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Post by wwlurker on Sept 13, 2021 12:51:40 GMT
Hello! I thought that I would pop in and say hi. cj59 - it seems like you are doing well. sunrose49 - hope you are doing well too! I haven't been checking in. I am back to not restricting my food. I am trying to eat regularly and fit in lots of fruits and veggies. I just joined a gym again. I'm trying to work on healthy habits for the sake of healthy habits and not for weight loss. I'm reading a book, More than a Body, on body image and I find it fascinating. Wishing you all the best!
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Post by cj59 on Sept 13, 2021 20:55:38 GMT
Hi wwlurker - I'm glad to hear from you Good luck with the gym, hope you enjoy it. Working on healthy habits is what I try to do too. I'll have to check out that book, thanks for mentioning it. I'm doing alright. I did eat a bit of that junk food over the weekend, so I'm hoping to stay within a calorie range this week. I did walk to day too and hope to do that each day. Hope everyone else is doing well
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Post by lindasb12 on Sept 14, 2021 14:27:31 GMT
Hi cj59. I think we were on another board together a few years ago. I don't have the time I used to have to be online but I ran across this board a few days ago and decided to check it out a little more. I was doing good back in 2017. DH had a stroke and I maintained for a while. I was never at goal/lifetime but at a manageable weight about 10 lbs from my health weight range. Slowly, while not tracking I crept up about 20 lbs. However, even though for 5 months I've have not been able to find aide to help me with DH, back in Feb. I did a restart on WW and have stuck with it consistently. I'm doing the green program. I really liked purple but before DH stroke, if I was making something he didn't want, he would make something else for himself. He's not able to do that anymore. So I decided with more points on green, I can have a little more flexibility in my food choices and not have to make different meals for him and me. For example, regular pasta and whole wheat pasta are just about the same points. So usually I use regular but sometimes I do make healthy pasta. Anyway, I got green working for me and I've lost about 9 lbs. I've always been a slow loser so if that doesn't seem like a lot in 7 months, I'm okay with it. "Weight lost fast tends to come back and weight lost slowly tends to stay off."
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Post by sunrose49 on Sept 14, 2021 18:53:16 GMT
Hi for now
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Post by cj59 on Sept 14, 2021 19:15:47 GMT
Hi Linda - It's so nice to hear from you. I've often wondered how you and your DH are doing. I'm happy to hear you are sticking with your chosen WW plan and I hope you are successful with it. I'd love for you to post in here if you want to check in to say how you are doing. Unfortunately I got very off track in 2019 and regained half of the weight I'd lost from 2015-2017 and maintained for 2018. I started back on losing weight in January and I've lost close to 40 pounds so far this year. Like you said, I'm fine with losing weight slowly and I hope I can keep it off. I'm using calorie counting now for my weight loss, but I keep the old Good Health Guidelines in mind and try to stick with them each day Hi sunrose - Hope you are doing well. I'm staying on track and have my food planned for the day. Hope everyone else is doing well too
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Post by lindasb12 on Sept 15, 2021 14:36:01 GMT
I can't promise I'll be here everyday or will be able to continue to post, but I will try to post when I can. I've got my day tracked. I have 34 tracked today. I decide to treat myself to some "real ice cream" today. All summer I've been making "nice cream" and have really enjoyed it for my daily "ice cream"-like treat. WW has a few recipes. I've tried most of them and also looked online for ideas so I have had variety. the best part is some of the flavors are 0 points! But today I had a number of points "unused" with my meals all tracked and some snacks. So I decided, it's a good day for a treat! For dinner I'm making stew with lean beef cubes and lots of veggies, cooked in my instant pot. The instant pot is so helpful to get meals made quickly when I don't have much free time during the day. I also love to make pulled chicken in it and(my very mild) chili. Pulled chicken is DH's favorite. I even make my own BBQ sauce! I love BBQ sauce but the regular has too many points and usually sugar in it, the light ones have artificial sweeteners. I only use stevia as a sugar substitute. My BBQ sauce is 1 sp for 2 tbsp and it is sweetened with syrup made with stevia. (Good Good sweet like syrup, maple syrup flavor) I don't always eat everything I track and sometimes add something extra. yesterday I tracked 30 but ate 29.
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Post by cj59 on Sept 15, 2021 21:29:38 GMT
Hi Linda - Hope you enjoy the ice cream Those sound like some great meals you've been cooking. I'm glad you've found to a way to make BBQ that you like and that works for your points. I look forward to hearing from you when you can post. I'm doing pretty well. I was able to walk a bit longer this morning that I have for a few days, so that was nice. And I'm doing pretty well staying on track. Hope everyone else is doing well too
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Post by lindasb12 on Sept 16, 2021 14:31:03 GMT
Good morning cj59 and all! I don't get much time for walking like I used to but with taking care of DH my day includes an average of 9000 steps a day. Part of that is intentionally putting things so I have to walk from one end of the house to the other numerous times a day. Daily my steps range from a little under 7000 (not often this low but it does happen occasionally) to over 10,000, which happens on average once a week. Today is my take out/fast food lunch day. I tracked my other meals plus I tracked home made air fryer fries, in case I get a sandwich that I want fries with, so I'm not tempted to order fries. A WW friend suggested that to me and it has helped me be able to have fast food, enjoy fries AND get a blue dot, all on the same day. I have 23 tracked today so far. Yesterday I ended up with 33 for the day. The stew came out great! DH said he wants left overs for dinner tonight. I'm having left over turkey-onion burger from the previous night. I put my BBQ sauce on it and have it on a 647 sandwich roll. My WW leader told us about chicken burgers she makes. I make them with either 97% or better ground white chicken or turkey. 1 tbsp of egg whites and she uses a packet the onion soup mix. However, that has a lot of sodium in it. So I found a recipe online for making your own onion soup mix. Instead of using the regular beef granulated bullion, I use the sodium free. DH and I both need to watch sodium. It makes a very tasty burger!
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Post by cj59 on Sept 16, 2021 19:43:13 GMT
Hello Everyone Linda - Sounds like you are making some very tasty and healthy meals. I use the sodium free broth mix too. I'm glad you are getting in a lot of steps too. I stopped wearing my Fitbit when it broke. I bought a new one but I can't get it to setup so I gave up on it. I know I'm not doing very well with daily steps but at least I'm getting some exercise each day. Hope everyone is doing well today
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Post by cj59 on Sept 18, 2021 0:20:19 GMT
Just checking in for the day. I've stayed on track with my eating and walked today. I'm still a few pounds away from my October goal weight, but I don't think I'll make it. I'm alright with that, I just want to keep working on this and I'll get there eventually.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
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Post by cj59 on Sept 18, 2021 19:17:24 GMT
Hello Everyone - Hope you are all doing well today and enjoying your weekend
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Post by lindasb12 on Sept 19, 2021 14:46:35 GMT
It's been a busy few days. Fri. DH and I both had virtual appts with the primary dr. in the morning. Then on Sat. we were having problems with the mattress on DH's hospital bed. tomorrow they are coming to look at it. The fast food lunch didn't happen on Thurs. I ended up with 29 sp.Fri. was 28, Sat was 34. I have 30 tracked for today. New week starts tomorrow and WI and I have 18/21 weeklies left, although I did get some extra ones when I was under 30 sp for the day. I hope you're enjoying your weekend!
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Post by cj59 on Sept 19, 2021 22:56:13 GMT
Hi Linda Sounds like you have a good handle on your daily and weekly points. Hope they can fix your DH's mattress problems. I'm doing pretty well and it looks like I have lost a few pounds this month, so that's good. I was thinking today about all the times I've lost and regained weight and it seems like each time I learned something that helped me the next time. From the last time I lost (and then regained), I learned that I will always have to track my food because otherwise I eat out of control with too large portions. And I was thinking that this time I really need to figure out what will work for me long term to keep the weight off as far as how many calories I can eat spread throughout the week. I hope I can figure this out by the time I get to the weight I want to be at. I don't want to continue this losing/regaining in the future. I hope everyone is doing well and that you had a good weekend
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Post by lindasb12 on Sept 20, 2021 15:53:37 GMT
cj59, I know what you mean about working on making this something I can live with forever. I am also working on making this a lifestyle change. One thing I have learned from regaining and restarting, I have to allow for my favorites. Green has helped me make that happen. I like sweets. I allow a small amount of chocolate each day but enough that I feel satisfied. usually I have dark hershey kisses. 5 kisses = 6 sp. I know that's a lot of points to tie up each day and if I want something else, like on Sat., my daughter had made some cookies. No hershey kisses that day. A WW member from my in person meetings had mentioned that 1 kiss =1 sp and I think 2= 2sp but after that, it's an additional sp. She said she keeps them in the fridge and lets them melt in her mouth to extend the eating time. I figured it was worth a try and it works for me. Another thing I mentioned the other day, Nice cream instead of ice cream. I sure have enjoyed that all summer. I also have some chocolate and chocolate chip muffins I make for 1 sp and brownies for 4. Sometimes I even make a brownie sundae with the nice cream and a little chocolate syrup. 7 sp is a lot better than the 20 (?) a regular sundae would have! And there is my crunchy snacks the WW snacks have really helped with that but I do have popcorn on occasion. And then there's one of my biggest trigger foods . . .ritz crackers. I haven't had them in years. But I really wanted to find a healthier alternative. I did a search online and found Back to nature classic rounds. They are very close to ritz without being the trigger food that ritz crackers are. 5 = 2sp. Not bad. Enjoying those keeps me from other point unfriendly options. I'm not sure what you struggle with and your trigger foods, but if you want this to work permanently, you can't feel deprived. I don't. I can easily turn down regular ice cream (although I do have it on occasion) knowing I have nice cream to eat and I really want to eat it! Find healthy substitutes that work for you. A carrot stick doesn't make up for wanting a ritz cracker, at least not for me. Occasionally I might be able to substitute veggies and dip for chips, but it's not going to satisfy me everyday. I also had to accept that a limited amount of night time eating is necessary for me. So I pre-track all my snacks. And if it's pretracked, 95% of the time it doesn't change with one exception. I found I was wanting something late after noon, after I have my 3 pm smoothie, like at 4:30. I need to give myself a boost of energy to keep going. So since it is a common time for me to need something, I track a low sodium v8 everyday. More days than not, I skip having it and delete it from my tracker the next day. But on those days I need a little something, it's only 1 sp and it's already accounted for. And last of all, allow yourself to indulge occasionally. Sometimes you have no choice because you're not in control of the food. But if you have a high calorie favorite meal, plan it occasionally. It might require a low point breakfast and lunch and easy on the points for snacks, but having it will help you be able to stay on track knowing that nothing is off limits. If I don't have the points for it today, I will put it on my tracker tomorrow (or whatever day I pick) and plan around it.
If any of these ideas sound good to you, focus on one at a time. What would help you most right now? Work on that because making too many changes at once will be hard and overwhelming. Yesterday I ended up with 46 sp! yup . . .almost used up my weeklies. 2 left. DH asked for some of the homemade cookies last night. I'd been talking myself out of having some all day. But when I had to put some on the plate for him, I put some on a plate for me too. Well, no blue dot for me but as my leader says, it's a white dot day meaning I've tracked my food and it wasn't out of control. today my weeklies reset. I have 32 tracked for today. Let's make this a great week!
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Post by cj59 on Sept 20, 2021 17:52:41 GMT
Hello Everyone Linda - Thanks for all the tips/suggestions/pointers on weight loss and eating, I appreciate them. Some of them I have used and some I need to try out I'm glad you had those extra weeklies to use yesterday. And I hope this is a great week for you too I've done some tracking/meal planning today, just have to figure out dinner. I always start with fruits, vegetables, dairy and breakfast choices and then go from there. I also walked tis morning. I'm hoping for a good week too. Having that goal to meet at the beginning of October is helping me stay on track. Hope you are all doing well and your plans and will check in and let us know how you are. Take care!
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