Weight Watchers Chat

[sjms71]

Also... not doing well so far this weekend. Ate a bunch of my weekly points yesterday and only have about 6 left and I still have 2 1/2 day left!

I couldn't wait for my scale to break and then when it did I bought the ww scale. It sits on my counter. I even brought it with us to the beach when we went.
Weekends are so hard, I hate them as far as food goes. I myself had a horrible weekend last week. However, this weekend I'm proud to say I've done well. I'm only 3.8 away from 50lbs and I just want to be there so bad so, that is what has kept me focused this weekend.

 

[canadadisney]

Well, I had my first weigh in after my commitment to re-join and I was down 0.8. I know I should be happy but I was really disappointed. I had been camping all week and I was very proud of the choices I made. I ate my daily pts. I turned down, ice cream, licorice, marshmellows. I made low fat popcorn while everyone else was eating chips. I have been camping the up until now and we go camping again on Thursday. (wed is my weigh in) So my goal is to continue to stay on track and go for a walk each day I am home.

 

[sjms71]

Well, I had my first weigh in after my commitment to re-join and I was down 0.8. I know I should be happy but I was really disappointed. I had been camping all week and I was very proud of the choices I made. I ate my daily pts. I turned down, ice cream, licorice, marshmellows. I made low fat popcorn while everyone else was eating chips. I have been camping the up until now and we go camping again on Thursday. (wed is my weigh in) So my goal is to continue to stay on track and go for a walk each day I am home.

Don't be disappointed, keep doing what you're doing and you will see results. Make sure you let us know how you did on Wed. Hang in there and have a good week.

 

[canadadisney]

Don't be disappointed, keep doing what you're doing and you will see results. Make sure you let us know how you did on Wed. Hang in there and have a good week.

Thanks so much. I have been having a great week. Weigh in is in 2 days!

 

[Sandi]

Hi Friends! I did really well on the weekend, but Monday was tough. I was just hungry at night so I ate. I tracked everything -- which was frightening -- and am within the points allowed due to the 35 weekly points, but I know tomorrow's weigh in will reflect yesterday. Oh well, I think today will be a good day.

Good luck to all of you today and moving forward.

 

[Rosiekins]

Thanks for all the welcomes and advice. I do have a food scale but I love the WW I see on the site too...Maybe mine can have an accident with a hammer lol. Well after all week of staying on track and not even touching my extra points I lost 2 pounds. I feel both happy and disapointed. I mean I lost and that is great but then again all that work for 2 lbs? But I am just glad it was something, and they do say 1 to 2lbs a week so 2 really is pretty good.

 

[sjms71]

Thanks for all the welcomes and advice. I do have a food scale but I love the WW I see on the site too...Maybe mine can have an accident with a hammer lol. Well after all week of staying on track and not even touching my extra points I lost 2 pounds. I feel both happy and disapointed. I mean I lost and that is great but then again all that work for 2 lbs? But I am just glad it was something, and they do say 1 to 2lbs a week so 2 really is pretty good.

Congrats on the 2lb loss
I've been doing this for 9 months and always pretty much have done the same thing. Some weeks 2lbs some 1lb. So, who knows. In the beginning I lost 3lbs a few times. But I track online also and basically have lost an average of 1.2 a week. A loss is a loss it all adds up.

 

[Sandi]

I am really concerned that I am doing something wrong still even though I seem to be following all the rules. I mean I am really eating all I want (smaller portions) and I am not hungry. I don't eat all my points and I have yet to touch the extras. My first weigh in is Tuesday so I guess I will see then, but for now I just needed to vent my worry to someone so thank you for listing to my very long story!

Well after all week of staying on track and not even touching my extra points I lost 2 pounds. I feel both happy and disapointed. I mean I lost and that is great but then again all that work for 2 lbs? But I am just glad it was something, and they do say 1 to 2lbs a week so 2 really is pretty good.

Rosiekins, I brought two of your posts together because your last comment about it being "all that work for 2 lbs" struck me as odd considering you first thought you were eating too much and were doing it wrong. I think the 2 pound loss is proof positive that you're doing it right. That rate of weight loss is what will let you succeed in the long run. I will take 2 pounds gone forever over a 5 pound loss that will be back in 5 months any day.

Stick with it and see your loss as permanent.

 

[Rosiekins]

Your right I did think I was doing it wrong and eating too much, but I was spending a lot of time thinking about the foods I was eating, precharting to make sure I could have them and finding nutritional information for everything I wanted to eat etc... I guess that is more what I was thinking when I said all that work. But your right I lost and it was a healthy loss, and I must be doing it right! Thanks for pointing that out!

 

[Sandi]

Your right I did think I was doing it wrong and eating too much, but I was spending a lot of time thinking about the foods I was eating, precharting to make sure I could have them and finding nutritional information for everything I wanted to eat etc... I guess that is more what I was thinking when I said all that work. But your right I lost and it was a healthy loss, and I must be doing it right! Thanks for pointing that out!

Got it. Yeah, that stuff is work, but after awhile it's all second nature. Thinking about what I eat is one of the best advances I made with WW. The whole mindless eating is what got me into my mess!

 

[canadadisney]

Thanks for all the welcomes and advice. I do have a food scale but I love the WW I see on the site too...Maybe mine can have an accident with a hammer lol. Well after all week of staying on track and not even touching my extra points I lost 2 pounds. I feel both happy and disapointed. I mean I lost and that is great but then again all that work for 2 lbs? But I am just glad it was something, and they do say 1 to 2lbs a week so 2 really is pretty good.

I can relate! Last week I stayed on track and didn't touch my extra points and lost 0.8. I was happy about the lost but also felt frustration and then guilt that I was frustrated about a loss. Positive self talk has helped me a lot this week. I am excited to weigh this week but also hesitant as I am afraid I will see another small amount.

 

[mrzrich]

Sounds crazy and against everything you may have learned about weight loss in the past, but I lose better when I use some or even ALL of my extra 35 weekly points.

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

Thanks for all the welcomes and advice. I do have a food scale but I love the WW I see on the site too...Maybe mine can have an accident with a hammer lol. Well after all week of staying on track and not even touching my extra points I lost 2 pounds. I feel both happy and disapointed. I mean I lost and that is great but then again all that work for 2 lbs? But I am just glad it was something, and they do say 1 to 2lbs a week so 2 really is pretty good.

It is a lot of work and sometimes it's really hard work but you should never be disappointed with the amount of weight you've lost. There is a lady in my meeting who has lost over 40 pounds and doesn't think it's coming off fast enough. Last week at the scale, she was so disappointed with the amount of her loss that she just got mad left without staying for the meeting. She couldn't see that she had already lost a lot of weight. She was just focused on the amount at the scale at that moment. Hopefully, she'll be back.

Even if your loss isn't much (or sometimes nothing), you're still learning things, like portion control and making healthy choices which are becoming part of your lifestyle. Even though it may not show at the scale, you're still keeping your commitment to yourself to make changes in your eating habits.

Like the others have said above, you're doing it right and congratulations on your successes.

 

[CdnBuzzFan]

Sounds crazy and against everything you may have learned about weight loss in the past, but I lose better when I use some or even ALL of my extra 35 weekly points.

At first, I was afraid of them. I thought if I ate those extra points, I would gain weight or not lose very much. I joined in September and it was sometime the following January that I had finally had a week where I ate all of them. Now, I always eat every one of mine! Sometimes, I'm sure I've eaten a few of someone else's too!

 

[Rosiekins]

Got it. Yeah, that stuff is work, but after awhile it's all second nature. Thinking about what I eat is one of the best advances I made with WW. The whole mindless eating is what got me into my mess!

I know I didn't realize how much mindless eating I was doing. How many times I had 3 granola bars in an hour or ate a whole bag of movie sized candy while watching the movie. I was in shock when I discovered how many points/calories were in my Favorite dish at the Cheesecake Factory. But I do have to say in only a week I feel like I am getting a much better hang of my portion control. My favorite new little trick is asking the restaurant to split my food before it gets to me. I found that if it wasn't on my plate I didn't even miss it! I am hoping soon I will just know how many points a lot of things are and I think then things will get a lot easier. For now at least I have enough points that not eating more then them isn't too hard.

 

[sjms71]

I know I didn't realize how much mindless eating I was doing. How many times I had 3 granola bars in an hour or ate a whole bag of movie sized candy while watching the movie. I was in shock when I discovered how many points/calories were in my Favorite dish at the Cheesecake Factory. But I do have to say in only a week I feel like I am getting a much better hang of my portion control. My favorite new little trick is asking the restaurant to split my food before it gets to me. I found that if it wasn't on my plate I didn't even miss it! I am hoping soon I will just know how many points a lot of things are and I think then things will get a lot easier. For now at least I have enough points that not eating more then them isn't too hard.

It sounds like you have a handle on what you're doing. Keep up the good work and we are all here to support each other when ever it's needed .

I too do the mindless eating. Everytime I go by the frig. I grab a handful of grapes so although healthy, it's mindless eating and not always counting the points for them either.

 

[disykat]

I'm back from a beach vacation and it's cool to see how well people are doing. We were gone a week and I'm pretty proud of how I did. I had a few "treats" but in general kept pretty good control of what I was eating. I gained about 1/2 pound, but got right back on track and it has disappeared. It looks like I'm finally starting downward again and hoping to hit 20 pounds gone at weigh in on Thursday. (I got sort of stuck after 15 pounds and have been dancing around 18 for several weeks now.)

It's a slow process! With the exception of this past week and a few tough days the week before that, I've been diligent for 18 weeks and am just above a pound a week average lost. It's hard when you know you're on program and the scale barely moves! However, I'm convinced that's why I was able to vacation without a big gain. A pound a week is a good average!

I keep reminding myself that I'd rather lose slowly while eating as many points possible. It will make maintenance SOOOO much easier!

 

[disykat]

I too do the mindless eating. Everytime I go by the frig. I grab a handful of grapes so although healthy, it's mindless eating and not always counting the points for them either.

Those "BLT's" are killer, aren't they? I have to laugh at myself at church when I'm hoping for a big chunk of bread during communion because I don't count that!

 

[sjms71]

Those "BLT's" are killer, aren't they? I have to laugh at myself at church when I'm hoping for a big chunk of bread during communion because I don't count that!

Yes they are, even though they are healthy and we just went over BLT's at our meeting a few weeks ago.

Good for you for surviving vacation. We go away a lot so it always makes it hard. I've been doing this 42 weeks and I'm down (unofficially till Thurs.) a little over 47lbs as of today. So, slow and steady is the best way.

 

[Rosiekins]

It's nice to know I am not alone! It sounds like everyone here has a good grasp on what they are doing. I feel like I found the right place!