Hey Paintfancy ~
First off, congrats on the loss so far! The first two weeks are not usually an indicator of how the rest of your weight loss will go. Often, there's a lot of loss the first week or two and then our bodies start losing a "normal" amount of weight. This is not to say that you'll lose .8 each week. A lot of factors could be going on (yes, it could be TOM hormonal body things). Don't beat yourself up. This is a process that takes time.

I've found that I prefer to eat out of my FP than my AP. Just the way that I like it. Must be a mental thing, because I know that if I work out for 30 minutes one day, and then choose to take a point from my FP, it might actually be an AP... you see where this is going. I just choose not to think about earned AP in terms of eating them.

Kim, don't stress about only losing .8 lb after such big loses the previous 2 weeks. Keeping up that kind of loss is not good for you. Losing 1-2 lbs per week, although slow, is easier to maintain because you have to actually change your eating habits for the long term.

And everyone, don't be afraid of eating your flex points. If you keep your food intake consistently too low, you'll plateau and actually have a harder time losing. I almost always eat all my activity points, and dip into the flex points occasionally over a week. If I've hit a real plateau, just doing my regular points + AP's will usually get things going again. That's probably because increased activity = increased muscle mass = increased metabolism. I've been at my lifetime goal for almost 3 years and unfortunately, losing weight and keeping it off has to be a total life change for most of us. - Theresa

I agree Faerie and Gramma, you have to eat to lose for the long run, you have to keep that metabolism working. If you put your body in starvation mode it will start storing instead of burning fat.

Paint, give it another week, I usually go up 2 lbs. with my TOM, so if I have a loss that week, I'm happy as a clam. I went up .6 when I thought I did pretty good and kept at (and using all my AP and FPs) and lost 3.2 the next week. It'll come off, but don't short yourself, you'll naturally get less points as you lose weight, so don't rush it

I'm confused too....I think. Not sure though. LOL This is only my 3rd week on WW.

Week one I lost 4.2 lbs
Week two I lost 4.4 lbs

I use my daily allowance of points....that's it. I don't use the Activity Points, but might once I get more active....damn snow. And I think the other points you're talking about are the extra 35 you have per week?? That's new since the last time I did WW and they scare me to death! So I'm not using them.

As you get closer to your goal weight you won't have as many points available, and if you're being good and getting your activity in, you'll need those extra points to keep from going into starvation mode. The whole idea behind WW is to be healthy as you lose and once you get there. Don't get in a hurry and try to starve the pounds off. The thing I hear most from people when I'm really OP is how healthy I look. My skin looks better, I've got more energy, I feel empowered.

The flex points aren't really new. You used to get a range of pts. per day and could save them, the way I remember it, so it was like getting flex pts. They probably changed it because in their research they found it works better this way.

Congrats on maintaining Gramma! That's my goal, long term maintenance.

Probably, but now there are a lot more people that don't use these points (I find, at least on 3FC more people saying that) then when they had the points range. Plus, the points range minimum (if I was following that now) was 2 points lower than what my target is right now. I think they were finding that most people were eating too little, especially if they were very active during the day (hence that question in the points quiz).

Gramma- Thanks! I agree with Keli, excellent job on maintaining!

Modkitten I never really compared the old to the new pts. That's interesting, it's all I can do to stay within my pts., including APs and FPs.

When you use the online WW system you have no choice in the matter. It deducts from AP's first and then FP's.

One of the real "flaws" in the system as far as I see . . . We should be able to select a preference.

I don't see what difference it makes. You can only use activity points the day that you earn them (in the new system) right? So why should it let you chose to deduct from the flex points when you can save those for another day?

Kim-

I don't lose weight around my TOM but then as soon as it arrives and I step on the scale, I see I did lose. I get it is the water retention.
I have to use some or all of my flex points or I get so hungry I find myself wanting to binge.
I also lost more my first two weeks on WW, but I think it is normal to slow down to 1 or even 1/2 a lb. a week after that. I see some on here lose only 1 lb. every few weeks.

Stay strong and you'll keep losing.
It is so hard for me not to get impatient! Especially after losing so much week 1 and 2.