Hi!
It's me again, lol.
Sarah, yes ebay is a great place to find ww materials. Just make sure you get a kit with the pts slider in it! Very important to have
I am think pts are much easier to keep track of than calories. Everything has calories in it, even a stalk of celery but with WW there are some foods that are 0 pts, like some veggies and such that you can have alot of. So I like it better.
Jackie, I wish I had motivation to send you regarding exercise, but I'm doing terrible in that department. I did do my pilates the other night and some crunches yesterday. Babysteps I guess. My r.bike has been sitting in my ds's closet for almost a year now!
I'm planning on selling it in a yard sale sometime this year. Sad I know. But I just don't like it anymore. Plus I don't have room in my living room to keep it out. I need small equipment. You did very well on fit for life, I remember. But take it easy and ease yourself into something. I haven't told anyone this yet but my DH is now trying to lose weight. At first he wanted to do atkins (because he eats alot of steaks and such out on the road) and then when he saw he couldn't have mashed potatoes and gravy and all that starchy stuff he loves he thought he'd try WW but keeping up with pts in no name restaurants would be very difficult so he has decided on making better food choices and portion control. That way he doesn't have to count anything. So I weighed him the day he left out for his starting weight (he's at his highest ever at 306 lbs) and we'll see how he has done when he comes home next week. So far he feels like he is doing a good job. I'm going to buy him a little notebook for him to use as a food journal so he can see what and how much he is eating and that way I can help him when he comes home because I have no clue what he eats out on the road. But he cut out all soda right now, even diet and is eating smaller portions. I think it will work great for him I just pray he sticks with it. But I shared this because not all of us have to go find a specific "diet" to work for us. We really can manage our weight on our own by making better choices with our food and smaller portions. So don't feel like you have to go back to fit for life or ww, maybe incorporate some of those principles into your eating habits and go from there and if you hit a dead end then pick out a plan to stick to. JMHO, of course
Melinda, I like my workout videos to be on dvd too. My firm ones are on DVD which makes it nice to just go straight to the part you want to do and no fast forwarding or rewinding (plus I can workout and tape a fav show on tv without it interfearing, lol) so any workout ones I get MUST be on dvd. And I know you posed this question to Geri but I love marriage too!!! LOL. I would be so lost without my Dh and it's crazy how as each year passes the closer we get and more in love and in tune with each other we are, it is the best thing in life, along with the love of our children.
Michelle, I really am so happy I was able to help you! I was watching Oprah not too long ago and she mentioned something about plateaus (or maybe it was dr.phil) but plateaus are important in any weight loss (not that you are on one) but it was brought out that when you go a week or more with no loss and you are 100% OP that it is just your body adjusting to your changes and revving up your metabolism and then you start losing again. I know it feels like we are scale slaves at times but there is more to weight loss than that magical number we want to see. It's about how our clothes fit, how we feel inside, etc. I'm really learning that now. I thought for sure when I hit 130 I would be a size 6 and have no problems spots, lol. naive, I know. Not only am I not even a size 8 yet but I still have flab I want to get rid of and I don't really want or care if the scale goes down, any lbs lost at this point are bonuses but I want to lose some real inches. I want to have firm skin and not soft and squishy, so those are my new goals. To get into a size 8 without losing much more weight but with exercise to tone me up and lose inches. You are very motivated and doing so great and you will hit your goal weight and you'll look so fantastic!!! So don't let that scale control your life, you are doing great and that is a Non-Scale Victory! (as us WWer's call it, lol)
Well I ended up having to venture out in this storm anyway this morning. I realized Tanner only had one diaper left so I had to go to walmart. But I just went to the small one here in town and was in and out. I'll still do my big grocery shopping tomorrow (I go to the supercenter in the next town over for that) but while I was out I got me subway for lunch and it hit the spot. I am addicted to their 6" roast beef (on wheat with no cheese or mayo) and their bakes lays, yum! Only 7.5 pts for it all!
But now I should try to get a nap in since we'll be getting more storms tonight and I may not get much sleep again. TTYL!