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Post by pamthomas46 on Sept 26, 2019 5:14:55 GMT
This round runs from September 26 - November 6th. It’s not too late. If you’d like to join us, respond on today’s thread with your board name/first name and your goal for this round. The hostess will add you to the challengers list the following day. Everyone is welcome.
Challengers:
bmazzo/Beverly - staying more active
cathygeha/Cathy - journal every BLT
cherryt38/Cherry - being more active, including exercise
jalibmu/Jan - track 4/7 days
jasimons/Judy - stretch 10 minutes per day 4 days a week
pamthomas46/Pam - stay focused on healthy guidelines, especially limiting refined sugar
Hostess Schedule:
Sept 26 - Oct 2 Pam
Oct 3 - Oct 9 Cathy
Oct 10 - Oct 16 Cherry
Oct 17 - Oct 23 Judy
Oct 24 - Oct 30 Jan
Oct 31 - Nov 6 Beverly
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Post by pamthomas46 on Sept 26, 2019 5:58:52 GMT
QOTD:
I’m using today’s questions to get to know a bit more about each other.
1. Why have you chosen your goal for this round?
2. Are you following one of WW plans? What about it is working for you? Have you made any adaptations? Do you attend meetings? Are you a life time member?
AOTD:
1. Why have you chosen your goal for this round?
The healthy guidelines keep me focused. I am now especially focusing on limiting refined sugar. So my goal is to use the healthy guidelines especially limiting refined sugar.
2. Are you following one of WW plans? What about it is working for you? Have you made any adaptations? Do you attend meetings? Are you a life time member?
I’m following the basic plan with a range of points between 13 and 28. I do track using the healthy guidelines which WW doesn’t stress anymore. I think so many years with Core and Simply Filling using the ghgs taught me how to eat healthfully. They work for me.
I do attend my Tuesday WI which does keep me focused. I’ve not yet gotten to life time. The key for me is not quitting.
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Post by cathygeha on Sept 26, 2019 8:38:19 GMT
1. Why have you chosen your goal for this round? When I journal I am more likely to lose weight - thus the goal this time
2. Are you following one of WW plans? What about it is working for you? Have you made any adaptations? Do you attend meetings? Are you a life time member? Not following WW Am tracking calories on MFP No meetings where I live I reached lifetime in 1984 and again in 1999 - need to get back to goal weight again. I lost the first time on exchanges and the second counting points
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Post by jasimons on Sept 26, 2019 12:48:09 GMT
1. Why I chose my goal -
I'm aiming at the same thing as the past two challenges - stretching/flexibility. While I was still working, I was annoyed by more aches/pains. When I retired, I realized how all the time I spent hunched over work tables, counters and so on had taken a toll on my posture. Hope that continuing to stretch and maintain flexibility (balance too?) will keep my feeling better and able to be active as time goes on.
2. Are you following one of WW plans?
No, not at this time. For a very long time, I'd followed the no-count plans. And there isn't one of those at this time.
What about it is working for you?
Still working, even though it's really not a WW plan.
Have you made any adaptations?
Yes. What I eat is a combination of previous no-count plans. Not sure of the best term - whole foods? Less processed foods? And I do keep a WW phrase in mind - I "let my weight be my guide".
Do you attend meetings?
I haven't stayed for a meeting for a long time (a couple of years maybe?). I go just to weigh once a month for lifetime.
Are you a life time member?
Yes
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Post by cherryt38 on Sept 26, 2019 13:27:29 GMT
1. Why have you chosen your goal for this round?
** I know I would feel better if I exercised. It is necessary and beneficial, but I have a hard time making myself do it.
2. Are you following one of WW plans? What about it is working for you? Have you made any adaptations?
** I guess I loosely follow a no count plan and I'm concentrating on eating more vegetables, fruits, legumes and eating less meat. I also stay away from processes foods and foods with added sugar (most of the time). I do journal.
Do you attend meetings? Are you a life time member?
** I am not a member, although I was an on line member and did Core/Simply Filling when I made goal in 2009. Apparently I am a lifetime member from when I was in WW in the 80s. My goal at that time was 129, which I know is not sustainable for me now. 150 is my goal now. Awhile back I found the book from that time which showed my goal and lifetime membership.
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Post by bmazzo on Sept 26, 2019 13:39:14 GMT
My goal is just to keep up some sort of exercise routine. I am trying very hard to keep this momentum going.
I am half way on the WW plan. Right now, DH & I are doing gluten free & sugar free eating. I also keep WW pts in the back of my mind. I have pretty much given up refined sugar. I just feel like I need to shake WW up a bit.
I have heard that WW will again have a no count plan next year. I think lots of people have asked for it to come back. I can't wait to see what it is.
I haven't attended meetings in a few months now, Pam you are right, it is a real motivation, I plan on starting back this fall.
I am a lifetime member of WW. It took me many years & many times of joining, quitting, re joining, etc. etc. I finally got to my goal about 6 years ago. Sometimes I think that maintaining is harder than losing, I have edged up just a pound here, a pound there, until I am about 15 lbs above where I want to be. At one time, I was down 67 lbs.
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Post by Holly Gail on Sept 26, 2019 14:06:29 GMT
I joined Weight Watchers in 2009 or 2010 (during Momentum days) after having done some WW plan that I found online and followed to the best of my ability (I was motivated after going from size 8 to size 14, thanks almost entirely to menopause). I had lost close to 40 pounds, went off the "diet" (that was still my mindset), and my weight settled in at a few pounds over the total amount I'd lost. A couple of years later, I had put back around 30 of the original 40 I had lost; that was the time to make the commitment to join, so I bit the bullet and joined. I counted Momentum points religiously, if using that word in this context doesn't offend anyone, and after about one year, found that for about two to three months, my weight wavered between 2 and 3 pounds above goal. That's when I knew I had to make a real change in what I was doing. I had read about the Simply Filling Technique, but didn't actually understand the "satisfaction" measure... Then one day I was invited to a luncheon hosted by a Russian family at a restaurant. I was seated at a table with about 10 people, 5 of whom spoke Russian with each other... There were two couples I knew (and I sat between them). I recognized only one food item on the table: a bottle of vodka held in an ice sculpture of a vase... I tasted each and every dish on the table (with one exception; when I'm out, I usually eat either vegetarian or sometimes will have fish, but no meat or poultry, and the one item I didn't taste had chicken and I don't know what else inside). Everything was delicious. One dish in particular was more delicious than any of the others. I wanted more of it. However, I asked myself whether I wanted it because it tasted so good or whether I really was still hungry. I was still hungry so I had a second small helping (imagine the size of tablespoons that come in a set of flatware for the home; those were the "serving" spoons on the table). It was at least as delicious as the first time I'd tasted it (also one of those "tablespoons" worth). I wanted more. Again I asked myself whether I wanted more because it was delicious or because I was still hungry. I wasn't hungry. I didn't have a third helping.
And that's when the light bulb turned on over my head! I had figured out by myself what WW meant by "satisfaction"!!!!! I switched to SFT the following Monday (the first day of my week). My weigh in day was either Wednesday or Thursday (I don't remember); I don't remember what my weight was after a few days on SFT, but the following week (so, about 10 days into SFT), I weighed between 2 and 3 pounds UNDER goal! That was it for me. I never went back to counting whatever points WW was touting.
I went on the 6 weeks of maintenance and made Lifetime in August or September of 2010 or 2011. Since then, I've weighed in every month (there was a period of about a year when I didn't attend meetings much, although I still made it my business to weigh in) and am still Lifetime at Goal.
Before the current FreeStyle plan, my WW Leader hinted to me that WW may not be supporting SF after the "new" plan came into effect, and then after it did, she asked me and I said I'm still doing SF. She never tried to "convert" me from SF back to counting.
I hadn't heard that WW may bring back some sort of "no-count" plan before reading it on this board (thanks, Bev, bmazzo , for saying so!); I'd be the first to go on it if and when it does.
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Post by jan on Sept 26, 2019 19:06:02 GMT
1. Why have you chosen your goal for this round? It seems like it would help me if I actual wrote down the points, instead of guessimating them in my head.
2. Are you following one of WW plans? What about it is working for you? Have you made any adaptations? Do you attend meetings? Are you a life time member?
I am going to go back a plan where the calculators actually worked to figure out points. It may be a combination of a couple of plans. I attended meetings faithfully until I got 20 lbs over goal and when I wasn't losing, I quit attending because I felt like I was just paying them to tell me what I already knew. Also, I don't know if all meetings are like this now, but ours focused mostly on using the app/connect and if you don't have a smart phone, none of it really applied to you.
I am a lifetimer, just currently over goal.
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Post by pamthomas46 on Sept 26, 2019 21:48:19 GMT
An interesting discussion today. Thanks for sharing everyone.
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Post by Holly Gail on Sept 27, 2019 5:02:16 GMT
bmazzo , Who's the handsome young man (your photo)?
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