WW Weekly Chit Chat: 2/20 - 2/26
 

Hello everyone! Welcome to WW Weekly Chit Chat!

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!

Please join in at any time :)

Good *checks the clock* Afternoon ;) Everyone!

My body is in one of its "weird and mysterious weightloss" ways this week. :lol: I'm hoping it'll be jolted out of its funk this week, but I'm trying to keep positive by sticking to the healthy things I planned.

Hope you're all having a good start to the week! It's President's Day here, so a lot of people have off, including my husband. Not sure that there's much going on other than that. Maybe a lot of mattress sales :dizzy:

Enjoy your week, everyone!

Started Weight Watchers last week so I'm just going to throw myself right in here! :wave:

I think President's Day means banks are closed and mattress sales. Other than that, I don't see much difference from the view behind my desk in my office. ;)

Mondays and Wednesdays are my "hard" days food-wise as I go from work to class and don't get a break until 9:30pm or so. If I take enough snacks to get the through the evening I should do OK.

Here's to a great start to the week! :goodvibes:

Welcome XL! :)

I had a good week and weekend. I'm down 64.6 which is so exciting!! Of course, I ordered Girl Scout cookies from a coworker's daughter and they just arrived :-P But I checked and they are in the online database and I did okay picking them out: 4 Thin Mints is 4 points and 5 of the shortbread cookies is 5 points, so they are both about 1 point each. I can deal with that, as long as I don't go crazy, hahaha. Hopefully being so close to 65 will help keep me on track!

I tripped and fell into a pan of No Pudge Brownies last night, my niece and I made them together as an experiment as to which yogurt flavor would make the best brownies (we decided on WW Amaretto Cheesecake flavor). I asked her to take them home after I had one, but she left half the pan. Hence my accident. I hope they really are No Pudge. I have a weight in tomorrow. Sigh.

Super excited WW goer
 

Hi Fellow WW'ers,

I absolutely love the new point plus program! I have a wedding in May for BBF's daughter and want to be fabulous for it!

Just a neat treat my 11 yr old daughter taught me!

Banana split sundae:

Cantalope scoop, watermelon scoop, honey dew scooped onto a sliced banana, cover with favorite non-fat yogurt (vanilla is super yummy) and top with diced strawberries and slivered almonds(omit almonds for 2 point treat) :bravo:

she is a little chubby (only 9lbs over weight) but this was one of her greatest inputs since I started my diet. funny she learned when she spent the night at a skinny friends house! Wonderful ideas come from skinny people too! Just poking fun...hope not to offend. :p

Looking for some great recipes if anyone has one to share!! :df:

I would guess this is a good way to get and STAY slim. Great that their "treat" was so healthy and yet delicious and treatlike.

Tudor, we seem to be sticking to the same amt of loss in the same amt of time. Thats awesome! You must be getting lots of compliments huh? i cant even walk down my hall at work without someone saying something positive. Its a nice feeling. real nice :)

Newbie
 

Hey ladies,

I am new to the forum (well I left and came back lol). I just started WW 2 weeks ago! So far it's been going well, just wish I was loosing weight faster lol. And it's weird this is the first time ever that I don't feel like I am on a diet but I am losing weight. Can't complain :-)
Sometimes when I read the threads I see that some people lose up to 5 lbs the first week. I have lost a little bit over 2 lbs the first week and this week I gained 3 lbs in 2 days (ugh!) Granted I ate rice, a small small slice of cheese cake, sushis and pad thai BUT most of the time I stayed within my points or use a little bit of my weekly extra points.

Anyways, happy to be part of the group :-)

This has been a bad week so far...haha. I am visiting my best friend while I am on school break and we've been doing a lot of shopping and eating out. Not enough exercise and "bad" food makes for a not good week. I just want broccoli...haha. My friend (a nurse) has to work tomorrow night, so I already am planning on doing some workout dvd's tomorrow night while she is at work and I bought some fruits and veggies for snacks. Things could definitely be worse, but they could definitely be better!! haha

But I'm having so much fun being with my best friend...so it's all great in the end ;)

Well I missed getting on here yesterday so hello to everyone today! Oh by the way another thing about presidents day was free street parking...yeah for me.

I did my normal weigh in yesterday and was the same as last week so I tried again today and was down 2lb? I have been in a 'funk' as you say lovely for 8 weeks now. But I have to blame some on travel and visiting family, and family visiting me so it through me off my game with food choices and exercise.

I finally feel like I am getting back on track but to shake things up I am doing the wendie plan for the next couple of weeks to see if that helps. Today is a low point day. I hope I survive LOL.

Oh last night aat the gym all the ellipticals were full so I had to try the treadmill. it was not too bad kept the pace at 3.5 and incline of 4. I think tonight if the ellipticals are full I will jump on the treadmill and try for a bit faster and more of an incline just to shake things up

Yay us :) And yes, I do get a lot of comments and compliments from coworkers! We have a wall of staff pictures and mine was taken when I first started the job in December 2010, so the difference is very noticable! Other people I don't see that often becauswe of different schedules and stuf, so weeks will go by and then all of a sudden they'll make a comment, too. :D

Hey all :D

Weighed in today and was down 1/2 lb. Its ok. We had family over this weekend for a cookout and although I injected my healthy foods in the mix (roasted asparagus and squash) - we still had ribs, beans and macaroni salad floating around, and yes I ate some LOL.

@Tudor - I got some girl scout cookies too. I am SO happy to hear they are in the database :)

I've also been a little under the weather so I've been skipping my morning exercise. I should be back on track tomorrow morning.

Mammasita: Sometimes a slow loss or maintenance is a victory in itself! I should remember that when my weight loss stalls someday and I'm cursing at my scale. :lol3:

Chele615: I have a friend who does squats in the dressing room between each set of clothes she's trying on. I dunno if it helps but it may be worth trying! :D

I did OK yesterday points wise. My husband brought me a salad between my classes; unfortunately it had bacon, hard boiled egg, blue cheese, chicken, croutons and an avocado ranch dressing (full fat). It's not his fault because I haven't exactly told him I'm doing WW yet. :o I omitted the egg and cheese but the full fat dressing pushed me two points into my weekly points which I prefer to save for the weekend cause that's when I have a harder time.

So! In my book, yesterday was a success.

Week three
 

Hi Miss Maya,

Wonderful to hear your loss so far! The #'s will come if your faithful to track the points. Points plus really makes you feel like your not on a diet, but on a life journey. Remember those little bits here and there are allowed but really need to be counted. This way you can see which weeks you are more successful than others. Remember water,water,water, and more water. That is how our bodies eliminate the fat! I had a huge first week loss and dropping down to 1-3lbs seemed discouraging, so slow and steady is a good thing! Keep it up and you will get to the goal! We all will!!

Lovely,
I cannot afford the meetings and need to know when I drop from 30points to 29points is there a formula out there?

Morning, everyone :) Popping in for a quick hello!

Hope the week is going well, and may you all have great Wednesdays!

Angelsgirl - What do you use now to track your Points? If you use eTools Online and track your weight weekly, your Points will automatically readjust to where they need to be. If you use a handheld calculator then you can just retake the test by first pressing down the wrench button. Then hold Enter for 3 seconds. You'll be able to change your info each week that your weight changes and keep an eye on your Points changing if they do.

I didn't lose again this week. I didn't gain either, but I'm a little frustrated. I've been tracking my burn via my bodybugg and correlating the calories and burn, I should have been down both last week and this week. It's so frustrating, I'm not really sure now what I can change.

Just had to hop on and share my NSV of the day.

Today I am wearing a pair of jeans that I have not been able to wear in at least 3 years. I couldn't even fit into the a month ago.

*happy dance*

It makes the frustration I've been feeling this week about my weight loss in general a little less.

Hope everyone has a great Wednesday!

This week has been fabulous. I'm down another 1.8 (I thought I was only down .8 and had a sad face moment until I remembered I started at 240 not 239 last week.)

I used 23 of my weeklies last week, so I'm shooting for not using any this week as well as making sure I measure every single thing I eat.

Got my tax return back, so I'm going to get a better digital scale and new measuring spoons, because I broke my tablespoon trying to scrape packed brown sugar out of a box for my oatmeal. :censored: Oops.

I just got the ww digital scale. I havent needed to use it yet, but it is supposed to give me the points value on the screen for what ever i am weighing, based on how much is on the scale. I thought that would take SO MUCH more of the frustration out of portion sizing. Anyone used theirs yet? do you like it?

I don't have the WW digital scale, but one of the women at my meeting swears by it!!! She likes it for the reason you mentioned....just plopping the things on and fiddling around with the points plus value that way.

I think I May need to invest in a WW scale!! Do you have to enter the type of food though?

Congrats anga on your jeans and tess on your loss!

@moviegirl, just like XLmuffintop posted to me above, a very small loss or maintenance is a victory in itself!

I have the WW digital food scale. I resisted buying a scale at first because I didn't think I'd use it but I use it all of the time.
I don't use the points function but I weigh out everything to make sure I'm getting to proper portion size. I've even found myself getting frustrated if packaging give the portion in ounces only and doesn't list grams - since grams tend to be more accurate.

If you don't have a food scale I highlt recommend one. It doesn't have to be the WW one. But definitely get one. :-)

If the food is saved on the scale you can do it by entering the type of food. But you can just weigh stuff without entering anything too

I think it also has a recipie builder function of some sort.

I really haven't explored everything the scale can do. Maybe I should since I use it so much.

Good morning/afternoon ladies

I have a digital scale and it really is a wonderful tool. When I am cooking and then plating my food I weigh everything to make sure I have the right portion size...using it has been an eye opener.

Well today is the third day using the wendy plan to see if I can break this plateau...this will be a high point day I hope this works I looked at the spreadsheet for the ww challenge and I have since the first of Jan lost and gained the same three pounds..so I really think I need a jolt to get me going again

@Nancylmrn You'll have to let us know if using the Wendie plan helps you break your plateau. I'll need that information if I'm ever successful enough to actually reach a plateau. :D

Today is another rough day for me food wise. It's busy and hard to make good food choices but I did OK last time, but the limited salad dressing options killed me!

I've done extra good point-wise so far just in case I run in to trouble though.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday.

I'm curious about the Wendie plan as well, please let us know how it works out.

XLMuffnTop - What type of dressings do you like? Maybe we could give you some suggestions to help out.

Just weighed in tonight and didn't stay for the meeting. DOwn 2 pounds, (hurray) then out for supper with friends. Was careful with supper, so I could spend my points, on having a nice bit of cake and a bit of ice cream for my friend's birthday. Was all great. I like this way of eating, enjoying whatever, within reasonable servings. Learning to have my cake, and eat it too!

I have a mechanical scale because I like the bowl on top. If you can't fit something on the small tray on the digital scales, you just throw it in the bowl. I have no complaints.
Speaking of scales, I just bought a digital bathroom scale, it's the glass Health 'O' Meter from Wal-mart ($25) and I absolutely love it. It can track up to 4 different users weights. It's accurate every single time I step on it and it reads the same over and over!

Oh! I like all dressings but I was stuck at school and my husband brought me a salad on my break. I didn't get to do the choosing so I had to make it work. :D

Oh that note, today was another one of my rough days but I managed to not go over my points. In fact, I was one under. :carrot:

@fatmad: I, too, like this plan. I like being able to be more cautious and conservative with my points to allow reasonable splurges and a glass of wine or two on the weekend.

@tessendicott: I may have to look into that scale. Mine gives me different numbers each time. Not by much but I still have to take an average of the three readings. Very frustrating!

I have a digital bathroom scale and I am wondering if I may need to replace it. The numbers seem to stay in the same place or move up every day...really...I keep thinking I have hit a plateau but maybe it is the scale. Up 2 lbs one day down 1.5 then up then down then up and stay up ....step on step off two different numbers....wiggle my toes another number

Wal-Mart has it on sale online for $20 with .97 cent shipping or free to store)
It's awesome! :D

Ordered! Thanks for the tip!

My husband's going to laugh at seeing yet another package on our porch. I've gone kinda crazy at Amazon lately. :o

ok I jumped in the pool and bought a new digital scale -- go wal-mart booyah