Weight Watchers - Page 32

adpialumcsuc · #**466** 01-18-2005, 03:46 PM

Hey everyone...
Well through the holiday my parents and I decided not to weigh at all so we could enjoy ourselves. To my shock I still actually lost weight. I am now down a total of 52lbs since last January when I started the Weight Watchers program at home. I still have about 25 lbs to go to my second goal, but I have accomplished my first. We started weighing again last night and as soon as this stupid sinus infection is gone I will start running again. For now I have to take it easy with the exercise.

DolphinChicaDDD

I have a friend that is under weight if anything and she wanted to join weight watchers to learn how to eat healthier not necessarily how to loose weight. They wouldn't let her!! She was really bummed.

Lady Pi Phi · #**467** 01-18-2005, 05:24 PM

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Originally posted by adpialumcsuc
...I have a friend that is under weight if anything and she wanted to join weight watchers to learn how to eat healthier not necessarily how to loose weight. They wouldn't let her!! She was really bummed.

It's weight Watchers policy. They don't want to run the risk of having some one who could have an eating disorder. (While I'm not saying your friend has one, but it's really to protect their own butts).

Anyhoo, if your friend is serious about learning to eat healthier, why not suggest that she see a nutritionist?

adpialumcsuc · #**468** 01-18-2005, 06:51 PM

Don't get me wrong I completely agree with their policy. She doesn't need to loose any weight at all. Her thing is she eats candy and chocolate like crazy. She knows she doesn't eat healthy and wants to learn how to eat better. She did go see 2 different nutrionists and both pretty much laughed at her because she is so thin.

Lady Pi Phi · #**469** 01-18-2005, 09:14 PM

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Originally posted by adpialumcsuc
Don't get me wrong I completely agree with their policy. She doesn't need to loose any weight at all. Her thing is she eats candy and chocolate like crazy. She knows she doesn't eat healthy and wants to learn how to eat better. She did go see 2 different nutrionists and both pretty much laughed at her because she is so thin.

That's just crazy, and very unprofessional of those nutritionists.

I don't know, I'm not a professional here, I just don't think WW is something she should follow, even on her own. It sounds like she's just eating the wrong types of foods, and not over-eating. A decent nutritionist would help her make better food choices...perhaps she just needs to keep looking for one?

DolphinChicaDDD · #**470** 01-18-2005, 10:35 PM

I'm doing it. My friend and I are going before work on Friday!! Lets hope all goes well!!

lifesaver · #**471** 01-19-2005, 01:54 AM

I dont like WW. Them gals take up all the parking at my gym on monday and wednesday evenings.

lol.

If it helps, great. Not too familliar with it. Any diet needs to be accompanied by exercise tho. W/out, you loose the weight, but dont really improve the health of your cardiovascular system.

(technically you do, because you loose the stress on your system of the additional weight, but w/out cardio it just puts you on par with average weight people who dont exercise. The experts say you live longer and are healthier by doing some aerobic exercise.)

Lady Pi Phi · #**472** 01-19-2005, 10:08 AM

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Originally posted by lifesaver
I dont like WW. Them gals take up all the parking at my gym on monday and wednesday evenings.

lol.

If it helps, great. Not too familliar with it. Any diet needs to be accompanied by exercise tho. W/out, you loose the weight, but dont really improve the health of your cardiovascular system.

(technically you do, because you loose the stress on your system of the additional weight, but w/out cardio it just puts you on par with average weight people who dont exercise. The experts say you live longer and are healthier by doing some aerobic exercise.)

Since you're not familiar with the program WW, does encourage everyone to do some form of exercise, even if it's just going for a walk for 30 minutes every day. Exercise is a fundamental part of the program.

DolphinChicaDDD · #**473** 01-21-2005, 05:19 PM

I joined today!!

Now, I just have to figure out which plan I want to do.

xo_kathy · #**474** 01-21-2005, 07:34 PM

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Originally posted by NutBrnHair
This week I lost 4.5 lbs.!

Nice job, Nut!!!
I love weeks like that!

kddani · #**475** 01-21-2005, 07:39 PM

is anyone doing the core plan? flex points just really aren't doing it for me

DolphinChicaDDD · #**476** 01-21-2005, 11:53 PM

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Originally posted by kddani
is anyone doing the core plan? flex points just really aren't doing it for me

a lot of people in the group today were. i think i'm trying flex points, my body doesn't know how to regulate itself anymore so i think it needs a swift kick in the a$$

Tippiechick · #**477** 01-22-2005, 12:40 AM

Dani,

My mom does the Core plan. She's a lifetime member who has maintained her goal for 3 years now. She has gone onto the core and says it is OK. She prefers the flex. But, she felt like her body needed a switch for a while...

The key to the Core plan is only eating until you feel satisfied. So, those with food-addictive personalities whose body doesn't seem to send the signal that it is full have trouble on Core. But, it really is a lifestyle change. It is actually quite restrictive even with the 35 flex points. So many things are excluded from the program.

They recently changed a rule on the Core plan, though. Before, you could not a food as core unless it was on the list. So, even if you made a recipe with only core foods, it was not core when you put the ingredients together. It had to be eaten in it's listed form. Now, they have amended that to say that if all ingredients are core, then the food is a core food. If only some ingredients are Core, then you have to figure up the point value for the items that aren't Core.

I love the flex plan. I don't know if I will ever go Core.

NutBrnHair · #**478** 01-22-2005, 08:56 PM

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Originally posted by xo_kathy
Nice job, Nut!!!
I love weeks like that!

Yeah...me too. THIS week I thought the leader wrote down another -4 pounds. (I though -- cool -- since I didn't think I'd had such a great week.) When I got to my chair & looked at my folder, it was actually -.4 I know a loss is a loss, but still -- I was a tad disappointed.

Tippiechick · #**479** 01-23-2005, 10:34 PM

Thought I would pass along a few products I recently found and some that have been mentioned at meetings.

1) SUGAR FREE chocolate chip cookie dough by Pillsbury. It's with the other refrigerated cookie doughs. Made w/ Splenda, 2 pts. per cookie. *Not extremely low in pointage, but for those of us w/ hypoglycemia/diabetes/blood sugar issues it's a godsend.*

2) La Buena Vida low carb soft taco shells at Wal-Mart. These are 1 point per shell. And, they are good. I combine them with the Taco Bell or Sam's Choice fat-free refried beans (1 pt. per 1/2 cup, I think.) So, I can have a burrito for a 1.5 points. I have to look a little to find them. But, they are usually near the cream cheeses or deli-type foods.

3) Kroger has decaf, sugar-free, sweet tea in gallons. It really is good.

4) Campbell's Select Soups' Vegetable soup is only 3 points per can.

5) Carb Options Teriyaki Sauce is 0 pts. per serving. It's VERY good on chicken or turkey breasts.

DolphinChicaDDD · #**480** 01-23-2005, 11:55 PM

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Loves Tippiechick

I'm on Day 2 of WeightWatchers. I don't really feel like I'm missing anything; half the time when I reach for something I think I'll want, I use the little slider point calculator thing and see that I really don't. Example- I wanted those Keebler El Fudge cookies (the little men). Then I figured out 2 were 7 points. So I had a piece of friut instead.

I am craving chocolate, so I will be checking out that cookie dough tomorrow....ya think eating it raw will take off any points??