[DrivenByAmbition]

Showed a big loss today... I'm doing simply filling and have cut added sugar and am low carb. Hope it sticks!

[Koshka]

Congrants on the losses Amandie and DrivenByAmbition. I was still retaining water due to my medication so didn't weigh in today. But I had a good week foodwise so think I'll be OK once I'm off the meds.

[mrswesleycrusher]

Good discussion on goal weight! I have been doing well with my goal of 3 classes per week at the Y. Today I did spin and my bum hurts so bad!! What's your favorite low point dessert?

[amandie]

Mrswesleycrusher- I don't know what your idea of low point but I love 1/2 cup to 1 cup of Greek vanilla yogurt with 12 grams of PB2 mixed in with an apple, sliced. Another fave is 1/4 to 1/2 cup cottage cheese with roasted garlic powder, dried chives or dill weed and some carrots, celery and/or cucumbers for dipping. Lastly, I love hummus especially the roasted pepper ones so I have it with some veggies, just 100 calories worth. HTH!

Good for you on keeping up with the activity! So proud of you. I need to get back to working out or at least some sort of activity!

Koshka Thanks! Hoping you are feeling better with your allergies and all. You should have a nice weigh in sometime soon enough since you stayed on track food-wise.

[Autumnjana]

Koshka - I actually meant the post for you; I made a mistake with the usernames but I have update the original post and made the change. Whoops. Lol.

Anyway, thank you so much for your lovely post. It gave me a lot of insight. I will have to check out your blog. I find it very helpful to learn from those who have went through the regain process; I did WW several years ago and lost about half of what I was supposed to. Then at some point my little brain decided that I didn't need to go to meetings (which I actually enjoyed) and that I didn't need to continue eating healthily and tracking my points. So, I too ended up regaining the weight plus about 40 pounds more (I can't recall the exact amounts).

I really like your insight. I think my hesitancy with my goal weight comes from a personal desire for perfection and also because one of the leaders made a comment about how it is best to set your goal in the middle of the healthy range so that if you gain you'd still be within the healthy range (if you gained 10-15 pounds). So that kind of stuck with me. However, well - I don't plan on regaining 10-15 pounds so I really should discard the advice, you know?

I agree with you, after reflecting on it, that any weight within the healthy range is a healthy weight. As well, as you said if I maintained the weight for a while and then for some reason decided to go lower, then the option is always there for me. After reading your comments and doing a lot of reflecting this week, I really think today at weigh in that I will have reached my goal (I am already in the healthy range by a pound or so).

I think I am definitely ready to say, "This is my body. It looks good and feels good. I'm going to accept it as it is now and stop hoping that all my imperfections go away" I also was thinking of how many people, for a variety of reasons, never get to say that in their lifetime and how incredibly blessed I am that I *can* say that.

I am starting to get a little excited. I want my star charm! I still have to see what the scale says today; I always stick to my plan but you just never know I guess. Our bodies are funny things.

I am also trying out a few new recipes this weekend. Mostly Greek and Indian dishes.

Serenity - thank you for your encouragement I have struggled with my attitude my whole life and over the pst year have tried very hard to develop a better outlook.

I wanted to encourage everyone to keep on working at it I see so many positive decisions and changes here - it is truly amazing. I also respect an have learnt from the people who post their challenges; it is very helpful.

[Serenity100]

Happy Saturday! I am learning much about myself through these respectful conversations about our food plans. I think the bottom line is that we are all trying to maintain a healthy relationship with food and eating that will last a lifetime.

Today is my usual Saturday of chores and catching up around the house. Which of course means checking to see I have all my Weight Watchers foods.

Here is to a week of continued success

[DrivenByAmbition]

Serenity100, I also find weight watchers to be a learning process. I am totally missing being able to eat gluten and just count points, but a modified simply filling technique has been okay.

I am going to wait a few months to reintroduce some foods, I just think my body needs to detox. My diet consists of meats (mostly white), eggs, and veggies only right now. I have seen an improvement in how I feel and I am never hungry. I have never really done a low carb approach which I know this diet does, but it does overlap with simply filling. I am getting healthy oils in and am hoping to see improvements in my nutritional deficiencies.

[memoree]

Hello all. I'm back on WW. I have about 35 pounds to go. I have been reading alot about cleanses but have never done one. Are they really that beneficial? How did it improve weight loss for you? Can someone point me to a good one?

[Koshka]

Autumnjana - Thanks for the kind words. And I think it will be great for you to just declare yourself at goal. You can always change it later if you want or can set a personal, non-official goal later.

I hope I've learned from my own mistakes and do it all better this time. I do know that for me attending meetings is super important. I regained when I went out of town on business for 2 weeks, had a small gain over the 2 pounds I was allowed and then was embarrassed to go back and weigh in. So, I decided to go back once I was within 2 pounds of my goal . Well, you can see how well that worked out!

Anyway - today I finally felt well enough to get back to exercise. I walked a little over an hour on the treadmill. Then I did the basic strength workout from Burn The Fat, Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto which is a really super book I just read. So I'm all tired out now.

[Tereyin]

Fell far off the wagon. I just started in jan too. I got sick and didn't go shopping so I just ate crap. Gained 6 pounds in the two weeks. Hopefully it's just bloat and it'll be back down. So mad at myself.

[Serenity100]

DrivenByAmbition - Low carb works for me too. Two years ago I did fantastic doing Atkins. But I needed to reintroduce carbs because I knew I couldn't live like that forever. I started reintroducing, and then got totally derailed. On top of that, last Jan. my dad became critically ill all of a sudden in Jan., and then by April he was gone. That drove me off the edge and back to my unhealthy eating compulsions. But now I know what works and I am choosing small portions of low glycemic carbs and keeping my carbs on the low side, but not extremely low. Its working. If it starts to slow down, I will track on FatSecret, besides the WW app, to watch my carbs and calories to see any patterns. But so far no need to.

Tereyin Pick yourself up and dust yourself off. You are in good company with falling off the wagon here. Try again.

Happy Sunday! Still freezing cold here, but I'll get out of the house to run some errands anyway. It is better for me to be away from food.

[DrivenByAmbition]

Sounds like a great plan, Serentity100. Unfortunately I have recently discovered that I may have an intolerance to gluten. I don't know if it's Celiac or not, but I know that I am now absorbing nutrients and I wasn't doing that for a long time. I am going to wait a few months before incorporating dairy back in... Just to kind of let my body heal.

Tereyin, we have all fallen off before. I'm sure some of the poundage is water. Just keep pushing on.

[amandie]

Welcome back, Memoree and Tereyin!

Memoree- I've never done a cleanse and never really felt the need for one so I cannot help you there, sorry!

Tereyin- I'm with Serenity. Hang in there! Don't give up and keep going.

DriveByAmbition- Here's hoping you will feel back to your old self without any symptoms ASAP!

Koshka- Yay on getting in your activity!

Autumn- I absolutely love Greek dishes! I don't get to have it that often since not many places around here serve that and my household isn't exactly a fan aside from the usual gyros with tzatziki sauce.

It was a quiet weekend for us. I stayed in and had a Vampire Diaries marathon on Netflix, lol. Today, I am doing all of my homework and a bit of studying. I got 2 tests coming up on Thursday, fun fun!

[DrivenByAmbition]

Good luck on your tests, Amandie. I haven't seen the latest season of VD but look forward to when it comes on netflix.

[Tereyin]

Has anyone used the yonanas machine? A girl at work bought it and I've been interested in it. Looks like a good way to satisfy that ice cream craving but being healthy.