WW 2014 support/b*tch thread

[beachavendrea]

Is there one of these already? I started WW online the day after Boxing Day which was the best or the worst idea I've ever had. I can't decide.
I have a lot of weight to loose and am finding it hard to get motivated, i have been sticking to my points, so thought I would start a support thread!

I had my weigh in today and I lost 3lbs so I am very happy.

Well done fluffy that's excellent. I've eaten like a pig for the last 3 days and it's weigh in tomorrow morning. I just can't see to get in the swing of things?!

Brett I have just got my star week period and I have eaten like a horse today and yesterday.

Since I have been losing weight it is all a lot less painful though, I have not been sick since Boxing Day whereas I used to vomit every single month when my period started. In fact yesterday I was tearful and didn't even realise why until it came on - I used to have a week of tears, cravings and anxiety. I wonder if I have fewer hormone fluctuations now I weigh less.

600g for me this week. Not bad just over a pound.

Icecream my advice is try to stay within the daily amount every day. Then use the weekly points for when you can't. Some people say 'oh you can have 7 a day' which you can but then there is no leeway.

My first day on pro points wish me luck.

I lost 1 and 3/4 pounds this week so pleased with that 3/4 because it means I have lost 7 and 1/4 since christmas! Still a long way to go but getting there slowly. Still got six stone to loose to get to a healthy bmi which is my overall aim

I'm going to keep plodding on and start setting some small goals because the wedding seems too far away!
I can't make meetings so any short term goal ideas would be appreciated?

Good luck everyone

Well done girls!

Only lost 1lb this week. Oh well, slow and steady! How much does everyone else have to go? I started just over 14st, currently 10st 7lbs, 1st to go.

I don't have masses to lose icecream. Am 11st91/2 as of this morning. Would very much like to be 10st13 (am 5'10) but would settle for dead on 11. I started at 11st13 so it's still early days. .... I think the less you have to lose/ the closer you are to target weight the slower it usually is.

I don't have much to go either Icecream. My leader said to go for another 5lb and see how I get on. I'm a little bit apprehensive about what will happen when I reach target but I will try to kind of 'live' on filling and healthy I think.

Galaxy I make tiny goals, things like ' if I lose 2lb I can have a nail varnish I like' or 'if I stay within my points today I am going to have a bubble bath'. It helps me break it down to manageable amounts so I don't get despondent or lose interest.

I started off at 13st1lb, am now 11st1lb and would like to loose another stone, although I am aware that it will be a lot slower than the last two. It would take me to a BMI of about 24.

Trainers- wonderful to hear you are noticing the health benefits of loosing weight.

Brett- I crave crap around the time of my period, its just hormones doing it

I've put 2 lb back on this week but have not been tracking and have been eating rubbish (coffee mornings and meals out) - I've been a bit overwhelmed at work and haven't done as much walking and have a stinking cold so am comfort eating. The cold is lessening now so I really need to get back on track tomorrow, particularly as we have a big mothers day lunch on the 30th and I'm hosting a coffee morning on the 28th so it will be hard not to eat some cake. I don't have masses to lose - I've set myself an interim target of 11 st 7 which is another 7lbs (started at 12st 8) but would really like to be 11st (or like brettgirl2 10 st 13 would sound even better!)

Hey everyone! Does anyone use the tracking app? I'm bit confused as if I enter something with one point - for instance bread, but enter two slices of it, the app is counting it as 3 points. Whereas, I would have counted that as 2 pp? Does anyone know which is the correct way

At the moment I'm on -9pp for the week and only 2 days in. Does anyone reccomend a good form of exercise to catch up on my points?

Nellysgirl- the app is more accurate. The pro points of things are rounded down or up to whole numbers. Bread for example the malted Danish bread is actually 1.3 points a slice, so one slice is rounded down to 1pp. When you have two it's 2.6 so rounded up to 3. There are also things that are 2pp each but when you have 2 it's 3pp.

I often find the app is confused surprising - like yesterday I had a fruit salad from Starbucks which I would have counted as 0 but it was already registered on the app as 2. I just counted it as 2 anyway. I just stick to what is on the app because I lose track if I try and fool it, even if I feel hard done by.

Nelly if you can bear it, going for a little plod around the park is the best way I have found of still losing if I have gone over points. I had minus18 points a couple of weeks ago and still lost half a pound. For me half an hour of running but only adds up to two points where spinning for an hour is 5 points but I don't lose as much. Can you try and do an exercise DVD from YouTube a couple of times to claw points back?

I have a tiny trampoline that was fairly cheap it lives in iur conservatory and I stick my iPod on and bounce around for ten minutes I always seem to do well when I have done that !

Trainers- we discussed the starbucks fruit salad at class the other week. It is point free, however, if you just put the nutritional info in it does come back with points. If I put I the nutritional info on an apple it would have points it's just that WW count it as point free. They always tell you it's 0 points, not free, to encourage you to eat less. You do need to keep out for some fruit salads though as they can have a sugar syrup juice.

Thanks so much for the help! Yes I understand now how clever
I'm off to reluctantly undertake some exercise. I know I'll feel better when I've done it. Might try my 30 day shred DVD again. Only 20 mins so not too bad xx

Urghhhh I've just looked up jogging and aerobics - 20/30 mins around 1 or 2 pp only!!! I'm going to actually die catching up on my points this week

I think it's all highly confusing. Peas have points but bananas don't??? Parsnips have points but swede doesn't? ?? . I think the whole cooked/ raw thing is confusing too. A lot of it is just guess work. I'm not sure I got my lunch right today tbh, it's not an exact science at all.

I tend to put everything I'm going to eat into the app in advance. That way I know that I won't go over. I usually start with dinner and then work back.

I went for a walk for 1 hour 15 minutes last week and it came up as 6 points .

Haha the thought that dragging my arse around the park only burns off the same as a Nairn's oatcake is quite bleak really! But I guess everything uses fewer calories than we think we need.

Kosher that is interesting about the fruit salad - in that case I will happily knock it off my points! I need all I can get as my DH was craving a Nando's so we succumbed while out this lunchtime. I had a veggie burger in a pitta, macho peas and chips- it came to 27 points

Brett when I did Slimming World I was always dubious about their fruit measuring too - stewed/cooked fruit was sunned but fresh wasn't. I just ignored that and thought that if I ever stalled my weightless, I would know where to cut it from.

*synned!!

The fruit veggies thing is confusing. I've been counting it all as 0 points! Apart from avo's.
Also I second the small rewards I waited far too long for my first one and it dragged!

I do get the cooked v fresh thing. If you have it cooked you tend to eat a lot more of it, and as fruit is does have calories in it, they want you to eat a moderate amount and not loads.

Beach- peas, sweetcorn and parsnips all have points in. I think it's because they are quite carby and have more calories than other veg.

Along with the fruit/veg debate, I weighed a raw baking potato as 5pp ( on ww pp scales) when it was baked in foil in the oven, its got a pp of 8. Would you use the raw or cooked number?