April Chat (was March Chat)
 

Just wanting to check in for March. I'm doing well. I am still free lifetime, a little under my goal weight. Still want to lose a few pounds though (really want to improve body composition).

Lately I've been doing reverse tracking which I really like. I start my WW day with dinner (well, really, I start at 5 PM). So, I have all my daily points available for me at the hard time of the day. So my day runs from 5 PM to 5 PM the next day. This has really helped a lot and made it easier to stay on track.

How is everyone else doing?

Hi, Koshka. I used to do exactly this years ago. I found it to be both helpful and unhelpful. It was great to have all of my calories available at dinner, and an unexpected plus was that I didn't undereat breakfast and lunch in an attempt to save enough for dinner. It is psychologically helpful to know that I would reset before dinner.

The problem that came up for me was that I had all my calories available at dinner! Haha. I'm a huge after-dinner snacker. That, and soda, is probably the main reason that I am so heavy. I did lose weight that way, but it didn't do anything to help me break the habit of snacking all evening, so when I quite couting calories, I gained it all back.

It worked very well though, and I would do it again. I would just have to keep in mind that there needs to be behavior modification in my case to make it work long-term.

So how are you doing now? It looks like you made it past your goal! Congrats!

Koshka, I've heard of reverse tracking before but it never seemed right for me. I think I'm ready to give it a try! Thanks for the reminder.

I am still doing the reverse tracking and it has just been wonderful for me. I find that if I record my points for the evening then I don't have problems during the next day. Since I stay up really late (usually until 2 AM), I eat around 15 points each evening. Occasionally it is more or less but I aim for about 15 until it is an evening where I am eating out and intentionally using extra points.

I've never heard of reverse tracking - that's so interesting, I will have to think more about this! Thanks for the tip!

IT has been a huge game changer for me. I weighed in last week at 142.8 pounds which is my new low.

Just joined online plus today. A bit nervous about getting in my fitness points.

Hi everyone! I lost 47lbs on Weight Watchers between November 2014 and June 2015 and then hit a huge plateau at 155lbs. I've managed to maintain since then (I was preparing for my wedding and had a crazy work schedule and I think I just wasn't mentally focused enough to be as restrictive as you need to be to lose weight at that weight).

I've just come back from my honeymoon and I'm ready to lose the last 20lbs- I'd like to get down to 135lbs which would get me in the healthy weight range for my height (I'm 155cm).

Not sure what I think of SmartPoints- I seem to be eating even less than what I was on ProPoints but I'll stick it out! Meals today:

Breakfast: One poached egg on one slice of multigrain toast with avocado smash (9 points)
Lunch: One BLT with multigrain bread, Philadelphia Extra Light and WW bacon (8 points)
Dinner: Grilled fish with salad and Healthy Choice chips (11 points)
Snack: Nestle Soleil Diet Chocolate Mousse (3 points)

Total points: 31 points

flickety_switch - Welcome back great job on maintaining through wedding, job and honeymoon! SmartPoints is an adjustment but I think it is a much healthier way of eating. There is a bit of a learning curve.

Nolosandra – Welcome! If you aren’t used to activity, I would start with trying to get in my baseline (about 3000 steps) and then adding on a bit of walking every day. I used a Fitbit which helps me to keep track.

Checking back in
 

Hi all,

I'm just checking back in after 10 days back on the program. I'm down to my lowest weight in six months or more already, a 3.3lb loss since I came back from my honeymoon so I'm very happy.

It's interesting too- I usually couldn't eat more than about 10-15 of my weekly points on ProPoints or I wouldn't lose but I ate 22 of them last week and still lost a lot.

Does the new system not reward you with anything or make any comment when you lose weight? I put in my weight today for my weigh-in day and nothing happened....no message popped up at all.

That is a great loss! Sounds really good.