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Post by jamescat1 on Jan 10, 2017 4:42:10 GMT
I've never seen that happen I have! It's probably because I look only at the people I follow and just occasionally at new posts. Is it different than exercise or other challenges?
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Post by newheavensearth2 on Jan 10, 2017 14:31:25 GMT
Yes and no. Some people have personal blue dot checklists that they post daily. Others have a daily, weekly, monthly, etc. challenge that they post under a hashtag. But it is there.
Also on these boards as of late π
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Post by carcando on Jan 10, 2017 15:13:03 GMT
On the WW website, click on Weekly Focus, Your Toolkit. Direct quote: "Challenge yourself to stay in the 'healthy eating zone.' Each day you do, the calendar marks the day with a blue dot. Post to #bluedotchallenge in Connect to crow about your success and to cheer on other blue dot winners". People are doing what WW told them to do! CROW about their blue dot success.
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Post by mattlaura on Jan 10, 2017 16:18:50 GMT
I'll just be an oldster and say how I miss checking the GHG's. π΅π» I shouldn't admit this - but I just started tracking the GHGs in the notes section on LoseIt, and when I meet the GHG I insert a smiley face emoticon just like the old smileys we got on the old tracker. Sad but true! Wildcat, thanks to you finding the note section I am starting to track there too. I am now going to also steal you idea of a smiley face. So thank you!
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Post by mattlaura on Jan 10, 2017 16:30:25 GMT
If the π΅is a motivator to keep you on plan, go for it. Not knocking anyone. I have a good amount of them considering its still early in the month. But I found myself feeling dishonest and acting downright nutsy with a spoon and a food scale shifting around cottage cheese by the friggin GRAM just to get a dot, and I was already at 36 pts, still hungry, and had no fruit on hand. If I had the fruit, this wouldn't have been an issue. A π΅ shouldn't lead you to fudging numbers or smug self righteousness. I'm not saying abandon program or what you are doing, just chill. This would be me. I would game it and then feel horrid if I didn't get it. Then I would probably game it some more to say yes, I got it, when maybe I didn't because I was off one day but I made up for it the next day so I should count, and on an on.
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Post by fullmahina on Jan 10, 2017 16:39:24 GMT
If the π΅is a motivator to keep you on plan, go for it. Not knocking anyone. I have a good amount of them considering its still early in the month. But I found myself feeling dishonest and acting downright nutsy with a spoon and a food scale shifting around cottage cheese by the friggin GRAM just to get a dot, and I was already at 36 pts, still hungry, and had no fruit on hand. If I had the fruit, this wouldn't have been an issue. A π΅ shouldn't lead you to fudging numbers or smug self righteousness. I'm not saying abandon program or what you are doing, just chill. Sounds like it could be the road to some obsessive behavior for some. Many of us are obsessive enough, in many different ways, already. Who needs another freakin' "challenge" to get us even deeper in the muck. YYMV, as always.
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Post by thyme2 on Jan 10, 2017 17:45:43 GMT
I think that everyone should pick and choose what works for them. If they want to give a cheer out for themselves that I am all for it. Women too often are accused of bragging because we may have come from a time when it was not "mannerly" to give ourselves a shout out.
I say go for it. As pointed out in an earlier posts WW is encouraging that sort of thing. If I fail to do something that will make me successful I feel encouraged by those who do those things well.
I agree that obsessive behavior can result for some but it is not a reason for all to not give themselves a pat on the back. I have my own quirky obsessions too. We just need to keep on encouraging each other whenever we can. Use the dots, the tracker, calorie counting on the side, extra exercise, journaling, meditation, daily weighing or what you need that helps you along!
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Post by amy on Jan 10, 2017 17:46:57 GMT
It sounds like the blue dots are perfect for those who are already perfect? It reminds me of the Frankenfood era, when I could eat so much junk that at some point, the points actually decreased proportionally over a certain amount. And same with wine consumption.
I loved that era and I actually lost weight nicely. But I certainly wasn't healthy.
I do have a question for Carcando and others who actually did the program almost perfectly and seem to have no problem maintaining and getting their blue dots and keeping their healthy BMIs, etc... How did you ever get to a point where you needed Weight Watchers? I think I need some backstory. So much perfection and only talking about how one has done everything right can actually be a discouragement to people.
I'm not a big fan of bragging, even if it comes in the disguise of building up one's self-confidence. There's an alienation factor that can divide and discourage people who get to watch the bragging, imo. What's WW's purpose in encouraging people to brag? I just think there must be a better way that could encourage and inspire people than that.
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Post by newheavensearth2 on Jan 10, 2017 18:08:29 GMT
The need to brag to the point of making yourself seem perfect or other members seeem failures is exactly my point. I have plenty of accomplishments in terms of fitness and weight loss, but I don't see or feel the need to post about them, or flaunt them as if I'm perfect. If I were I wouldn't be here on WW.
Maybe it's humility, but I have no problem keeping my dots, losses or whatever to myself every now and then. I don't need to crow about them to convince myself or others that I am sucessful in my efforts. And when I do share them I don't do it in a way that makes others feel bad.
Haughtiness comes before a fall.
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Post by pbnj on Jan 10, 2017 18:25:30 GMT
My blue dots should look like deflated balloons at the end of this week...πΉπΉ
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Post by thyme2 on Jan 10, 2017 18:26:19 GMT
We certainly have different views on this. I have never felt that anyone reporting continued success is bragging. I think that they NEED to share to keep the momentum going or that they have rounded a corner and want to share a good example.
ITRW we can get the true intent and of course no one loves a bragging person. I just don't see that in this setting.
We all have our own interpretations. I am encouraged by successes of others.
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Post by finreporter on Jan 10, 2017 18:35:23 GMT
i agree with amy and newheavens. when one makes it seem like everything with this weight loss journey is so easy and that they are so perfect, it doesn't feel real or genuine. if weight loss and then keeping one's weight loss off after technically being overweight enough to need WW was so easy, everyone would do it. when people keep their weight off it's definitely motivating. but i personally get more encouragement from people being real about their weight management journey.
and no beth, i do not think this is a case of older ladies being around back when it was mannerly for women not to toot their own horn and thus that's why they are bothered. i love when people have success but also show me they have a bit of dirty laundry. to do otherwise feels like a facade.
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Post by thyme2 on Jan 10, 2017 18:45:58 GMT
We all see through a different lense. I agree that we only know what is reported. Watching others struggle may be encouraging to some. I have struggled enough so I am looking for hope.
I MUST track to lose. I have not missed a day of tracking. I did not miss a day when I lost a lot the first time I did WW. I tracked whatever I ate good or bad. When I hit a long,long spell where everything I did to lose went awry, I still tracked.
My point of sharing that is that there are needs for perfection at times and some may be inspired.
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Post by beckymax on Jan 10, 2017 18:53:37 GMT
We certainly have different views on this. I have never felt that anyone reporting continued success is bragging. I think that they NEED to share to keep the momentum going or that they have rounded a corner and want to share a good example. ITRW we can get the true intent and of course no one loves a bragging person. I just don't see that in this setting. We all have our own interpretations. I am encouraged by successes of others. And even in the WW meetings, they have the stickers, the charms, and all the rah rah. Its to help those who need that in their journey. NO one has to do it, but let those who need it, have it.
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Post by 100gone on Jan 10, 2017 18:54:36 GMT
I get it that people see things differently and are motivated by different things. I've never been motivated by perfection (whatever that even means). I'm motivated by resilience, sense of humor, determination, an ability to laugh at oneself. And I'm happy there are folks on this board who have those characteristics.
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