Wendie Plan
 

Has anyone tried wendie on points plus? This has been used in the past when one has hit a stall.

Click here and type in your points allowance.

If anyone tries/tried this let us know.

I was just talking about this today! The only thing holding me back is that it assumes you use your WP.

Does it work? . I'm really scared of gaining. Something has gotta give. 10 weeks and I've already stopped losing. Ugh. Feel like crying.

It works on old plan. I always use my weeklies. You can adapt it to make it work for you. I've heard many success stories.

All right - what do I have to lose? I'm getting frustrated! LOL

Let us know how it goes or if you want some help cycling your week!

I need help cycling my week. Please. I get 37 points

Using weeklies or not?

No. I don't use weeklies

I'm doing some research. I am not entirely sure if it will work going below your daily target.

Day 1: target +5 to 7 points
Day 2: Target + 1 point
Day 3: Target +15 to 20 points
Day 4: Target points only
Day 5: Target +4 to 5 points
Day 6: Target +2 points
Day 7: Target points only.


This is only using 27 weeklies.

I never saw this before but it ( and the other above) came from here

OR, try this variant of the Wendie Plan that we call the Maggie Plan:

Use all 49 WPA's in the first 3-4 days of your week, then stick to target for the last 3-4. It seems to work for many of the women on this board who try it. There are a few rules with it, though--you MUST follow the Good Health Guidelines, eat good healthy food. and have a glass of milk late afternoon/early evening.

Basically you are just shocking your system

New to site
 

Hello everyone - This is my first day back on WW and I'm new to thi site. I'm using the old Flex Points on my own. I'm at my heaviest and I'm so sick that I let myself get to this point. Any help you can give will be appreciated. I made it through the first day and looking forward to tomorrow.

Thank you. I am going to try this. I also have been excersizing everyday since Thursday. Hopefully it all helps.

Girly Girl, there is a section of this forum (up at the top) for people using Flex points. If you have any questions, they might be able to help. Most people on the main board are using the new system, Points Plus. Welcome!!

I started the Wendie Plan with yesterday being my "big day." I ate 52 points, which I didn't think was possible. I also did another day of the 30 Day Shred and re-started C25K outside. Today, I'm eating 30 points. My weight this morning was at the lowest end of where it's been bouncing (188.4-189) so that's pretty nice.

Yes, essentially - it's the same thing as calorie cycling and prevents your system from getting too set into a groove. When you don't use your WP you are basically eating the same number of calories every day so your metabolism gets accustomed to that. When you use your weeklies (a few here and there) it keeps your metabolism from getting too used to anything. I have done the Wendie plan, but I realized it wasn't for me. The reason I like WW is that is allows for so much flexibility. I found that I was back to the rigid ways when I had to eat X amount each day for it to work.

Good to hear PUP. Good thing about weight watchers is it's flexible enough to work for most in one way or another.

I'm thinking about using this for a couple of weeks to see if it makes any difference for me. I used to think it was bullshit to think that it was more difficult to lose a smaller amount of weight, but holy ****, I'm finding out the truth now! It's more difficult for me to get rid of this 20 pounds than it was to lose the entire 65. Gah.

I'm torn now, though. I'm not sure whether to make my "big" day Wednesday (the day of my weigh-in) or to choose a day later in the week (like, say, Saturday.) Could that make any difference, do you think?

What I used to do when I lost the weight the first time was to just use up all my WPs on Wednesday. Basically, I would do my weigh-in in the morning, and then for the rest of that day I gave myself a bit of leeway. And by the time the day was over, I would have used up all (or, well, most) of my WPs. I'm not sure if that's the best way to go this time or not.

....I'm probably overthinking this. I have a huge tendency to do that. :o

I would just make sure that the big day isn't the day before your weigh in. Keep that day at daily point allowance to enable yourself to shed any water from sodium. Does that make sense?

Yeah, that makes perfect sense! I wouldn't do that anyway (I'd make sure it was at least a couple days before weigh-in) but it's nice to have that verified by someone else. :)

I've used left over weeklies the day before weigh in, and weight either stays the same as previous day or a ounce or two up. Usually still a lost, but still. I'm not even using many weeklies right now it's like I'm afraid to.

I guess I'm lucky -- it seems I can use all of my weeklies and still lose. In fact, during the year and a half I spent losing the 65 pounds, the only four weeks I had a gain were the weeks when I *didn't* use all my weeklies. Funny how that works, huh? :)

In the past I would lose more using them all. Just afraid of gaining again. Maybe a slower loss will be okay.

Snoofie, give me some of this "using all your WP and losing" dust!

Day 2 of the Wendie Plan down for me. 30 points exactly; tomorrow will be 40. Interested to see what the scale does since it was at the low end of my yo-yo this morning.

This is kind of what I do. My weigh-in day is Friday so I allow myself to be a little lax from Friday through Sunday - things like going out with friends, eating things that i normally don't let myself to have, little treats. I try not to use all my WPA's but a good portion of them. Then, from Monday through Thursday I try to stick very close to my daily points. If I go over by a point or so it is no big deal, but I try not to do that. It works for me because the scale keeps going down (sometimes veryveryVERY slowly...) and I don't feel deprived or like I'm missing out on anything.

I might try the Wendie plan just to see if it jump starts anything. I've been stuck in this 10 pound range for 4 months, lol and I'm a little frustrated to say the least.

Day 3 of the Wendie Plan; today is 40 points. This morning my scale stayed the same, at the low-end of my plateau, 188.4. Hoping to see some movement downward soon.

Hey lady's. I hope everyone I doing well. Today is day four on the wendies plan for me. This morning the scale was down a pound today. Yesterday was my really high day. 52 points. So I was scared id gain. But nope. Praying the scale keeps moving down.

Can't wait to hear the full weeks results. Sounds positive at the moment in the negative direction :) yay weight loss.

I will definitely let ya know how I did. Thank you for the help :)

This AM my weight is, unfortunately, back up to 189 - but TOM is now here and there is the hope some of that is water retention. I was sure I lost, because I track my weight before bed and it was very down.

Today is day 4 and 37 points.

Sounds likes good old TOM is the culprit then.

Wendie plan success over here today! My scale was 187 this morning, a number I have never seen (and was probably in grade school the last time I was that) and I'm pretty pleased!

Yay I'm glad. May have to try this next week myself if I don't show a loss on Monday.

I followed the Wendie Plan successfully on the old WW program. I'm keeping this info in my back pocket for when I hit a plateau or when I just need to shake things up. Thanks!

I don't think the plan is for everyone. It just confuses your body and boosts metabolism if followed.

This is pretty much what I have been doing since I started WW last month. My WI is on Saturday so I use my WP on the weekend and the rest of the week I try to stick with my 26 points and if I go over a few points for a few days its ok cause I usually have about 15-20 of my weeklies left after the weekend. Usually on Thursday & Friday I drink alot more water all day since I know that WI is Saturday morning.

That's wonderful. I have never thought of weighing in other then at first of the week. I did Mondays and also Tuesdays. Now just Mondays, maybe I should move my weigh in to Friday. I think I will keep it where it is now, but reevaluate later.

Back on the Wendie plan after a few rough days. Hoping to see something low tomorrow, but weigh in isn't until Sat.

I basically agree with this. I tried the Wendie plan a few years ago. I did not get any significant results from it. Also, I hated the lack of flexibility in it. My life doesn't always happen on pre-determined dates. Also, some days I'm hungrier than others.

I tend to follow what is referred to here as the Maggie plan. I weigh in on Friday mornings then usually go out for lunch. Then I usually eat out again on Saturday or Sunday. By the end of Sunday I usually have 20 to 25 weekly point left over. My goal is to use no more than 4 WP on Monday - Wednesday then to use no WP on Thursday. So that leaves me some unused WP so that if have to eat out unexpectedly on Mon-Thurs I have points available to do it. (usually I don't). So some weeks I end up with 15 unused WP, other weeks less or even none.

Oh, I don't believe that you have to drink milk every night. Yes, you need to meet your GHG but you can do that a variety of ways.

This week, I will either try the Maggie Plan OR I will go back to shunning my WP altogether. The latter scares me because I feel, in doing so, I have been eating only 1000-1200 calories and may be why my body has stopped losing (I have nowhere else to go and my body expects 1200 calories.)