Good morning everyone. It was a busy weekend here and I'm getting into the Christmas spirit! I took dd to see the Boston Ballet's Nutcracker this weekend. It was fabulous! I haven't gone in about 15 years, it was majical to me and dd was amazed. I spluged and got 7th row, aisle seats. So we could see everything on stage. I think she may now like ballet better than tap
Then yesterday there was a local holiday festival with a parade. The best part was the end of the parade was the reindog contest. There were over 70 dogs in their holiday best. Its a riot to watch. I also managed to get my gift list in order and have a few things to pick before next weekend when I see my family. I feel organized and ready for my family party.
Food wise, I'm doing well tracking. I'm still doing Flore, which I guess is now momentum. I'm going to continue to track my daily points at least though the end of the year.
Hope everyone else is doing well. Got to get moving. BBL
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I did busy writing Christmas cards and did a little shopping yesterday. This morning we had a reading of 19% temp outside and I decided not to go out when its that low.
PATTY-Thanks,I know I can make it and bring the scale downward again, but my biggest fault is SODIUM I have to watch it with a CAPITOL W thats my plan during the holidays and more .I tend to eat whats on the core list and only 1/2 of my WPA's.So its the sodium thats the culprit.
RHONDA-I'm so sorry to hear that you have to be bed ridden.Is it the flu that causing this.????Hope you're feeling better by time this post is written,if not wishes are on there way.Don't want to be sick over the holidays.
SLOANE-Hope you have a wonderful family vacation ,sound like fun living is such as large cabin. The port issue is resolved and thanks for your continuous prayers. Don't really remember the song but I know the Lord will help us though,we just have to have faith.
SANDRA-Thanks for the kind words Going to try to maintain over the holidays not like I did last year where I gained 11 lbs.
PAULA-Thanks for starting is up on this new week,going to refresh my plan to get the scale moving downward again. Oh the Nutcracker I love that play.Happy to see that you & your DD saw it together.I think I'm getting the Christmas spirit also,writing Christmas cards,but once I put the decoration up & think I'll be in full bloom.
Have no idea what this new momentum plan is all about. I read from the public part of the WW site articles & than went to the momentum /simple foods message board,but still don't understand that it all about. I'm just going to continue with the core and use my WPA's.until I receive more info on the plan.
Maryann, my take on the new plan is that is "flore" -- count points but eat core foods (now labled filling foods). There is a "simply filling" option where you don't need to track or measure filling foods and you have 35wpas still -- so basically core.
The only significant change I see is that activity points can be carried to other days rather than just being able to use them the day earned and that all fluids count toward your water intake.
Hey chickies!
We had a great weekend with family. We did eat a lot of junk, but I did not gain! I'm sure the exercise has a great deal to do with that. Also, my perception of overeating has probably changed. When I was snaking on the "junk" we had, I must have been eating less that I thought because it started to make my tummy . We spent time visiting and even had a family "talent" show. I laughed so hard my cheeks hurt!
Rhonda-you must be right about the flu. Having fever for five days is definitely not just a cold. Don't forget to drink plenty of fluids while you are resting. I hope you feel better soon.
Paula-your holiday festivities sound awesome! I know you and dd are building some awesome memories!
Sandra-when is your opening night? I can't wait to hear about it!
Maryann-how are you and Leo doing? I haven't put up my Christmas tree, and I'm waiting for that burst of Christmas spirit to hit me, too!
Sloan, congratulations on maintaining. Opening night is this Thursday. I'm soooo ready. I will miss everyone when rehearsals are over, but it's hard for me to be on a schedule. Being retired is spoiling.
Rhonda, I hope you're feeling better. Stay inside and let Doyle pamper you.
Maryann, I think maintaining over the holidays is just as good as losing. You can do it.
I'm floreing now. Or momentuming. Or whatever it's called. Just had grapes for a snack. Life is good.
Rhonda - So sorry you have the flu. Hope you get to feeling better soon. No fun being sick during the holidays.
Mary Ann - I need to do Christmas cards too. The mood hasn't hit me yet. Need to get them done and mailed this week. I know about the salt, I've had to cut back on it myself. So glad the port situation is taken care of for Leo.
Paula - The Nutcracker is one of my favorite Christmas stories. Never seen the play, but the DGD and I will be watching the movie when they are here.
Sloan - So glad you had such a good time with your family.
Sandra - I would love to do Flore/Momentum, I did it when I first started WW years. I guess I did something wrong on it when I tried it last week. However, I'm thinking with the parties etc, I may need to try it again once I get this one week of Slim Filling/Core done. May do it until the end of the year and see how I do.
DH and I did our Christmas shopping today and have that all wrapped and under the tree. I've got to bake for a Christmas party for Sunday night. Sunday is my WI day and I lost .5 lbs this week and I too would love to at least maintain and not gain anything during this Holiday.
Have a lot of thinks to do,have to bring my Christmas Cards to the post office .Especially the foreign ones as I don't know the correct postage for over seas air mail. Than I have to start getting small gifts for under the tree,as I'm giving m children money this year, with all the talk that some stores are closing,because of the economy, I afraid to give store gift cards out.
PAULA-Along with the plan I have to watch my snacking at night,I'm snacking on carrots & snow pea,but after a while the veggies seem to get boring and the salty stuff takes over. My second plan is to keep my hands busy,with my knitting. Nothing excepting,just scarf length that I want to sew up the sides and make into a drawstring purse.Made one during the summer and my granddaughter loved it so I make another one for her. So all the fuss over nothing its still basically core and with the 35 WPA's I CAN DO THAT
RHONDA-Please take care of yourself,drink lots of liquids and try to get temperature down.Sending you some wishes.
SLOAN-Oh you lucky girl,when ever I eat junk I gain,but I can gain on reg foods also,Have to watch my portions.Leo is fine,and now I'm sure we will are going down to spend Christmas with the family & the grandchildren.Thanks for asking,Going to attempt to decorated this weekend.
SANDRA-Like I told Paula I have 2 plans,and I would love to maintain during the holidays. Hope it will be possible,but it will be if I don't bring my negativity into this plan.[[[[MUST THINK POSITIVE]]]].I guess I'm doing the flore or momentum also,as I eating core foods and putting points to them.My range is 20-to 26 pts[1000-1200] this week,but I hanging around the lower area of the range.
PATTY-Yes the sodium always has been my problem.My doctor told me that being on a very low carb diet before I started to go to WW.He told me that the body tends to crave salt more so than sweets when on a very low carb diet. Maybe thats the reason I'm still having problems in this department.
Have to get ready and get to the PO before it gets to crowded.
I think I'm over the worst and am feeling better, with no fever yet today. I'm staying home though. It's good not to be really needed at work sometimes!
I read a piece in the paper yesterday about someone who had worked for decades and was never late and never took a sick day. All I could think is that he did not have kids to take care of, must have been a total control freak, and must have spread his germs around the workplace instead of staying home like he should have
I lost the two pounds I gained and was surprised not to have lost more. I'm still behind my goal, but progress is being made.
Trish, congratulations on losing that half pound--and for being finished Christmas shopping/gift wrapping.
Maryann, you're right about being positive. I'm working on being more so, too. I am aiming at 23 pts a day this week. I did well yesterday. I have 4 pts left for today so I will prob have to use some WPA's. Oh, well, life goes on.
Rhonda, maybe you could send me some flu germs to help me lose weight? Just kidding. I am glad you're over the worst and are on the mend. Congratulations on losing those 2 pounds.
Tonight is our first dress rehearsal. Tomorrow is our 2nd and last. Live performances begin Thursday. Am I ready or what?
Not much going on here today. Got up early so I can go to bed early tonight as I have to be at dentist office at 7am tomorrow. I hate going to the dentist, but trying to get myself mentally ready. I'm experimenting on my own trying to figure out how I did Flore before. So I can start pretty much do Momentum the last half of the month. Not eating much different than I do on Core, but I would rather do it more like Flore/Momentum. I think it will work out great once I get the hang of it. One of the things I like about the online WW is the activity points tracker. We walked around Costco for over 2 hours and then probably walked around Walmart for about an hour. The activity tracker says 2 hours liesurely walking is worth 6 points. I also like the new thing of saving Activity Points. Never used those before and don't plan to now. However, if I can learn how to do Flore/Momentum and use Daily pts each day and then save both the 35 WPA and save the AP for times when you eat out. I was wondering if that is mostly what those of you do who do Flore? Just curious.
Rhonda - Glad you are on the mend and feeling better. I agree about staying home and not taking germs to others at work, but not many people think that way any more. I remember one time the doctor telling my deceased grandparents that they were staying sick because the two of them kept passing it back and forth. He said they needed to get well at the same time. for the 2 lbs loss, but being sick is a tough way to do it.
Sandra - I guess I wasn't here when everyone learned of your opening night. So not sure what you are doing. But sounds like it is something you enjoy doing. Hope everything goes well. Have fun.
Maryann - I still have to get my Christmas Cards done. Maybe I'll do them tomorrow when I get back from the dentist. DH wants to go to Costco in Charlotte to get something he saw there for DGD birthday. He wanted to get it for her for Christmas, but we had picked out something else for her and we try to keep it even. Then on the way home he remembered that her birthday is 3 days after Christmas and we are doing a little family party for her before she goes home. So I need to have the cards ready to mail when we go. Plus when we took our trip, we took everyone's gifts so we wouldn't have to mail them and ended forgetting my daughter's families things so I've got to get them boxed up to mail as well. I can't believe that we have one more week end before the kids that are coming get here. Boy how the time flies. It will be January before we know it.
Hey everyone. I can't believe the week is almost over. I'm still trying to figure out the new program. We have the formal rollout on Friday (my weigh in day), but since I do all my tracking online...I've been forced to figure it out.
Today is Tuesday and I've already gone through my 35 points for the week (actually 38), and it's only Tuesday. I still have Wed & Thursday to get through. I'm still eating as I always do, and using the "simply filling" program, but things are turning into points on etools and I can't figure it out. I'll have to wait until Friday.
Ok, I have to run. It's late & I'm beat. I went to Zumba today and have the gym "scheduled in" for Wed & Thurs. We'll see. Thank goodness I have you ladies!
PS - I ordered the WW book noted in the opening threads. I'll let you know how it is when I get it. I LOVE to cook! I'm craving tomato soup...
Hi Everyone
Well got the new program last night. Not too sure about it. Guess it is really our "flore". The one thing I am kinda disagreeing on. Is that all liquids count as our water. Because if you drink extra juice or milk ect. You will have to count points. I think the liquid thing should have stayed the same. But that is just my thoughts.
Oh and did they make the quick trak smaller so we wouldnt eat as much. And all that fine print.
I wish the program books were smaller too. So they would fit in the bag I had bought for my WW. Now I will have to buy another. Oh well.
I did lose 2 lbs this week. So am happy with that.
Well I gotta go.
Need to catch up with everyone.
What does anyone else think of the new program. Just curious.
Thinking of everyone.
coco
Stuck in the house today waiting for the repairmen to fix the dishwasher.YIKES what a waste of time. Theres so many errands that have to be done, and now I have to wait.
I guess while waiting I can go though my Christmas decorations and see which ones I'll put up this year.
RHONDA-Congrats on your 2 lb weight loss. I have 1 more pound to lose to bring my tricker up to date.Happy to hear the fever broke,and that you feeling a lot better. I 'm very careful where I go,and don't want to be the carrier of any germ that Leo can catch with is immune system down so low.So as soon as I feel that I'm coming down with something I make sure I don't go out to my choir practice or Sunday service to give my friends a cold. People sometimes are very inconsiderate,WHEN YOU SICK DON'T GIVE IT TO SOME ELSE.
SANDRA-I wasn't that way for all long time always thinking negative and it started to effect everything in life espeically in weight loss. Now that I'm thinking positive[one day at a time] I much happier as a person.This week I doing the Wendi [HSD,LD,MD,LD & HD] with core foods & pts,but so far it isn't working like I planned so this Sat I going back to set points.
PATTY-Mailed all my cards now it going to get little gifts for under the tree Good Luck at the dentist. I late going there but I will make appointment for a cleaning in January.The New plan has a lot of different things attached to it. Like the A/P now you can use them all week long. I never used mine,remembering my leader thought just using the WPA's was enough points for me. May be now that I doing it on my own I should start using them as I exercise 6 days a week doing 30-45 mins.
CUBA-Thats a lot of points to go though when you new week started on Sat. thats only 4 days. Try to space time by having no more than 4 a day than by the end of the week you have 7 left to play with.
COCO-The new program:books2: is almost the same as the core with a difference in some rules we have followed. I agree with you about the allowing any liquids to count as water. Water has no points,so do we count points for the others. Good ?????????? to ask the leaders. Don't go to meetings anymore so I don't know what the new tracker look like.Congrats on your 2 lbs. Your doing great, wish I could say that.
Weekly Chat - December 8th to 14th
cards and did a little shopping yesterday. This morning we had a reading of 19% temp outside and I decided not to go out when its that low.
that you have to be bed ridden.Is it the flu that causing this.????Hope you're feeling better by time this post is written,if not 
wishes are on there way.Don't want to be sick over the holidays.
for your continuous prayers. Don't really remember
the song but I know the Lord will help us though,we just have to have faith.
that play.Happy to see that you & your DD saw it together.I think I'm getting the Christmas spirit also,writing Christmas cards,but once I put the decoration up & think I'll be in full 
bloom.
what this new momentum plan is all about. I read from the public part of the WW site articles & than went to the momentum /simple foods message board,but still don't understand that it all about. I'm just going to continue with the core and use my WPA's.until I receive more info on the plan.
. We spent time visiting and even had a family "talent" show. I laughed so hard my cheeks hurt!
(hugs and kisses) to the rest of you chicks!!
to give store gift cards out.
girl,when ever I eat junk I gain,but I can gain on reg foods also,Have to watch 
my portions.Leo is fine,and now I'm sure we will are going down to spend Christmas with the family & the grandchildren.Thanks for asking,Going to attempt to decorated this weekend.
the sodium always has been my problem.My doctor told me that being on a very low carb diet before I started to go to WW.He told me that the body tends to crave salt more so than sweets when on a very low carb diet. Maybe thats the reason I'm still having problems in this department.
for the 2 lbs loss, but being sick is a tough way to do it.
what a waste of time. Theres so many errands that have to be done, and now I have to wait.
2 lb weight loss.
that way for all long time always thinking negative and it started to effect everything in life espeically in weight loss. Now that I'm thinking positive[one day at a time] I much happier
at the dentist. I late going there but I will make appointment for a cleaning in January.The New plan has a lot of different things attached to it. Like the A/P now you can use them all week long. I never used mine,remembering my leader thought just using the WPA's was enough points for me. May be now that I doing it on my own I should start using them as I exercise 6 days a week doing 30-45 mins.