WW Lifetimer looking for motivation

[TandyR]

I am 5 feet 9 inches and I am very active and even when I was 230 some odd pounds I was very active so I have a good motabolism...I never can spell that word. You might try adding more excersize to get more points and boost your motabolism at the sametime.
I had a proffessional bead person make my bracelet and she had the moveable charms but I have seen them around at crafts stores, dollar stores and at the local mall so you might just poke around and you would find them.
10% for me would be 16.5 lbs (I was weighed at my WW meeting on July 28th) and might not be a bad goal for me....I was thinking I had only gained 10 lbs but looking at my books I have gained 15....so I will try for the 10% with you. I am still below my WW but my clothes aren't fitting because I bought them all at my lowest weight and I don't want to buy more clothes. So I guess I have about 15 lbs I would like to loose....not much compared to what I have lost in the past but enough to make me feel frustrated with it.

-Tandy

 

[KIS]

I did fine, writing points, etc. until my daughter's candy appeared. I ate some. I have yet to figure out the point damage.

I did exercise today. I drank water and ate healthy other than my weak point -- chocolate.

I do feel less bloated. I curbed my portions today. Still, I feel deflated because of my difficulty saying "no" to a piece of chocolate which says, "Please take me and eat".

KIS

 

[snowwhitefan]

I don't even want to talk about how the weekend went. I am just going to forget it and move on. I did well staying within my points today, and I excercised, so I am pretty happy about that.

 

[snowwhitefan]

Hmmm, that was weird, I wasn't done writing and my post posted.

ANYWAYS...

KIS, don't feel bad that you can't say no to a piece of chocolate, a piece of chocolate is ok. But just take one piece and walk away (and if you figure out how to do this, let me know ). Haha, I am really helpful at giving advice I can't follow. Maybe you can find a substitute that is low in points. I find a tootsie roll satisfies my chocolate urge. Or maybe a fudgicle (the regular fudgicles are only 2 points each, they do pretty good for me).

I am going to shoot for my 10% too, which would also be 15 (OK, closer to 16 pounds). I know we can do this together!

 

[TandyR]

Some chocolate isn't bad so I wouldn't beat yourself up over it. I second snowwhitefan sugestion about the fudgicle that is what I have in the Summer when DDs something that I could have, but shouldn't....in the Winter I have low fat hot chocolate.
So it looks like there is a few of us that are looking to lose 10% so maybe we can work together to give each other that support. I don't know if I should create another thread to see if there are others or just keep it to this thread.
I was able to keep within points yesturday, but unlike some of you I haven't been able to really excersize unless keeping up with my girls can count. This Summer has been so bad for me when it comes to excersizing because I feel like I alway am taking care of the girls and driving them to the places they need to go or supervising playdates or whatever. So I run out of time for me to exsersize.
Good luck everyone today.

 

[KIS]

Dear TandyR and Snowwhitefan,

It looks like we've made our goals of 10%. Tandy R, do you mean you think we should start a 10% WW weight loss goal thread or something? If you do that, just be sure to let those of us here know so we don't misplace each other.

Snowwhitefan, you got it. I have a hard time saying just one piece once today when it comes to chocolate.

TandyR, how old are your kids? May be once school starts, you'll be able to find time to exercise.

I know I always feel better with exercise. If I don't exercise every few days, I get a little cranky. I need it. I don't exercise a lot. One of you made the suggetion to exercise more and longer to take off the weight. I am considering that. I'd need to work it into my schedule and I think once I start, I'd need to keep it up. As it is, I exercise about 30 minutes three times a week. I'd like to make that 4-5 times a week. I go to a gym and swim, use weights, climb, bicycle, or walk on machines. I used to do yoga classes, too. They were 1 1/2 hours. I really liked it. They moved the classes to a time that did not work for me with my work and family schedule.

Snowwhitefan, don't be discouraged about what was. Today is the day that you're living. You can make choices toward your goal if you want to. I know it can be hard -- just think of me with the chocolate.

There was a time when I had dates, believe it or not, as a substitute for chocolate. I found these coconut coated rolled dates (pits out) at a health food store and the color and smoother texture lasted in my mouth, not quite like chocolate, but some of the same qualities. Tootsie rolls are fun and chewy, but I down them so fast and then the taste is gone. I think I'm trying those dates again. Two dates are 1 point and serve also as a fruit, see. It really is healthy.

My problem this last time with maintenance was that I started saying, "I don't want to keep substituting my whole life and I don't just want one piece. I deserve to have this orgy of edible pleasure." Even when the weight made me lose some self-esteem, I still went for the sweets. I can't have both I guess.

When I was going to the meeting which really helped and then had to stop because of scheduling changes, the leader used to say, "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels". Sometimes I feel that, but even on WW, I started feeling deprived. Can any of your relate and how do you think we/I can cope differently a year from now?

KIS

 

[TandyR]

Sorry I had computer problems yesturday and couldn't get on to ready any messages.
My kids are 7 and 3.5 years old...the 3.5 year old one will be going to pre-school three mornings a week starting in September so I am hoping to be able to go swimming three mornings a week then. I love swimming but I can't do it when I have the girls.
Now do people here want a seprate 10% thread? If you do what should we call it?
I didn't stay within my points yesturday. I was bad because I was stressed about my computer. I need to figure out how to get a handle on this stress eating I do....it is just crazy and a bit stupid.

-Tandy

 

[KIS]

TandyR,

Wait a minute. Beating up on yourself won't really do much except make you feel bad. It is a life style change you need to make. Stress eating sounds SO familiar. For me, it's like I'm trying to comfort myself. If I am wise, I ask myself to wait about 10 minutes and I review why I want to eat something and sometimes I can see that I'm seeking comfort. Then I can have a little talk about it.

I've been over my points every day. I never noticed how many points I've gone over regularly this past year. I'm thinking of using this week as a barometer. In a couple of days, I can review the week and see some obvious places for improvement. I know my portion size can be improved on sushi. I ordered more than I needed at lunch yesterday. The day before that, it was the extra meatball -- totally unnecessary. Today, however, I succeeded in stopping after a cup of my Indian veggie dish. I'll eat the rest tomorrow for lunch.

I, too, love swimming. It's a great form of exercising and it's such a lovely experience to glide over the water initially and then move through it. You hardly feel it. There's no pounding or anything.

I haven't written my points down for the last two days because I was so off the mark. I think I will get off the computer and go right away to rectify that problem.

KIS

ps. I think we could notify various users about the move to the new thread and then we could rename it "the 10% club" or " the 10 % WW club".

I'll be away this weekend and next week I'll be extremely busy getting out some parenting workshop brochures (a do-it-yourself PR campaign!!!), so, if you want my help on the rerouting, it can't be next week.

 

[snowwhitefan]

Whew, I've been away from my computer for a few days and haven't been able to post. I don't know about you all, but I am really enjoying this little support group/thread we've got going here.

KIS, I can really relate to the going over points. I am really trying to ID where my problem is and work on my solution. I do pretty well during the day at work and all, I pack up my snack and lunch and count all of the points before I go to work. I even do okay after work for a few hours. But around 8 or 9, I start getting munchies (and some nights I am actually hungry). I think maybe I need to take up cross-stitching again. I really snacked a lot less when I am cross-stitching because I don't want to get any food on the linen. Anyways, I am really trying to work hard and ID the issues that I am having trouble with and try to determine a course of action.

I think a 10 percent thread would be cool, so that we can check in with each other.

OK, I have another question/topic. I have a pretty small apartment with not too much space. I store my analog scale on its side behind the bathroom door. I am wondering if storing it like this is making it less accurate (I hope this doesn't sound like a stupid question). The scale is zeroed each time I use it, but it is still about 4-5 pounds off from what the scale at Curves says, and it never matched the WW scale. I can't even find it to have a consistent difference, sometimes it is like 2 pounds off from the WW scale, and sometimes it is like 5 pounds off. I am having trouble tracking my weight changes, because I never believe my scale from day to day. What do you all think?

 

[KIS]

Dear Snowwhitefan,

You have already pinpointed a challenge. That nighttime eating. It's hard to curb. For me, it's force of habit combined with boredom/comforting myself at night. Sometimes, I wonder if I just need to go to sleep or something. I'm exploring this one, too. One night last week, I got the munchies and stretched instead. That actually did the trick. So, I thought it was boredom that time that needed to be addressed. Once I stretched, I read alittle bit and decided I was wound down and ready to sleep.

I with you on the discovery of variation on the scales. I gave up on our house scale. It's inaccurate. Last time when I did WW, there was one at the local WW meeting place and I enjoyed not having a scale up snuff to use at home because I was so obsessed and thought it's poorness might prevent me from using it. Guess what? I used it anyway. I was so obssessed. This time, I have yet to attend a local meeting. I'm not too sure I want to, frankly. So, I've not weighed myself in. I haven't even used the broken scale at home. I can tell I've firmed up a little because my shorts are not skin tight anymore. That's enough for me right now.

Guess what? Yesterday, I didn't go over my points!! A small victory for me.

Take care and keep on trucking!!!


KIS

 

[TandyR]

Sorry about beating myself up about it...I was just feeling very down...my DH had been working about 70 hours per week for the last month and I was just told that it will be like that until Sept 1 when his product ships. So I got really stressed realizing that I am not going to have any time for myself until Sept. But later that day I realized I just need to take it....I sent the girls to play in the room and left the kitchen as a mess and I did some scrapbooking. Not something that helps my physical health but it did a lot for my emotional health.
Snowwhitefan I have trouble with my scale also so I don't know exactly what I weigh either except when I go into WW and then I try to match my weight on my analog scale to my WW so they are same but it doesn't always work.
I will create "10% WW club" as soon as I am done posting this.
Thanks for all the support.

 

[Pooh93]

I have been wanting to respond to your thread for over a week now, but I've had computer problems and am just now back in business.

I am a lifer gone bad! In the early 90's I lost 40 lbs and kept if off for 5 years. I exercised faithfully, was very sports active etc. Then came dd #1 and I gained way too much during my pregnancy. I love my ob, but wish he'd have yelled at me more. So, I kept an excess of 20-25 lbs after that pregnancy. The stress of working, a new child, a husband that was never home due to his job left no time for me or exercise. Then I decided to have another baby, but "things were going to be different" this time and I was not going to gain all that wait again. Well, I did well until the last 3 mos of pregnancy and probably gained as much in those 3 mos as I did my whole pregnancy. So now I'm really in a fix with my weight after delivery. Add another 30 lbs that I've kept on. Now, I've got 50+ lbs to lose just to reach the top end of my goal weight range.

My youngest is 5 1/2 and I have not been able to focus on myself or weight due to alot of other stresses in my life. I am 5'9'', so nobody thinks I weigh as much as I do. But it kills me that my kids have never known me thin. All the other mom's in oldest dd's class are thin. I hate going shopping for clothes and attending dd's school functions because I feel like a moose next to all these thin, attractive women. Oldest dd will make First Communion next spring and I hope to be thinner as I don't want to be remembered/seen in pictures someday where I feel like I was an embarrassment. (I probably sound overdramatic, but it's the way I feel.)

I am now trying to find ways to handle the stress in my life better and try not to take my comfort in food. I've started reading novels again which I had basically given up when dd's were born. I try to take walks more often. When dd goes to kindergarten, I plan to take one day off every other month from work for just me to do something I want to do.

These Wish boards have been helping me by seeing other struggle with similar issues. Whatever weight loss plan anyone is on, I have been reading and taking what I can from it. I have been religiously counting my points the last 2 weeks and have actually lost 3 lbs! Maybe I can do it three weeks in a row. I am trying not to get to far ahead of myself and say "I am going to lose xx lbs by xx date." Everytime, I do that I set myself up for failure. I don't even want people to say they notice any weight loss, because I don't want to fail again.

If you are still with me after my gut spilling (actually, this has been therapeutic), my only advice to you is even if you are not as motivated as you used to be, hang with it. Don't let the weight gain get the best of you to where you have to start all over. I swear if I ever get this weight off again, I will not gain it all back. It's been too much of a struggle psychologically.

 

[TandyR]

I just thought I would post and see how people have been doing. I didn't journal this weekend because my parents took the girls and DH and I had time alone for for weeks. So we went out to dinner and other stuff....I didn't journal any of it but I tried to make wise choices....but that doesn't always work.
I decided to get out a paper journal on top of my bracelet to really try to get me to journal things.

 

[twhipple]

I just found the W.I.S.H. board today and TandyR told me about this thread. I lost about 35 pounds in the early 90s with WW and the only exercise I did was walking daily about 4 miles. I went back to it in 2000 and was up back to where I started before. Our group was not able to continue (WW @ Work) and I didn't take steps to go elsewhere. I gained it all back again and more. I was up more than 50 pounds from my goal!! A year ago while preparing for our first cruise (DCL of course!), DH and I decided to start exercising. We began with Escape Your Shape which I found easy compared to other exercising I have done. I joined WW @ Work again after dropping about 10 pounds and lost a total of 30 pounds before the cruise. After we got about 1/2 way to the cruise, I figured we we're losing fast enough and we added a daily 1 mile walk. Only about 15 was with WW so I didn't get to my 10% before leaving. While on the cruise, my father died and after I started eating like crazy. I didn't gain any weight but I got used to eating that much and had a hard time stopping. A couple months later I was used to eating that much, but starting gaining again. I gained 10 pounds and rejoined WW @ Work. The first session (10 weeks) was really hard because I have had a lot of stress. My BIL is a parapalegic who developed a bedsore last year and my DH and BIL feel like we have to take care of him. He lives alone about 15 miles from our home. I work 4 days a week, full-time though. I am exhausted every day.

I rejoined WW @ Work for another 10 weeks and I am the group contact so I have been trying harder lately. I started to journal this week (since Thursday) and have been doing well. I also started a vitamin daily which can't hurt. I have realized that we just have to tell my BIL when we can't help him and not change our lives for him. He put himself in this situation and it's not our fault. We expect he will be back to being independent in about a month.

A couple weeks ago I got to my 10%, but went up the next week and stayed the same the following week. I thought the cruise would be motivation like last year but it is harder this time around. I need the support of others like me

Right now I have 5 pounds to go to pre-cruise weight (last year) and about 30 to goal. I would like to end up somewhere in between before the cruise. Did I mention we're going on two this year?! I've got to account for that added weight gain too!

 

[snowwhitefan]

Hi Pooh93 and twhipple! Thanks for joining our thread. I am really enjoying posting here and reading what others have to say, because everytime someone posts something, I can relate and I know exactly what they are feeling. It really helps to know others are struggling with the same issues that I am. Twhipple, congrats on your 10% a few weeks ago. We all have those bad weeks where we go back up a little or don't lose, but it sounds like you are getting things under control and will be losing again before you know it!

TandyR, thanks for checking in about journaling. I really hate to admit it, but I am SO guilty of not keeping my journal. I keep promising I am going to and as I am on my way out the door almost every morning I think "Man, I need to write down my breakfast, that was four points. I will get out my journal when I get to work and write it down." I really do think this almost every single weekday, but I still haven't made the friggin 30 seconds it takes to do this. I don't know what my problem is. I think I am going to go tape my journal to the plate I am going to use in the morning. Maybe that will help. I will try and check back in tomorrow.

How is everyone else doing with the journaling?

 

[TandyR]

I am glad to "see" everyone. I realized my bracelet wasn't cutting it...it is good for when I am on the run but I have decided to write things down too to really help see what I am eating. Yesturday went well and I was able to stay within points without a problem. How did other people do? snowwhitefan did you tape your journal to your plate? How did that work for you?

 

[twhipple]

I have successfully journaled for 5 days now. Only one day did I go above my points, but made up for it in subsequent days. We have been pushing ourselves to exercise and that is going well. I just hope I see some results this week on the scale (weigh in on Thursday).

 

[KIS]

Hi everyone,

I'm just back from Sesame Place in Langhorne PA. It was definitely difficult to count points there. I tried to make wise choices. Yesterday and today, I was pretty good, but I forgot about journaling. Thank you TandyR for reminding us all about that.

TandyR,

did you start a WW10% thread? What is it called?

Do you folks go to meetings? Do you find they help or confuse matters?

KIS

 

[TandyR]

Yes I created "The WW 10% Club" http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=418752 hasn't gotten much traffic.

I try to go to meetings because they help give me the support I need, but with my DH's work hours lately I haven't been able to go as often as I would like.

I journaled yesturday on paper and I stayed within my points. How did other people do?

 

[twhipple]

I go to meetings at work so it's really convenient. I have been journaling for 6 days straight now and only once went above my points for the day.

I know this sounds terrible, but many times I have trouble getting to my minimum points. We eat a lot of zero point foods and I get stuffed so I don't want to eat more. I have been better this week at getting the minimum. My team leader said that sometimes just getting a couple more points can kick you off of the plateau. If my scale at home is any indication, I think she's right. I'll know for sure tomorrow at lunch