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Well I'm here... and hungry...
....actually I'm not that hungry, I seem to have done nothing but eat
today, and its all pointed and so far nowhere near the 26 points I am allowed a day... Yesterday, my first day on WW, (yup - a complete newbie!) I could only manage 19 points - what am I doing wrong? Advice and suggestions please! Went shopping last night and spent twice as long round the supermarket looking up the points value of things I usually buy - Paul got really fed up with me... having said that he is being really supportive which is good, he also needs to lose weight but isn't going to pay to come with me, he'll just follow alongside what I am eating. Suzie B -- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK http://community.webshots.com/user/suziekga |
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Well I'm here... and hungry...
Hi, Suzie! Glad you found us! I can't help with not being able to eat enough
points, tho. I can always find something to eat... G Tell Paul that if you can put up with him and his cannon, he can jolly well go round the shops with you! It does get easier to figure out what to eat as you get used to the system. I can now make myself lunch without thinking about points - I have a repetoire of lunches I can easily do. Dinner is a little trickier - have to figure in what to do with the rest of the family! -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply "Paul & Suzie Beckwith" wrote in message ... ...actually I'm not that hungry, I seem to have done nothing but eat today, and its all pointed and so far nowhere near the 26 points I am allowed a day... Yesterday, my first day on WW, (yup - a complete newbie!) I could only manage 19 points - what am I doing wrong? Advice and suggestions please! Went shopping last night and spent twice as long round the supermarket looking up the points value of things I usually buy - Paul got really fed up with me... having said that he is being really supportive which is good, he also needs to lose weight but isn't going to pay to come with me, he'll just follow alongside what I am eating. Suzie B -- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK http://community.webshots.com/user/suziekga |
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frood wrote:
Hi, Suzie! Glad you found us! I can't help with not being able to eat enough points, tho. I can always find something to eat... G Tell Paul that if you can put up with him and his cannon, he can jolly well go round the shops with you! It does get easier to figure out what to eat as you get used to the system. I can now make myself lunch without thinking about points - I have a repetoire of lunches I can easily do. Dinner is a little trickier - have to figure in what to do with the rest of the family! -- Wendy I have the answer to that one - they eat what I do, but have whole milk yoghurts, more cheese, whatever! Suzie, welcome aboard! Another quilter joins the merry throng! I find the most useful thing is to work out the main meals for the week, carefully pointed, and buy only for those meals. Alan (the DH and shopper!) adds things like treats for James, crisps (chips to the US contingent), and whatever. Alan doesn't eat cookies and sweet stuff, being diabetic, and James would usually have more dinner than a desert (unless it's apple crumble!). Plan the main meals, make sure there's plenty no point soup in fridge and freezer for lunches, avoid buying the things you shouldn't eat so they are not in the house for moments of weakness! Keep plenty of carrots on hand for nibbling, and plenty of fruit for deserts, nibbles, whatever. DRINK PLENTY OF WATER!!! Good luck! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:21:51 +0100, Kate Dicey
wrote: Suzie, welcome aboard! Another quilter joins the merry throng! Thanks Kate - great to see some familier names here... snip Plan the main meals, make sure there's plenty no point soup in fridge and freezer for lunches, avoid buying the things you shouldn't eat so they are not in the house for moments of weakness! Keep plenty of carrots on hand for nibbling, and plenty of fruit for deserts, nibbles, whatever. DRINK PLENTY OF WATER!!! Its hard at the start, 'cos the fridge/freezer/cupboards still have stuff that we shouldn't really have, its a choice between throw loads of stuff away (which I hate the idea of) or trying to count it into my points allowance... its gonna take a while to get my head round this. Do you religeously (sp) fill in your points journal each day - or are you past that? Do the books get read by the weighers at each meeting - or are they merely an aide-memoire for you to keep track of what you are eating? Suzie B -- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK http://community.webshots.com/user/suziekga |
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:13:32 GMT, "frood"
wrote: Hi, Suzie! Glad you found us! I can't help with not being able to eat enough points, tho. I can always find something to eat... G Tell Paul that if you can put up with him and his cannon, he can jolly well go round the shops with you! Yaay - hi there Wendy! Hehehe - Paul always comes shopping with me - stops me bringing home all the stuff I shouldn't! It does get easier to figure out what to eat as you get used to the system. I can now make myself lunch without thinking about points - I have a repetoire of lunches I can easily do. Dinner is a little trickier - have to figure in what to do with the rest of the family! Is it ok to have the same things every day? for breakfast and lunch that is - we take a packed lunch to work each day and I usually can't be a**ed trying to fathom out what to make every morning thats different, so we have the same sandwich each day... altho I am making a large no-points salad as well... it'd make sorting out how many points to play with for supper a lot easier... Suzie B -- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK http://community.webshots.com/user/suziekga |
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Do you religeously (sp) fill in your points journal each day - or are
you past that? Do the books get read by the weighers at each meeting - or are they merely an aide-memoire for you to keep track of what you are eating? Yes. Log your points in a diary every day. That way if you don't lose or lose too fast you should be able to figure out whats wrong. Journalling is the best indicator of whether someone will be successful or not. Ray -- rmnsuk overall - 273/203/182 swwc - 205/203/192 |
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"Paul & Suzie Beckwith" wrote in message
... On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:13:32 GMT, "frood" wrote: Hi, Suzie! Glad you found us! I can't help with not being able to eat enough points, tho. I can always find something to eat... G Tell Paul that if you can put up with him and his cannon, he can jolly well go round the shops with you! Yaay - hi there Wendy! Hehehe - Paul always comes shopping with me - stops me bringing home all the stuff I shouldn't! It does get easier to figure out what to eat as you get used to the system. I can now make myself lunch without thinking about points - I have a repetoire of lunches I can easily do. Dinner is a little trickier - have to figure in what to do with the rest of the family! Is it ok to have the same things every day? for breakfast and lunch that is - we take a packed lunch to work each day and I usually can't be a**ed trying to fathom out what to make every morning thats different, so we have the same sandwich each day... altho I am making a large no-points salad as well... it'd make sorting out how many points to play with for supper a lot easier... Welcome aboard, Suzie. I can help answer some of your questions. I'm allowed 26 points too. I have roughly the same thing for breakfast and lunch everyday since I don't have much time to have breakfast plus make my lunch before I go to work in the morning. I vary my dinner and my snacks depending on whether I go exercise after work or if I have something unexpected for lunch. I just found it easier to stick with a basic menu for these 2 meals due to time contrainsts. Here's my basic menu: Breakfast: 2 or 3 points cold cereal + 1 or 2 points Fruit (1/2 banana or 1 cup strawberries & blueberries or 1/8 cup raisons) + 1/2 cup 1% milk. (1 point) Total = 5 points Occasional alternatives: 2 eggs scrambled (4 points) + 1 slice of toast with dab of low fat margarine. (1.5 points) Total= 5.5 points Lunch: 2 slices Low Fat bread (1 point), 3 oz Turkey/chicken breast (3 point), 2 teaspoons light mayo (0 points), Celery/Carrots (1 point), 1/2 Low fat Dannon yoghurt (1 point). Total=6 points. Other sandwich alternates: Peanut butter and jelly, Lean Cuisine or Weight Watcher meals (5-6 points). Some days I add a slice of low fat cheese to my turkey sandwich (1 point). If I am out of LF bread I have to adjust my dinner menu to account for the extra points consumed by eating DH's bread (3-4 points). Tip: aim for low fat meats like turkey or chicken breast that are 1 point per ounce. I found that I needed a bunch of protein at lunch or I was hungry by mid-afternoon. I added the yoghurt to lunch to give me another serving of calcium since I don't like milk. These basic menus leave me with approximately 16 points for dinner. I probably should add a morning snack if I had time to take a break at work but I'm not usually hungry until lunch because I have a good breakfast. I also tend to eat my lunch while I am working or surfing the internet so it tends to take me over an hour to finish my raw veggies so I am full by the time I finish. Hopefully this will get you started. It took me a few weeks to figure out the menu for these 2 meals so I can understand your frustration. Hang in there. -- ~~Laura (LJ)~~ 246/223/221 10% 237/223/225 SWWC started WW 4/21/03 |
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Fats and starches are a fast way to use up points.
At the end of dinner one day, I still had 11.5 points to go, so later that evening I had a big bowl of cereal (two servings) with 8 oz. of 1% milk. The cereal I chose has raisins, dates, and pecans in it, so that used up a pretty good chunk of what was left. It was a real treat. The next day, it occurred to me that I could have had a bagel. A friend of ours gave us a card good for a dozen bagels from Einstein Brothers every month. Last time I was there, I asked for nutritional data, and they're 350 calories each, so that's around 7 points (1 gram of fat, but they didn't list the fiber content). Needless to say, you can't go around eating bagels all day, but that would have been a nice treat, too. It is important not to go into starvation mode by not eating enough. That slows down your metabolism and makes it harder to lose. Stan 9/21/2003 309/299/199 On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:06:49 GMT, (Paul & Suzie Beckwith) wrote: ...actually I'm not that hungry, I seem to have done nothing but eat today, and its all pointed and so far nowhere near the 26 points I am allowed a day... Yesterday, my first day on WW, (yup - a complete newbie!) I could only manage 19 points - what am I doing wrong? Advice and suggestions please! Went shopping last night and spent twice as long round the supermarket looking up the points value of things I usually buy - Paul got really fed up with me... having said that he is being really supportive which is good, he also needs to lose weight but isn't going to pay to come with me, he'll just follow alongside what I am eating. Suzie B |
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Well I'm here... and hungry...
Hi Susie!
Glad you found us! Tell "Mr. Cannon" that following along with you will work just fine! Hugs to the both of you! -- Donna in Idaho! Project Linus Boise/SW Idaho Coordinator Website: http://donnakwilts.tripod.com/ Remove ".remove.invalid" to reply The ultimate inspiration is the deadline! "Paul & Suzie Beckwith" wrote in message ... ...actually I'm not that hungry, I seem to have done nothing but eat today, and its all pointed and so far nowhere near the 26 points I am allowed a day... Yesterday, my first day on WW, (yup - a complete newbie!) I could only manage 19 points - what am I doing wrong? Advice and suggestions please! Went shopping last night and spent twice as long round the supermarket looking up the points value of things I usually buy - Paul got really fed up with me... having said that he is being really supportive which is good, he also needs to lose weight but isn't going to pay to come with me, he'll just follow alongside what I am eating. Suzie B -- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK http://community.webshots.com/user/suziekga |
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