Weight watchers

[Nik2WIN]

I'm so happy - I lost 1.8 this week! I didn't do anything different except I didn't go swimming all week because I'm back at work!  I love the Pro Points plan & will keep going with it.

Wow, well done you, that's a great achievement and a brilliant incentive to keep going.

Interestingly I've had no heartburn this week so it was clearly diet related although I couldn't see what I was eating that would cause it 

Never mind onwards and downwards - I really feel like getting to goal this time.

Nik

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

I'm with you  ww girls, and will be joining up next wednesday night. I lost 22kg a couple of years ago but sadly found it again when I found peanut m&m's and stoppped walking. I can't blame tmx for my weight gain but know if I don't get onto it straight away I will blossom   
 
My aim is to convert the ww meals into tmx meals, anyway i'll give it a go.

Report in again soon and good luck girls. Jenny

Way to go Jenny.  Good luck!!! 

[Ninny]

Thanks Thermie!

[the_vermins]

I have to admit, I feel like I"m a bad leader sometimes.  I rarely use WW recipes.  I eat butter, drink full cream milk, full cream cheese etc... I have managed to get control of my portions though.

Eat less, move more.  Limit the junk and the rest will happen.  It's all about balance.  If you have a bigger day one day, cut back the next.  I'm going to make a heap of soup for the freezer because I find it handy to have for lunch. 

Sorry I can't help with the recipe side of things.  I prefer all things natural and sometimes I find they use too many sweetners and low fat options that just don't fit me.

[SoBlessed]

Steph, you sound like a great leader! I'm doing all the things that you're doing too. I find I get through my 29 ProPoints very easily because I also have full fat milk, yoghurt etc. I never use margarine or butter on bread - never have. I will use butter in a recipe if required.

The leader at our meeting was showing us some low PP snacks from the supermarket which looked interesting, but when I checked them out today I couldn't eat any of them - too many additives! One thing she showed was roasted broad beans, called fava beans, but they were made with canola oil & I don't eat that either, as I've read that it's unhealthy. I just can't bring myself to eat these things,  & know my family & I are healthier for it. I'd rather eat stuff I make, or a piece of fruit.

I've cooked a few things from the WW books (not in TMX) & I just substitute the healthy foods that I usually use. I would rather eat healthily for more ProPoints.

[Nik2WIN]

We all eat full fat milk etc too.  I really don't think its that that has made me overweight, I think its the portion sizes 

I try to eat as few additives as possible and eat food as close to its natural state as I can.  I'm not particularly religious about it all but I have realised that my tolerance for additives as dropped dramatically - I feel really quite ill after a take away these days.

We all had swine flu at Christmas and I have to say although we weren't well we were nowhere near as ill as the horror stories suggested we would be and I'm convinced its because our bodies aren't working overtime to process all the cr*p that is in processed food.

I don't smoke but I do drink quite a lot but the nearest thing I come to processed food most of the time is Green and Blacks chocolate 

Nik

P.S.  Only lost a lb this week but its still a lb less

[SoBlessed]

Well done Nik! Every little bit is great. I have had so many "put ons", that I'm happy when I have any loss. I weigh in Wed night, so hopefully I'll have a loss to report too.

[Ninny]

Cooee Girls, you have gone quiet. What kind of week have you had? I have my first weigh in Tomorrow night, haven't done any exercise but hope the copious amounts of water will work in my favour. Look forward to seeing how you are traveling. Jenny

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

Make sure you don't have copious amounts of water in your tummy when you have your weigh in. I hope it goes well for you Jenny.  I used to love going to weigh-ins when I did weight-watchers years ago.  I can remember feeling discouraged one evening when I had only lost 400g in the week.  Later in the evening however the leader passed around 500g of fat (very gross) and I realised that 400g was fantastic.  Goodluck and be sure to report back to us.   

[SoBlessed]

Well I went really quiet when I weighed in last week & found that I had put on 600g!!!!
 After losing 1.8 kg the week before I wasn't expecting to lose much, but I certainly didn't expect such a big gain. I didn't do anything different from when I had my good loss, & I've done the same again this week, so I hope I have better results. I weigh in again tomorrow, so I will let you know how it goes.

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

Hopefully this week you will be back on track.  It may be that you haven't actually put on that amount though as there are factors that can affect your weight.  For example at different times of the month a woman can weigh up to 2lb heavier due to fluid retention.  Apologies to any males on the forum who read this post!!! 

[Ninny]

Weighed in and have lost 700g for my first week. I was discouraged then i thought about it, it is over a tub of margarine so that's something. Will move more and track more this week. Keep up the good work girls! Jenny

[SoBlessed]

Well done Jenny!
I'm really pleased too, as I lost 800g. My weight loss pattern seems to be 2 or 3 losses then a gain then 2 or 3 losses & so on. Very slow, but the overall trend is that it's going down. It's taken me since mid Dec 2010 to lose 2.9 kg!!! But I'm feeling good, & enjoy the plan, so I'll keep going.

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

Well done ladies!!! Great news.

I need to get moving again too Jenny.  I haven't put any of the weight back on yet thankfully but I am really lacking in energy.  I was feeling really energised when I was exercising each day. 

[joynatalie]

Hi all I have been to three weigh in and have lost 3 kgs.  I was really discouraged yesterday because I only lost .2 after bigger losses the first two weeks.  I have been well beneath my points which apparently has backfired!  I am trying to move more buy really want to close my eyes and wake up 20 kgs lighter!!!