Would anyone like to join my support thread for WEIGHT WATCHERS?

[colditz]

i'm horrified to find I have put on 1 stone 7 lb in the last year.

horrified.

So, back to Weight Watchers I go.

I weigh in at 13 stone 8 (horror) and am taking it one day at a time with 21 pooints a day.

Mushrooms cooked in frylight are my life saver.

Hi everyone, can I join? I've been doing the online version now for about 9 weeks and have lost 17 lbs so far. Started at 14st5, am now 13st2!

I am bf a 7 month old and get 27 points and eat them all most days, so it does work for those who are wondering!

I think we should all enjoy it while we can, and readjust later when we stop, the same as you readjust when you first go on a diet IYSWIM.

Woo 17lbs is brilliant! Well done!

yes of course you can join.

I had a slip up yesterday and had two (small) cheese burgers for my tea, but today I am back on track.

i've had a packet of WW crisps so far.

Well done animagic, hope it works as well for me. Have possibly blown my otherwise impeccable first week though, got so hacked off with hideously loud neighbours' Eurotechno party tonight that I just now got up and ate two biscuits, taking me well past my total for the day.

Council noise pollution bods turned up to chastise neighbours just as I was fetching said biscuits. Neighbours sounded like they were hammered and we could hear the noise officer woman remonstrating with them and saying 'if you're going to be arsey with me...' wouldn't want her job, roaming Edinburgh to try and talk to pissed loud people all night. Music off now but neighbours still singing

Ah, there's dd waking up for her feed. And ds will ne up at half five as usual.

I've put on 0.2kgs this week

Have reduced my points to BF with food rather than exclusively BF as DD is eating a little more now.

Any ideas for low fat breakfasts? I've been having Special K but it's getting boring.

AlCrowley, maybe it's muscle

I've been having corn flakes with a sliced banana but that's not much more interesting than yours I'm afraid.

Eggs? I once watched a very slim modelly girl (friend of a friend) make breakfast for herself and she made an egg-white omelette with spinach. Looked really nice. Not that I've ever actually tried an egg-white omelette, but they are a bit of a stock point of reference on TV for any scene where a skinny person orders food.

Hi thought I would chip in...

Am an ex WW leader who has been big post 2 pregnancies then big with mid life crisis . Lost 5 1/2 stone over 2 years post mid life crisis but sadly have gained 1 st back since husband left at Christmas and this thread caught my eye because I dont want overweight being added to my problems.

Tips as follows

DO NOT weigh more than once a week as Coldizt says it will depress you so you...or you will think great I,m doing fine it wont hurt to have a little something to..

Get a smaller dinner plate - it works !

Learn to love 1/2 pound loss because better a sustainable approach which will ALWAYS have slower results but will have you slim in the long term rather than back and forth from WW because you thought diet doesnt work I didnt lose 3 pounds this week and go round in circles

Try and banish "good days " and "bad days " from your way of thinking , dont think because you had a biscuit at 11am you may as well write off the day and then before you know it you have decided to write off the time until your next weigh in

I know its time consuming but lay off processed foods especially box meals, have never understood why but own and members experience show you lose weight better on fresh food. Plus if you are like me having too many points is never ever a problem and you get loads more on your plate with fresh food - again dont know why

Find a way of moving about more even if you dont want to go to gym etc

If you go to a meeting and your leader is even half decent stay to the talk

Dont bully yourself if it takes a while to get going especially if you,ve tried a few times or had a weight problem for a little while

Anyway am stopping bit worried I am sounding bossy but know how hard it can be

ps lay off the wine

Well.

I am joining OFFICIALLY tomorrow.

getting easier, thans ever so much for your tips - you're right about the fresh food thing. I don't know why it works like that but it does!

Anyone got any recipes?

I've got one for a mushroom omelette.

You need

Frylight.
2 eggs
salt and pepper
a massive handfull of thinly sliced mushrooms

frylight a clean frying pan, and cook your mushrooms with plenty of salt and pepper.
Whip up your eggs

Add eggs to mushrooms when the mushrooms are cooked. Cook through.

3 points!

I've been relying on enormous veg stir-fries using Frylight, with egg noodles. The noodles are the only thing with points; usually 3 points a serving but sometimes I have 4.5 points' worth, which makes it a fairly massive meal if you use a lot of veg.

My usual things to add:

garlic
ginger
spring onions
tenderstem broccoli (usually parboil this in the noodle water for 2 mins before putting it in the pan, otherwise takes ages to cook without actual oil)
loads of mushrooms
a bit of dried chilli, crumbled in

Sometimes I put in asparagus or pak choi or something like that.

The only drawback is, you risk the creation of some horrific "airborne toxic events" the following day.

According to my scales, I've increased muscle by a few bits of a percnt but that's hardly likely to have added much. I can't believe I gained

Been silly today and basically ate nothing. Got to after dinner and I'd only eaten 11 points!! Not good while I'm still breastfeeding as even after reducing my profile to breastfeeding with some food, I'm supposed to be having 23!

Have had a bagel with honey now. Don't want DD going hungry too.

Will try to make my run longer tomorrow night and maybe power walk the school runs.

I've always lost at least some while I've been doing WW can't believe how much this has gotten me down.

Oh Al. Everyone has weeks where they gain inexplicably sometimes. I hope you won't be so hard on yourself today. You are amazing with all the exercise that you're doing - it will be doing you good in all sorts of ways. Stay on track and eat all your points and try not to beat yourself up, and the loss will come.

Sorry if that sounded a bit bossy, btw!

Breakfasts - porridge oats made with water in microwave are quite low, you can add fruit, I like chopped apple and cinnamon. Porridge is supposed to keep you fuller for longer too.

Also, we buy frozen mixed casserole veg and boil it in stock cubes of your choice. Makes veg soup that is virtually point-free. Stock cubes do have small point value IIRC. (obv this is not nice for breakfast, I dont have any other useful brekky tips.....!)

VuVu, big sympathy for your loud neighbours and waking DCs. I'm sure two biscuits won't spoil an otherwise impeccable week! It's very hard to eat well when you're knackered.

Al, you will definately lose if you stick to it, try not to let it get you down. I had a weight gain one week & then my first period since getting pregnant followed a day or two later. Could it be that perhaps?

ps. Mushrooms & frylight, are they point-free? I hate mushrooms but DH loves them and he started WW last week.

It's alright Vuvu. I didn't think you were being bossy and even if you were I probably needed it

I wonder if that's it amimagic? I still haven't had my first period since DD was born and although I slipped once or twice last week, I certainly wasn't bad which is why I'm so confused that I've gone from losing 2lbs steadily to putting on!

Right, I'm fed up. It's muggy today, 3 year old DS is refusing to wear any trousers and 6 month old DD has been puking on my all afternoon so I am sticky and stinky. Nothing I have got out for dinner is defrosted and there is nothing else to eat in the house!

So tempted to say "screw it" and take advantage of 'Two for Tuesday' at Dominos

Need to run too but just feeling totally dejected Definitely feeling hormonal, maybe it is my periods returning?

Al, did you succumb to the food of the devil? I think it's definitely the time of the month for you, even if the full blown period doesn't quite make its appearance yet.

I have stayed the same this week, and have had a crap day today, I think it's been down to the rubbish weather.

I got quite used to mine & Dd's daily walk, and felt bad today that the rain was keeping us in. Nice tomorrow again though yay

Hmm, I am sticking to my points, but because there are so blimmin many of them, I don't feel hungry and therefore do not really believe I'm losing weight. I did drop 2 and a half pounds at Sunday's weigh in, but am a bit concerned for this week's.

And also, now that I am actually on WW and no longer wearing the rose-tinted specs of early parenthood ("lalala, I'll lose the weight when I'm ready"), I look in the mirror and just think how awful I look with all this flab

You're right about the weather, amimagic, it certainly doesn't help anyone to feel energised. DP is in the running for a job at the moment and if he gets it we will be moving for a year or two to somewhere that's constantly hot and muggy, which is going to be a bit of a nightmare if I'm still all big and unfit. Gah.

AlCrowley, hope you're feeling better.

Hi all, can I join too?

Colditz - like you frylight and mushrooms are my saviour!!! Am on maternity leave and can have a nice leisurely cooked breakfast these days so I have 2 slices of toast, 10g of butter, two fried eggs and a whole punnet of mushrooms fried most mornings - 5.5points and keeps me full for ages - also if Im feeling really good I have 2 belight (aldi) rashers or sinless rashers (tesco) - half a point each.

To the person (so sorry cant remember who, was at beginning of thread) worrying about loosing 3 stone my Xmas - would say its definately doable - I lost 7 stone on ww (snap kitty!!) in 10 months on ww back in 2007, averaging at a 2lb loss per week (sometimes 1lb, sometimes 3lbs)

DS is 5 months and I've piled on loads , I made a complete pig of myself during pregnancy coupled with giving up the cigarettes.. ah, excuses, hey?

Anyway, I had ds on a monday, started ww on the Wednesday, I have no idea of my starting weight as (oh my God, cant believe I am admitting this!), the day I went into labour (still pregnant) I stupidly weighed myself and was 17stone 10lbs!!!!!!, 2 weeks later I was 15stone 9lbs and now, 5 months on I am 12 stone 12 (I have to admit, Im after taking a 2 week "break" from dieting but stayed the same so happy enough).

Im on 21 points per day too (5ft 8)

None of my pre pregnancy clothes fit me and Im finding it all really depressing. I dont want to go out much because of it. My pre pregnancy weight was roughly 11stone 10lbs (fluctuated up and down a little) and at that, I was mainly a size 10.

Funnily enough, my body shape has changed drastically since ds, Im technically only 1stone 2lbs from my previous "size 10" weight but know Im going to have to loose so much more to get back "to myself". Am thinking 10 stone. Really want to hit goal, if at all possible by November 1st (as Im going back to work).

Sorry so long and rambling... anyway, I've been bold , I went over by alot yesterday (16 bloody points!!!stupid totm) but instead of messing the whole week up Im trying to pay them back, as in reverse saving. I've paid 4 back today, so can only have 17points everyday for the rest of the week. Annoyed with myself. Weighing in on Monday.

So sorry this is sooo long...

Right - I'm back. Have had this week off as and seem to have put on 2lbs.

Have also been flirting with Slimming World but just KNOW there is no way that I will be able to lose weight eating massive amounts of "free" pasta.

What is worrying me is that I am getting married next September (2011). I really want to have lost at least two and half stones by Christmas when I go and try on wedding dresses.

Worried that I am "wasting" time on WW and nothing is/will come off.

I think I am going to do one month of strict WW and hardcore exercise and then review. If I haven't lost at least 9lbs, I'll need to find something else to do.

I know the science of WW means that you can eat anything as long as you stay within points. However, I think I will really have to try and limit the "bad" carbs as, for whatever reason, they do really slow or halt weightloss for me.

Am definitely thinking of kickstart SWG. Worried that I will be starving though but I think it will definitely help.

Was going to give myself the weekend "off" but have started tracking again today. Part of my not seeing food as a "treat" or "reward".

I find I can be excellent during the week but the weekends are a nightmare. Wondering about giving up alcohol for a month too as that weakens my resolve so badly and leads to terrible sugar level fluctuations so end up stuffing my face.

DF (so funny writing that as only been engaged for a month!)and I are keen to have a baby quite quickly after the wedding so surely just practice for that?!

Hello

I am here on behalf of my au pair, who at the age of 23 weighs 104kg (16 stone). She is keen to lose weight and I suggested WW as it has been incredibly successful for an old friend of mine.

Anyway she has been to 2 meetings and says that "Yes yes yes it is all ok", but then tells me that she doesn't need to sign up for longer. To be honest I don't think she is very committed.

It is not really my business, but does anyone have any words of wisdom that I could pass on?

I did succumb

And I went out for Chinese with the girls last night

And I've missed running this week thanks to a sicky baby and last nights meal out

Not looking forward to Mondays weigh in.

Hi Fedup. Sounds like she doesn't really enjoy the meetings. Could she sign up for online WW?

I have that and really like it. Key, I think, it is to track and weight EVERYTHING (much easier to track online). I was stunned when I first started at how "small" (to greedy old me!) a portion of pasta, potatoes etc is.

Eating lots of them really spanks the points, hence why I am going to try and cut them out and focus on protein etc which is more filling but lower in points for what you get.