WEIGHT WATCHERS PRO POINTS - OUR THREADS ARE EXPANDING BUT OUR WAISTS ARE NOT

[Blondeshavemorefun]

STEPPING IN FOR NORMA

Welcome one and all to our 4th thread

If you're just starting out or you've been following WW for a while and you're looking for support you've come to the right place! :)

There are lots of regulars who are well on their weigh (get it! ) and others who have just joined us - we're a mixed bag, all shapes and sizes and all with different goals to achieve but we're all striving for the same thing. We're all here to will one another on with advice, support and lots of cheering!

Androbbob is our resident stat checker and keeps us motivated by totting up the total weight loss each week. !

We're quite fast moving at times so just dive in - pour yourself a or and make yourself at home :)

"is there such a thing as not eating enough to lose weight??"

Absobloodylutely there is! Get thee eating Debs! - you've got to eat all your dailies, the weeklies are up to you but our WW leader advocates eating at least some of them. If you eat too little your body will go into survival mode and cling onto fat stores

x-posts with froot

NoWay - send him out to the kebab shop

Well done blondes two stone! Amazing!

Loving the list froot am most interested in the choc dessert and sugar free jelly idea (put on list for shopping)

Can I add - freeze a muller light yoghurt for healthy ice cream.

Not sure about weeklies though, I use all mine every week and have lost roughly two a week (may be cos I'm a porker with a lot to lose!)

Debs - it may be the excesses of the week before you started, you may be a two week person and your body will kick into gear next week.

Not looking forward to this weekend, tomorrow is 2YO birthday party with lots of nibbles and then out for friend's 32th birthday in the evening, she has decided to have an Indian and have been told I am being picked up so I can have wine, how do you cope with that?

Sparkle - have you got the eating out guide to check curries against? If not, plain chicken tikka is about the lowest (i.e. chicken done in the spices without a heavy sauce), I'll check on pp's for you later when I go downstairs (where my eating out guide is).

Re wine - a bottle is circa 18-20 pps (someone on here said 18 but I thought it was 20, hence the 'circa'....)- so maybe stick to half a bottle, which is 2 generous glasses (about 180-200 ml per glass)

I am heavily into displacement activity today - i.e. spending time on here when I should be doing something else

debs there is ABSOLUTELY such a thing as not eating enough. If your body doesn't get the calories it requires to operate, then it will store every last thing you eat as fat in anticipation of further lack of calories.

WW is never about going hungry, and they set 29PP as the minimum anyone can have because that's what our bodies need to function properly. That's why you can no longer carry points over from day to day - the 29 are there for you to use, and if you don't use them you lose them...

The weeklies are optional - you don't HAVE to use them. But you really do need to eat your 29 every day.

HMC will have a look at the eating out guide when I find mine the wine was most interesting thank you, I could hopefully get away with that - the only other option is to drink so much wine I have horrendous hangover in the morning and get rid of it that way (sorry TMI!) I just have this feeling I won't be able to resist the tikka masala!

Froot those are BRILLIANT tips, PERFECT :)

Well done blondes YAY YOU!!!!

Well done Blondes!

And great tips froot

Well I posted a reply last night - naming all and it didn't post doh!

Anyway - will pop back in later tonight and well done to one and all and fab tips froot!

Just popping in quickly to say hi and thanks for the support. Had a much better day yesterday with my daily points and 3 of my weeklies. Today going much better, 10 points so far.

Friend here and has brought the wW thick cream (very nice, just had some with fruit) and the WW nan which will have this weekend. Got car back finally and they charged £80 less than quoted which is great. Will catch up with thread properly soon.

Big smiles here as I look forward to taking all of your good advice and not being scared about eating ( erm...drinking tee hee ) all my dailies and a few weeklies tonight whilst Small Child sleeps over at grandma's.....(If I pile on a stone next week though I will be crying !!!!)
Have even just been and done the Tesco walk of shame...yes, through self service aisle with just a bottle of alcohol..yes, red light flashing here, I am an alky please come and remove the security tag off my bottle please nice shop assistant!! Mmmmmm extra dry martini and diet lemonade....:) Note to self - must must must must not touch Small Child's chocolate stash after a few too many martinis...even if it was 6 mars bars for a pound at poundland cos their date was 8 Feb!!!!
Happy Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well done blondes :o

Thanks all :) - i was fed up sts, but also i did go out and eat and drink

debs you have to eat all daily pp, or body thinks it is starving itself - ps how the hell did you manage to not eat 8pp a day?

noway my dh is the same, needs food = needs meat

sparkle drive, thats how i manage - after last time i was in london i got totally pissed on cocktails and wine, so tomorrow im thee and driving and sticking to diet coke and then can eat as well :)

froot as i said i love your tips,and esp 3/4/12/14/15/16 - it is sooooooooooooo tue

wynken glad car was less

i went out for a yummy bambi venison lunch - was scrummy and low in pp - as i said im driving tomorrow as only way i wont drink and need to eat my weekies tonight and tomorrow

debs PLEASE have some martinis for me - on kick-ass, hard-core, go-to-hospital-if-you-even-cook-with-wine antibiotics, and all I want is a flaming drink after the week I've had! Can you also post pictures of your lovely alcoholic beverages. Ta.

NMNH...are they the metrodiaz....something or other one antibiotics...I had those when had tooth abcess......( dare I admit though that I had vodka with mine...whoops...I was on them for 5 wks tho so must've developed an immunity to side affects after a few weeks!!! )PS extra dry martini and diet lemonade going down well!!! wld post pic if could hld camera straight ha ha noth that bad...yet!!!!

debs, yes they're metronidazole. Feel shite on them too, permanent headache and nausea. Also for a tooth infection! Watching DH drinking his wine and feeling extremely jealous!!

Confession time.....I'm a dentist, please don't drink on metronidazole, they're the same as the medication they give to alcoholics to stop them from drinking, ie big headaches etc. So take them properly and things will improve. And remember you can take painkillers with them.

Have a good weekend x

willaby don't worry, I'm only looking not touching!

I've read some nasty stories about people who drank on it, and there's no way I'd take that chance. Not even going to drink for 3 days AFTER they finish - too scared of the side effects!!

me again with my latest weigh in.

weighed myself a few days early as i felt 'empty' this morning and i've lost another 2Lbs, now down to 166Lbs.

considering my weighing scales died so i was guessing how much things weighed i think i've done quite well

well done bamboo

im off to the big smoke for drinks and meal with friends

ive decided to drive to station so wont drink as really cant afford the pp i will use on :(

Well I've had a completely crap week :(

I didn't get the job I had applied for & the last 2 weeks at work have been particularly awful. I didn't, however, comfort eat, like I really wanted to & shove crap down my throat AND, due to an office relocation, have walked 45 minutes every day - briskly.

And the cherry on top of my crap cake is that I didn't lose any weight at all , it's so annoying!!!

Very fed up, best make a and avoid the biscuits I guess!

Blondes brave choice!

I live in the big smoke, and was really looking forward to a few on our night out with friends tonight, but I now have to pick DD up at 11.30pm from her friends party

loopy sorry you sts and didn't get job but dont stuff yourself or will be pissed off Tom

Tilly think I'm insane :( but know I will drink wine and it's a waste of PP :( so will have to stuck to one g&s and tons of diet coke

NoWay sorry you are feeling like a crap mum too - think it's part of the job description.

Well done on the 2 stone Blondes!

Commiserations loopy, I'm sure your willpower in the face of sdversity will pay off for you next week.

hmc Loving my new haircut thanks. I decided to get a fringe and loads more highlights so i feel all different.

However, it has been a disastrous week in terms of alcohol consumption and I'm looking at a horrid gain. Was told the job I just got can't guarantee my hours every week so just going to be employed on a casual basis when they are busy. Which means I'm going to be pretty broke for the rest of the month.

Which means I can't actually afford to go to ww meetings and get weighed! Plus I seem to have lost my ww folder. I'm thinking of buying a points calculator for a quid on ebay and just doing it myself, using free online resources to stay on track.

The meetings are certainly a motivator, but i don't get to stay for the talk because of my noisy child so I'm just paying someone to weigh me which seems very silly!