Hi Everyone! I'm Sara and I'm starting WW today for kind of an unusual reason. Last fall I was at my highest weight and chose to do a form of intermittent fasting. It worked wonderfully for me and I called goal this past spring, at 135lbs. At that time I switched to a different form of IF (a non-calorie restricted version), started doing a bit of walking (I did no exercise while actively losing weight), and I became very interested in how nutrition/food related to good/bad health and disease prevention (whole long story why but I won't go into that now).
From that I transitioned to a mostly whole foods, plant based diet, following Dr. Fuhrman's 90/10 guideline. Over the past few months my diet has become focused on nutrient dense plant foods. Meat, dairy, fast food and non-whole plant foods now make up about 10% of my diet. I also started walking more and have thrown in some running as well. Throughout all of this, I continued to lose weight (without counting calories/tracking etc). At first it wasn't a big deal, but last week I hit another new low and I'm now just a few pounds away from having an underweight bmi. I'm the healthiest I've ever been, feel and look great but I definitely don't want to lose any more weight!
Last week I did some calorie tracking over at my fitness pal and came to the conclusion that I HATE counting calories. But, eating intuitively isn't working either (the foods I now eat are high in fiber, which makes me feel full for longer/causing me to eat less). So, after spending some time looking into options I've decided to try a home version of WW Points Plus
Counting points seems super easy and something I can do long term without losing my mind lol. I'm starting out with 32 points (the 26 + 6 maintenance points) and will aim to eat back all my activity points (1-2 most days), as well as use up most/all my weekly points.
I may have to adjust if I continue to lose or start to gain, but at least I have something to work off now
I found this forum after looking for a non-official weight watchers support group (didn't feel comfortable using theirs since I'm not paying, but for my circumstance I don't see the need since I found all the info for free online). Can't wait to meet others doing WW, especially if there's any here doing WW for maintenance.
Whoa, sorry this was so long!