Bloomer,
You are thinking of the let's track thread.I was on it along with a few very nice people.I think life got us sidelined and we kind of stopped posting.At the time I had at least 3 places I had to keep track in.I admit I got lazy.
Dinner
Chicken breast marinated in soy sauce and different seasonings (5oz) - 5pts
1/2 Can of green beans - 0
Snack
1 Ghiradelli dk choc caramel sq. - 2pts
Went out dancing and had 2 Captain Morgans and Diet cokes - 4pts.
23 total pts
* I have not started adding my activity points yet since I'm still on my first week. I'm kind of scared to start adding them for fear of not losing enough weight.
I try to plan out mine. If I get to the point where I'm starving for a meal and don't know what I'm having yet, I get frustrated and end up going out to eat or making really poor choices. So planning ahead is the way for me Some people just like to be accountable, I think, by posting menus.
As for not eating activity points earned -- I think you're supposed to make sure you eat your activity points as you need the extra energy to rebuild muscle and keep your metabolism going... That being said, I know I don't always manage to eat the extra points!
I try to plan out mine. If I get to the point where I'm starving for a meal and don't know what I'm having yet, I get frustrated and end up going out to eat or making really poor choices. So planning ahead is the way for me Some people just like to be accountable, I think, by posting menus.
As for not eating activity points earned -- I think you're supposed to make sure you eat your activity points as you need the extra energy to rebuild muscle and keep your metabolism going... That being said, I know I don't always manage to eat the extra points!
I like gathering ideas from everyone's menus
I'm sure you're probably correct on using your exercise pts. however, when I asked about them at my first meeting (last wed.) they said we'd address them at my 2nd meeting.
fitbyforty -- yes! That's the one. I wish I'd remembered the right title. The one I chose makes it look as though it's about planners, or trackers, rather than what we're tracking.
I'm on Flex and get 33 points (thank goodness! Easy to start when it's that high)
Sunday: Breakfast -- protein shake (4) Snack -- WW 2-point bar (2)
Lunch -- 3 oz chicken on Roman Meal Honey Wheatberry bread with 2 tsp Land o' Lakes butter/canola oil spread (7)
watered Gatorade (2),
tangerine (1) Dinner baked salmon in lemon basil sauce and steamed spinach (7) Snacks: Activia yogurt (2), 2 graham crackers (3), iced tea (1), apple (1), pear (1)
That's 31, and that's fine (so far!)
I track in several places too -- including etools and my WW journal and a blog -- and we all may get tired of it, but it is nice to see what other people are eating, and it keeps me honest
On activity points our leader says they are use or lose, you can use them the day you earn them but you can't save them up like your flex points. I guess that keeps you from exercising yourself to death for a hot fudge sundae
I get 23 pts. had a decent day today
1 c. corn flakes ~ 2 pts
8 strawberry shredded wheat biscuits ~ 1 pt
1 cup skim milk ~ 2 pts
small apple ~ 1 pt
medium banana ~ 2 pts
walk @ work (2 20 minutes) ~ 2 APs
1/2 chef salad ~ 6 pts
dressing ~ 3 pts
2 oz. kielbasa ~ 6 pts
boiled cabbage ~ 0 pts
boiled potato ~ 2 pts
green beans in spaetzle sauce (Birds eye) ~ 3 pts
walk @ home (hills and faster pace 46 mins) ~ 3 APs
tracked everyday!! and made 28 activity pts. for the week!!
