?

3. How much fruit is "built in to the plan?". I love fruit and think I may eat to much.

4. How often do you weigh? Do you wait until the weekly meeting or are you on it several times a day? I find that I am addicted to the scale getting on morning noon and night.

Thanks so much. I'm really excited to lose the weight. I'm run the tower of terror 10k in late sept and the Disney marathon in January. I would love to wear a cute running skirt and not feel uncomfortable

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

Hey everyone. I just signed up for weight watchers online 10 days ago. I wish I could go to the meetings but I live in a remote area and the nearest meeting is 30 minutes away. My first week went well. I lost 4 lbs but I'm sure that is mainly water weight. I have a couple questions.

1. How many of you eat you weekly points? I feel guilty if I eat them but am finding it hard eat enough through the day and all the good health guide lines with only 26 pts a day.

2. Do you eat your exercise points and still lose weight?

3. How much fruit is "built in to the plan?". I love fruit and think I may eat to much.

4. How often do you weigh? Do you wait until the weekly meeting or are you on it several times a day? I find that I am addicted to the scale getting on morning noon and night.

Thanks so much. I'm really excited to lose the weight. I'm run the tower of terror 10k in late sept and the Disney marathon in January. I would love to wear a cute running skirt and not feel uncomfortable

Hi! Congratulations on a great first week.

Here are my answers to your questions...
1) I absolutely do eat every one of my 49 weekly points. You dont have to; they're there if you need them and it sounds as though you may need them.

2) I rarely earn any activity points but when I do, I do not eat them.

3) I'm not sure how much fruit is built in but Canada's Food Guide says that women between 19 and 50 years of age should have between 7-9 servings of fruits AND vegetables per day. I would try to get at least half of the servings from veggies.

4) Confirmed scale addict!

 

[pwdebbie]

Hey everyone. I just signed up for weight watchers online 10 days ago. I wish I could go to the meetings but I live in a remote area and the nearest meeting is 30 minutes away. My first week went well. I lost 4 lbs but I'm sure that is mainly water weight. I have a couple questions.

1. How many of you eat you weekly points? I feel guilty if I eat them but am finding it hard eat enough through the day and all the good health guide lines with only 26 pts a day.

2. Do you eat your exercise points and still lose weight?

3. How much fruit is "built in to the plan?". I love fruit and think I may eat to much.

4. How often do you weigh? Do you wait until the weekly meeting or are you on it several times a day? I find that I am addicted to the scale getting on morning noon and night.

Thanks so much. I'm really excited to lose the weight. I'm run the tower of terror 10k in late sept and the Disney marathon in January. I would love to wear a cute running skirt and not feel uncomfortable

1. I just found out (after what, 18 weeks on the program?) that I could tell the tracker to take from my activity points first instead of from the weekly points. I had not been eating my weekly points for the most part -- saving them for the big splurge meals that I know I can't avoid (like our son's birthday crab feast this Friday). But once my points got down to 27, I did find myself eating a few of the WP each week. Then my dd told me that I could tell the tracker to take from my APs first so that's what I'm doing now and still saving those WP for the big "obligation" meals.

2. See above.

3. I don't know about the fruit. I do not like many fruits or vegetables so eating them at all is an effort for me. I force myself to buy them because I know that I will eat them just to avoid having wasted the money.

4. I weigh myself every morning, first thing in the a.m. just before I step into the shower. That way I can see how I am doing throughout the week. I ate lunch at Applebees yesterday (French onion soup, 7 points, and half of a chicken fajita rollup, 9 shocking points) but stayed within my points for the day but this morning I weighed 2 lbs more than yesterday morning -- and today is my weigh in day. Definitely not happy about this but maybe I can drink it all out of me before the meeting tonight.

I am surprised that with just starting you only have 26 points. That's the lowest the daily points go, to my understanding. Good for you doing those races! Maybe you can post pics of you and your cute running skirt after the 10K. We'd love to see it.

 

[kathie859]

Hey everyone. I just signed up for weight watchers online 10 days ago. I wish I could go to the meetings but I live in a remote area and the nearest meeting is 30 minutes away. My first week went well. I lost 4 lbs but I'm sure that is mainly water weight. I have a couple questions.

1. How many of you eat you weekly points? I feel guilty if I eat them but am finding it hard eat enough through the day and all the good health guide lines with only 26 pts a day.

2. Do you eat your exercise points and still lose weight?

3. How much fruit is "built in to the plan?". I love fruit and think I may eat to much.

4. How often do you weigh? Do you wait until the weekly meeting or are you on it several times a day? I find that I am addicted to the scale getting on morning noon and night.

Thanks so much. I'm really excited to lose the weight. I'm run the tower of terror 10k in late sept and the Disney marathon in January. I would love to wear a cute running skirt and not feel uncomfortable

Hi,OP....I'm a newbie at WW, too; however, luckily I can easily get to the meetings. I started with 27 pts per day but am at 26 right now.

I don't eat my exercise points--but it's early in the game for me so that could change.

The fruit allowance is built in to encourage healthier choices for snacks--since there ARE calories in fruit, I think you have to be mindful of how much you are consuming---my challenge is portion control

I put my scale away. I weigh once a week at the same time @ the meeting. I used to be consumed by the scale but it didn't serve any good purpose for me to always be checking. The weekly weigh in is less stressful for me.

The first week I lost 8.4 lbs. I was amazed cause I really didn't feel deprived on the WW plan. I have a total of 55 lbs. to lose and think I can make this work for me.

Good luck, OP

 

[Love2Run]

I think my points are fairly low because I am short. So my weight might seem low to someone 5'8 but for my height I am overweight.

I have to say I love the weight watchers program. It works well with my personality. I am a perfectionist and when ever I had tried to diet in the past I would end up feeling guilty if I ate a treat or something not "healthy." With the points system I have found it helps me to stay balanced and not go to the extreme that I could never keep up with for the long run.

I find this forum to be a big inspiration.

 

[Love2Run]

Hi,OP....I'm a newbie at WW, too; however, luckily I can easily get to the meetings. I started with 27 pts per day but am at 26 right now.

I don't eat my exercise points--but it's early in the game for me so that could change.

The fruit allowance is built in to encourage healthier choices for snacks--since there ARE calories in fruit, I think you have to be mindful of how much you are consuming---my challenge is portion control

I put my scale away. I weigh once a week at the same time @ the meeting. I used to be consumed by the scale but it didn't serve any good purpose for me to always be checking. The weekly weigh in is less stressful for me.

The first week I lost 8.4 lbs. I was amazed cause I really didn't feel deprived on the WW plan. I have a total of 55 lbs. to lose and think I can make this work for me.

Good luck, OP

Wow 8.4 lbs! That is great.

 

[bumbershoot]

I am surprised that with just starting you only have 26 points. That's the lowest the daily points go, to my understanding.

Yep, it's the lowest! I hit 26 points when I got to 190, so it'll be the same all the way down to my goal of 135.

1. How many of you eat you weekly points? I feel guilty if I eat them but am finding it hard eat enough through the day and all the good health guide lines with only 26 pts a day.

2. Do you eat your exercise points and still lose weight?

3. How much fruit is "built in to the plan?". I love fruit and think I may eat to much.

4. How often do you weigh? Do you wait until the weekly meeting or are you on it several times a day? I find that I am addicted to the scale getting on morning noon and night.

I started using Weeklies pretty early on. I still lost, and, in fact, felt I lost "better". Even though that can't really be proven, at the very least, I FEEL better, not deprived at all! I mean, sure, sometimes I have to make choices that are different (like at Disneyland yesterday I had the fruit plate for breakfast instead of the french toast that DS got...I did eat a bit of french toast from DS's plate, but OMG that fruit plate was so good!), but I don't feel *deprived*.

I've started using exercise points. The last 4 weeks has been my experiment, and IMO it worked. I eat all APs (I take them before Weeklies, and I have it set to only eat them on the day I earned them) and as many Weeklies as I can stand. And I'm still losing.

Fruit: for those under 350 lbs, the *minimum* we are supposed to hit is 5 servings of fruits/veggies. If you are over 350, then it's 9 servings. A serving is 1 cup of leafy greens, and 1/2 of anything else. Most of them are 0 points, but even if you eat a pointy fruit/veggie (avocado, pea, corn, parsnip, etc) you can still count it as a fruit/veggie serving. You're supposed to eat them to satisfaction (don't binge), and don't let them get in the way of eating your points!

At the beginning, I weighed at WI ONLY. Then I would weigh on the home scale immediately before leaving for WI. Now I don't get emotional about the number (unlike my husband, who should not step on the scale other than WI), so I'll sometimes amuse myself by weighing all through the day. I think it's funny to watch the scale go up through the day, though sometimes when I've had a series of really good workouts and my body is working on losing the fat, I've seen it go down through a day. (that last bit is super-cool and also very weird!)

But I wouldn't do that if I was going to have ANY emotional reaction (other than amusement) about the numbers. And, once I'm at goal, I know I will *have to* weigh every day, so I can nip problems in the bud, rather than ignore them (or worse, eat b/c of being depressed about gaining a little) like I did for 2 decades!

If we have to have problems, then this is one I don't mind at all.

So so true.

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

I maintained this week. Not happy about it but at least I'm not up. I think that with all this wonderful summer fruit that's so readily available in the grocery store (especially the cherries!) I've increased my fruit intake. I guess I'll have to be a little more careful this week.

 

[Aburns8]

I maintained this week. Not happy about it but at least I'm not up. I think that with all this wonderful summer fruit that's so readily available in the grocery store (especially the cherries!) I've increased my fruit intake. I guess I'll have to be a little more careful this week.

That is a great attitude! I agree with you, it is better to maintain than to gain. I get excited over a .2 loss.

 

[StayCool]

I was down 3.6 yesterday. I was really surprised! I am doing my best to plan ahead, but still struggling on my nights that I have to work. I end up with a ton of daily points left over. So I'm doing not so great things just to use them up. I have to say they are tasty though! lol

My husband is still tagging along and has lost 4.8 pounds last week and hit his 5% goal. He doesn't like having to plan ahead for food, but since he is losing that is helping him stick with me. Plus the food we are eating tastes good so that helps.

Hope everyone is having a great week so far!

 

[pwdebbie]

For the first time since I joined in March, someone reached goal. I was beginning to wonder if everyone quit before they got there. It was encouraging to actually see someone who made it all the way.

As for me, down an even pound.

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

For the first time since I joined in March, someone reached goal. I was beginning to wonder if everyone quit before they got there. It was encouraging to actually see someone who made it all the way.

As for me, down an even pound.

Unfortunately, lots of members do quit before they reach goal but many of them also quit after they reach goal or right after they become lifetime. They think that because they've gotten themselves where they want to be, they dont need Weight Watchers in their lives anymore and go back to the old habits.

I'm glad you were able to receive that encouragement in your meeting this week. I hope you continue to see that member regularly. People who reach goal / Lifetime can be such an inspiration to the members who are also hoping to get there.

Congratulations on your loss!

 

[pwdebbie]

Today I ate like a fat person. That's all I could think to describe my eating. I babysat for my dd (the one that goes to WW with me). I watched three of their four while they took the other one for some outpatient surgery. Morning snack for them was a pop tart. After putting three in the toaster, one changed their mind about flavor. So of course, I had to eat the rejected pop tart. Fixed something called "chicken fries" for lunch (never had them before). Now I know they are yummy. Don't know how many I ate. They also had chips -- the flavor I love, sour cream and onion, so of course I had some of them. Then I ate the Smart Ones meal I had brought with me and the WW ice cream toffee bar.

I learned two things today. (1) -- I can't believe I used to eat that way all the time. It wasn't worth it. And (2) -- I really really really admire my dd now for sticking with the program and losing over 40 lbs so far. At home, I just have myself and dh (who has lost about 80 lbs in the past three years and is very careful about what he eats). There she has four high metabolism kids and one high high high metabolism hubby to contend with.

Tomorrow was my planned use-the-49WPs day. Crab feast with our four "kids" -- they'll always be kids even though my baby is turning 30 this year.

 

[sjms71]

I saw this and think I am going to print it out and put it so I can see it everytime I step on the scale. I put too much stock into that stupid square I step on everyday and let it control how I feel. I know I shouldn't but I do. Just wanted to share with everyone else .

 

[sjms71]

Finally caught up on the thread . WELCOME to the Newbies. Again, I continue to be so impressed with everyone's weight loss. You guys are just rockin it out, Great job! I got back from vacation on June 24. Unfortunately I was up a lot from my goal weight. The first week back I watched but by night time I was snacking. However, got myself together and have been perfect last few weeks even on the weekends, which usually kill me. But I'm not losing those vacation lbs. trying to stay focused especially going into another weekend, ugh so frustrating.

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

Finally caught up on the thread . WELCOME to the Newbies. Again, I continue to be so impressed with everyone's weight loss. You guys are just rockin it out, Great job! I got back from vacation on June 24. Unfortunately I was up a lot from my goal weight. The first week back I watched but by night time I was snacking. However, got myself together and have been perfect last few weeks even on the weekends, which usually kill me. But I'm not losing those vacation lbs. trying to stay focused especially going into another weekend, ugh so frustrating.

Load up on Power Foods, Stephanie,and get out of the house between meals! You can survive this.

 

[sjms71]

Load up on Power Foods, Stephanie,and get out of the house between meals! You can survive this.

Thanks Jess! Trying to get through this hump! Going to go to store today and stock up on some more power foods.

 

[StayCool]

Low on willpower today. I am craving cake! Now if I can just keep myself from making one... It doesn't help that it is chilly and rainy out so I'm stuck inside. lol

 

[Feckless]

New to this thread! I lost 50 pounds on WW back in 2006 (still about 20-30 pounds from goal, but felt good), and kept it off until about 2 years ago when it started to creep back on. Right now I'm about 10 pounds from my heaviest, and I feel horrible about it! My cholesterol is up, and I was stress eating. I have enough stress for 1,000 people so that meant I was eating ALOT. Saw some video from our latest Disney trip and it was eye opening to say the least.

So, here I am, halfway through my first week back on program. Last night was our School Council BBQ and I ate through most of my weekly extra points, but I recorded everything that went in my mouth and made much better choices - didn't eat the chips and snacks and didn't eat the EVIL COOKIES (made with Skor bar, butterscotch chocolate chips, regular chocolate chips and Ruffles chips!! OMG) I was pretty happy with myself. I usually find the first two weeks very hard for hunger, but I'm doing OK so far.

My motivation: I was running when I was lighter, and I want to get back at that. The most I ever ran was 6k. I also ran four 5k races (one so slowly that they would collect the route markers as I went past!!! Oh well, I figure I beat everyone home on the couch!!!). I needed some serious motivation, and I found it in my favourite place, Disney. I am aiming for the TOT 10 miler in September 2013. I figure if I get 20 pounds off then I can start running again (walking only until then, I don't want to tempt fate and get injured running too heavy) and start building up to that race.

Hoping to get some support and inspiration here!