Good luck on your week. if you don't like munching veggies raw, have you tried incorporating them into foods? Chopping up some broccoli onto your baked potatoes, etc. I'm not a big veggie person myself, I like fruits better, so I try to eat more 0-1 point fruits and try to have a salad each day.

Here are a few things I found that boost my fiber intake...if you like sweets, like muffins, maybe check out VitaTops. They are 1pt Muffin Tops that have 5g of fiber in them. They're really good and they can count towards your fiber total. Also the new 90 calorie Fiber One bars are great. They're 1pt and have 5g of fiber. I really enjoy wraps and quesadillas and I found some tortillas made by Ole that have 12g of fiber and taste just like regular tortillas. I usually get about 40-50g of fiber a day since I started WW and I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but I've lost about 5 pounds a week since I started.

One other thing that I can offer as an option is maybe eating small meals throughout the day to keep your metabolism running high.

I wish you luck a great weigh-in next week!

Update: SO yesterday i ate 5 points over and woke up today and i finally broke the 230 barrier...im down to 228.6 , so now i know what im doing wrong, thanks everyone so much!!

Everything you're eating is turning into SUGAR!! banana and a pudding pack?!?! even if it's sugar free pudding you're eating 30grams of sugar RIGHT there! And your breakfast shake, if it's anything but protein powder then right there is another 20+ grams of sugar! Guess what?! Sugar turns right into FAT!!!

also, you're not working out enough. 16 minutes is basically nothing. I know after working all day and being on your feet it can be tiring to go to the gym but atleast pump that up to 45mins of high intensity cardio and weight training. You'll have much more energy.

i don't think that is necessarily true. between school and personal things i need to get done on a daily basis, i'm happy to have an hour to myself. i'm doing the 30 day workout challenge with ea sports, and most of the workouts are not longer than 25 minutes. a lot of them are roughly between 18 and 20 minutes max, and i'm still losing weight just fine. it probably depends on how intense the workout is.

Well, the breakfast shake only has 12 grams of sugar and its basically milk and vitamins, like i said...also realisticaly i cannot eat everything healthy, i am at work from 8am-4pm every day and i just don't have the time, so im doing the absolute best i can... also i don't think you read my post about having a heart condition, unfortunately 16 mins is all i can physically handle right now i would love to up it higher to see better and faster results but unless i want to have a heart attack i just cant do it right now

You could possibly replace some of the starchy stuff with lean protein and I don't see a whole lot of vegetables. Maybe I missed it, but is this a protein shake you're having in the morning?

As far as exercise goes, you can only do what you can do. I would focus on tweaking your diet to see if that helps. Hang in there, this is tricky stuff sometimes

Thanks for the input, i dont think its a protein shake but it does have 10g of protein in it, im not sure if thats good or not...the main ingredients are Skim Milk,Water,Canola Oil and then it lists vitamins and minerals, in the morning i ahve to get myself and a 1 year odl ready for work so i dont have time to make myself breakfast and i figure something is better than nothing, im also following WW so i figure if i add it in...

I think it sounds fine, especially if you're on the go.

Healthy eating just takes a bit of planning.

I work 8am to 5pm every day, often longer (some days its a 7, 6:30 or even 6am start, plus some weekends). I also alternate between running, the gym (treadmill, spin, rower, weights), zumba and dragonboating. In there I do manage the old social life as well and the house.

However I do take time out on the weekend, usually a sunday to have a cookup of healthy meals I can use through the week. Its a godsend to have something on standby I know is good that I can whack in the microwave.

I also make a lot of my own snacks, healthy muffins, slices etc for on the go. I make sure I have portable quick snacks like fruit and nuts on hand all the time.

Don't feel overwhelmed by it all but I do recommend sitting down and making a list of what you're going to have that week, make it and stick to it. You'll find your diet improves dramatically.

Breakfast, if you're after a quick one, could be an egg microwaved in the time it takes for an wholegrain english muffin to be toasted with a little bit of shaved ham thrown in - 1 minute, done! Healthy, delicious and on the go before you can blink Or make bircher muesli the night before and just dish it into a bowl in the morning!

Lunches - at the moment I am loving the pre-chopped coleslaw mix and mixing it up with low-fat natural yohgurt and seeded mustard, I then just throw in some left over meat from the night before or a tin of tuna etc. 5 minutes, max - seriously and its made!

There is always time

Good luck!

I agree with Lyria. I dont know what your schedule is exactly, but last week I managed to get up at 5:15am and get home at around 6pm and eat healthy So it is all about planning.

I beat a 9 month plateau by changing to whole foods. Nothing processed. If I want something sweet, I have a low fat yoghurt. Heres a typical eating day for me:

Breakfast: Muesli with low fat yoghurt
Snack: Piece fruit
Lunch: Home made green chicken curry (basically chicken, green curry paste, low fat coconut milk, mixed veg) on brown rice
Snack: Boiled egg/another piece fruit or muesli bar
Dinner (usually a piece of meat with some baked or microwave steamed veg, plus something startchy like brown rice or a potato, or some salad etc)
Snack:Low fat ice cream or glass low fat milk

It does take some prep but not that much. My lunches are usually cooked. But I can make them in batches to last the week. Then you just have to plan your snacks. Asides the boiled egg, these are easy grab and go things. Lately i have been trying some fruit cups, just the fruit in fruit juice ones, a little processed but I found some that are basically just fruit in juice.

That, with increased exercise, broke my plateau. Veeeery slowly I started to lose again. Now I have sped it up a bit by eating a little more and I am trying calorie cycling this week to see if it helps.

I know you cant increase your exercise intensity, which sucks but its better to be safe. I cant remember what you said you were doing, 16 minutes a day was it? Try doing 16 mins 3 times a day if you can. So 16 when you get up, maybe 16 at lunch, maybe 16 after work? It IS tricky but it can be done.

I had the same problem a couple months ago! I decided to try eating 5 small meals instead of 3 big ones, and it totally helps! And I will spend about 8 of my points before lunch because it keeps me full and energized. Plus your metabolism will get a nice boost good luck, you are doing awesome!

Well i woke up today and lost another pound so now im at 227.Ill try and answer a few things, please don't take this as making excuses or anything because im not!However its really hard to plan healthy when i have to cook for a husband who DOES NOT like almost anything, we eat what he likes and its just to expensive to buy duplicates of every meal, we also make things appropriate for our 1 year old to eat also.

My schedule looks like this for those wondering

Monday we wake up at 5:30am, i have to get my child ready, myself ready and our bags packed, my husband woken up and we leave at 6:30, the commune to work and daycare takes 45-55 mins and while i'm at work i get one lunch break from 12:00-12:30 then i leave at 2:30, it takes another hour to get home so im looking at 3:30, i have just enough time to make baby somthing to eat, make me and my husband dinner before i head out to class from 6:00-9:00-half hour home and im ready for bed for the next day.

Tuesday is the exact same except i have to be at work by 9 so its a little later but i stay till 6:00pm so by the time i get home its already 7

Wednesday is my lightest day i work 9-230 but still have the baby and husband to deal with

Thursday i work from 9:00-4:00 and Friday is another llloonngg day from 9-6.

We do eat healthier on the weekends because of the extra time we have.

Today so far i have had a onion,green pepper omelet

and lunch iv had a chicken salad, no dressing...


so as you can see its much healthier on the weekends.


As far as working out extra (I called) she said i can add an extra of 15 mins biking everyday if i dont over do it, so thats at least something extra

I appreciate all the advice

Hey Phoenix mommy! Like some of the other ladies said, up the veggies. I think that will help. Also maybe try a different form of exercise. What finally helped me was doing Insanity from Beachbody. It woke up my body somehow and I'm on a steady weight decrease. I was just using the treadmill and some weight lifting and got frustrated with my lack of progress. Insanity is really helping. There are a bunch of on this site who are doing it and a thread with a lot of support. Check it out.

That's great, it sounds like you're eating enough and that was your problem!
That's one of the things that I hated about weight watchers, the fact that several combinations of daily meals that would satisfy my points requirements would fall well below the absolute-floor 1200 mark! Sometimes you really do need to eat more than what your points tell you.

But please remember that losing weight is at leaaast 80 percent diet, so don't worry about trying to up your weight loss with exercise, for weight loss purposes (because of your heart condition). I've lost lots of weight before with little to no exercise because of an injury so it's definitely possible. As others in the thread have said, what you're already doing sounds fine given your circumstances.

Thanks you everyone for the continued support and advice, i appreciate it tons!!...i think next week im going to try the cycling as i have had 2 days worth of results just adding in 2-5 points!...I am also going too look into different forms of activity and ways to incorporate more veggies into my diet!