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

What is the 'tips ' thread called? I cannot face trawling 27 pages to find it!!

froot, and 1 lb a week = just under 4stone in a year

tip thread

My goodness I am starving today!

bandgeek - I hope your marsbar was satisfying and cured all your craving!

leeWT - we also got a Dulche Gusto (sp?) machine at Christmas - I wonder if they do light hot choc?

lucky light - well done on the loss! at least it's a step in the right direction.

gibberish - I went for a sneeky weigh in this morning too - only to find the battery's in them had died which is probably for the best.
dup bitch - hello and welcome

My goodness - all this talk of takaways I could really eat one tonight - chicken kebab - yummmmmmm I also really fancy getting pissed! I haven't had a drink for a couple of week which is pretty unheard of for me!

I totally agree the books (and even the website) are worse than before. The food lists are rubbish - it doesn't even seem like ww have all their own products on the online tracker thing.

I brough some rainbow drops today as a treat - it's puffed rice, how bad can that be???

rainbow drops used to be 2p so prob 4pp

Back in the exercise saddle! Half hour spin in the garage.Then took the girls swimming, an hour of throwing them around the pool (literally). Fell asleep watching 'Toy Story' with them this afternoon.

Out tonight but not drinking. Had a meal out last night. No pudding. Had 2 large glasses of red, 12 pps!!!!!!

DB I feel your pain re: no loss. My BFF really struggles to lose weight. She started Propoints last year and I was telling her about the thread and how much we all lost in the first week and she lost nothing. All I can say is keep going for at least 6 weeks to see of it's for you or not. Sometimes just carrying a bit of extra fluid or erm, a poo...

Totally agree about the books. I bought "Shop" and was v. disappointed. Most of the things I look for are not in .. complete waste of money.

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks the books are crap

All you need is a calculator

Having a Chinese tonight - not sure what yet - possibly chicken chow mein 9pp and chicken balls 13 - so 22pp - I always would share 1/2 with hubby

So does that mean mine would be 11pp - assuming it's per dish

I wanted crispy chilli beef and chicken/pineapple&cheshew nut fried rice

But not in the eating guide :(

Any idea what they are

Guess if I did have them they wouldn't be over my 49 PP so they will be included in that

Same with a tube of smarties - was in the old shopping guide but not this one :(

Am I alone in 'picking'? I'm finding that I waste about 3pp a day on things that just find their way into my mouth - a bit of DD's toast; a few extra crumbs of the Christmas cake I've already counted; a bit of ham ... all adds up

the reason i do ww and track is to stop the picking.

i tend not to pick

little pickers wear bigger knickers!!

they sure do, or in my case grow with me

Yeeeehaaaaa I managed to stay under my daily points today! Off to have a treat in a bit

hmc recipe as promised - sorry to take so long. Today has been hectic.

Pork with braised red cabbage and apple

Serves 6 (although I would say would serve 7 - 8)

Cooking time 6 - 8 hrs (in slow cooker)

9pps per portion

25g butter
1 large onion, peeled and finely sliced
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1 small red cabbage, cored and finely sliced
1 bramley apple, peeled, cored and diced
4 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tbsp light muscovado sugar
100ml cold water
Salt and ground black pepper
1-1.5kg pork shoulder
2 tbsp reducurrant jelly

Melt the butter in a pan over a medium heat, add the onion and cook for 5 mins or until softened but not browned. Spoon into the slow cooker dish.

Stir the spices into the slow cooker dish, then add the cabbage, apple, red wine vinegar, sugar and cold water. Stir until thoroughly mixed and the sugar has dissolved. Season generously with salt and pepper. Top with the pork and push down - the cooker will be really full at this point and may take some coaxing to get the lid on! Cover with the lid and cook on low for 6-8 hours.

Remove the meat and leave it to rest. Or if you like crackling, preheat the grill to its highest setting and cook skin side up for about 3 mins or until crisp and puffed up.

Stir the reducurrant jelly into the cabbage and season to taste.

Carve the meat into thick slices and serve on a bed of cabbage with any cooking juices drizzled over.

DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello all. Wow so much has happened and so many more new people. Welcome all and well done on all the losses.

Haven't posted for a while as have been v busy/ill and to be honest a bit down. Following hot on the heels of Xmas we had our dc1, 2 and 3 christened as a job lot last Sunday and had a v busy weekend as a result.

On Tues I just couldn't get out of bed and function. DH took the day off and I just slept for hours. Think body must have shut down.

Am feeling really fed up at the moment. Having done so well prior to Xmas and having felt that 'this is it', I seem to be sabotaging all my good work and am terrified that this is going to be the pattern for ever more. I know what I need to do, I want it sooooo badly and yet why am I doing this?

Hopefully I'll get the jolt I need at my WI on Tues. Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

hey all

sorry for lack of posting - have had the worst bout of mastitis this week and felt like utter utter shite. Been off points all week and missed my WI today but my scales show a 1.5lb gain....prob from all the rubbish i have ingested this week trying to cheer myself up....boo me.

feeling much better this evening for the first time so firmly back on the programme as of tom and will be starting my 30day shred again from monday....

(hey lee hunny! yay for littleman!!)

i will be two stone lighter by summer....oh YES i will....

Oh dear muffinchops and boodlebot. I think you need to just be kind to yourselves until you feel properly better. I'm not saying there's no point in dieting at all but you need to make sure you're giving your body what it needs to recover. Use all the extra points for example - that's what they're there for. If the scales don't show a loss due to lack of exercise then just start to look forward to feeling well enough to do a decent workout - by the time you're fit to do it, hopefully you'll be raring to go!

That mention of summer has got me smiling by the way. So looking forward to the end of this grotty winter - everything seems so much harder to do in this weather.

Good morning one and all,

A lot of chatting going on yesterday, good to see

I bought the deluxe pack on the first week of ProPoints, it had the Eat Out & Shop books, calculator, tape measure, highlighter pen and Track book. The only thing I have left from it is the pen, tape measure and eating out guide as with the app and esource I found the other bits useless so sold them What was handy though was it came with a booklet of vouchers so I got £5 off my kitchen scales and £2 off the Seriously Satisfying recipe book :) Apart from that, wasn't really worth it!

Lucky I know it's disappointing when you only lose 0.5lb but it's a loss, don't be disheartened you'll probably find you'll have a bigger loss next week - I often find mine show a week later! Why not weight out 0.5lb of butter just to see how much 0.5lb actually is, always makes me think 'Oh. ok, well I used to be carrying that around and now I'm not' :)

Oh muffin I'm sorry to hear you're feeling down, the post Christmas blues can be a horrid thing and I guess having the Christening to focus on kept you going IYKWIM? We all go through times where we find oursleves falling off the wagon and just not being able to summon the energy to get back on again, I've done it in the past where it's taken me weeks to find my way back again so please don't feel you're alone in this. It can be such a horrible feeling but try to fight it - look at how well you were doing and how great you were feeling. Think of what it is you want to achieve from this, where you want to be and how you want to feel. Remember the reasons you had for joining WW and how ready you were? You can get back on, I know you can, you just need to feel the confidence in yourself to take a deep breath and hop back on. Can you get back on from today? Once you have that first day back on under your belt you will start to feel so much better and the motivation will follow :) Thinking of you and hope you start to feel brighter soon.

Boodle oo ouch sorry to hear you had mastitis, hope you're feeling better now? Don't worry about the gain, you'll soon shift that and heny ou're poorly you need to focus on getting well again not what you're eating so forget what's been done, it was out of your hands :)

Yesterday wasn't as good a day as the rest but I only went dipped into my weekly points by 2 PPs so not really that awful as I haven't touched them all week and WI is in tomorrow night - fingers crossed for a good loss!

Yesterday was;

Weetabix & milk - 4 PPs

Cucumber sandwich - 4 PPs
WW red berry bar - 2 PPs

3 Crispbakes - 3 PPs

Some of the DCs sausage pie, I couldn't resis it - 10 PPs

Weetabix & milk - 4 PPs
Popcorn - 3 PPs
WW choc slice - 2 PPs

Not the best day ever and I kept wanting to pick so I went to bed at half 7 to stop myself raiding the cupboards

Not sure what the plan is for today other then we'll be going on a big family walk a bit later and I'll probably do something cooked at lunch time as DH is on a late shift today.

Hope everyone has a nice Sunday planned, any roasts being cooked today? :)

ARRRGGGHHHH! Just typed big long post then closed webpage by mistake and lost it all!!!!

Probably for the best so as not to bore you all stupid.

I shall summarise, as can't be arsed to type it all again.

Mixed feelings today:

Positive:

Went out for BIL's 30th last night and my sisters friends who I hadn't seen for 18 months since her wedding actually didn't recognise me (to the point of ignoring me when I waved and said hello) because, as they later told me, I looked so different, from weight loss (also have longer hair now).
.

Negative:

Fell off the wagon last night. Ate lots of pretzels, drank wine, had half a tomato and garlic flat bread with dinner. Feeling a bit 'WW'd OUT'...running out of steam. I don't mind all the effort when I lose at least 1.5-2lbs, but all this for 0.5lbs....
Starting to wonder if I've been too unrealistic with my goal. The only reason I lost so much before Christmas was cos I was exercsing so much, but then I just got run down and got ill for most of December. I just don't know if I can keep this up for much longer. I'm so close, but it feels so much harder than before Christmas.

Sorry to be so crap, feel free to slap me with a wet fish.

Boodle hope you feel better soon, it's hard to diet when you feel rough.

muffinchops I am with you on the 'feeling down' at the moment. Sometimes life just seems a bit too much. My kids are really good generally but DD1 (4.5yrs) is really testing us at the moment, and that's really getting me down too.

Yes Norma we will be having roast chicken today. I am plannning to do another spin in the garage to get my mojo back...I will be still tracking as I have my WW WI on Tuesday a.m.

Fell off the wagon BIG time last night when we had a load of people round for dinner. Lucky what you had was a snack in comparison

Am trying not to eat anything so far today as we are meant to be going out for lunch and it's weigh-in tomorrow.

And I ran for 40mins without stopping as part of my gym session (must be all the carbs and fat filling me with energy!)

Must track everything today!

Hello everyone - can I just crash for a minute? I'm on the pig-to-twig thread (mostly for the name, only just realised there's a diet called that), and wanted to ask you a WW PP question - any thoughts gratefully received.

I've been given a friend's tracker book, points guide etc etc., the calculator (how clever is that!) and started tracking what I eat/need to eat about..er 36 hours ago.

Although I'm cringing at how much mindless eating I do (I've allocated 5 points to "misc" today), it's really coming together in my head, and I can see this being useful for me in lots of ways.

However, I'm wondering about the benefits of joining the website properly, or going to the classes.

Can you tell me which you do, and in what way you think it helps you?

Or should i just battle on hoping I'm getting it right?!

I'd be really grateful for your feedback...

J

AArrgghh

I was doing so well but had dominos for tea last night! I did opt for the reduced fat cheese for what little good that did. I refuse to even count the points.

Going to have a good day today its weigh in tomorrow and i am determined to lose something!

Just going to do a fresh fruit salad with DD to have after lunch. lunch will be Roast Vegetables with a small joint of Lamb. Dinner will be a sandwich as we wont have lunch till late.

boodle sorry you're not feeling well.. I was sick for the whole of Xmas and didn't track at all but I only put on 2lbs which was ok I guess..

jackaroo for me I am great the first two weeks but then I lose motivation and I hide from it so that's why I signed myself up for classes for the next three months. All the people are lovely and the moment when she says you've lost x amount of pounds are golden! Equally when she says you've out ON y amount of pounds that makes me think - no wayyy will I be here next week hearing that, I'll show you! So for me the classes work!

Girls I can't help sneaky weigh ins and despite staying on point this week I haven't dropped anything, I'm thinking it's that whole takes a week to show thing as last week it didn't seem right that I could have two Chinese takeaways and 1.5 bottles wine and still lose so maybe I'm paying for it.. Plus it's the TOTM so that doesn't help..

Thanks for the info re oatsosimple I will double check!

Anyway, Luke Skywalker (my affectionately named cross trainer) has been dusted off and placed in our dining room in front of the tv just waiting for me to spring on and walk off the pounds! I'm going to try for 45 mins a night (or an episode of csi!) with the aim of at least 4 nights a week. I haven't exercised in a year so wish me (and Luke god help him) luck!

Ps I don't suppose ironing burns calories? There's GOT to be a silver lining!

gibberish that sounds yummy

muffinchops and boodlebot - its hard to lose weight when feeling ill so wipe off last week and start again with a clean slate

norma do you not normally touch your 49pp - you said youve been so good and havnt dipped into them

lucky fab that your friends didnt recognize you :) hope you get your mojo back soon

bigtillymint if im going out for a meal i try and have 0pp soup for a meal tofill me up and also as i cant not at all day

jackaroo i refuse to spend £5 a week for someone to weigh me, it depends on your will power, last time on old ww i brought the books/calculator and lost 4stone in 11mths doing it at home alone - kept weight off for 5yrs then started to slip back on hence why im back on ww - same with this time as ww has changed i brought the eating out guide and shopping guide (both crap imho) and the calculator (fantastic devise ) and do it home alone - it helps having friends dieting in rw and also im on 2 forums on a weight loss threads (like this) and that helps

my chinese was yummy last night - am i rihgt in thinking that as i only had half the balls 13 and noodles 9 that instead of 22 , i ate 11?

blondes I have now had a tuna sandwich (8ppts), and 0pts soup! Hopefully I can hold off till we go out now!

good, the thought of not eating all day,would have not been good

if need be have another bowl of 0 point soup or have a banana/apple etc to snack on

have a nice meal -where are you going? have you looked at the menu online?

Jackaroo I did WW for yrs and fairly successfully, just weighing myself at home. I didn't think I 'needed' the meetings.
I started going when PPS started in Nov and I haven't found the actual meetings any help cos I know what to eat/not eat and I am blessed with very good will power most of the time.

I'm almost at goal, but plan to quit WW once I reach goal, although I guess I'll qualify for Gold membership.

I'm rambling again as usual, but I guess I have done it both ways, yes, I did lose more going to the ww weigh ins (but not staying for many meetings as always have DD2 with me), but I personally think it's cos PPS works better, suits me better. I think I could still lose on my own now, now that I have all the tools.

Threads like this are really helpful, I find this thread a million times more helpful than the WW meetings.

HTH.

Feeling better, think I'm just stuck in a bit of a rut with what I eat and the exercise I do. I made myself porridge for lunch, as I'm now sick of bloody omlettes and soup. I try and stay away from bread, which means I basically alternate between soup or omlette.
Exercise wise I am also gonna mix it up a bit, got the Shred dvd to try, and will dig out my old Davina dvds, and try some new classes at the gym.

bigtillymint Sorry to hear you fell off the wagon too but glad I'm not alone. Well done for climbing back on!