My name is Tiffany and I'm 18 and I recently started on the Weight Watchers (flex)diet. So far, I have had AMAZING results (12 pounds in 1 month)! I've been having trouble eating all of my points. I try and eat whenver I'm hungry and have 3 meals a day... but I almost always end up with 5 or 6 extra points at the end of my day. Is this healthy? I never use my excersize points or my allowance points (to boost my weight loss). I eat as many vegetables as I can and drink plenty of water. I hope that I'm not hurting myself, because I'm trying to get heathly as well as lose weight. If anyone has any opinions or ideas it would be much appreciated.
(Also, if you have any tips on how you lost weight or stuff like that feel free to email me).
You should not be eating under your target! Otherwise, you are starving your body. You will lose weight quickly at the beginning, but you might be losing muscle mass instead of fat. Also eating that much under what you should be makes it extremely hard to maintain your weight loss.
To boost your point intake, the first thing you can do is make sure you are following the 8 healthy guidelines (make sure you are getting all your oil, veggies and fruit, and dairy). If you are and still have problems getting in all your points, try adding some high-point snacks in your day. 1 ounce of almonds, for instance, is 4 points. Nuts are usually a great way to boost your intake.
Well, a couple of things - first off, congrats! You are definitely getting healthier because you're losing all the excess fat around your heart and that's going to prove to be the best thing for you in the long term. I have to agree with mod here that you should be using those exercise points. Me & my WW friends are extremely active women and both of them recently hit goal (yay!). However, they both stalled for months because of not eating their exercise points. So my advice would be to start finishing off those points for the day with those good healthy guidelines. Almonds are great for your heart and milk is a quick way to build calcium and add points in.
You're doing great though! Just tweak your plan a little bit and I think you'll be heading in an even healthier direction.
What if you add these high point things in to get your daily points (not even counting AP's) and it makes you nauseous?
I don't understand how it is 'healthy' to force yourself to eat when you are not hungry. Especially if you eat fruits, veggies, enough protein and dairy and you still aren't making your points every day.
I ate walnuts and a yogurt last night to eat up 6 points I had left over and I was sick to my stomach and up till 5am. I have overeaten my whole life, why can't I listen to my body?
It's not healthy to frequently go under your points. If it's once in a great while... well... once in a great while we go over our points, too, so I mean it happens. It's life.
My own personal experience is that, if I feel I will be sick from eating if I try to eat anymore then I simply don't. I don't want to force my body to do that.
That being said, if you find that almost every day you're cutting your points down by 5 or 6 unintentionally then I would sit & go over what you've been eating. Maybe it's too many fat free alternatives. Maybe you could add a little healthy oil to a few recipes. Maybe it's adding calorie-dense items like nuts, avocado, olives to a few meals throughout.
Your daily points are the bare minimum you need to eat. And you should eat them daily however an occasional day under will not make or break your plan.
Your activity and weekly/flex are optional but most find they lose more consistently when they eat them.
If you truly are fine with the quantity of foods you eat switch from those low fat/low cal/diet foods to regular foods:
whole or 2% milk vs 1% of skim
regular salad dressing vs low fat or fat free
regular mayo vs low fat or fate free
good whole grain bread vs low calorie breads
Also if you are hitting your 8 Good Health Guidelines (see your plan materials < book if meetings -- under THE PLAN for online>) you should not have a problem hitting your daily minimum. Right off the top your healthy oils, dairy and protein take up 12-16 points.
I find I have a problem as well getting in my daily points.. I am going to re-go over my book and see what i can do to change that.. I Hope i can figure out as well what i am doing wrong..
problems with my points
