I'm back. Survived the potluck. I had baked chicken, veggies, and my rice dish. But, I had to have 1.5 peanut butter no-bakes! Yum. I only used about 4 FPs today, but 9 yesterday, so I will try to be OP tomorrow. Time to plan. Another NSV, I talked my SIL and friend to go walking afterwards. Only a mile, but it was good and better than sitting home!
Linda - Great NSV with the choiced today. Holidays can be traps!
LJ - Look forward to seeing you around and seeing your progress I know is to come!
It was a fun day. Besides the cookout, we had "hat day" at church. The ladies wore hats as a salute to dads. It was lots of fun to deck out and greet each other.
LJ, I am glad we are all still here as well, not only for you but for each other. It's kind of amazing how certain groups of friends develop on this web site and then stick it out through "thick and thin" together! But, we are not unwelcoming of newcomers and really like when they come and join in. I hope our Brenda sticks around!
One thing I am not happy about on that Core board is the volume of people on that group. They all seem nice and helpful, but there are so many people on it that you can't seem to focus on helping each other and getting to know everyone. It's very fast paced and there are so many posts to read that it's very hard to keep up.
I'm reading/posting over there right now as I need information on CORE, but they are really overwhelming me.
I like this thread as we are really helpful and understanding and can take the time to really delve into each other's problem areas, etc.
Let's do a challege with each other for this week? How's that sound everyone?
Dawny can come back from her week away and find us successful at one thing.
What is the ONE thing you want to challenge yourself to do this week? By Saturday!!!
For me, it is to stay on program with my chosen CORE plan. A big challenge for me is that the kids last day of school is today. I will have them home each and every day for lunches, especially, and I am a true social eater. They eat whatever they feel like and it's all a "happy" social thing at lunch and suppertime. I have to plan ahead and do what I need to do for myself. I look forward to them being here and we will have a nice family time, but it's going to be hard and the "goodies" like cookies and chips, etc. will be in full view of me. I need to find my recipes, make some friendly foods and get to work on my exercise to balance it off for sure!
I will also be challenging myself to clean out my big kitchen cupboard and make a special shelf where the low point foods are kept! I plan on figuring out the points on these foods and using a permanant marker and marking how many points a serving each food is while I am cleaing out!
This cleaning job will also be exercise! Bonus!
Linda....I couldn't agree more, I love that Core support board but YES it is too fast moving and I for one am ALWAYS pages and pages behind...and yes also the 'focusing' gets lost in the shuffle. I have been on it for 9 months and have developed 'friendships'
I do go and read there but I will post here because points is where I need to be.
I said over there, I gave it a try a LONG try but I find points easier for my particular lifestyle.
Anyway....my challenge is for me to stay focused all week and perpahs have a successful weigh in on Saturday....I had a great day Saturday 19.5 pts but yesterday, ahhh yesterday....I had 76!!
But at least I was being honest with myself....and I will continue as if I did nothing wrong because if I don't I will cheat the rest of the week and I WILL not WILL not do that. I am determined and realize that THIS is how I continue my journey. I have to weigh, I have to measure and I need control.
If not.........well, you know what happens.
Hey Melanie what are 1.5 peanut butter no bakes......hmm...yummmm sounds dee-lish....would love to know, need some low points snacks..Thanks
Brenda hope all is going well for you ..... your lost is remarkable
I am looking forward to being successful again and regaining my LifeTime status, and I will. Points is how I HAVE to do it..
Well it is good to be back here with you all....and yes this isn't a fast moving board but I have come to realize that now I am glad it isn't.
Thank you all for being here.......and I look forward to the support, motivation and inspiration I get here.
I know now what I have to do, too bad it took me 9 months to realize core wasn't for me nor I for it. Thank God for choices, and WW for giving it to us. Let's face it...one size does not fit all in the weighloss world.
Hang in there all, and I'll 'see' you later..........Lj
I have just started weight watchers again (probably like the 11th time) but this time I'm going to do it. I have 6 glasses of water a day and try to get all my veggie servings in and doing the exercise. One thing I am unsure of is that I seem to be eating alot. Im supposed to be between 26-33 points and today I am having:
1/2 Bagel with cream cheese
1/2 serving youghurt
carrots with dressing
1 chicken quesadilla
2oz beef fried with green peppers, onions and taco sauce wrapped in 1/2 a pita
strawberries with cream
and and 2 oatmeal cookies
The problem is ALL that food only comes upto 27 points. This I am not understanding. I feel like I am stuffingmyself full of food and wonder how I can still lose weight after eating all of that
Another Monday. And, just to make it better, I go to the dentist this afternoon. rah.
Linda – I totally agree. With all the people popping in some boards, it’s hard to get to really know anyone or get indepth. But, several people on a board does make things interesting. I love you gals. And, I was even able to give someone weather info on New Hampshire this weekend! Wow! School is just now out? Kids have been on vacation for about 3 weeks here. My poor nephew is bored out of his mind. He’s 13 and really a good kid, so that seems to limit his options for activities if he is choosing his company and actions carefully. Good idea on the shelf. I seem to dictate my kitchen. DH has his shelf. I get the rest. But, he likes my LP foods.
LJ – Oh my! I bet you had something yummy yesterday! I hope so. Would hate to use all those points for something bad! But, good job journaling it anyway. That’s a great NSV. Tee-hee, the were not LP. The 1.5 was the amount of them I had. They are like the chocolate oatmeal/butter based no-bake cookies, but these were peanut butter and sooo yummy. There were kinda small, so I counted my one & ½ as 3 pts. Maybe I was close. I didn’t have 76 points yesterday, but I feel like it! I definitely used up some FPs. Time to get back to the minimum!
Amandaq – Hi, there! Your menu looks good. I would suggest that you think about what you were eating before WW. I’m sure you were having a lot more points than 26! When you look at it that way, it’s not so many. It is a step-down process based on what your body needs. Let your body get used to this and then you can move down safely. It’s a long road. There are few short cuts. Just be patient. It really does work! I’m proof.
A challenge sounds wonderful! Dawny will be soooo proud of us. Hmmmm… My water is okay during the work week, and I’ve been exercising okay. So, to challenge myself I think I will say that the rest of the week, I will only use 2 FPs per day. I went kinda crazy with them Fri-Sun and need to be good this week. I still have FPs left, so I won’t go OP every day, but definitely no more than 2 over. (my devious brain just reminded me I could start using my APs I don’t use. Bad me)
If I get all my work done this morning (kinda low on work lately), I’m not coming back after the dentist at 1p. So, better get with it to have some extra time to workout, clean house, do laundry, practice piano, set up printer at home, get together next church skit, cook dinner, … must I go on???
Amanda, your food choices sound yummy! Now, as far as how can you have "so much food" and still lost weight, I think it's the quality and healthier choices that help us along that path. I could have 27 points in a SNACK and still eat everything else you indicated, and then some. Think about high point foods and how you might have been eating foods that were all the wrong choices in the past, now thing about what you are choosing now. Sounds like you are doing great! Melanie, I just read, said about the same thing I did, just in different words.
LJ, one size does not fit all and this is why our dear WW people have added the CORE (no counting plan) for those of us who need something different. I like the idea that I can swing back and fourth from Flex to Core and still be on program. There was one woman on the Core board who indicated she was doing flex and core every other day, not sure if that would work or not, but if it does work for her - so be it!
It's sunny today in NH, Melanie, and supposed to go into the mid-70s, a perfect spring/almost summer day! The kids just got home and they are delirious with happiness as school is now officially OUT for summer. Of course, they will also claim to be bored by the end of the week, maybe sooner?
I'm envious, though!
Hey, I've eaten well so far today and worked out as well as went on my treadmill! On a roll!!!!
Linda
.9 lbs down for me today, as it is WI day. I'm actually happy as I lost 2.2 lbs but it was weight gained last week, so .9 actually counts. Plus, it's TOM, so I'm extra chuffed!!
I did well on my oral italian exam today, so thanks to anyone who kept their fingers crossed for me! I'll read your posts later, take care everyone!
Hi All
Did I see my name written somewhere?? It's nice to have people that you can share things with and know that these same people have or are going through the same thing. Today I went and started water aerobics, wow was that fun, but boy trying to keep your balance is not fun. I can really feel it in my arms now.
Hi amandag, I am a first timer to WW and finding that I am really enjoying it......even though there are times when I want to just pig out and eat a huge piece of chocolate cake, I get a picture in my mind of what I would look like if I continue eating badly and that changes my mind everytime. I'm sure you'll do fine.
Emerald potluck sounds sooo yummy. For dinner made Fajitas and my kids woofed them down like food was going out of style.
L.J I don't remember exactly what site I found here at but I had free time on my hands and went looking for smileys and found her. I have a site that I put all these little smileys in if anyone if interested. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post it here, so I'll wait and if anyone wants it they can pm me instead. I hope I covered everything I was planning to say, there are so many posts here and I try to read them all but sometimes don't seem to have enough time.Oh yea way to go sugar cane!!
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Nat, congrats on the loss and Brenda, you are being such a good girl! Water aerobics sounds like fun. I used to do that when I lived in NY state years ago as I lived really close to a local YWCA then. I wish there was a place I could afford around here when I could do that.
I am feeling slightly dissappointed today as I was hoping the scale would miraculously go down and it didn't, later today is weigh in and I wanted a HUGE success. I have to work harder and eating out over the weekend and my choices really got in the way of this success. So, what have I learned from all of this? I have learned that in order for weigh in day (still could end up with a teeny loss later today, hard to tell) to be really good, I have to behave myself.
How are we all doing with our challenges that we have set for ourselves for this week?
I stayed on CORE yesterday all day. I worked out and got on that treadmill. I did not yet clean the cabinet that I have challenged myself to do, but I have a week and it really is going to take a block of time.
Tomorrow is out of the question as I think I am visiting my mom and dad for the day.
Linda
Correction!!! On another thread I am on, I chose to log in what I ate all day yesterday and I was not totally core. It's interesting how one little "cheat" is easily forgotten the next day. I had a couple of chocolates! The entire family went to a candy shop on Sat. even after dinner out (where I was really bad) and the chocolates were "calling my name". It's so easy to pop them into your mouth and go on with your day and forget you even had them in a momentary weekness. I have to do better today. I'm supposed to be challenging myself and on the first day, I blew it. Today, day 2 of this challenge, the word challenge is truly important to consider when you are making choices... it's challenging to make the choices you say you will do!
I need to do this!
Linda
Linda, I know what you mean about forgetting little "treats" we have during the day. That's why I try and write down what I ate right after I eat it. It's easy to forget, when you want to! I'm glad you're doing fine, take care!
Melanie, I hope everything went well with the dentist. I've never had any problems with my teeth, but I'm always nervous when I go to mine!
Amanda, welcome to our thread!
Brenda, good job on the water aerobics, sounds like a lot of hard work, but I guess it's worth it!
L.J., I like the fact that this thread is not too fast-going, although I find myself a little left behind if I don't check on you for a couple of days. And I know what you mean about counting points, I'm used to it now, and don't really want to change. I like the control it gives you as well.
Well, the challenge idea sounds fine. My challenge for the week is to incorporate more exercise in my daily routine and make healthier food choices. I want to have a good loss on Monday, I'm getting impatient!!
Having said that about exercise, I read an article that said you shouldn't work your muscles every day cos the muscles need 48 hours to relax and start forming. So, I decided to alter my 300-situps a day routine, so now I plan on doing 500 situps every other day. Hope it will work better. Although, I still have fat on my tummy, so I doubt the muscles are gonna show!
I indulged a little yesterday, but am fully back on track today. So, am feeling great, and am about to have leftover chicken for dinner. About time!
Hello. I finally get to check in today. I spent my morning in Court, nasty custody battle, and am glad to be back in the office.
Natalie – great WI! Patience, though. It will happen if you keep moving forward. I have heard the same thing about letting the muscles rest. I usually do my toning workouts every other day. Or, do abs one day and arms/legs the other. Split it up somehow.
Linda – how was WI?? Better than you expect, I hope. And, yes, weekends are a challenge. Do you have plans for this weekend yet?
Brenda – Water aerobics sounds great. I hope to join the Y soon, but it seems that something else always takes our money. This month it will be doctor visits for DH’s arm. He pulled a ligament (ouch).
For some reason, I have been soooo sleepy yesterday and today. Maybe it has to do with the increased heat outside. Dunno. I barely made myself do 30 min workout last night. Hope I do better at encouraging myself tonight.
My challenge is good so far. 2 FPs last night. Right now, I plan to be OP for today. Darn. Just remembered a cup of chocolate 2% milk right before bedtime last night. Oops. At least it was healthy. Mostly. Kinda.
Question....is FP (free points) like WPA?? I can't figure that out?? Probably something so simple, right??...
Anyway....
Another day of.....'not 100%'.....not good....I wanted to be excellent today to mark the First Day of Summer... blew that!!!! So see Linda you're not the only one As for counting points (I REFUSE to use the word Flex) never did like it.....I think it'll take some time, as I have done core so long, I get confused, but I am journallng and keeping track. I absoulutely love the control points gives us....I SO need that....I am weaning my way off core little by little, but when you've done one thing so long it's hard, at least for me. I did points for three years and then when I 'tried' core it was hard too, so now I have come full circle. I am just wondering, besides Linda and I, have any of the rest of you tried Core?? If not, any particular reason or if so, why the change back.....similar to my story???
Linda don't worry about 'blowing it' day one, I think we all have been there, done that...look what I just mentioned above.....Oh well, we just keep on keeping on....
This is coming from the Queen of the Do-Overs....so hang in there, and if after a month or whatever time, Core is not for you switch back...let's not forget the beauty of The Turnaround Program. The hard part I think, is staying with one program when sometimes we might feel the other one will,or could work better. It is an going saga. Sometimes it could be a vicious cycle especially now, that we DO have a choice...but Thank goodness for those choices
We will all do just fine.....for me, I have to readjust my MINDSET again. I cannot, for sure, go backwards any more....that would make all I worked so hard for a total waste and time and $$. Not to say I would feel like a complete failure...something I am not!!
Thank God we can restart and regroup any given day we choose.
I wish everone a successful day tomorrow....and go from there..
See you all back here in a day or two......Lj
P.S....Do you think one or more of you more experienced Flexers can post a sample of one your planned days. However who ever would like to post a sample day that would be great too. ....I would love to see what makes you so successful, and how you handle your week. I for one AM NOT a friut person so I am also interested in what you all have for 'snack' Thanks I'd appreciate that.
Linda and Lj....anyone who can do the core plan must have alot of inner strengh!! I can't handle the thought of even trying it. Water aerobics was fun excpet it cost $3.10 and then another $3.10 if you wanted to stay for the open swim afterwards, and of course who doesn't want to relax in the hot tub for awhile. So I think I'll only do that 2 times a month and the rest go walking and to the gym.
Emerald sorry that you had a nasty time in court. Hope things will work out the way you want them to.
Sugar_cane reading how many sit ups you do made me sore just thinking about it. I need to do that area as well but can't for now. Don't give up....you'll see the results soon enough, I can't remember a saying but it goes something like this. Stop looking and it'll come . One day you'll look down and be like WOW!!
I love the challenge idea, mine is to eat more veggies, I'm ok with fruit but the veggies are hard to get in sometimes. I know how important it is. Also to make time each day for some forum of exercise, better make sure my bf is around one of those days . Hope you all have a great day.
OK, LJ, I know FP stands for flex points, but I don't know what WPA is! So, we're even if you share that! Do you know what NSV is? It's a non-scale victory.
Weight in was just "ok". I stayed the same and didn't gain at least. I was dissappointed that I didn't have a loss as from my scale at home, I truly thought I would have a loss, if even a slight one. However, I did blow it over the weekend, so it's my fault. But, was was able to maintain at least, even after the eating out and extra chocolate. So, all is not lost!
I journalled today. I had challenged myself to stay with CORE foods, yet I don't seem to be able to do that awfully well. However, I did eat WELL regardless and have had all my water, and stayed well within my points range and went on the treadmill for40 minutes - I even RAN on the treadmill today, a big deal for me!
I tried experimenting with a recipe this afternoon (core) and it was just awful.... guess it's back to the drawing board.
Linda
Am I eating too much?
But, he likes my LP foods. 
were not LP. The 1.5 was the amount of them I had. They are like the chocolate oatmeal/butter based no-bake cookies, but these were peanut butter and sooo yummy. There were kinda small, so I counted my one & ½ as 3 pts. Maybe I was close. I didn’t have 76 points yesterday, but I feel like it! I definitely used up some FPs. Time to get back to the minimum!
I'll read your posts later, take care everyone! 
I hope I covered everything I was planning to say, there are so many posts here and I try to read them all but sometimes don't seem to have enough time.Oh yea way to go sugar cane!!
blew that!!!! So see Linda you're not the only one 
Queen of the Do-Overs....so hang in there, and if after a month or whatever time, Core is not for you switch back...let's not forget the beauty of The Turnaround Program. The hard part I think, is staying with one program when sometimes we might feel the other one will,or could work better. It is an going saga. Sometimes it could be a vicious cycle especially now, that we DO have a choice...but Thank goodness for those choices 
I can't handle the thought of even trying it. Water aerobics was fun excpet it cost $3.10 and then another $3.10 if you wanted to stay for the open swim afterwards, and of course who doesn't want to relax in the hot tub for awhile. So I think I'll only do that 2 times a month and the rest go walking and to the gym. 
. One day you'll look down and be like WOW!!
better make sure my bf is around one of those days 