Weight Watchers free trial challenge!!

lexuslass

I was wondering that too flea72... the tracker is really useful and I bet they know people continue with the monthly subscription just for that reason!!

Today I have had:

Cornflakes for breakfast
2 slices of warburtons with ham for lunch
pasta and chicken breast with loads of salad for dinner - I have even tracked a teaspoon of olive oil for what the chicken was cooked in (and there's no way I used that much!)

comes to 12 points!!!

I've just had a bottle of that Carling 99 calorie lager too which wasn't on the tracker but tracked it as a 2/3 pint of Carling C2 (??) takes me up to 14 points!!

I have 9 points left over!! there's no way I will be eating anything else this evening cause I am stuffed!!

Bet I still haven't lost owt when it comes to weighing in!! :mad:

flea72

lexuslass wrote: »

I was wondering that too flea72... the tracker is really useful and I bet they know people continue with the monthly subscription just for that reason!!

Today I have had:

Cornflakes for breakfast
2 slices of warburtons with ham for lunch
pasta and chicken breast with loads of salad for dinner - I have even tracked a teaspoon of olive oil for what the chicken was cooked in (and there's no way I used that much!)

comes to 12 points!!!

I've just had a bottle of that Carling 99 calorie lager too which wasn't on the tracker but tracked it as a 2/3 pint of Carling C2 (??) takes me up to 14 points!!

I have 9 points left over!! there's no way I will be eating anything else this evening cause I am stuffed!!

Bet I still haven't lost owt when it comes to weighing in!! :mad:

ok, prob dont want to point out the obvious, but if you dont eat enough, you maintain your weight, as the body goes into starvation mode, and hangs onto everything you eat. you need to up intake, to get your metabolism back into thinking, its ok to waste some of its intake, as it knows another meal will be on its way soon

tbh, i would say what you are eating, isnt enough

today you have a big lack of fruit/dairy, and quite alot of carbohydrate/protein - have you been ticking off the checklist on the planner (bottom right corner)

Flea

lexuslass

flea72 wrote: »

ok, prob dont want to point out the obvious, but if you dont eat enough, you maintain your weight, as the body goes into starvation mode, and hangs onto everything you eat. you need to up intake, to get your metabolism back into thinking, its ok to waste some of its intake, as it knows another meal will be on its way soon

tbh, i would say what you are eating, isnt enough

today you have a big lack of fruit/dairy, and quite alot of carbohydrate/protein - have you been ticking off the checklist on the planner (bottom right corner)

Flea

To be honest, my intake before was grabbing things on the go - usually crisps and other savoury cr*p... I'd never eat breakfast and I'd get peckish about 11.30 and grab something (like a bag of crisps!).... some days (probably twice a week) I'd go without anything all day and just have an evening meal.

I thought I had been quite good this week making myself have breakfast and a sandwich for lunch and sitting down with the two little ones while they are having theirs. I don't think I could physically eat more.

I used to 'fill' myself up with a few tassimo capuccinos too during the day but I haven't had any of those this week - I am drinking herbal teas instead... my little checklist in the corner has had lots of smiley faces on it! I am probably not eating as much fruit as I should but I have had some big salads which I have eaten (before, I would put them on the side of my dinner, pick at them a little and leave most of it!).

I am looking at points values when eating - but maybe I should look at foods with higher point values to get me up to my daily limit? I don't know... maybe I should stick to what I am doing for another week to see if my body gets used to it? any suggestions?

Rotherham_Lass

Hi everyone! Sounds like we are all doing pretty well so far. :T

I went 1.5 points over yesterday but did go out for a meal so I thought that was pretty good. I am 0.5 under today and have built up some points to use at the weekend.

For breakie I have Alpen with low fat yoghurt. 3 points and it really fills you up for ages.

tara747

lexuslass wrote: »

I am the same... I cannot stomach anything as soon as I get up... I need to be awake for a good hour and a half before I can eat!!

Crumpets are 1pt each.. but then I couldn't just have one and it's the lashings of butter I'd have over them that would do me in!!

Do you like weetabix? you could have a couple of those (2pts for 2) and put some fresh fruit on them (like they used to do on the weetabix challenge on the ads) which wouldn't add any points.

Or how about an egg on a couple of pieces of medium sliced toast? That would only be 3 points.

Or one of my faves is mushrooms on toast - slice mushrooms, put them in a bowl of water in the microwave and cook for about 2 minutes... that would only cost you 1.5 points for two pieces of toast. You have to dry them off with kitchen paper so they don't make your toast soggy and I have to have loads of black pepper on it tho but it is yummy (well it is if you like mushrooms!!)

Or tomatoes on toast would only be the points value of the toast - either tinned or grilled fresh tomatoes?


Or you could have a banana....1.5 Points!!!!! :eek: I still can't get over that! :rotfl:

HTH
x

Thanks for the tips lexuslass. Also, thanks to kaza for the Muller/Special K suggestion. I like the egg/toast idea but I would have to have butter! I think the best thing for me is to avoid bread as much as possible...

And I hate mushrooms... wish I didn't!

The Weetabix/fruit idea sounds nice... maybe Shreddies or something would be good too.

OK, gotta get some breakfast ideas going.

tara747

flea72 wrote: »

so what is everyone planning on doing when the 'free' trial ends? -its not like going to meetings, where you have books to keep

is there anyway you can print off the counters?

Flea

lexuslass wrote: »

Have you looked at some of the recipes on the ww site? I found a couple of nice ones ... one was a balsamic chicken with roasted peppers and leeks... looked lovely... may try that over the next few days... you could always add some potatoes of some sort for the other members of your family.

x

I have looked at some of the recipes and will be printing lots of them before the trial ends to make a recipe binder... gotta get my minus 5p worth!!! :rotfl:

That chicken recipe sounds delish...

kaza wrote: »

Well I have had a rubbish day, not even going to bother to add the points up, Ive just done my online shop for next week and have bought loads of ww meals, so hopefully will do much better next week. Ive not ate chocolate or anything just loads of packs of specicial k mini bites and 4 yoghurts.

Get a grip of yourself woman!!

Well done everyone whos stuck to it today.

Same here kaza! Let's not beat ourselves up eh, I am just going to start over tomorrow xo

tara747

By the way, there is a really interesting thread on the WW site... thought y'all might like it as it's about motivation and some of the posts are quite inspiring!

Enjoy.


http://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/community/mbd/post.aspx?page_size=25&rownum=10&page_noHidden=4&threadpage_no=1&sincedate=26%2f08%2f2009+00%3a00%3a00&thread_id=33037891&thread_name=Reasons+to+stay+on+track...&forum_id=1&board_id=170&setview=TRUE&daterange=2days&viewchange=OPENDATEDESC

tara747

p.s. you ladies are all making me a feel a bit ashamed as you are doing so well. I am going to use it as motivation to do better.

Night night all!

ailuro2

My first official weigh in was this morning - 5 pounds off.:j:j:j:j:j

I know it's mostly my glycogen pool in the first week, but my jeans that I normally have to lie on the bed to get them zipped up are feeling a lot more like I can breathe in them now!:D

ailuro2

tara747 wrote: »

By the way, there is a really interesting thread on the WW site... thought y'all might like it as it's about motivation and some of the posts are quite inspiring!

Enjoy.


http://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/community/mbd/post.aspx?page_size=25&rownum=10&page_noHidden=4&threadpage_no=1&sincedate=26%2f08%2f2009+00%3a00%3a00&thread_id=33037891&thread_name=Reasons+to+stay+on+track...&forum_id=1&board_id=170&setview=TRUE&daterange=2days&viewchange=OPENDATEDESC

I posted my motivations on the other WW community thread, very similar to the one above, here's what I said my resons were for doing this...

Copied and pasted them...

I want my black belt
I don't want to be as fat going to Orlando this Christmas, it'll be much nicer to sit on the plane.
I have tennis elbow but it was suspected arthritis for a while, that has scared me into losing some weight.
I have plantar fasciitis which will be helped by my weight loss.
I have plenty of clothes and nice underwear that will fit me when I lose some weight.
I'm 40 in January, so I have left it too late to be at goal, but if I get there before I'm 41 then that counts:p.
Now my mortgage is pretty much paid off I need another goal that benefits us - my losing weight will help us all because I'll be food planning.
DD is a little bit on the plump side so it would be nice to learn a few healthy habits to share with her.



A new goal for me is I'm having a little operation in November and have been told it would benefit me to lose a bit of weight for that, so one more motivation for me!


For the lady who only eats iceberg lettuce and orange pepper - I used to be a bit like that too, until I decided at the ripe old age of about 33 that I needed to grow up a bit, set a better example to my DD and just start trying new things. Disguising them with gravy or BBQ sauce works well! I confirmed I don't like onions or garlic and curry is out, but now fajitas are my favourite food - lots of peppers, spices, and iceberg on them - I also like Mayonnaise now, which isn't such a healthy discovery, and I'd not tried wraps before, but find they're a nice yeast free alternative to bread. It really is all in the mind! I read somewhere you need to try something 20 times to get used to it. I started with a little bit of something I'd not tried, I would try it when someone else has cooked it (e.g. Asparagus or parsnip, butternut squash etc) and then I know you've not cooked it wrong. Even better out to dinner at a friend's house when it's rude not to try something!