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WeightWatchers & "How Many ProPoints?" Thread MkII
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Tiny penguin what I tend to do is have a selection of treats in a ziplock bag in my desk that way if I have a craving for chocolate I know it's in my desk & I factor into my daily pp. I have 1 large bar of 70% dark choc which is 2pp for one large square ( it would be 2 small squares in a regular choc bar) I also have treatsize caramel bars 2pp, treatsize crunchier 2pp treatsize malteasers 3pp & treat size skittles 3pp. I wouldn't necessarily eat every day but it helps me knowing their there & if the craving attacks I know the points & can adj over the course of the day. If I didn't have them I'd end up going to the shop & buy a full size something or worse eat the crap lying around the office. My dept is all men & there is constantly tins of sweets, biscuits & choc bars lying around - I avoid that like the plague!
I know that doesn't necessarily help you now but maybe for next time! Best of luck with WI
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tiny_penguin wrote: »I am having a serious chocolate craving today! And i dont know what to do! There is free chocolate all around me in work - usually I find it quite easy to resist but today I feel like it is staring at me all day long! HELP
Have a banana works for me! good luck not easy when you feel like that and have a craving! 0 -
Egypt Melodic Mutant wrote: »Absolute disaster of a week so far. Breakfast, lunch & dinner are grand, then I turn into a Gremlin around 8pm and eat all round me. Sat down this morning and worked out a meal plan for today - hopefully it'll be easier to stick to if I just take it a day at a time.
I ALWAYS do this to myself. Every time I'm only a pound or two away from another sticker I feck it up. UGH. Feel like crap, basically. Don't even know if I want to go to my meeting this week and pretend to make excuses as to why I'm up again this week. Actually don't want to face my leader, she was expecting to give me my silver seven last week, didn't get it, won't get it this week either. Feel like crap, want to wipe the last few days from memory!
Sorry for being negative, just on an awful downer the last few days. Anyone near enough to me that could stick out their foot & give me a good kick?
Best of luck to anyone with WI tonight x
Aww Shanna don't be so hard on yourself! Listen we all have slips you're at this a while & it gets really tough at times & makes the slip all the harder. My advice go to your meeting face up to the number it may not be as bad as you think. Don't worry about the leader it's not up to her to be disappointed in your result or whatever so put that guilt out of your mind you are not there to please her ( as lovely & helpful as she maybe!) you are there for you.
Draw a line under the last few days, you've already started by drawing up a meal plan if the 8 o clock munchies are getting to you set some pp aside for it. Maybe have some fruit salad or some carrot sticks with a low pp dip or a scrambled egg & 1 egg white or a low pp packet of crisps or a treat if that is what you fancy?
A good tip I find is to go have a glass of water or a cup of tea first - sometimes ( not always!) I won't even want the 'snack' I'm just bored. Maybe readjust your eating patterns? I tend to have dinner at 7.30 I used to eat at 6 & I'd find by 9 I was starving again. I bulked up my dinner with extra veg & eat later & I find it helps but may not be for everyone.
Be proud of your Achievement so far shanna don't be down on yourself for a week with a gain. It happens us all at some point.0 -
Tiny penguin what I tend to do is have a selection of treats in a ziplock bag in my desk that way if I have a craving for chocolate I know it's in my desk & I factor into my daily pp. I have 1 large bar of 70% dark choc which is 2pp for one large square ( it would be 2 small squares in a regular choc bar) I also have treatsize caramel bars 2pp, treatsize crunchier 2pp treatsize malteasers 3pp & treat size skittles 3pp. I wouldn't necessarily eat every day but it helps me knowing their there & if the craving attacks I know the points & can adj over the course of the day. If I didn't have them I'd end up going to the shop & buy a full size something or worse eat the crap lying around the office. My dept is all men & there is constantly tins of sweets, biscuits & choc bars lying around - I avoid that like the plague!
I know that doesn't necessarily help you now but maybe for next time! Best of luck with WI
Thanks! There are usually snack size bars included in the free chocolate in work but today the only thing they have were the mini twilight chocs (1pp each and i had one).
The problem is that the stuff is always there, on every floor there is a shelf unit with free crisps, chocolate, biscuits, sweets and crackers. Always a basket of chocolate around. A fridge full of fizzy drinks, juices, cheese, chocolate milk etc and its all free.
On the plus they do have cereal and low fat yoghurt in the mornings, and fruit is avaialble - though sometimes it is not the best. Lunch is good as they always have soup (sometimes creamy) a salad bar (sometimes all dressing heavy salads) and prepacked sandwhiches, some of which are 5 or 6 pp. So I can always have a low enough breakfast and lunch - there is always one good option from the three. Its just learning to avoid the sweet stuff on days like today i have to deal with. I think even if I had some WW goodies today - id want to eat them all not just one of them
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@Shanna: Please please please go to your meeting. All what you said there sounds exactly like I did at the end of last year. I said to myself "What is the point in me going to WW to pay them to be told i'm up?" and I didn't go. And that is where the downward spiral begins. One bad week turned into a bad month and then it was Christmas and then I finally went back after a 6 week break and I was up 4.5lb which wasn't too bad for 6 weeks of boldness. You might be surprised with the number on the scales.
Don't mind what your leader is thinking. When she asks if you have had a good week, just say no, you don't have to divulge anything to her. Try and snap out of the shameful and guilty feeling. From assessing myself and realising the reason I was so depressed is because I was being so negative about myself. We don't give ourselves enough credit sometimes. I had a long chat with my mum last week and she gave me a very good piece of advice... We are all human, we all make mistakes. Just don't let that mistake turn your whole week into a disaster. Live and learn from our mistakes and draw a line under it and say "well, yes I was bold, but now I am going to be good" and try your best to forget about it. The more you dwell negatively on how bold you were, the more depressed you will feel and the more you will want to f**k it up completely and go on a mad binge!
So please please go to your meeting, face the number you see, draw a line under it and start again 0 -
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Lost 1.5lb this week!! So I got my 25lb goal So happy!
Heres to a silver seven in 2.5lb!!
Mini Goals Rock heres my update:
I started off August 24th @ 13st 11
Silver 7 @ 13st 4lb achieved
5% @ 13st 1lb achieved
Silver 7 (stone) @ 12st 11lb achieved
10% loss @ 12st 6lb achieved
Silver 7 @ 12st 4lb achieved
25lb total loss @ 12st achieved
silver 7 @ 11st 11lb is only -2.5lb away
silver 7 @ 11st 4lb is only -9.5lb away
GOAL @ 11st 0lb is only -13.5lb away
Baby Steps but I will finish the race!0 -
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lisa_celtic wrote: »Lost 1.5lb this week!! So I got my 25lb goal So happy!
Heres to a silver seven in 2.5lb!!
Mini Goals Rock heres my update:
I started off August 24th @ 13st 11
Silver 7 @ 13st 4lb achieved
5% @ 13st 1lb achieved
Silver 7 (stone) @ 12st 11lb achieved
10% loss @ 12st 6lb achieved
Silver 7 @ 12st 4lb achieved
25lb total loss @ 12st achieved
silver 7 @ 11st 11lb is only -2.5lb away
silver 7 @ 11st 4lb is only -9.5lb away
GOAL @ 11st 0lb is only -13.5lb away
Baby Steps but I will finish the race!
Thats brilliant! Keep up the good work
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lisa_celtic wrote: »Lost 1.5lb this week!! So I got my 25lb goal So happy!
Heres to a silver seven in 2.5lb!!
Mini Goals Rock heres my update:
I started off August 24th @ 13st 11
Silver 7 @ 13st 4lb achieved
5% @ 13st 1lb achieved
Silver 7 (stone) @ 12st 11lb achieved
10% loss @ 12st 6lb achieved
Silver 7 @ 12st 4lb achieved
25lb total loss @ 12st achieved
silver 7 @ 11st 11lb is only -2.5lb away
silver 7 @ 11st 4lb is only -9.5lb away
GOAL @ 11st 0lb is only -13.5lb away
Baby Steps but I will finish the race!
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There should be an IM - ing option for those who are online at the same time do you not think?! I just got thinking about it as it shows who's online with the small green spot beside your name, and I thought, well what's the point of that unless there's an advantage to knowing who's online!
There must have been at somestage, because when I go into Quick Links, and Who's Online, it says that it's been disabled by the administrator.
Was anyone around when or if it used to work? 0 -
Ok, after much emotional thought and struggle, I have rejoined WW again tonight, up 4.5lb since the last time I went at the start of December. Actually delighted because I thought it would be much more. I was really struggling the last 6 months of last year and thought I needed more professional help and contacted my doctor this week who basically fobbed me off and told me to go see the community dietitian, no appointments available til MAY!! So after a long tearful chat with my mum, I have decided to go it alone again and see how I get on. Onwards and downwards Can't wait to post my first (since rejoining) result next week. New starting weight, 15 stone 9lb (having started in November 2010 at 18 stone 3lb)!
*by going it alone, I mean without the help of counselling for overeating/binge eating (which my doctor said wouldn't help, although I still differ from that point of view) and without diet pills.
Welcome Back Monife.....you gave me great encouragement a while back which I was very grateful for ......So focus now on YOU, we are all here to help you although I'm not on everyday I do check in to see how you are all doing, and you are all doing GREAT even me !! Im getting to a stage where I'm counting for friends who don't do WW haha how sad is that !! Chin up girl & give that mammy of your a hug...where would we all be without them shoulders !!0 -
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the west wing wrote: »Well just weighed in today and was down 5lbs!! So that's 10lbs in two weeks!!:D I'm absolutely delighted and a bit surprised! I'd love to lose 4lbs this week to get to the stone, but I think that might be a bit too ambitious after two great weeks. I did the healthy and filling week last week (well for 4 days of it) and I found it really good. Going to start exercising this week, so excited about that.
What a great start, well done if you don't get your stone next week at least it will be in the next 2 weeks at least!!! allow for a loss now of 1 to 2 pounds per week any thing more is a bonus!
for me 1/2 a pound is my aim and anything more is brilliant LOL I lose it slow 0 -
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Hey girls (and guys!)!
Just checking in to say thanks for all the good wishes! Have my list made out for my shopping and I've no exam until Thursday afternoon so the pressure is (kind of) off! Lisa that's fab, it's a great feeling to reach little personal goals, almost as good as getting a compliment on the weight loss!!
Well done on all the losses this week, and chin up to everyone craving the bold stuff - I had a meltdown weekend and now I'm flying it out the other side, it happens to all of us! Just draw a line under it and imagine how amazing you'll look in all those summer dresses and shorts! 0 -
Well done on the losses Lisa & West wing that is fantastic news & a great boost for the rest of us ( especially those of us including me who have had an attack of the munchies lately)
Meant to say yesterday but baby you brought up the BMI based on one of the newbies blog post ( jell something can't remember sorry) but I can't stand that either I know it's a 'barometer' of healthy weight range but it fails to take in so many other factors as pointed out in the blog post.
I'm 5.2 & had initially picked a goal weight of 10.7 to give me a loss of 3 stone & according to the BMI I'll be classed as overweight if I stay there. I'm 11.1 ATM & I'm already getting comments that I look 'skinny enough' or the weights falling of you ( Grrr another bug bear its not feckin falling off I'm working my ass of -literally to lose it!) now I'm not too skinny I still have a way to go but because of the stupid bloody BMI I've adjusted my goal down to in the 9 stone bracket ( between 9.7 & 9.10 ish I reckon) I've no idea what I'll look like at that weight because the last time I would have been 9 anything I'd have been about 12 or 13.
For me although I'm short I'm as my granny would say 'well built' I've wide shoulders & wide hips & the top of my back is wide as well, my legs are short, toned but solid they're not 'fat' but I don't see them shrinking down much especially my calfs & that's thanks to Da I got his legs & all the sport & dancing I did as a kid :rolleyes:
Even with me picking 9.7 - 9.10 that's the top end of my BMI they haves 8 stone in there as well which would not suit me at all! I spoke to my nurse @ my gp she said you should be a BMI of 25 or less but did agree 8 or even 9st would be too small so I'm gonna wait & see how I look & feel when I get there. I'm not sure yet if that's possible or even sustainable! Time will tell I guess 0 -
Hey girls (and guys!)!
Just checking in to say thanks for all the good wishes! Have my list made out for my shopping and I've no exam until Thursday afternoon so the pressure is (kind of) off! Lisa that's fab, it's a great feeling to reach little personal goals, almost as good as getting a compliment on the weight loss!!
Well done on all the losses this week, and chin up to everyone craving the bold stuff - I had a meltdown weekend and now I'm flying it out the other side, it happens to all of us! Just draw a line under it and imagine how amazing you'll look in all those summer dresses and shorts!
Ah well Niamh, I hope you fly those exams, and not to forget they're not the be all & end all.
God the thought of Summer dresses makes me cringe!! 0 -
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finished work early today and literally got in the door, got changed and me and the OH hit the park for a walk. We went at a fast pace and did the walk in about 50 mins.
The way i feel about it now is if i feel like going on the Wii for a half hour later I can but i was so glad to get it out of the way... Im impressed with the difference in my fitness level now... I did the entire circumference of Corkagh Park.. when i started WW 4 weeks ago it was taking me 50 mins to do half that. Its madness!
Im far from running a marathon but considering I was so unfit i would get tired walking to the shop im well impressed!
So happy for all your brilliant WI's this week! hopefully i can keep up the good work tomorrow night at mine... I would ideally love 2.5lb down that way i would get my 5%... but to be honest once im down ANYTHING i will be happy. I have hit the 11s and i plan on staying there... well until i hit the 10s hahaha!
Saw a gorgeous dress today when i was out with my dad for lunch. Gorgeous orange dress in the window of Miss Selfridge in Jervis. He was laughing when i said... "Im going to have that dress...and im going to have it in THAT size!!!" That will be my treat to myself when i finally reach goal.... with any luck it will be on sale by then haha! 0 -
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Hi everyone
Well done on yer losses! Ye are brill!
I had a disaster of a weekend - Saturday, food-wise I wasn't too bad but that night, I had loads of wine And on Sunday from about 7 til bedtime, I ate all round me, felt rotten with myself afterwards. AND, TOTM arrived today (maybe that's what lead to the madness on Sunday evening, I don't know)
TOTM sucks! - I feel huge this evening! :mad:
Dreading my WI tomorrow morning! :eek:
Good Luck with all your WI's this week peeps! :cool:0 -
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Eircom_Sucks wrote: »- 3 this week
that's a great wi!!!
Well done to all those who have lost this week!
My wi on Thurs, had a sneeky peek on my own scales this eve and it told me 11.5, last wi I was 11.7 although I think there is a diff between my scales and ww scales, never the same! :rolleyes:0 -
These have prob been discussed before but picked them up in Aldi tonight.
The Caramel, fudge & cunchie are 2pp each and the chomp is only 1pp each.
Thought it had to be a mistake but got the OH to point them aswell and yep only 1pp. There not huge but great for a chocolate craving if you haven't many points left for the day.
The bag was €2.79 so not that cheap but nice to have in the press for a treat, ww bars something just arnt the same when you need choclate & us ladies need our chocolate every now & again0 -
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These have prob been discussed before but picked them up in Aldi tonight.
The Caramel, fudge & cunchie are 2pp each and the chomp is only 1pp each.
Thought it had to be a mistake but got the OH to point them aswell and yep only 1pp. There not huge but great for a chocolate craving if you haven't many points left for the day.
The bag was €2.79 so not that cheap but nice to have in the press for a treat, ww bars something just arnt the same when you need choclate & us ladies need our chocolate every now & again
NOM!!!! And a bargain points wise. Might pick a bag up this weekend when I do the shopping, but a bit apprehensive as I don't know if I could stop at 1 or 2.... Will have to put half the bag in my drawer in work. Less likely to binge at my desk with colleagues all around me lol0 -
Confession time I had a terrible week. I've been really stressed the last few days which has meant I went completely off the rails foodwise. I booked my sun holiday away with the girls today so I'm determined not to be the only one not able to wear a bikini. I've done out my food plan for the next few weeks and I've scheduled in exercise because that's been my downfall. I went for a good hour walk this evening. I've my WI tomorrow and I wasn't going to bother but Monife you've made me realise I need to accept what it is and move on. I'm expecting at least a 2-3lbs gain. But I'm working for next week and hopefully I'll be back on track. I'm doing it at home so no matter what I'll come on here and post my result :eek:
Sorry for the rant I just needed to get it all down Monife your post a while back is inspiring and you seem like you're back on track now. Its great that you have your mum as your support. Hopefully we'll both get closer to goal this year.
Well done to everyone who loss today and yesterday. There's some great numbers there 0 -
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Eircom_Sucks wrote: »- 3 this week
Well done! Keep up the good work. Was reading your blog too - such a good way to keep track of things. 0 -
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@ Shanna, No problem mrs that's what we're here for! Delighted to hear you're going to go to WI and that you feel like you're getting back on track that's the best way draw a line under it and start a fresh the next day - don't wait until the week is up.
You're not letting anyone down WW wise either, it's natural for the Weightloss to slow down the further we get into this, don't put so much pressure on yourself for 'big' numbers either. And you know something maybe your little blowout will do you the power of good long term as in you needed to break free of the constraints of pointing etc and especially if you felt like you weren't doing WW for yourself. That's the only person who this should matter to.....yourself, if you're heart isn't in it or your head isn't in the game it makes it so much harder and that's why you got bogged down by guilt. I'm hoping that the blowout made you see that actually you do want this and that it was more a case of rebelling against whatever. Onwards and downwards now!
I dunno it's weird how so many of us have had some kind of foody/ goody melt down this week. I'm putting it down to this horrible cold weather (i'm always a starvin marvin when it's cold) and of course for me and so many others on here as well TOTM. I'm not usually a fiend for chocolate but this week forget about it it's pretty bad but yet i'm still within my points. I did get out for a run tonight and felt the better for it.
Maggie meant to comment last night and say thank you! Believe it or not I actually did track as I drank I'm using iwatcher on my iphone and it's second nature for me to now log everything I eat and drink even when I'm out (i find it more important when I'm out cos it's too easy to 'forget' that last glass of wine or that second Whiskey and diet coke!) It just looks like i'm texting and I feel better for having tracked and it means I'm not stressing about it and can relax with my friends and actually enjoy myself!
Baby thanks a mil for posting about that BASA my god I felt sick reading that, i'm really fussy about my fish so unless i ' know it' I probably wouldn't pick it up but if they're marketing it as a Cod or Haddock alternative i easily could have picked it up unawares so thank you for highlighting it. Needless to say I'll be staying well clear of it.
At least tomorrow is hump day - half way through my points week, I dunno how i'll do at my WI on Saturday I'm not going to stress about it whatever it is it is and I'll have to move on from it either way and get back in the zone. I'm going to have a quiet weekend and think I'll empty the food presses and sort the freezer etc to see what I actually have and then do a few new recipes to keep me focused and eating a variety of different foods - it's so easy to get stuck in a rut eating the same things all the time!0 -
Had my WI and down 1.5 Am delighted! Was so very happy to see that on the scales. Have had a total attitude adjustment since last week (when i was disappointed with the same number). I managed to lose 1.5, go out for 2 course dinner twice and have a girly night one night. Bring on the next week
Good Luck with everyones WI and well done on the losses so far!0 -
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tiny_penguin wrote: »Had my WI and down 1.5 Am delighted! Was so very happy to see that on the scales. Have had a total attitude adjustment since last week (when i was disappointed with the same number). I managed to lose 1.5, go out for 2 course dinner twice and have a girly night one night. Bring on the next week
Good Luck with everyones WI and well done on the losses so far!
Well done hun! im delighted for ya!!!!
onwards and downwards!!!! 0 -
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tiny_penguin wrote: »Had my WI and down 1.5 Am delighted! Was so very happy to see that on the scales. Have had a total attitude adjustment since last week (when i was disappointed with the same number). I managed to lose 1.5, go out for 2 course dinner twice and have a girly night one night. Bring on the next week
Good Luck with everyones WI and well done on the losses so far!
Well done tiny penguin!! Sounds like u had a great week. My treat was kfc this week I I lost 1,5 so shows u can use weeklys0 -
tiny_penguin wrote: »Had my WI and down 1.5 Am delighted! Was so very happy to see that on the scales. Have had a total attitude adjustment since last week (when i was disappointed with the same number). I managed to lose 1.5, go out for 2 course dinner twice and have a girly night one night. Bring on the next week
Good Luck with everyones WI and well done on the losses so far!
Well done tiny penguin!! Sounds like u had a great week. My treat was kfc this week I I lost 1,5 so shows u can use weeklys0 -
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