Wow Carol, congrats on the excellent loss this week! I love your enthusiasm, it
will carry you far.

I wish I could confirm your suspicions and tell you that maintenance is going to
be easy, but .............. it still is a guessing game for me and I've been here
for quite a bit now. No way can I eat 50+ points and even consider maintaining.
grin Unfortunately, once I got closer to my goal those activity points are
incredibly difficult to earn. You wouldn't believe how hard I have to work my
butt off (and my daughter tells me there isn't much left!) just to earn 3 or 4
points each day - which takes me to a maintenance point level anywhere from 23-28
points per day. I think Fred is the one who calls it a *magic* number, and has
determined (and confirmed my observations) that there just isn't a magic number.
It constantly changes day to day, week to week. I'm sure not complaining though,
just wishing I could figure it out. I love it here and am reserving a space for
you! grin

Keep up the fantastic work, your energy certainly is contagious!

Joyce
WW starting weight: 228.8 - 2/5/02
current weight: 133.3
Lifetime: 4/4/03

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:39:51 GMT, "Carol in NC" wrote:

Hi everyone,

I had the best weigh in I've had in a really long time. I lost 2.6 pounds.
I ate an average of 42.5 points a day. I ended up with 9 Flex points
left...and I earned and ate 54 activity points. It seems as though each
week on Flex is getting better. I'm not sure what I've done to my
metabolism, but I'm not complaining. I'm exercising more, loving it, and
eating really, really well.

I did eat somewhat fewer carbs this week...no sandwiches for lunch this
week...mainly protein and vegetables. (I did have plenty of carbs
throughout the day though, so it wasn't a REALLY low carb week, just lower
than normal for me.)

I've obviously revved up my metabolism with the extra exercise and fuel to
power it. (My weight loss had REALLY slowed down/stalled/or gains before
Flex started and, even though being on point all the time, I was getting
very discouraged by my progress. All that has changed now.

It looks like this is going to make maintenance easier for me, since I'll be
able to eat more to maintain.

Carol