Weight Watchers Chat

[CdnBuzzFan]

So I had this great idea where I'd make myself smoothies at home since fruits are 0 points now.

I put all my ingredients in the recipe builder on the website and it gave me a point value of 7 for my little smoothie. I only put in a banana, 1/2 cup of strawberries and 1 cup of orange juice (3 pts). Should I ignore the whole recipe builder thing and assume 3 pts? Could the recipe builder be wrong?

Doesn't make any sense to me either. The only thing with points should be the orange juice. Even if we were still counting fruit points, it would only have been about 5.

 

[Princess_Pris85]

Yeah - I think you're both right. I'm going to make a 3 pt smoothie. When I just had the 1/2 cup of strawberries in the recipe builder it said 1 serving would be 1 pt...oh well. thanks for the replies

 

[sjms71]

Oh, Stephanie, I wish I would have seen this before the race. That cracks me up. I did my 5K and didn't come in last! I ran a 36'17". I told my friend I got my personal best today and she laughed and congratulated me on my personal ONLY time! It was a lot of fun. It looked like there were at least 500 women running or walking -- 700 registered. I was 28th in my age group (45 to 50). They were still coming in when I left, so I don't know if there were more than 30 in my age group who ran.

Thanks for your support! I truly do appreciate it.

Now, I hope today and the coming week is much better for you. Sorry you had a tough time yesterday.

Let's have everyone make it a great day!

I'm so proud of you!! I kind of knew you wouldn't see my post before you left just wanted ya to know I was thinkin about ya.

Stephanie -- sorry to hear you had such a bad day. Hope you're back on track now.

Two weeks 'till Christmas! Are we excited yet???!

Hey girl, I am back on track. Worked the elliptical first thing this morning for 40 minutes. I guess it was just one of those days for me. And I am very excited about Christmas. Did my wrapping the other day while kids where at Grandma's. Most my decorations are up. I'll start my cookie baking the week before.

So I had this great idea where I'd make myself smoothies at home since fruits are 0 points now.

I put all my ingredients in the recipe builder on the website and it gave me a point value of 7 for my little smoothie. I only put in a banana, 1/2 cup of strawberries and 1 cup of orange juice (3 pts). Should I ignore the whole recipe builder thing and assume 3 pts? Could the recipe builder be wrong?

This was a topic of talk at our meeting. Some people were finding the recipe builder was giving a higher point value than it should.

 

[Mermaid02]

I'm so proud of you!! I kind of knew you wouldn't see my post before you left just wanted ya to know I was thinkin about ya.



Hey girl, I am back on track. Worked the elliptical first thing this morning for 40 minutes. I guess it was just one of those days for me. And I am very excited about Christmas. Did my wrapping the other day while kids where at Grandma's. Most my decorations are up. I'll start my cookie baking the week before.



This was a topic of talk at our meeting. Some people were finding the recipe builder was giving a higher point value than it should.

Good for you for getting back ontrack!

I was putting a recipe in the builder and the points were totally off. I thought I was doing something wrong!

 

[N&B'smom]

So, I was struggling to reach my daily points so I'm trying to get there.

Today I had 2 eggs with a double fiber English muffin and butter. A 10 pt breakfast!! Kind of weird to get excited about eating more food but I'm REALLY going to try to reach my points this week!

 

[Sandi]

So, I was struggling to reach my daily points so I'm trying to get there.

Today I had 2 eggs with a double fiber English muffin and butter. A 10 pt breakfast!! Kind of weird to get excited about eating more food but I'm REALLY going to try to reach my points this week!

That had to be a big step for you. It's definitely weird to be thinking you have to eat more to lose weight. I think it's terrific that you're giving this such a great effort. I'm really hopeful that it will pay off for you. Good luck!

 

[mrzrich]

Home from WDW!

Thursday night we stopped at Subway on our way to the resort. No problem there.

It went all down hill from there! Croissant Breakfast sandwiches, Lasagna, Tiramisu, Chocolate crepes, a trip to the New Caramel Shop in Germany, Chicken Nuggets, Pizza from Giordanos, and the yummy special Holiday sandwich at Earl of Sandwich.

Steph...You were smart to cancel your December trip!

 

[sjms71]

Home from WDW!

Thursday night we stopped at Subway on our way to the resort. No problem there.

It went all down hill from there! Croissant Breakfast sandwiches, Lasagna, Tiramisu, Chocolate crepes, a trip to the New Caramel Shop in Germany, Chicken Nuggets, Pizza from Giordanos, and the yummy special Holiday sandwich at Earl of Sandwich.

Steph...You were smart to cancel your December trip!

I hope at least you had a good time. If it makes you feel any better I ate like I was at Disney this weekend and I wasn't. Everyday I started on track and slowly went down hill from there. It's my own fault, I feel very hungry and I'm picking all the trigger foods to eat. I'm already getting nervous about our March trip. We are scheduled for free dining but seriously thinking of going without the dining plan.

 

[Sandi]

How is everyone doing today? I'm glad I have an evening Zumba class indoors tonight or I would be a slug when I get home from work. The outside temperature is 9 degrees and I don't even want to guess what the windchill is. Felt like negative 100 when I went outside to get to a meeting. No school today because of the snowstorm last night. DD16 might still be in bed -- DH is home today, too.

 

[robinb]

Your 9-degrees is warmer than it is here! My DD went to school since the snow stopped and the wind-chill was above -35 degrees. It was still quite brisk when I walked the dog this morning.

I'm doing OK. I had a little "victory" yesterday. I went to the grocery store and bought some sliced ham and turkey and a package of FlatOut wraps. I then went shopping at Old Navy and came out of there ravenous. I was originally going to stop at Subway but I couldn't sit and eat and then I thought about stopping at the Culvers for a small burger. I ended up going home and making a ham pinwheel wrap with ham and low fat cream cheese .

 

[Sandi]

Your 9-degrees is warmer than it is here! My DD went to school since the snow stopped and the wind-chill was above -35 degrees. It was still quite brisk when I walked the dog this morning.

I'm doing OK. I had a little "victory" yesterday. I went to the grocery store and bought some sliced ham and turkey and a package of FlatOut wraps. I then went shopping at Old Navy and came out of there ravenous. I was originally going to stop at Subway but I couldn't sit and eat and then I thought about stopping at the Culvers for a small burger. I ended up going home and making a ham pinwheel wrap with ham and low fat cream cheese .

That is a victory. You gotta take 'em where they come!

 

[N&B'smom]

Hey. Just checking in! Things here are going okay. I'm REALLY trying to reach that 29 points.

My mom is definitely going to have a loss this week, she's prepping for a colonoscopy tomorrow. What a cheater!

So, I'm doing what I am supposed to do, figuring it may take a couple weeks for my body to adjust to everything. I'm not giving up but don't feel like much is happening again this week. But even if I lost .6 every week, I'd still get there!!!

Tonight I'm heading out for a power walk with one of my friends!

 

[Kphoto]

Hi - I'm new here and new to WW. Going to a meeting tonight and keeping my fingers crossed. My new exercise program includes power walking through WDW with my camera as often as possible. Thanks for this thread.

Karen

 

[sjms71]

Hey. Just checking in! Things here are going okay. I'm REALLY trying to reach that 29 points.

My mom is definitely going to have a loss this week, she's prepping for a colonoscopy tomorrow. What a cheater!

So, I'm doing what I am supposed to do, figuring it may take a couple weeks for my body to adjust to everything. I'm not giving up but don't feel like much is happening again this week. But even if I lost .6 every week, I'd still get there!!!

Tonight I'm heading out for a power walk with one of my friends!

Hey Shelby, too funny about your mom . Anyway, keep your chin up. I've had breakfast, snack and lunch and still have 16 points left. Thinking of having an apple but, that's free. Next week is going to be a killer for me baking christmas cookies.

 

[N&B'smom]

Okay, so I've been trying desperately to reach my 29 points. I've made it there once and then to about 25 points the other days. I just weighed myself and I am back UP the .6 I lost. Now I'm starting to get mad and thoroughly discouraged.

 

[cepmom]

Okay, so I've been trying desperately to reach my 29 points. I've made it there once and then to about 25 points the other days. I just weighed myself and I am back UP the .6 I lost. Now I'm starting to get mad and thoroughly discouraged.

I really think you are not eating enough and/or not getting in all the good health guidelines each day. when is your weigh in? When you go, ask the leader about it or mention it during the meeting. Bring your tracker with you so someoone can look at what you are eating and help you out. Also, try not to weigh yourself at home or in between weigh in's, the scales at WW are much more accurate and are not always in sync with home scales.

 

[Dreamer & Wisher]

Okay, so I've been trying desperately to reach my 29 points. I've made it there once and then to about 25 points the other days. I just weighed myself and I am back UP the .6 I lost. Now I'm starting to get mad and thoroughly discouraged.

Could you increase some of your portion sizes? Don't worry about the .6, your weight will fluctuate a little. If you don't eat enough your body will start to slow your metabolism down so you don't lose any weight. I always eat all of my Daily Points Target, all of my Weekly Points and then some (if not all) of the activity points I earn. I very rarely have a week where I have a gain and most weeks I lose at least 1 pound.

If you deprive yourself too much, it could lead to binging.

 

[Dreamer & Wisher]

Hi - I'm new here and new to WW. Going to a meeting tonight and keeping my fingers crossed. My new exercise program includes power walking through WDW with my camera as often as possible. Thanks for this thread.

Karen

How did your first meeting go? I love your exercise program. The other day I was walking around my neighborhood, thinking of how nice it would be to walk around World Showcase early in the morning before it opens. Wouldn't that be lovely?

 

[Sandi]

The other day I was walking around my neighborhood, thinking of how nice it would be to walk around World Showcase early in the morning before it opens. Wouldn't that be lovely?

We stayed at BWV last April and August. One of the major highlights of staying there was entering Epcot through back -- through the International Gateway over between France and the UK. While we only got to walk by the UK and Canada, it was so fun to do that by ourselves -- literally, it was just me and DD16. In April, it was also the garden show when they have all of the lovely topiaries. I made DD16 stand by all of them for photos. We didn't have to rush because others wanted the same pose. Very lovely.

Okay, back to regularly scheduled programming. I'd like to know how Karen's first meeting went, too!

 

[sjms71]

Anyone else track their food on the online tools? I swear WW is messing with me. Ok, so yesterday I made chicken breast. Now I had boneless, skinless grilled chicken breast. It was a bigger piece so it weighed in at about 124g. The serving size on the online tools was 85g. and 6pts. I put in 1.5 servings and it came up 9pts. . I did this two times to make sure I picked the right thing. So, needless to say that took care of any points I thought I would have left over for a snack. Ok, so today I had chicken breast for dinner again(I know boring but it's been too cold to go to the store). I made sure to pick a smaller piece. Went to go enter my 75g piece and they changed it, instead of 6pts per 85g serving it's 3pts (more like it). But I knew I wasn't crazy (no comments from the peanut gallery ) so I went into yesterday's stuff clicked on my same chicken breast that says 1.5 servings 9 pt. However, when I clicked on it this time in the edit box it said 5pts? Anyone else noticing any "bugs" in the system?