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

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Welcome one and all to our 7th 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 have lost an amazing amount since jan 2011

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

Hi All, finally managed to weigh myself after my first weigh in at a friends and I've lost 8Ibs so far which is brill. Have done a massive three hour walk (house hunting!) today and have just had a salad so I'm having a curry as a treat (no crey sauces though!). Hope everyone's having a good weekend!

I hear you androbbob. I've only been away for a week and I think I've put on at least 3lbs, and there's still another week to go! I've just taken my eye off things and haven't been tracking. It's back to the changing mindset thing I think. A while ago we talked about the fact that some of us need to recognise that this is not about losing weight in the short term, it's about changing the way we eat for ever, and recognising that we will always have an issue with food. We just need to find a way to manage it. Long term, you are winning the battle, this is just a temporary set back. It's crap and it can be frightening because it feels like you will slide all the way back agan, but you won't. You have the strategies to sort it out, it will just take a while. We are all here to support you in both the long and short term

Just been to a BBQ and had salad, 3 chicken wings, a home made burger and a small piece of pork - urgh

Does any one else feel like they shouldn't eat any thing at all? I feel like a failure when I eat at all

WI - I've lost 4lb since Thursday :) thats pretty cool!

Im going to take my measurements today and track them too - also going to a gym class with my friend tonight called pure abs, sounds like pure hell to me

Thanks herding. We will be in Gernard (sp) with friends at their new house. Blue Crab sounds lovely!

I am hoping to get heaps of walking in- I get seasick so DH is on his own with the sailing!

Only way to go on the 4 lbs!!!

I know what you mean when you say you feel like you should not eat at all. I used to get into a terrible starve and binge cycle, as I felt guilty for eating. Someone i know lost alot of weight and she said something that really resonated with me- that she felt like she had to give herself permission to eat.

I also feel like a failure if I eat and enjoy something- it feels 'wrong' somehow when I should be dieting. That has actually been a really difficult thing for me on WW so far..... i have eaten alot when family here so I feel like i should compensate by just eating salads and soups for a day. I am really trying to get out of hat and to see each day as a fresh day. Truthfully, I am amazed at how much I can eat on propoints.

I know my WI on Tuesday will be bad news.... i have stuffed myself silly lately. But I am telling myself to just take it on the chin, and to track track track and to have faith in it. It is not just changing my eating, it is changing my way of thinking about food and my 'right to eat'. IYSWIM.

well done only, Thats a great loss

Hi All. Am back after more than a week of going renegade. I have been bad, bad, bad and haven't counted points or tracked for a week or so. That also means that I haven't been on this thread because I've been in denial and don't want to be reminded of what I'm not doing - how's that for some screwy food/weight-loss pyschology??!

It was a combination of lots of social engagements (which equalled lots of food) coupled with half-term (which equalled some nice days out with picnics and then a chilled glass of in the evening to recover!!).

I didn't WI last Tuesday, partly because I knew I'd register either a gain or a STS, and also didn't want to have to take DD who is usually at school as don't want her to see the whole weighing/weight concern thing at a young age.

Sooo, I've missed one WI which means I'm really going to have to go this Tuesday. At the mo, looks like I've put on 1.5/2 lbs, might be able to claw something back before then but will go and face the music regardless. Annoying because I was only 1.5 lbs away from my first stone when I last weighed.

On the positive, I have been wearing a pair of cropped trousers that I haven't been able to wear for a good couple of years so that has been a good reminder/motivation of what can be achieved and I am still feeling very motivated. Started tracking again yesterday and now just need to stick with it.

Whew, right consider that my confessional - really needed to get it off my chest!! Do feel free to come and indulge some butt-kicking over here!

I'm trying go pluck up the courage to join WW Znd have been reading this thread for encouragement, I live that you are all so supportive. Can I just ask what you mean when you say you are going to shred.

Note to self check spelling before posting comment. I love (not live) that you are all so supportive.

PGTip The shred is a workout dvd by jillian michaels called 30 day shred, Its haed and intense but good

Oh, and on a slightly less self-obsessed note, I'd like to congratulate all the losers (esp Only) and commiserate with those who've not had such a great week.

On a recipe note, I tried the aubergine/lentil curry recipe last night that one of you lovely ladies posted ages ago and t'was v v yummy.

Re weight-loss pyschology Androbob, I have the Paul McKenna book and there is some quite sound pyschology in there. The only thing is that he is quite anti-diet (his principles are all about tuning into your body's hunger signal and eating what you want, when you want within certain parameters) so not helpful now that I'm doing WW and counting food.

Right, promise to step away from the laptop now and let someone else have a turn at posting ...!!

Thanks vnmum might have to find it on amazon.

PG you can watch clips of it on youtube, if you want to see what you're letting yourself in for before you buy

PG - you can buy it in Morrisons for £5 . I have it but found I cannot do it because of my back complaint.

Thanks guys

I cant do the shred either, my back just cant stand it - but atm im walking between 30 / 40 mins a day with the dog and running around after the kids - dont know if i can face pure abs

some one motivate me!!!

any one else want to be my friend on the WW community?

Androbob.. I know what you mean... I can be really focussed, and then fall off the wagon spectacularly.. once my focus goes, that is it... My Leader really hit the nail on the head when she said, "why is it that every time you treat yourself, you do it with food?" and she is right.. any celebration since Jan ( Birthday, DH birthday, my 10% at WW).. I immediately choose to stuff my face... why oh why can't I be a thin woman who craves shoes or handbags ?!

Probably because food is cheaper and more accessible than shoes and handbags!

I am off to class tomorrow morning - a 12 mile round trip, so had better be worth it! I am going to put 100% in between now and start of August - we have a party to go to. We are then off on hols to London at the end of August, so I am aiming to lose 7lbs in June, 7 in July and 5 in August. Off we go!

Back to normal next week - kids back in school - yeah!

Bad bad bad ten days of social things and drinking and eating crap. No tracking whatsoever. And hid from you lovely ladies like Lola too.

Tomorrow I will start off day with wii workout to get myself kickstarted and remember to drink 2 litres of water a day and loads of fruit and veg. My holiday is getting scarily close and i'm still fat! Help!

Off to read what I've missed this week then.

Oh, so glad I have company on the naughty step JoJo! Like everyone else I'm also looking forward to DC's back at school and back to work myself - I know I can do WW with my normal routine, it's just as soon as daily like takes a slightly different turn that things go awry for me.

Really interesting what your leader said Wizzler. I have noticed that food is definitely something I reward myself with. Also, if I'm doing 'nice' things (ie. picnicing with the DC's last week or socialising with friends) then for me that has to also involve 'nice' food. Really wish I could re-programme myself but not sure how ... without spending small fortune on hypnotherapy.

Andro - I like your focus, I need to think in the same way. We're off on holiday in August - basically 2 months away. I have lost a stone in the last 2 months so is therefore do-able to shift another stone before I have to scare the good people of France in my tankini!!!

well done only on 4 lbs loss :)

lola and Jojo i shall join you, had a weekend of booze, foodm pudding and cheese

skinny jeans are now tight :( and tomorrow i shall try and eat better,prob is, is that i struggle to eat at the moment , as in 3 meals, so if i try and do ww pp, then i wont manage my 29 a day so unlikely to lose weight iyswim

blondes could you come at it from a different direction. Eat what and when you want but pp it? Then come the evening see what you have left? But most importantly be kind to yourself.

Only good job well done

Eurgh, I've had a bad weekend I feel sick about tommorrow so ill im not gonna hit my target.

Hey :) ladies I think you should all be a bit kinder to yourselves. It's been half term and a complete nightmare - out with the kids, routine messed around :)

Can you all tell me how pin you think it will take to loose 3 stone? If I do the PP religiously and start doing my davila work out every other day?

I weighed myself again I'm now 12.12!! I'm going to change my WI day to Wednesday as thats when I started -

Yesterday I was really hungry all day and fed up, full of cold and wanted to comfort eat. A pint of water is a shit pudding.