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

Tracking does make a difference as it's easy to forget something you've had (maybe that's just me and my bad memory though!) so i do think tracking is the best way to keep on top of your points.

It's not as daunting as you think Furball to work out the points for a recipe. I cook from scratch 97% of the time but I just enter everything into the online recipe builder and devide by 4, easy peasy. It is harder without the online recipe tool but not too bad.

Norma I have some great WW recipe books from 10 years ago, I just need to work out new pps values for each meals. My Good Food mags recipes are very easy to work out as they give all info per serving on each recipe.

That's what I've been doing too Lucky though I'm lazy so it's taking me a while to plough through

its the thought of retraining my brain and being blonde and all that

I'm blonde and I managed it .

It does take a bit of getting used to after the old system, and it does feel weird, i.e. my bowl of bran flakes with skimmed milk used to be 4pts, now 10 pps....but I'm used to it now.

The 49 weekly pps are the best thing.

thats the thing lucky, my breakie of either cereal or ots so simple was 2.5p plus 1/2 for skim so 3p

i have sent norma a message to see what she is selling (if still anything i want is left) and now watching/bidding on ebay

i shall drag my sorry flabby arse over to ww pp eventually :)

out of curiosity, i use some of the ww meals like chicken curry 4.5p and crisps 1p and choccy bars 1.5p- assuming all these have changed as well?

Have replied Blondes the bits I were selling have sold now though as I put them on eBay and they sold within hours I think I was too cheap

Yes, everything has changed including the WW foods. Many of the things have doubled, some are a few points higher some have lowered so it is a lot of re-learning but once you get into the flow of things it's not so scary. Obviously you get more daily points then before as well as the weekly so although the new points values on foods can look pretty daunting when you balance it out it's really not so bad :)

thank you for quick reply and yes you were cheap

Story of my life

def cheaper to buy online - calculator is £11.95 and some people on ebay have people bidding £15 plus £5 P&P - MUGS!!!!

hi all,

Thanks for all the support from last night, i knew i could count on you lot to sort me out . I have calmed down since last night, lol. I pointed my choc bar and it was 15pts plus 4pts for the biscuits so i have put it in the online tracker and am entering my activity points to go against them. I could have just forgotten i'd eaten it and not tracked it but thats slipping into bad habits.

I don't have any weeklies left after the buffet on saturday but i have done 9pts worth of exercise today (shred and a run) so i have 11pts left to burn off with exercise before thursday which i know i can do.

I guess i'm just worried that some of the indulgence from last week will catch up with me this week aswell but i will see soon enough.

Hello
I have been looking at the WW website with a view to doing this online but I have a coupld of questions.

1. Is anyone else doing it online, and how are you finding that as opposed to classes?
2. Is it really any different from core foods?
3. Anything I should know before handing over my hard earned dosh?

Cheers in advance.

vnmum - glad choccy didnt point that bad

lucky don't set your goal weight too low I have saved a small fortune by setting a high goal weight with ww though my mental goal weight is 10 lb less than what I have set with ww . So my ww goal is 10 St 2 but really I want to be 9 St 7 . Am 5 ft 4 1/2 .I can go up to 10 St 7 without having to pay so I have a whole stone leeway IYSWIM. So I stopped having to pay once I had got to 10 St 2 and maintained that . Have been a total piggywig since mid December and am now about 10 St 4 but still won't have to pay

The only thing is that once you are a gold member and not paying I don't know if or how you can use the tracker app etc can anyone tell me ? It sounds really good but what and how much would I have to pay to get it ?

Was at the cottage yesterday making arrangements for The Big Clean Up! Looking promising!

Sorry for hijack - as you were.

Thanks froot. That's very good advice. I'm actually feeling a bit low today as having been good since Thursday, I have actually gained 1 lb on my home scales .
I was chatting with a friend last night saying how I had been unwell since early dec and unable to shake it off. She is a physio like me but does it for the English hockey team so is really into the whole exercise and nutrition thing. She thinks I probably over-trained and dieted too strictly for what demands I was putting onmyself lifestyle wise before Christmas (work, kids etc etc). I think she's probably right, as I had never felt I could get to 10 stone, and I did, albeit with strict WW and lots of exercise. If I feel well, I know I can maintain this, but there is a little bit of me thinking what I have said to friends in the past, that if you go to low for what is natural for you, its hard to maintain. I mean, it's not like I'm eating nothing and at the gym for 2 hrs a day (something my BFF did once to get to a size 8..... Needless to say she couldn't maintain it).

Sorry to be a bit negative, I think it's just post Christmas. I am being good now, and have been for a few days, and feel TOTALLY motivated (can't sleep at night for meal-planning ). I just don't wanna start creeping back up.

I'm also on a week course of steroid, which I'm hoping might be making me a bit bloated.

I'll be back later....DD1 and play-doh calling.

L xxx

blimey, that was quite a muddled ramble wasn't it??!!

Froot i think it is £15 for 3 months use of esource. have a gander around the weight watchers site and if you can't find anything there email customer services and tell them you are a gold member and want to use esource. if you just want a tracker and not bothered about a food database then there is an app for android phones (if you have one) that costs £1.86 or something and it has a calculator, tracker, favourites database, activity calculator and weight tracker. its called ultimaten points calculator

'waves back to boffy, how was the cottage'

so can you use the iphone app if you are not a member?

Vnmum - muchos impressed, what a way to turn around a 20 point mini binge, having burnt off 9 points of it already through exercise...at the risk of sounding a bit transatlantic 'way to go!'

dachshundfan (do you have a dachshund? - I have a rescue dog with a lot of daschund in her) - I do know what you mean about being mildly disconcerted about not feeling ravenous when on the plan - I have moments of hunger but nothing too bad, however you will still lose the weight. Sometimes I seem to be eating as much in quantity terms as dh, but I reason that mine are good choices - whereas he would reach for a bowl of frosties when he has the munchies, I would grab a banana or perhaps a ryvita with very low fat cream cheese.

lucky I am with you on the meals rut - also attributable to the children. They won't eat spicy or adventurous food so we appear to be stuck with cottage pie and similar unless I want to cook 2 entirely different meals. I have bought the WW Hearty Home Cooking recipe book though and tried 4 recipes from that so far with a modicum of success!

When is weigh in day Norma if you hope to stay the same? I reckon you'll do better, you seem to have been more focussed than most of us over the Christmas period. My weigh in is tomorrow and I will consider myself fortunate indeed to STS - am reckoning on at least a couple of pounds gain considering I've eaten like porcine thing over the past 10 days. Am quietly confident now though that this is behind me - I menu planned lunch and dinner for the next 7 days last night and have ordered my online groceries correspondingly.

Boffinmum - i've tried diets on line and have never managed them. I seem to need the validation of being officially weighed by my 'leader' and having my weight entered into my little booklet, and staying to meetings. We are all different though!

makes perfect sense boffy :)

right you ww pp ladies - i have ordered the new ww pp books off ww website (thanks norma for link) def cheaper there,then on ebay :)

sure i shall be asking 10 000 questions about the new ww pp so please be gentle with me

i lost 19lbs last year on ww and need to lose another 14 lbs

Meant to add Lucky - don't let the apparent 1lb gain throw you off course. It could easily be fluid retention....

blondes we are all here for you to answer any questions you may have .

thank you :)

is there a list with names, i dont see one on this thread, so easier to see who is doing it?