Weight Watchers 2011 support thread

Footiemad_2

hjb123 wrote: »

Not been on this thread for a while, am still going to weekly weigh in and have now lost 68.5lb (almost 5 stones!) and am really pleased, it has been going slowly but am happy with losing it slowly(at times!)

Got some of the new banoffee bars this week and they are scrumptious - have had to freeze them like I do with the others to stop eating them so fast! Also quite like the fruit pastilles but the problem is once you have one you have the whole box - and I think we all know what too many weightwatchers sweets cause!

Wow what a fantatic weight loss so far. Good for you:T:T

Hmmmm weightwatchers sweets:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Jinx

My problem with the snacks/munchies is that I have very little willpower.... Cakes, biscuits or crisps etc, an open pack, box, wrapper whatever, is soon emptied!! So Im sticking with my munchies of choice - chilli crackers with cheese spread or ice-lollies. The ice-lollies work well cos I can point em individually and they are 3 each, unless the tubs of haagen dazs I used to eat in one sitting:eek:

ali-t

I have been going daft for meringues since starting WW and going through meringue nests at a rate of knotts

I have seen a recipe in a magazine for raspberry roulade and it has 463 cals, 25.4g fat and 57.1g sugar :eek:
Soooo, is it possible to make this much lighter by making a few changes? I am thinking of:

• making meringues with splenda instead of caster sugar
• using fat free yoghurt instead of cream

I am thinking of using 200g splenda, 2 or 3 cartons of yoghurt and berries as normal - much less points!

If this is possible, how long would it keep? I am a total novice in the kitchen and have spent years living off microwave food and chocolate so this actually making stuff lark is a bit of a novelty.

Jinx

Plain uncreamed meringues keep for a week easily in an air tight tub...... but they wont last that long anyway lol

Pee

gilligansyle wrote: »

That's where I can't catch up on the points. I don't like most desserts, especially if they contain cream or ice cream.
An average day for me is
Breakfast - around 4 points
Banana mid morning
Lunch - salad, slice ham or chicken - around 5 points
which leaves me a whopping 20 points for main meal.



I drink coffee black, and tea with a tiny splash of skimmed milk - use less than a pint of milk a week!

It seems daft that I have to eat things specially to use up the points.

Do you think you are getting enough calcium? (I have no idea what you eat for your main meal, but note you drink very little milk and probably don't like yoghurt if you don't like desserts.) If you are getting enough, it might be worth using some of your points for adding calcium.

ailuro2

Well that's the last week of my 3 free months done, I lost 4.5 lb this week, so have now lost 2 stones and half a pound ( 28.5 lbs)

I ate all but 4 of my weekly points last week, but did not earn any activity points for the week.

I will now be paying for WWonline, but I said way back at the start that I would pay for it if I was still on plan and losing weight after 3 months was up. I think I've done well out of the Quidco cashback deal - 2 stone lighter and it didn't cost me anything

Good Luck to everyone else for your weigh ins this week - haven't been around here much, have been on the WW message boards, it helps to remind me to stay on plan - every little helps, as Mr T likes to tell us!:D

gilligansyle

Pee wrote: »

Do you think you are getting enough calcium? (I have no idea what you eat for your main meal, but note you drink very little milk and probably don't like yoghurt if you don't like desserts.) If you are getting enough, it might be worth using some of your points for adding calcium.

You are right, I eat very little dairy. I use less than half a litre of milk a week, very rarely eat cheese and yogurts just take like sour milk (yeugghh!)
I know my diet is low in calcium because they pointed it out to me when my son had problems. The only other thing I know of that is high in calcium is fish - unless anyone knows different.
For this week only I have bought some ready meals, so will see if having meals that are ready pointed helps me to eat more. I've looked at the tracker for last week, and I averaged only 21 points a day for the whole week. And put a pound on :eek:

cloverfan

Hi everyone,

I joined WW in october and have been paying £20 for the monthly pass but I only went the first two weeks:o:o:o

Each week I intend to go but things keep happening and I thought about switching to at home, do you know if they would let me do this??? I am getting fatter and fatter and more and more unhappy so I eat and get fatter and more unhappy and.......you probably get the picture:o

Please help me

mooomin

cloverfan wrote: »

Each week I intend to go but things keep happening and I thought about switching to at home, do you know if they would let me do this??? I am getting fatter and fatter and more and more unhappy so I eat and get fatter and more unhappy and.......you probably get the picture:o

I think that if you have monthly pass you can just track online anyway.

I find that the meetings work for me though in terms of keeping on track and getting ideas/inspiration from others. What is it that's stopping you from going to the meetings?

cloverfan

flying_fresian wrote: »

I think that if you have monthly pass you can just track online anyway.

I find that the meetings work for me though in terms of keeping on track and getting ideas/inspiration from others. What is it that's stopping you from going to the meetings?

Lots of things, kids, XH gone through a stage of just turning up, been teaching my mother to drive and she ended up wanting to go most days, poorly, picking up DS1 at work clashes with all evening ones, loads of excuses really. I just think I would be happier to run into boots and jump on the scales:o and like you say track online, problem is knowing I have put on weight I now have no idea how many points I should be on?? x