Amy: That's the only way to eat a Wendy's tater and Chili...YUM

Does anyone else have this problem? I cannot access www.weightwatchers.com from a dial up computer. It is like they made the website too big and it just won't load. I signed up for the monthly pass, but can't access the etools from my house or my mom's house (we both have dial up) - so they don't help much.

Morning
1/2 cup uncooked oat bran
1/2 cup blueberries
1 cup milk (latte)
Subtotal 4.5

Midday
6 oz extra firm tofu
1/2 cup 2% reduced-fat cottage cheese
1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes, without oil
Subtotal 5

Snack
crispy bar
milk
Subtotal 4

NoNo
wine
Subtotal 5

Chicken (6.5) with veggies (0)

25 point day

No - this combo sounds crazy, but it was really good - all diced together like a potato salad.

cubed curry tofu
1/4 cup cottage cheese
capers
dried tomatoes
curry powder
cayanne pepper
green onion
celery

Since I am back to school, I started premaking lunches again. I get out 3-4 zip locks and cut all the toppings and divy them into the ziplocks (measuring ingrediants) and then take one to school each day served over lettuce.

I am thinking of starting a lunch club at school - were 1 person makes lunch for 3-4 people once a week and shares.

Hey everyone!! I really am not sure how many points I have had today. I had some baked ziti for lunch. With lots of cheese. I did not do bad today other than the ziti. I felt guilty and worked out at Curves for an hour and I rode my exercise bike 10 miles. Morrigan hope school is going ok for you.

Good evening everyone~

I think I finished up the day ok. Thanks to a trip to the airport to drop some friends off (did not have dinner with the family).

snack
crackers 2
peanut butter 2
teddy grahams 3

dinner
pasta 4pts
sauce 2pts

not having dinner with the family stopped me from eating the garlic bread and seconds! Whatever works I suppose.

Morrigan, a co-worker and myself did the lunch thing back in the day. We were both doing weight watchers. It worked out great. Hope you get some interest in that.

Good night!

One more thing. I got my wedding ring sized down from a 8.5 to a 7.5 back in April. It is spinning on me again. Wow!!!! It was an 8.5 when we got married. YIPEE!!! It's the little things in life isn't it??

buffalosister, how exciting! That is a fabulous perk when your rings are too big!

Today has been just nuts! I've been cranking along since my start date of August 8th pretty much just fine. I haven't felt like I was missing anything, very rarely hungry/starving. Several times I had way too many points left over at the end of the day, and just couldn't talk myself into eating late in the evening if I wasn't hungry. Well, today it all caught up to me! My TOM arrived without my even knowing it (I had thermal ablation in June of this year), and although I no longer suffer through the mess, I definitely had the PMS thing going on! LOL! Anyway, I was hungry when my alarm clock went off this morning, and no matter what I did, I was hungry all day! I didn't feel full or even comfortable until dinner tonight, where I know I ate larger portions than I've eaten for the last month. Ah well! I guess it's all still OK as I did maintain control, and chose healthy items, when all I wanted to do was EAT SOMETHING!!

Pre Breakfast Snack (lol) english muffin w/ jelly 3pts.
Breakfast (1/2 hour later, still hungry!) cheese omlette, 1 slice bacon 6pts.
Snack (on my way to work) Skinny Cow Bar 2pts
Lunch (yep, I knew I'd want more to eat!) carrots, FF ranch, yogurt 3pts.
After School Snack baked chips 1pt.
Dinner (at Mom's, who knows no low fat!) salad w/ full fat dressing 4pts,
egg noodles 6pts., beef tips (over the noodles) 5pts.

31 total. Highest points to date, I think! But, on the upside, I've been full since dinner at 5:30, no snacks needed this evening! MAYBE the monster has gone back into hibernation....till next month, of course!

We're leaving for the lake after school tomorrow, so I won't be around until Monday evening. I'm sure temptation is going to be everywhere during our last big end-of-the-summer fling, but I feel I have all the tools to stay in control. I do think I may take in the first WW meeting tomorrow morning to strengthen my arsenal!

Question for anyone....I've not had to deal with TOM till now since I started WW. Any advice? Do you notice that it hits the scale hard? I'm a bit nervous to get on the scale at the meeting tomorrow if I go, unsure what the effects of this will be! Thanks all!

Hi Everyone:

It has been hard to stay on track...this weekend will be tough too. I'm thinking of grazing on salads when we are not at cookouts. My DH is taking a 4 day weekend and we will be on the go. So tracking will be tough. We will be out lot. So today I had my usual breakfast (that always seems easy). Its the rest of the day that has been a challenge lately, plus I have to go food shopping and don't have a lot of my frozen meals here that keep me on track. Hope you all have a good weekend.

Morrigan - what does the e-tools do for you? I have some great recipes, but not sure how to count up the points. Does it allow you to put in your recipe so that points can be calculated?

Amy - I hope whatever your grandmother decides that you will have her with you for some time to come. My grandparents died before my kids were out of diabers and I still miss them. So I hope the best for you and your family. By the way, congrats on the ring size. You are an inspiration to me. How long did it take you to lose your first 50lbs?

melloyan

Good morning everyone!!!

I finally got my at home kit yesterday!!! I went back and entered all of my eating and exercise for the last two weeks into it and boy was I surprised. I have been eating WAYYYY over my points. I still lost five pounds so far.

Yesterday I used up all of my flex points and then some for this week on a Sonic burger. So I made up a menu for me to stick by today to count off the extra eight points I used yesterday.

I think planning the meals for me is definatley going to be the key to me sticking with this plan. I am still in shock of how many points I have been going over. One day I was up to 69.5. That was my highest. Then on most other days I was around 55. My limit is 31 a day!!! EEK!!!

I hope you all have a great day!!!

Bagel - 3
2 Tbsp. Strawberry Cream Cheese - 2
(8 oz.) Non fat Yogurt - 2
1 Cup sweet tea - 2
WW frozen meal - 7
6 in. Sub - 7

Total 23.

kcsmom, those points can really add up fast, can't they?! Now that you have your books you'll be doing so much better! It won't take long before you can look at a lot of the items you eat regularly and just know the points without looking them up, and then it gets easier from there. Tracking and writing it all down before you put that first bite into your mouth also helps. You see it on paper, and think am I willing to spend those points on this snack or whatever?

Best of luck to you!

I have hardly looked at the etools because I have been so busy at work.

Breakfast: oatbran cereal (2) and blueberries (1)
Lunch: Cliff Bar (4) and Apple (1)
Dinner: Potato (3), chicken breast (4) and salad (0)
Creamer: (1)
snack: tofu (4), cottage cheese (1)

21 point day

The last couple days have been trying for me, just alot of stress, alot of changes, and I'm emotionally drained. My last day at work was yesterday, a job I loved...but I start a new job Tues, that will financially help my family more. My hubby's always worked 70 hours a week, and for the last 4 months he's been cut down to 40...we're struggling. So I decided to take this job, that will help us out. Now, hubby was offered a day job at the same company he's at (he's been on midnights for 13 yrs)...and his hours will increase, which is all good...except then we had to find care for our son, for before school...I start work at 8am, hubby at 4am, and school doesn't start until 8:30 so I was freaking out. Yesterday was bittersweet at my job, they had a huge pot-luck for me, flowers, a card that all signed saying how much they'll miss me, etc...
Amidst all this, my eating has been less than perfect. I cannot say it's been downright terrible, just I know not w/in points. I'm hoping Tues, the start of my new life w/new job, kids first day of school and hubbys' new hours will bring alot more structure to our lives and I can get back on the wagon 110% I don't plan to screw up the next 2 days by any means, just am hoping to have it all figured out again by then. Wish me luck, and sorry for rambling...sometimes it just helps to vent

just logging in to say hi from vacation. Doing okay so far i think. I am mostly staying in the 26-27 point range most days except the day before we left the airport (limited food availability), and yesterday (because I wanted sugary junk food and I am on vacation). Hopefully I don't gain weight, but I may. The only thing i know about where i'm planning to eat junk is sunday we are having cake. Most other days healthy stuff will be an option one way or another (although if we decide to go to cheesecake factory when we go to birmingham again, I'm in trouble--I don't know if I can pass up cheesecake). However, we get back home thursday and I should be able to resume normal eating by thursday or friday.

Anyone here in the hunstville or birmingham, AL areas and know where I can get nana's cookie bars, baker's breakfast cookies or solo bars? Those have worked well for filling snacks for me and they aren't on the list of foods i can't eat because i just had a tooth extracted, but all i have left is one breakfast cookie (2-3 snacks), which i'll probably end up using before we leave and we don't have a long enough layover on our way back for meals.

Tomorrow is a new day.