WeightWatchers ProPoints Plan - A New Year, a New You!

[NormaSknockers]

Welcome one and all - if you're following the new WW ProPoints plan then this is the thread for you!

Whether you need to lose a little or a lot you'll be right at home, we're friendly, supportive and we're all in the same boat!

androbb is our resident stats checker and helps to track what we've lost as a thread so far, nothing more motivating then seeing just how much weight is coming off.

Feel free to dive in and join us

Hello all, how are we doing today? I did my weekly weigh in this morning and I've lost another 1lb, so my overall weight loss in 8 weeks is now 16lb. Yay!!!

I've got another 12lb to go until I hit my target. I'm already very pleased with how this is going though.

I went 3 pp over last week but thats not too bad. Today I feel poo (got flu thing) so started off with a bowl of coco pops (6 pp) and a light Cadbury's mousse (2pp). Got salmon with cous cous and veg for dinner later, yummy!

well done madam g on loss :)

norma i neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed my calculator - theres nothing i can do till i get my stuff

good luck with todays weigh in ladies

Hello everyine - what a lovely day it is today (well not if I look outside but..). Been for my WI today and lost another 2 pounds - making a total of 12 now! I reckon with a bit of effort I could get my stone next week! I feel stupidly happy but I am! I am so sticking with this diet until I get to goal - which is probably 2.5 stones away but I am focusing on the mini goals and 'forgetting' the larger one for now - baby steps!

Well done to Wyken and Madame G on your losses and good luck norma for tonight! Wyken - how much did you lose so I can keep a tab on the spreadsheet?

Welcome to all newbies - please stick around - the motivation available here is priceless! The more we post the better the losses I reckon!

The tart I am making for tea tonight muffinchops is from the last WW magazine. I can post it later if you have not go the mag.

Better go - list of jobs to do before kids go back to school tomorrow and me back to work - including taking down the tree and its decorations!

marking for later

Well done on the weight loss androbob

Mum2two - if you have 2 propoints left, do you have a low fat yogurt in the fridge? I like the Rachel's organics ones, but irrespective of the make, they are often around 2 propoints

I've spent all my points today (have already allowed for dinner) - eek. Famished currently - off to eat an apple

Hello all...I am Bookswapper and its been a week since my last confession... Last week I put on 4 lbs over Christmas. Today I weighed I have lost it all again! Hooray! I am very happy!

Also, the stomach cramps, wind and bloatedness I felt over the indulgent period went away two days after restarting the WW diet. There lies the lesson I think. My classes start again next week so hopefully weight loss will continue. Am away with the girls though over the weekend so knows!

hi everyone,
well done wynken, madameG and androbbob on your losses.

hmc i have the weekdays book so those pointed recipes would be great.

Now i think i need a normas pep talk. I know i will get told off but i had a sneaky WI this morning, official one not till thurs morn, and I have apparently gained 3lbs. now i know it could be xmas and new year catching up with me, especially if i didn't guess right for the buffet on NYD but i have been doing alot more exercise to compensate. i don't know if my muscles are retaining water as i am doing alot of toning with the shred, but i am feeling abit "whats the point". i am working my ass off on the exercise front and doing the plan and if i gain this week it will make my goal of getting to target by mid feb alot harder.

This happened when i was doing SW, i wasn't really losing so i cranked up the exercise and then started gaining .

I guess i'm just feeling abit dissappointed with myself but also abit disheartened that the exercise hasn't had the desired effect.

Muffin i have a strange kind of waddle at the moment as my legs are so stiff. I did do day 3 today and it wasn't as hard as day 2 so hopefully thats a good sign that the pain will ease soon

vnmum - Lucky's my name and muscles are my game (well, my job...).

Please all of you remember, it is not an old wives tale.....

muscle weighs more than fat!!!!

Imagine if you will, a piece of steak, now imagine a piece of fat off some meat the same size, which do you think would weigh more on your kitchen scales....the steak of course! If you are doing more exercise, you may well gain 'weight' but not fat.

My tips would be either:

Take some measurements in inches/cms (depending on how old you are !) of the following places:

Waist
'love handles', i.e. hips at their widest point
Thighs. Feel the top of your kneecap and measure 20-25 cm above that point. Measure girth of thighs.
Measure girth of upper arm.

Make sure you find a way to make the measurement repeatable IN THE SAME PLACE. Sounds obvious. Use moles/scars/birthmarks, or measure from bony landmarks i.e. top of pelvis that you can feel from. It doesn't really matter how you do it as long as you do the same next time.

Next - do not re-measure for at least 4 weeks.

Alternatively - buy one of these body fat monitors .

DH and I have had one for years. It really helps cos sometimes you don't lose or even gain weight, but you can use this and you maye have lost fat.

I am in awe of all of you who have actually managed to lose weight over Christmas. Thankfully we seem to have a mix of 'losers' and 'gainers' so no-one needs to feel bad (including myself ).

I had a great way to save pps today. DD1 had a dreadful night coughing and kept me awake til 4am . I am off work today and DH off too, so I slept in while he took DDs to school. I woke up at 11:30am!!!! Totally bypassed breakfast and went straight to lunch!!

Another new recipe tonight, spaghetti with lamb meatballs. Will feedback.

Can't rememeber who asked but the risotto recipe was in Good food mag last year, I found it on website and linked it on a post on page 8 I think.

well done and robbob on loss

Hi all, anyone mind if I jump in?

I was supposed to be hitting a get fit regime hard this week after gaining a stone over recent months but i had a bit of an accident a week ago which means I can't go froward with my plan. Looks like it will be no exercise at all for me for up to 6 weeks (maybe more!)

So, tomorrow I am going back to ww. I've been following the old version loosly for over 5 years and had managed to loose 4 stone and maintain it for about 4 years.

I've no idea how the new system works and the thought of having to learn it all from scratch is a bit daunting.

I've got a big birthday in a few weeks and I really wanted to look sensational for it but with the injury and the excess weight it doesn't look like it's going to happen!

So, I've got about 14Ibs to loose in approx 10 weeks which I know is do'able but I'd also like to be toned which is going to be more difficult.

Hello to you all, sorry for such a long first post here!

sweetheart im the same

know old ww sooooooooooo well so my brain is trying to get round new ww pp

i also havnt been to the gym for 3mths, i sprained my ankle very badly in sept and pulled tendons :( but going to try again this week

i normally do body combat class - physical and therapeutic after a bad day at work

I am restarting WW today. I lost 1.5 stone last year, have maintained the loss and would like to loose a further 7lb.
Haven't done the pro-points yet though. Put in my breakfast today which was low withthe other one and it came in at a whopping 9ppts. What do you have?

9 wwpp for breakie

Ouch

I usually have oat so simple and skim so 3p

Tho guess if you don't point fruit then only need to point meals and bad snacks like crisps/choc/rice cakes

You can have 9 wwpp per meal roughly

Are all cereals the same?

Is 9 a huge/normal amount to spend on breakie?

This thread moves fast!

I have been off the diet for two weeks and in honour of 2011 I put on 11 lbs!!!!!!! Weighed this morning and I appear to have lost 4 lbs over night so really don't think my scales are accurate. I will weigh next week on my offical weigh in scales (wii fit board) as I can't face seeing the gain .

I started pilates and spinning last week (lucky I do go to the gym by the lakes) and enjoyed both classes. Spinning felt harder during the class than pilates but I was feeling muscles I hadn't felt for years for a couple of days after pilates!

I had 2 weetbix, semi skimmed milk and sugar for breakfast and that was 7 ! Think I will get some oats so simple.

I could really do with some ideas for low/point foods, can anyone point me in the right direction rather than having to check each food individually on the WW site ?

Also 49 extra points a week? Sounds far too many !

My breakfast is 60g of bran flakes and almost half a pint of skimmed milk - 9 pps. God knows how anyone could survive on the recommended '30g' for cereal, have you ever weighed it out? I would give my 2.5 yr old more than that! I usually have a BIG bowl of BF's, when I weighed it out is was about 100g!!!! So I have 'cut back' to 60g. I rather tediously weigh it out each morning. Needs must!

mumto2 for low point foods, try omlettes, a 2 egg omlette is only 4 pps, and you can pack it with free veg. Soup (non-creamy) are usually about 6 pps per can.

sweetheart do you mind me asking what you injured in your accident?? I am a physio, and I also run my own business doing hydrotherapy so specialise in teaching people who think they can't exercise, how they can exercise in water. Not just swimming either. Depending on what you have injured and whether you are in plaster, you may still be able to tone up in a pool with some ex's I could tell you???? (Just a thought!)

Well done going on erm...going...spinning. I'm v as I'm missing my spinning classes. I truely believe it to be a great fat burner....worked for me before Christmas anyway!! So much so, DH and I bought ourselves a spinning bike for the garage for when we can't get to classes (DH works shifts).

I am looking forward to hear Norma's WI news...fingers crossed Norma!!

Re points allowance, I see my 29 pps as roughly 10 per meal. usually less for lunch and more for dinner. So I usually have Bran Flakes for breakie, 9 pps, then lunch is usually either soup or an omlette (variety of fillings/flavour), 4-6 pps. Plus 'zero point' fruit.
Dinner then roughly 10-15 pps. Big bowl of berries/fruit and spoon of fat free yog for pudding is 1 pp. Usually enough for a WW cake bar at 2 pps. Anything over taken out of 49 weekly pps, and any of those left allows me a good treat at the weekend .

Hope that helps.

Thanks lucky for your info. I think i'm just feeling like i've gone back from reaching my goal on time. i really want to reach goal at my last WI with my current group then when i move i don't need to worry too much about getting to a meeting straight away. plus it would be nice to reach goal with my current leader and WW buddies at group

I know what you mean vnmum. I was only 2 lbs away from goal, before Christmas, and now I am 7 lbs. Not much I know, but a little soul-destroying after all hard work. Just keep thinking that as long as you are eating well and exercising, it will come off, even if the scales don't show it this week, perhaps you'll have a more impressive loss next week.

yes lucky i have weighed out cereal before - old ww says 30g is 1.5 - must admit 30g isnt much of cornflakes/sugar puffs etc but you get TONS of rice crispies as so light

i have cereal bowls with a pattern round the middle rim and 30g fills up to there and generally i dont weigh - unless rice crispies

Lucky, I have partially dislocated my knee, it's the 2nd time it's happened. 1st time I had about 6 weeks of phyio which I will start once the leg brace comes off. In the meantime I am having an mri scan to see if they need to operate and pin the lingament in my knee to stop it happening again. My physio told me last time that cycling was best to build the leg muscles. She told me swimming wasn't a very good idea and I have to say that when I did give it a go last time I found it a bit uncomfortable.

I'm looking forward to getting all the new books tomorrow so I can read up properly on how this all works, it sounds so different to the old scheme!

Wow, this thread moves fast! I've decided to join tomorrow and get going now rather than wait. Apart from anything else, my postnatal check clashes with next week's meeting so would end up waiting yet another week. Am dreading the scales though :(

loreli - maker sure you tell the leader you have had your 6 week check else they may refuse to let you join! Its not like they will check anyway and they will like your money!! Good luck!

Well I made the Camembert, courgette and pea tart and it was lovely. Was a bit perplexed with the cheese as I have never had Camembert before . I wasnt sure if you eat the white outer bit or not, so I peeled it off (as much as I could!). Can anyone enlighten me?

Back to work tomorrow and kids back to school so getting back to normal.

Vnmum - just keep at it the scales will show a loss by Thursday. You need to get back to your class and you may have a surprise anyway but you wont know unless you go.

Waves to everyone else - gotta go and sort out some house insurance (dullsville)

Will check back later to see if norma has posted!

Evening all,

Just a real quickie, very pleased to say I lost 1.5lbs this week and achieved my 5% - I am very, very happy with

I'll catch up properly tomorrow!