Anna's Results Week 4 and the New Points Plus Program.

It seems that every week I gain back half of what I've lost in the first part of the week over the weekend.  I weigh myself almost every morning so I'm looking pretty good by Friday, then on Monday some of it comes back.  That's ok though I guess, it's all part of the week and this week I lost 2 pounds.  Slow and steady wins the race.  I've been back on WW for a month and I have lost 6 pounds.  I could do better but I'm still hoping that by the end of the school year (8 weeks from now!) I will have lost my targeted 15 pounds, so 9 more in 8 weeks???  Yeah, I can do that but there is a certain weight that I can't seem to go lower than (at least in the past) and I am 4 pounds away from that, so if I can break past that barrier I'll be pretty excited. 

I am starting the new Points Plus program with WW this week with some hesitation.  I am only doing it because my phone app won't let me use the old calculator anymore.  It looks like a smarter program because it includes carbs and protein in addition to fiber and fat without using calories at all.  Fruits and veggies are all FREE. The way the new calculator works makes meats worth a little bit less and a lot of packaged WW products like their yogurt, cookies and ice cream bars will cost more points.  Fiber one bars used to be 2 points and are now 4 because of so many carbs. The new system also allows more points in a day and in a week (everyone gets 49 flex points per week now) so it all seems to balance out to me.  My only hang up is I'm not totally positive how many points per week.  I have the thing on my app to figure it out but the last question to determine my points for the week just says to enter my "adjustment" which they give as examples: 3 or -2 but I don't know what that means so I just put 0.  I hope its right cuz if I operate under an incorrect assumption I might gain!  I get Anyhoo, I'm going to try it.

I don't know how you would do this without the calculators and formulas because I have it on my phone.  If you have sliders or other calculators for the old program I guess I would stick with that until the program gets more widespread and more people put info online.

Don't know how.....

But I lost one pound last week! I didn't do what I said. Had some stressful days and two days where Dave was home and for some reason it's so hard to stick to WW when Dave is home. And mom, hang in there. Everyone has bad or staying steady weeks. Just know you are doing great with the exercise and I guess just count each point and measure the portions. It's so easy to go over a portion size...especially with cereal. Anyway, what I'm saying is don't give up.

dinner

Any good healthy dinner suggestions? I need new ideas.....

Amy's Report

I lost three pounds! Yay! That's with a couple bad days, too. Maybe this is TMI but the week prior I had been retaining water.. was bloated...maybe that was one reason for not losing anything that week. I'm sticking with it and am going to try really hard to not cheat this week!
Can't wait for next monday.....

Week 3? or is it 4? Staying Steady

Despite the overeating on Tuesday-Thursday, I have managed to stay steady by staying under my points the remainder of the week and doing a little bit of working out.

Hoping for a couple pounds lost by next Monday.  Keep it up folks!  Would love to hear more from y'all if Mom can figure out how to log in again! ;)

Results are looking Grim

The last 3 days have been rough!  (Only for eating; the rest was lots of fun).  We went to spend a couple of days with Michael's old mission companion who lives about 3 hours from here in Pima.  They live WAY out on a country dirt road in the middle of nowhere.  It was cool because the boys got to play outside a lot and we went on lots of walks and whatnot.  They built a beautiful southwest style home out there so it was really comfortable.  Michael and Tim hadn't seen each other since they were in Australia, it was really cool to see them together.  They had a great time!  It was fun to listen to them reminisce.

The rough (but tasty) part was the eating of tons of food!  They treated us like they were a bed and breakfast and served up big country breakfasts with waffles and all the toppings with bacon and scrambled eggs and biscuits with gravy.  It was crazy good.  I actually tried to keep counting my points but at some point it was pointless (no pun intended!)  We had dessert and BBQ chicken and we also did the Tim Tam Slam as it was a tradition they picked up from their mission.  (suck hot chocolate through a chocolate coated cookie like its a straw...it's sooooo good and I went too far with it).
I am HOPING that SOMEHOW the next 3 days I can recover but I doubt it.  I bet I will be back at square one when I weigh in on Monday.  :(

BK response

Oh I know there is no room for fast food. But I was taking the day off for sanity reasons. And that's where everyone else wanted to go. I had a chicken sandwich no mayo. Just lettuce and the chicken. But it was still probably high in points. I didn't even look it up. And of course I had fries, too. I'm doing well again today and yesterday. I feel good, I don't feel like I have to suck in my gut even though I probably do have to. But I feel lighter. So that's a good thing I think.

Keep up the good work everyone!

bk

I just looked up bk's WW points and found medium fries are 9 points and a small cheeseburger is 9 points.

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week 2

I hate to say it Amy, but I really don't think that there is room in the WW allowance for fast food. Especially burgers but I don't know what you ate. I always do really well Mon through Friday and through weekends are hard.

Thus week I was in track to lose 2 but I only ended up losing 1 but its more than I was losing when I was doing Whatever I wanted.

The one pound I gained back was from party food...fried cheese sticks and chips...not even worth it :(

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Weekly WW Results--Amy

Well, I did pretty perfectly Monday through Friday. I weighed myself a little early...on Friday to see what I was at before the weekend. I had lost two pounds. Then I didn't count on the weekend and we went to BK, I had some chocolate, didn't count any points. Keep in mind I had those extra 30 points which I'm sure I went over. But anyway, I gained them both back when I weighed myself this morning! So I guess there is NO ROOM for cheating for me. I don't know if I can keep that up forever. I know I will cheat here and there. I'm not going to give up. I'll still eat perfectly and be a little careless on the weekends and see how it goes after a month. I'm sure I'll get results by then, right?

Day 3 of Success!

Day three in a row! Whoo hoo! I'm trying to save my extra points for the weekend. I think I can do it. I hope I lose at least two pounds this week.

Amy's WW Report

I've had two days of complete success on WW. So far so good for today. I'm starting to be less hungry throughout the day and I did something right yesterday because I still had five points to use after work which was so nice! I got to use up those points without the guilt. I hope I can repeat that for today.
I would love to lose ten pounds. I don't have a certain date in mind....just sometime.

Week 1 back on WW

I only lost 2 pounds but that's better than nothing.  If I keep plugging along I am hoping to lose 10-15 pounds by the end of the school year. 

Weight Watchers

Maybe I'll jump on the WW bandwagon too. I need to find my slider thing-ee. I put it in one of my cookbooks when I thought I was moving. Good luck girls. I admire your perseverance.