QOTD: What is your strategy to stay on your healthy eating/exercise plan THIS weekend??
I know the weekend is half over and I'm a little late, but my stragegy for this weekend and hopefully the rest of this challenge is to plan out my meals. I made chili friday and will have that over the weekend, and went shopping and filled the fridge with lots of healthy fruits and vegies. I usually have egg beaters with salsa and cheese on toast for breakfast, or oatmeal and yogurt and fruit. If I have meals planned for the week, it's so much easier. We are going to a winter party today, and my friend made lasagne, so my plan is to have a snack before I go and have a small piece of lasagne. I am going to bring a ww keylime pie and one piece is 3 points, so that's all I'll have for dessert. I did a 4 mile watp yesterday, and will do the same this morning. I feel very satisfied after vacation, and motivated to stay on track now, and get back to where I was last spring. I just hope I can keep it up for more than a week.
Well,..... I'm down 1 lb. from last week, which makes my total loss come to 3 lbs. Now, some people lose that in 3 days, but for me.... it is a miracle! I have a very difficult time getting weight off, so I guess this little bit of weight coming off is a real gift. My Dr. said he'd love to see a 10lb loss by the time I go back to see him in 3 months. If I keep up this rate, I will have lost about 13 lbs. He would be so happy (as would I) with that loss!
Congrats on your loss. I'm right there with you on the slow losses. Over about 3 years I had lost 40 pounds, but put back on 15 this past year, so my average is really less than 10 pound a year. I think the slower it comes off, it is more likely to stay off. No matter how slow, it can and will come off. Stick with it and you'll reach that goal.
For the first time ever this coming week, I am going to try using all of my FLEX points. I have always felt, since their introduction, that the most virtuous thing to do is use as few of them as possible, but I've seen many people report greater success when they use them up. So I'm going to try it.
I liked it better when years ago WW gave us a points range for the day - I like clear boundaries! I guess they have their reasons, though.
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I've done ww for the past 3 1/2 years, a year on my own where i gained back 15 pounds, but when I'm am being faithful on program, I have found that I had better losses when I used most or all of my flex points. My leader always stresses that they are allowance points, not extra points and are meant to be used. I do think they help keep your metabolism up. Good luck this week. Enjoy them.
I'm sorry I haven't been around. I spent my birthday drowning my sorrows (turned 50
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Happy Belated Birthday!!
50 is the new 30!! Hope you enjoyed your day too. I'll be 45 next month, and am thinking i need to plan a
disney cruise for my 50th. I'm an early planner.
Guys!!!! I can't believe the number of people that have lost and wish they would have lost more. Stop that! Really. Cherish your losses. Take this from someone who has been losiing for a long time - cherish. And the slower you lose it a lot of the times is about rational choices for life. That you can stick by. Trust me when you maintain or gain, which everyone does on a weight loss journey once in awhile, you will be thankful for such losses.
I am down .8 and I am beyond thrilled. And very proud of myself. Back story which I posted on here.
I am under a lot of stress right now. And I had emotional overeating for two to three days this week. And I hadn't emotionally overeaten for a long time. It surprised me. So I said if you can't control that right now - what can you control? Water and exercise. So I drank my water and exercised throughout all the eating. And I stopped the overeating by Monday by actually having the feelings.
And exercised consistently with an interval program.
And lost!!!
I'm so pleased with myself. And it's time in my life to shout that from the rafters instead of looking at any negative.
Kathy.
Hi Lisa! I started reading your post before I saw it was you, and new it was you. You are always so positive and inspiring. I'm am thrilled with any loss now, and know it is a lifetime journey for all of us. We can do it. Good for you for keeping up with the exercise and water through all the stress eating and then overcoming it. It's so tough sometime. I hope things are less stressful for you soon.
Down .5 this week officially, but down .8 at WW. I"m having a ROTTEN week so I'm glad that I lost anything.
I may not be online much for awhile. My hard drive crashed last night (due likely to a DH error!) I"m on a clunky old laptop, and don't know how it will hold up.
Between that, mortgage pmts not received, DS19 car broken down, and TOM deciding to show up after 4 months, I'm really fighting the urge to eat everything in sight.
More later if I can! We CAN do this!!!!! One day, one BITE at a time!!
Hang in there. It sounds like a bummer of a week, but keep fighting those food urges. They won't help you and you'll feel worse after.
I have so much scrapbooking stuff and that dh makes fun of me because (and I'm embarrassed to admit this) - I've never done any of it. I guess its because I don't really know how or where to start and I look at it all and get overwhelmed and feel guilty for having bought the stuff and never used it. I would love to take the time to start it.
I too have way more scrapbook stuff than I have completed scrapbooks. Try to start with something small, like an event with just a few dozen pictures and pull out the stuff an play with it. It is fun and can become addicting, with the added bonus that it is hard to eat while you are scrapbooking becaus you don't want to get crumbs on you project. I buy a small 5X7 scrapbook each trip to disney we take, and it comes with the pages and stickers, and I like to do that right after we come back, and then eventuallly i'll do the large scrapbook. If you have disney pics, there is a board with lots of suggestions and layouts. I keep mine pretty simple, mostly pictures with a few stickers, and borders. Give yourself the time to start. you deserve it.
Suggestion Take a large frame. Take out the back panel and us the panel as your guide. Cover it with papper. It does not have to be all the same and it looks better if it is not. Then take pictures and letter and fill up the frame. It will look like a collage but the pictures really stand out on the paper. I did this with a friend's daughter. We had all gone to DW together and she wanted to make something for her mother's birthday. Good luck
That's a great idea. My son took a bunch of pictures and he wants to scrapbook them himself, but I know he'll lose interest quickly, so I might suggest this idea to him.
Bad week for me, up 1.8. I did exercise, drink water and eat veggies though. Actually I weighed myself Thurday, made some really bad food choices Thursday night, and was up 4 pounds Friday!
So....back on track now. It's a struggle, really tough for me right now, my parents are both in Orlando, my mom's in the hospital having a tough recovery from her knee replacement surgery she had Wed and my dad found out he has to have his stomach removed b/c he has stomach cancer. This thread has really helped me when I want to grab the chip bag though - I've managed to keep pretty much away from it. And the exercise thread has kept me going on that end, so I'm going to learn to manage my stress differently.
I might have missed it - has the new COW been posted?
So sorry about your folks. I hope your mom is feeling better soon, and your dad's surgery goes well with an uneventful recovery. It must be so difficult to be far away. Good for you for staying away from the chips, and exercise is definitely a stress reliever.
Hi karebear! 
i may not have the time everyday to reply individually, please please don't take that personally! i hope to, but you know, life and all 
to my2E's for posting recipes!!
, husband had 2 cheeseburgers- I probably ate about half of one and a few fries. Later sort of worked stuff off in the room lol. (yes too much information)
