This is a thread for any and all WW users to get to know each other. To talk about their days or weeks. Whether it's plan-related or not. Just a comfy area to chat about things in general. Grab a chair, pick up a cup of hot tea or coffee and relax with everyone!
Hopefully nobody is around because they are all enjoying the sunshine Happy April everyone!
I had a good week: last week I was on week 5 of Couch to 5k, and on Friday I jogged for 20 minutes straight! AND I enjoyed it, haha. The really crazy part was I did it at 6am! I got my tax refund today and last week purchased a groupon for a local running shoe store, so I'm going to be buying new shoes soon.
I also discovered a new-to-me restaurant downtown Cleveland called The Flaming Ice Cube. It's a vegan restaurant and, as a vegetarian, I can't tell you how totally awesome it is to walk into a restaurant and know that I can order everything off the menu. Normally I only have a handful of choices, so this was awesome, delicious, and very affordable. It's just a few blocks from my yoga class, so I'll probably end up getting take out lunch from there every so often. I'm already planning on doing it this Saturday
Tudor you are doing awesome with the running and then the great find on the restaurant. DH and I found one yesterday too not far from us. It is a vintage wine bar and restaurant. I am not vegan or vegetarian but I don't eat much meat. They had some great meat free appetizers we had black bean hummus and naam it was yummy
This week I am going to really going to push myself at the gym with cardio and weights whoo hoo
My week is super busy! I work at a church, and we have lots to do to get ready for Easter. This week it will be so important for me to plan out my meals so that I don't forget food and binge, or don't plan well enough and go way under points.
I'm ready to pull out my hair over my drawing class. If I hear (from my instructor mind you) "If you're happy with it.... It's.... ok... I guess" I might just scream. I've been in this class since mid January and have yet to get a compliment.
On the bright side, despite not preparing and taking dinner with me as I usually do, I ate a sensible snack in class, waited and came home and had grilled fish tacos on low cal tortillas with lots of cabbage. So delicious!
lol... what kind of comment from an instructor is that XLMUffntop? I would ask them... "whats wrong with it". Drawing is so personal... and comes from such a personal space that there shouldnt be anything wrong with anything anyone does, but it sure does make you feel crappy when you cant get a compliment from someone. I would ask them why... tell them what your looking for. Constructive criticism maybe?
This week I'm trying something new where I am forcing myself to eat more of my weeklies. I've somehow fallen into this habit where I'm almost afraid to eat them and I know I need to break myself of that. I can lose weight eating weeklies and, as it is, I only have it set to eat 25 of them (instead of the normal 49), so I'm just trying to work harder on eating them. It's not that I"m hungry at the end of the day, but I maybe feel unsatisfied because I deprieved myself of something I could have eaten out of some warped sense of eating "right." Y'know?
So I'm experimenting this week. We'll see how it goes
I switched up my program today. Changed my weigh in day to wednesday (just a mental thing lol) and lowered my points from 29 to 26 (based on the height/weight/age formula). I eat SO many veggies and fruits, I think its being counter productive.
lol... what kind of comment from an instructor is that XLMUffntop? I would ask them... "whats wrong with it". Drawing is so personal... and comes from such a personal space that there shouldnt be anything wrong with anything anyone does, but it sure does make you feel crappy when you cant get a compliment from someone. I would ask them why... tell them what your looking for. Constructive criticism maybe?
Constructive instead of criticism would be great. Everyone is afraid to ask the simplest question because it ends up being 30 minutes of her talking, no exaggeration. If I were to ask what was wrong with it she may give me a 30 minute critique on why it sucks and I'd blow up! Everyone, other instructors included, agrees that she is just awful and this is her last semester so I've just got to grin and bear it. I'll just have to do more on my own for my portfolio submission next spring.
I'm with you on the weeklies issue Tudor Rose. I need to start eating a few more of mine and it'd probably help. My goal is to eat half and see how it goes. I try to be accurate in my measuring but that just doesn't always work out so the other half of my weeklies I consider a buffer. May not be 100% appropriate but I like having the wiggle room.
I try to be accurate in my measuring but that just doesn't always work out so the other half of my weeklies I consider a buffer. May not be 100% appropriate but I like having the wiggle room.
I do the same thing For one thing, having 49 was too much for me. I would use it as an excuse to not track. So, I have it in e-Tools to have 25 weeklies and that seems to work for me. I'm okay with eating 25 weeklies (even though I maybe only ever use 10), but if I *do* go over I know I have those other 24 as a buffer.
Tudor, I'm also "afraid" to eat my weekly allowance points. I allow myself to eat activity points but thats it. I'm afraid that I'm losing more muscle than fat so I've got to get over this fear and up my calorie intake a bit especially now that its warmer and I'm running a couple days a week.. I've dropped 32 lbs in 3 months which sounds great but is really very bad.
Looks like everyone is doing pretty good today
XLMuffintop and Tudorrose I know what you mean with the weeklies, I tend to eat about 1/2 my ap on the day I earn them and if I don't make it to the gym I really try to stay at point but darn those weekends that is when I tend to mess up. No gym ...lazy huh?
Today I realized that I have been an official gym member for 6 months with a commitment of 4-6 days per week..I am pretty pround of myself
You guys seem to be doing so good! WTG on the gym membership and working out 4-6 times a week! That is great!
XLM your instructor sounds horrid! Sorry you aren't get the instruction you deserve!
I am also afraid to eat my weeklies and I find myself worrying about if what I am eating is "too bad" or going to cost too many points. I found myself a week or so ago being afraid to eat anything over 4pp! How insane is that?
Now that I am feel more confident in my abilities to manage my food and points better I don't fear it like I used to. I even ate 2 very small bites of a cupcake today because someone cut their cupcake in half and said "Here, you have to this!"
Hi everyone!
I am new to weight watchers, started a week ago with my dh. In the past i have tried counting calories and was able to lose 20lbs but had a hard time sticking to it as the rest of my family were not on the bandwagon with me. Eventually i gained i all back . This time i have the full support of my family. The kids have agreed to try whatever i make without complaining, and my dh has agreed to follow the plan with me. Last week i managed to lose 3lbs and dh lost 2lbs.
We have been having trouble with the weeklies as well, dh thinks if he uses them he won't lose weight, but i have been trying to use them but i have left half as wiggle room as well.
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May not be 100% appropriate but I like having the wiggle room.
Sorry you aren't get the instruction you deserve!
