Hi everyone. Its snowing once again. UGH! With the warm weather we were having, I was starting to see dirt. But, once again, its covered with snow. The good news weather wise, its going to be 40-50 this weekend. I hope most of the snow goes. Its getting tiring. I did manage to walk our dog this afternoon before it got too bad. Foodwise, I'm doing well. WI is tomorrow. I will be down, the question is how much. Up until this morning, my scale was moving steadily down. This morning it was up a bit. I've been drinking tons and tons of water. Not much else I can do.

Coco, congrats on the loss! Thats great.

Sloan, glad to see you posting again. Congrats on getting within 5 pds of your goal. Great job!

Maryann, I would use 50 as a goal. But 32 points does seem really high. I'm 5-10 and work a sedentary job. I get 23 points a day, If I spread the 35 across each day its 28 total. Have you tried the Wendie plan? Also, try to focus on high fiber foods. The more fiber and the lower the fat, the fewer points. Also, how is your water intake? Are you drinking 6-8 glasses a day? Just some thoughts to help you get back on track.

Sandra, congrats on your scores! WOO HOO.. DD was asking today when she could use her archery set. Unfortunatly, not for some time to come.

Vickie - congrats on your loss. A loss is a loss! How are you handleing the jenny food? I hope its palitable.

Pam - glad you had a nice dinner. Outback is yummy and easy to stay on program. We've gone there a couple times, but both times in Maine. I'm not sure where there is one close to us, I'll have to look into it.

Well, its bath night. Also, dd and I got her bday party invitations ready to be mailed. Just need to get stamps tomorrow. Her party is at a gym in town -- 20 5-6 year olds are invited. At least its not in my house!

Have a good night.

Evening Everyone
Well not much going on since I was on here earlier.
Just waiting on a load of jeans to get done drying.
Did the gazelle a little bit today. Got to get on it more. Really need to get on the treadmill. But just havent made myself.
SLOANIE CONGRATS ON YOUR NEW ADDITION. Your baby sounds really cute. I have a peekapoo. She will be nine years old in May.

BLESSEDWITHSARAH Know what you mean about the snow. But alot of places around here. Still have alot of ice in the parking areas and driveways. We had some snow this morn. And it just made it a little worse then the sun came out. Did melt some. But not enough. I think the way the talk we are to get some snow tonight. Just hope it isnt too bad in the morn. Hubby has a DR's appt.

Well I am going to get off here.
Need to go get some bills ready for the mail in the morn.
Hope everyone had a great day.
coco

Good Morning Ladies:)

Another day at home, the plows didn't come last night and our driveway & street to our complex in unplowed.Not worried as we have enough food in our pantry and our fireplace insert is keeping us warm.


PAM-To me 32 pts =1600 wasn't bad,but now I down to 30=1500. The reason I say it isn't ,its because when I was going to the WW meetings, my leader told me to stay on the points that I had on the quiz,20pts. I gained and stalled for the 13 weeks on the Flex Plan,than I switched to the Core[13weeks] and did lot better losing 3 lbs the first week and than a .5 & .8,but than the losing stopped and the gaining started again.After going to the meetings for 6 months I should have lost a lot. Now I'm trying a new method by going up higher on the point system.My friends on the SB board are losing nicely,but that diet doesn't work for me.I guess everyone is different,but I know I can't go lower than 1400 c.

VICKIE-Congrats on your weight loss.How you doing with Jeanny Craig plan?????Do you like it,asking as I might follow the same suit if the calorie counting doesn't work.


SLOAN-Oh How cute a new little puppy,best of luck with your new addition.Congrats on losing those holiday pounds and having 5 more to go should be trilling. Can't want until I get to my goal also but that's a long way I haven't hit my first 10%. Gee!! I love the weather to change and get warmer so I can walk along the beach again.



COCO-Thanks for your kinds words on my gain.It could be water in the joints with all the exercising I'm doing.Thought that spring was here when I first saw the grass, but I was wrong winter returned with the new white stuff. That's what I thought about the points =50 but I got a good resource from another lady that works for WW saying 30-90 cal=1pt.[considering fiber & fat].and in UK its 70 c per pt. IF I'M WRONG MAYBE ANYONE GOING TO A MEETING CAN ASKED THERE LEADERS,if its true or not.


SANDRA-Maybe I should use my old tracker that I got in 2000 to track instead of using my point calculator that I purchased last year.


RHONDA-Thanks for sharing the Falafel recipe. Sounds yummy,but I would have to change the beans as I'm allergic to chick & northern beans. I break out into a rash.

PAULA-Thanks for I'm eating around 25-30 fibers a day[now I see that a person my age should have 21-38 per day]according to my Metamucil calculator, and I'm drinking 96 oz of water a day and I'm 5 feet tall,and I'm moderate a the exercising dept.Like I told Pam I have to find the right amounts of pts or calorie,to low I gain and too many I gain have to find a in between.


Have a great morning,have to start my chores

Maryann, one thought on points that you should be aware of if you do continue with the 32 points. (The Math major in me is coming out!) If the item is high fibre it could be up to 100 calories! I ordered some vitatops from the Vitalicious.com site last night. The muffin tops are all 100 caloires, low fat and 5+ grams of fiber. They come out at 1 point each. So, if you average out low and high fiber items you could be at about 60 calories for each point. That would be at 1920 calories per day. At the high end 3200 calories, now end if you go with 50 is 1600. That may explain your gain. If you goal is to be at 1600 calories per day, at 32 points and high fiber food you could easily have doubled that. If you average 60 calories per point, then 1600 calories per day would be 26 points == an no additional 35 wpas. Hope this helps!!

OK, was just playing with the point calculator on ww online. 20 calories, 2 g fat and 0 fiber is 1 point, so is 100 calories, 0 fat and 5 fiber.

Had wi today -- lost 2.8!! WOO HOO. I'm happy with that. So in total for the 3 weeks back with the at work session, I'm down 3.2. YEAH

Paula, the end of this month the Texas Archery in the Schools Program is having the state championship for kids from 5th grade and up. There are over 400 expected to participate. A good friend of ours is the head of the program and has asked us to come watch. We're going to on our way to a national championship. Those kids are always inspiring. It's wonderful seeing them in their school colors shooting for trophies. They seem to all have a great time.

It's 50ish here today. We've had a lot of bird activity, so I've already put out a gallon of seeds. I'll prob put out more later. Right now I'm watching meadowlarks and a woodpecker--and I just finished a WW TV dinner for lunch. Life is good.

Maryann, I say use what works best for you. I lost before when I used my old points calculator. That's why I'm still using it. I don't add extra fiber to foods so I don't think it hurts to count whatever fiber grams are already in them. I heard some folks were adding fiber to about everything so they could eat more and that was why WW capped @ 4 grams.

Coco, would you tell me what your first name is? I am curious. If you'd rather not say here in public, would you PM me?

:woohoo: Paula. Congratulations on losing.

Thanks Ladies for you help,

PAULA- I going to keep that in mind,I had those muffin tops last week.I still don't understand how the fiber in foods brings the calories up, when add more fiber brings the points down??? The reason I look for high fiber foods to keep my colon healthy,as my mom & dad both had colon cancer.

SANDRA-Going to start using the 60 cal per point system and that would bring my pts to 25 -1500 cal per day.and use my old tracker calculated more than 4 fibers.

Thanks again for you help.

PAULA-CONGRATS :carrot: on your 2.8 weight loss:carrot: You're going fantastic.

Hi Everyone
Been snowing off and on here all day. But not really getting much on the ground. The roads were bad this morning. Espeically the closer we got to town. But made it. Hubby's eye appt went ok. Has a cataract. And it has grown. So he goes back in six months. See how it is then. Then he can decide what he wants to do. Say some things look foggy. But not too bad yet.

BLESSEDWITHSARAH CONGRATS ON THE LOSS. That is awesome.

BEACHBUM If I think of it Monday. I will ask my leader how many calories equals a point. See what she says. Glad you are doing ok.

ONTARGET We usually have a woodpecker here in the summer. I love to watch him.

Well I am going to get off here. Go take some motrin. I have a headache. Maybe even lay down for a little bit.
I am thinking of each of you.
coco

Good Morning Chicks! It's still freezing here and in the single digits but we are to get warmer tomorrow and for the whole weekend. We are looking forward to it.

I'm still on my JC program and doing well. As for results.....who knows. I'm following it religiously and made the changes my Counselor suggested. I'm not doing Chipotle and I cut my fruit servings back from one cup to 1/2 cup. I'm also going to exercise 4 days this week; slower speeds so that I don't keep hurting myself.

The cleaning lady is here now so I have a couple of minutes to go catch up with all of you.

Good Morning Ladies:)

Not going to stay on this board too long as I woke up with a massive migraine headache. Have to lay down in a dark room.

The reason I'm on here to report that I had to W-I on my B/L board and I DOWN 3 LBS. Hope it stays that way for Mondays W-I.

Will be back some time this afternoon

Mary Ann, I hope you won't think I'm a "know-it-all", because I'm not. It seems like you are changing what you are trying to follow every week. Why don't you pick a program or a point level and just stick with it for about a month. I certainly have been forced to learn about patience. When I was on Core and following it faithfully, I used to have a couple of small loses in a row or even a small gain and then I'd have a big loss. But, it involved sticking with it for 3 or 4 weeks. That's how my older, nearly menopausal body seems to operate. Try to give yourself a chance to be successful. If I were you and I wanted to stay on WW, I'd figure out what they think my point level should be and then I'd weigh and measure simply filling/Core foods for about a month and see what happens. That just my humble opinion, from a girl who can eventually lose it but who can't keep it off!

Sandra, you really do make life sound good! I'm glad you're enjoying the granddaughters and your new home. And, you are really enjoying your archery which I'm sure is helping to keep you out of eating trouble. Thanks for reminding me to celebrate my losses.....no matter how small.

Rhonda, you go girl! I'm glad you had your favorite food. I'm already missing burgers and pizza. I'm eating the JC equivalents and it's helping some.

Hi Paula! You are doing awesome since you've been back on plan. 2.8 is nearly beyond my wildest dreams. Great for you! :cp::hat::dance::cb:We haven't seen dirt here in a long time. We're hoping to see some this weekend though. I'm happy you're doing well. Smart decision to not have that many kids in your house for DD's birthday! I hope it's a great day for her. I loved your information on the fiber issue. It must be that WW figures if you eat high fiber, you'll eat less because you'll be full so the higher calories will average out? I'm not a math major but I LOVE figuring that kind of stuff out.

Pam, good for you! Gotta find out what works for you. I used to get 30 points on WW without my WPA's. It depends on how much weight you have to lose.

Sloan, it's always great to hear from you! Congratulations on your new puppy. Mine is going to be 7 in April but I still think of her as my puppy.

Coco, Congratulations on your outstanding loss of 2 pounds! :bravo: You've really been doing great lately. I'm very proud of you.

Time for me to go eat my yogurt and grape nuts! I tell you....on JC I'm eating almost every 2-3 hours. I'm still trying all their food and have found a couple of items that are great, some good and some I'd never eat again. But....you find that with every program. I'm confident that I'll find enough things to keep me going for a while.

Talk to you all later!

good morning ladies.

I had a long post and *poof*, it disappeared.

Vickie, I'm glad JC is working for you. Any loss is great, IMO.

Maryann, woo hoo on your 3 lb loss. Sorry about your migraine. Get better quick.

coco, hope you are feeling better too. My husband has cataracts too, but not bad enough for surgery. Congrats on your 2 lbs this week.

Sandra, hope you are enjoying your gardening and archery. Can't wait until it warms up here.

Rhonda, thanks for explaining farafel. Sounds delicious.

Sloan, how is the puppy? I love dogs.

Paula, great loss this week.

I've stayed the same. Hubby had a stress test yesterday. Will see the dr. next Wednesday. Hope everything is good. He wasn't having any symptoms, but a general checkup.

Hope I haven't missed anyone. A lot of new posts since I was here last.

Hi chicks! Hope y'all are doing well.

Puppy report: She is awesome!!!!! I can't wait to get home in the afternoon to see her! I believe if I let her she could lick my face off!!!

Maryann-congrats on the 3 pounds. I agree with vickie about sticking to one plan for a month to see what happens. :( about your migraine. I hope you feel better soon.

Pam-hope all of hubby's tests are good!

Rhonda-;)

Vickie-what is your baby's name? Hang in there with JC. I admire you for sticking to it!

Sandra-the bird watching sounds relaxing, and 50 degree weather sounds nice, too!

Way to go Paula :carrot:

Coco-how are ya? Hope you are feeling better :D

TTFN

Hi Everyone
Just a quick stop by.
Thanks Ladies. My headache is much better today. Still just a little. But nothing like last night.
BEACHBUM Congrats on the loss. That is awesome.
It is cold here today. Started out at 6 degrees this morn. But up to 14 right now. Suppose to get to 20. But then by Saturday and Sunday. It is suppose to be 50. YEAH!!!!
Well I have to go now. But I will be back later.
Thinking of everyone.
coco
Hope everyone is having a great day.