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

[Blondeshavemorefun]

STEPPING IN FOR NORMA

Welcome one and all to our 5th 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 :)

sparkles what every else has said, put your 10 day binge behind and move on but do it today - don't wait until the new week starts etc. Otherwise you'll be stretching to a 14 day binge.

blondes I really do think it's the daily allowance that's the problem. I weighed 14st 2lbs when I started at WW and my allowance is 29pp. That will never go down, completely different to the old way of doing it. Of course I'm going to need to consume fewer calories as the weight comes off!

loopy hope you enjoyed the cookies and good luck for tomorrows WI

JoJo I think you should ban birthday parties! :o

Thanks everyone for hugs and kind words, just had a lovely lush bubble bath and shall have some wine.

cheeky.....have a good old fill up on lunch then snack on fruit and stuff etc etc so u r so full that when you make cake you can't face a lick ha ha!!!!!!

ps cheeky an options hot choc just before you start cooking will satisfy choc craving and stop this being an oinkyoink pig-out session!!

pps helen start easy with just watching food and snacks and then consider exercise after a few weeks as found that doing both was gr8......but then when one slips you let both slip then give up.... and coming on here as much as possible is gr8...like having a continuous WW meeting and everyone in same boat and dead helpful and unjudgemental xxxxx

Happy Saturday morning all! What I wouldn't give for a lie in...

Do you know why I love PP? Yes, it may hack a lot of us off with it's inconsistent 49ers, and yes it's a pfaff to work out and weigh everything you eat, but...

I just had a FRY UP (egg, streaky bacon, mushrooms and tomato) for 3PP.

3 PRO POINTS!!!!

Might just go and have a slice of toast too.

So .

What's everyone up to this weekend?

Ok, actually 5PP cos I used olive oil and underestimated the PP for bacon.

I still think it's a much diminished but still valid point!

lol NoWay

hangover city here, but with quite a good cause.... I won £2500 on free bingo last night. Was quite tipsy then but went on to celebrate quite hard. So excited.

Would a curly wurly for breakfast be too silly do you think?

I don't care!

I'm just so chuffed I can buy a new oven. The door keeps falling off mine.

JoJo that's AMAZING!!!!!!!

I say put the oven door back on with duct tape and buy some new clothes

And a Curly Wurly breakfast would only be 3PP, so go for it!!

claire you could be right, ive always been on 29, how can you and i be the same?you will struggle to lose weight when down to last 7/14lbs imho

debs we try to be supportive, thats why i pop on often during day on iphone

noway 'heaves' at slime, but yes a good breakie, looks mournfully at her porridge and skim for 5pp

just off to the gym, havnt been all week as been working, so may feel the burn later :(

jojo wow, many congrats :) and yes a curly wirly is fine, its still dairy

Wow JoJo that's great :o enjoy spending it! And enjoy your curly wurly!

NoWay I got some bacon medallions in to have a fry up (well grill and poach up) but will do it for lunch. I agree I think it's great you get such choice as to how to spend your points.

blondes I know that as I lose I will be able to fewer and fewer of the weeklies in order to keep losing, I would just rather that WW reflected this!

Good Morning!

Well I have lost another 1lb, taking me to 7lbs lost in 5 weeks :) WAHOO!

:) :) :)

Just need to lose 1.5lbs to take me to my 5% goal - can I do that for next week????

It will be my own personal challenge within a challenge At the moment I am losing an average of 1.2 lbs a week but would like to lose a little bit more so I may cut back on my weeklies - keep them for weekend treats and "attempt" to stick to the 29 daily points. I really think there's a lot of value in what Blondes says so will see if I can manage not to eat all the weeklies.

(PS Blondes I am using ALL weeklies & ALL actitivity points so far but seeing if I can change that from this week).

Jojo/Noway both sound like delicious breakfasts

Hubby and I are doing it together the WW thing that is

He has 40 odd points a DAY! And gets way more activity points for walking than I do, ok he is 5ft 9 and 15 stone but GRRRRR
Seems so unfair but logical I suppose...
Anyway I lost 3.3lbs he did not even lose even 1!!!
But he was in Spain all week with work so STS was pretty good going I concede...
But you would think it would be easier for him than me to lose the weight.
I only put my weight on in the last year he has been 15 stone for a few years, does that make any difference do we think?

Today is all mapped out
All bran 30g, banana and semi skim 3PP

Lunch 6PP parsnip soup and pitta

Dinner 12 PP, chorizo, pepper and red onion and mixed salads/

Planning on drinking 1 can of lager perhaps 2 and otherwise white wine and soda.. snacking point free on pineapple and beetroot

Activity today liable to be 2-4 PP only

Congrats on loss loopy - I think 1.5lbs in a week is totally doable, especially if you cut down on eating your weeklies and activites.

piffle that's a great loss! It does seem unfair on your poor DH that he's got more points and still sts. Never mind!

I'm desperate to get DH on WW - he eats what I make for dinner, but has GIGANTIC bowls of cereal for breafast, ham and cheese sarnies for lunch with crips and Go Aheads, and he is a certified, addicted snacker. He'll actually make himself a snack about 10mins after eating dinner (how about waiting a millisecond for the food to reach your stomach??).

He's only 12st8lbs and is 6ft and 40yo, so he's not exactly overweight, but he's worried about the double chin, belly and moobs that have developed over the last year or so. I keep telling him what he needs to do, but will he listen??

If anyone has a WW calculator, would you mind working out how many dailies he'd be allowed?

loopy well done and very at you losing and eating your weekies

claire it is hard to stick to 29 and not use weekies ever

piffle congrats on loss, suprised dh didnt lose weight tbh

noway dh would have 37pp

Thanks blondes! Now to do his tracking for him...

does he want to lose weight noway?

He'd like to lose probably no more than a stone (he was lighter than that even when I first met him, but he was too skinny then). But I think his issue is toning as well as losing a little bit of weight.

I should add - he's one of those people who will moan all day about the way he looks in photos and how much he wants to lose weight, and then swear blind that he doesn't eat a lot (in between the 19th crackerbread with cheesespread - "but that's healthy snacking" - and 2nd glass of wine...).

As a result, he can't be arsed isn't determined enough to track everything he eats. I reckon if I did it for him for just one day, and showed what his eating habits are actually like, it would give him a massive shock...

trach him for a week and then show him

Wow jojo, a £2,500 win on bingo, fantastic!

CDL - sorry to hear about your crappy day, hope things are looking better today. Did you manage to get your appointment brought forward in the end?

Loopyla - well done on the 1lb!

Noway - you could avoid using pps on olive oil for your breakfast. Bacon can dry fry in its' own fat (even lean back bacon), and if you use 3 or 4 sprays of fry lite for frying eggs it is 0pp.

Sparkle - great that you are back on track and have been on the straight and narrow for 4 days

Wizzler - yes I reckon the thai chicken soup would freeze okay....

Blondes - you ask what my leader says when members say they can't lose if they eat the 49pp. Well she generally suggests (don't shoot the messenger - am just telling you what she says)that they are not tracking properly and they glower resentfully back at her! She is fond of giving us examples of poor tracking from her members, and some of them are clangers - she told us about one lady whose tracker she looked at who had guessed at Tesco ready meal as 7pp and had eaten it 4x in week when its' real pp value was 14 (so immediately lady in question was 28pp adrift for the week)

I personally expect to have to drop the number of weeklies that I eat when I get within 14lbs of goal (so soon then!). Fact - the less weight you've got to lose the harder it is and WW should be straight about that

Has anyone inspired any dieting among their friends? I've had 4 people start diets and say its because I've lost a lot and spurred them on - no pressure then!

hmc this is for your leader

'glares'

Yes that lady was silly. She guessed. I PP and weigh everything and don't use my exercise PP of maybe 10/15 a week so even if I somehow how slipped up I should cover it iyswim

The ww boards are full of people saying they can't eat all 49 and lose weight

I know! - I don't know how she gets away with it without members coming at her with pitchforks and a noose. I know you are scrupulously careful, so living proof that the weeklies don't work for everyone

If I were you I would find cutting out weeklies altogether completely depressing, so I would do 1 week off and 1 week on - so a week when you eat weeklies and stay the same, and the following week when you go for the burn and eat no weeklies and get a loss. Will take longer but you might feel less deprived...also might boost your metabolism a bit? (eating more and then eating less?)

Having said that I do think there is a small percentage of people who consistently track badly and are half arsed about it all and then complain they don't lose (I can picture some of them now - in my class) - but there is also the significant group of people who are scrupulously careful and still don't lose ...and I think the second group are overlooked because the WW leaders just don't know what to suggest to help them!

Prob is if I eat all/most weekies then I gain

If following week I don't eat any and starve then losing the weight I Gaine but not really a loss iyswim

I can eat maybe up to 30 and lose a lb

any of this helpful at all?

Off to do some exercise now whilst dh and dc are out with the dogs, but will be back later.

Blondes - I feel your frustration! - really hope you can crack this thing