The Wendie Plan
 

There are a couple of posts about this all over the site. Essentially, what it means is that you severly calorie/point restrict for 2-3 days each week, not necessarily consecutive, and that you allow yourself one big eating day a week in which you make up the calories you cut those days. I've never been able to consistently make this work (get too hungry on the calorie restricted days!) but I have heard over and over that it does work. Listen, if you are on a plateau, it's worth a try.

I tried doing this plan one week. The one I did had you eating a certain number of points per day depending on how many points you get. So each day you had a specified number of points to eat. I hated this. It was like -- On Wednesday I would eat 29 points and on Saturday I would eat 40 points, etc. You had no choice about any of this. So a day I might need to eat out might be a low point day while a day I was at home I might have to eat 40 points.

That said, I do tend to think that having some variability from day to day might be helpful but for me I need to be setting the schedule not having it set for me.

I have tried it when I hit a plateau and it seemed to work, also change up your exercise routine do a different activity for a few weeks. If you do a search on this forum you can find the complete wendie plan using the old point system which is what I use.

I tried using this with the Momentum Plan a few years ago. I never saw it written out for the PointsPlus program, but I haven't needed it on PPlus.

What the Wendie Plan hoped to accomplish was to stagger all of your Points throughout the week. Having one High Points day sprinkled with Lower Points days.

You NEVER went below your Daily Points. Your Lowest Points days were always your Daily Target to the point. It was not severe. It was merely your Daily Target. No more, no less on those days. Your Highest Points day was about 15 Points more than your Daily Target. (Again, this was on Momentum, so the Points are NOT PPlus.)

I was personally using it as a way to make sure that I was eating all of my Daily & Weekly Points. It's honestly just a schedule for your Points. I very much so liked it for this reason. However, since using PointsPlus, I just haven't had a need since I'm using my Points more reasonably on this plan.

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If you're struggling with a plateau, adding in some exercise can be good, but what else are you doing?

Have you checked your Daily Target? Have you experimented with eating fewer Weekly Points or fewer Activity Points? Have you added in more protein, or more fruits and vegetables? (Or fewer?)

What you eat can matter just as much as how many Points. If you're having a hard time, I suggest making a post with your Weekly Food & Exercise information. Members are more than happy to take a look and give suggestions about what they see! And sometimes a few changes here or there can really add up on the scale.

Keep going :yes: !