2015 weight watchers

[Miffytastic]

So who else is back to the WW routine in January?

I lost weight slowly and steadily on the 'filling and healthy' ww plan last year. Lost 16lbs over 16 weeks and I am back within my gold buffer zone but not quite where I'd like to be yet. Have had a couple of weeks off over christmas but planning to weigh in on Monday at my meeting...which I expecte will be rammed!
I also need to increase the exercise as that waned a bit in December.

Hope to have some company on this board for the new year. What are your aims?

I want to share something with all of you which you may find helpful. I spent 2 years attending a specialist clinic for people with eating disorders several years ago. I still follow the eating plan they gave me and it's an absolute godsend. It's compatible with the weightwatchers plan because it's not about what you eat, it's about when you eat. If you eat at the 'right' times you will be much more in control of your eating.

Their rules were:

• never go more than 3 hours without eating something. Once you go past this your blood sugar will drop to a level that your instinctive drive to survive will take over. That means going for high fat, high sugar food even though your head is screaming at you not to.

• never go more than 5 hours without a proper meal. For the same reasons as above.

• if you do over eat, don't skip you next meal. Even if you still feel full eat something. It's part of the process of training you body to have a steady blood sugar level. If you blood sugar is steady, you can control what you eat.

• Remember always that low blood sugar will drive you to eat the wrong things.

For me and my toddler this translates as:
8.00am breakfast
10.00am fruit
12.00pm lunch
3.00pm decent sized snack
6.00pm dinner
9.00pm snack using up remaining points.

Hope that helps.

That's great advice Hedgehog.

Today's greatest disappointment, muller light after dinner mint yoghurt. 2pp, tasted crap. Don't know why I thought I'd like it, I don't even really like yoghurt.

I started at WW today! I was a bit confused as to whether I should do Propoints or Fillling and Healthy. I thought I would do Filling and Healthy, but looking through the list of food, it isn't really the sort of food I eat, eg I don't like brown pasta or rice. I like the fruit flavoured low fat activia yoghurts which are 2 points, but the list only has plain yoghurt on, which is also 2 points, but which I don't like.

So I guess I've got to start counting my 26 points a day instead. I eat the same foods most days so I guess once I've done it for a few days it will start to get easier.

If the points are shown in green then you only count them if you are doing Propoints, not if you are doing filling and healthy tuna. I think the plain yogurt is free on filling and healthy days.

Can some kind gentle soul talk me through how to add what I've eaten on the app. I can do on the computer but can't work out how to do it on the app. I'm a complete technophobe so this is painful.

See where it says search food?mjust type in what you've had, then a screen comes up and you select portion size. Really easy.

I think the computer is a lot easier than the app, seems more straightforward, so can't help... sorry

I got rid of another 2.5 pounds at Weigh in today!! woohoo

M+S have a lot to do with it since they are between the meeting and home on a Wed morning! their count on us ham and mushroom pizza (10 points) is a nice measured portion for me on pizza night - so I don't feel "left out" when the rest are eating whatever pizza they like.

A lot of their count on us range is nice (nicer than WW own brand) and it has the points on the back too....

Lunch right now was M+S Honduran prawns with garlic and parsley - 2pp for half a pack, on a warburton thin 3pp with a huge bowl of salad 0pp).... 5 points and I am stuffed- and feel like I've had something "nice" since the prawns have a lovely dressing on them.

(whittering on.... sorry)

Hedgehogs I've found I've had to add a fair few items myself although it's pretty easy.

I maintained this week but after a 4lb loss last week I'm happy with that.

Somewhere it's definitely about having treats while eating sensibly.

Mine doesn't look like that :(

What kind of phone are you on?

Well done Somewhere. I also like M&S food for a treat. Their balanced for you range is lovely, the sandwiches and salads are great. I work a 5 minute walk from an M&S food hall, so a little too convenient.

Today I've had a Pret a Manger chicken, sesame and noodle salad 9pp and very nice. The vegetable crisps were also yummy, but at 6pp not so good. Struggling the past two days, but think that's due to stress and I'm an emotional eater, trying to behave.

What phone you on Hedge? Mines iPhone, not sure what android app looks like. Is it definitely the proper WW one as I know there are a few apps you can use without having a WW account.

Android I think. I installed the weightwatchers app but when I logged in it changed it all to Swedish. I think that yet again I've got the 'poor relative' version.

There is a free WW one on android, can remember having it years ago when I had an android phone.

I went to check out M&S today Somewhere, I got the chicken and spinach pizza for the weekend, it looks really nice. I didn't know M&S had a points range. It looks far more appetizing than the little frozen WW meals!

I'm feeling pretty positive. This week I maintained but after a 4lb loss last week I'm fine with that. I'm finding it good tracking (though I use all my daily/weekly points and most of my exercise!).

I don't eat wheat so I'm limited about what meals I can have, cook a lot from scratch but when trying to lose weight that can be a positive!

Well done faith!

Anyone fancy sharing menus? I'm struggling and losing motivation

hiya Twink....

today my menu will consist of - toast for breakfast - 6 points (2 slices bread with a teaspoon of peanut butter on one and marmite on the other) =6pp

lunch - tin of Heinz scotch broth - 4 points for the whole 400g can + one slice bread 2points =6pp

tea - savoury turkey and bean stew (chopped turkey, onion, yellow pepper, tin of heinz veg chilli, tin tomatoes) + boiled new potatoes =8pp

Then some sugar free jelly with pineapple =0pp
Carrot sticks and grapes =0pp
maybe some snack-a jacks =2pp
or a 30g pack of butterkist toffee popcorn =3pp

I am finding that planning my day's menu first thing and prepping my 0pp stuff ready keeps me "good"

oops - tea is 8pp per person - that serves 4 of us... the others just serve me.

Well done Faith.

My menu today is like this:

Breakfast 3PP: 2 Ryvita (2pp), 2 laughing cow blue cheese light triangles (1pp)

Snack 0PP: Mango

Dinner 9pp: M&S Chicken and Asparagus risotto

Snack 4pp: 25g Salted popcorn

Tea 10PP: Slow cooked chicken curry

Snack: fruit

I might have a naan with my curry as I get 36 points a day.

I only maintained this week I have to get more strict with myself! Plain chicken and veg for dinner tonight

Thx for sharing menus

today will be -

usual toast breakfast - 6pp

chicken and mushroom omelette with big salad -6pp

sugar free jelly, pineapple,blueberries and a meringue nest - 1pp

M+S pizza - count on us ham and mushroom -10pp
garlic bread - ouch - 6pp worth (maybe more - I haven't used any weeklies )

and a WW strawberry cheesecake yoghurt - 1pp

I tend to eat my day's pp, I save at least 20 weeklies for my milk for my cups of tea and any misjudgements of points. I weigh everything still and point it from the packet so that misjudgements don't cost too many points..

Finally lost 2lb. Finally. I have now lost 4.5 lb in three weeks so that isn't too bad.

Menu plan today is:

Bfast- scrambled eggs and black coffee

Lunch- Lentil and tomato soup
Salad with skinny taste blue cheese dressing
Pitta with cottage cheese

Snack: Ryvita and cream cheese

Then dinner is the least calorific looking thing at the pub where I am going to send off my friend who is moving to Australia for a year!

(I may pack some emergency skips in my bag!)

I always forget about stuff like cottage cheese... I like a savoury hit sometimes, so cottage cheese with garlic and herbs would go down a treat right now...