Brief update...

[sublimatedangel]

Not much to write about. Woke up and got to my ww meeting and I am down another 2.0 lbs. Yay that! Spent most of the day with a bad headache though, so didn't accomplish a whole lot... I mostly just read and drank my water like a good girl and snuggled with the kitties. Feeling better now though, and that is nice.

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[spellbinding.livejournal.com]

Hello I saw that you had added me your friends list so I did the same, thus I just read your post :). iv Congratulations on the 2 pounds! I'm curious about WW...my boyfriend's mom and sister started doing the program last year and did tremendously well.

His sis has since dropped out and put back on the pounds. His mom is holding steady and still losing. I have my own chub to lose yet seem quite unmotivated to get going on anything. My chief complaint? Procrastination. Hee.

What can you tell me about WW?

[sublimatedangel]

Yup - I've seen a few of your posts over on katlyn's friends page, and added you :) glad you added me back.

Well, I'm fairly new to WW... I joined May 27th at 178.6 lbs and today I weighed in at 169.4. So it's a slow, steady progress, but I'm pretty happy with the program.

Basically, you're assigned a point range by weight (mine is 20 to 25 now) and any below the maximum that you don't use you can "bank" to use later in the week. You can also earn more by exercising. Yeah.

I have books that give me the points for basic foods (fruit, etc) and then there's a little slide you can use for prepackaged foods to find out the points. There's also a formula you can use too, if you don't have a slide thing.

I go to meetings, but you don't have to do that to follow the program. You can do it at home on your own, or you can use WW Online which is a bit cheaper than meetings.

The biggest changes since I've started: I try really hard to drink at least my 64 oz of water every day, which I definitely didn't do before. Usually water is my only beverage, but that's my choice. I definitely make smarter choices (less restaurant/fast food, less easy-but-unhealthy pastas, etc) because I have a way to "measure" how bad something is and then make a choice about it. The hardest thing, I think, is measuring servings. Most of the stuff I can estimate, or learn (I know how much cereal I use in a bowl, for example). But basically, you still decide what you're eating, and how much, you just get a sense of what you "pay" for that food.

Heh, yeah... That may be way more info than you were really looking for. Let me know if you want to know about anything specific; I'd be happy to help you use the program if you want to try it. I'm very much a procrastinator too, so I can totally understand that :)

[spellbinding.livejournal.com]

Hmm it sounds interesting. Do they have anything where I can just check it out? I'm assuming it costs and arm and a leg to do the meeting thing. What exactly is that like? I'm oddly imagining something like an AA meeting.

Ohhhh. You live near me! :) I'm on the other side of Vasco to you in the East Bay.

[sublimatedangel]

Well, you can check out http://www.weightwatchers.com
That's what I started off doing. You can plug in your zip code to see where and when meetings are that are nearby, if you decide to go to meetings. Meetings are $9.95 a week.
You go, they weigh you and write it down to track your progress, and then there is a meeting. It's not very much like AA... at least the ones I've gone to. You don't have to introduce yourself or tell your story or anything. Usually the leader just talks. She'll usually ask us how the week went, esp if there was a holiday or something, and get people that did well to tell what helped them, and people that didn't do well, what they could have changed to do better. Then there will be some motivational stories/quotes and some specific tips... like new low-point foods that have come out and such. I was a little surprised that it's not more personal... you don't really get one on one time with anyone where they see your food journal or anything. Of course, if you ever want to talk to the leader about something, you are definitely encouraged to stay after the meeting to do so. Heh, so that's what they're like for me. Every week they give you something... recipe cards or little books with quizzes to find out whether you need more carbs or protein, etc. And when you make certain goals, you get stuff... for 5 pounds you get a bookmark, and they give you a gold star for every 5 lbs you lose. And I know you get a keychain at some point, and a few other things...

The point ranges are:
less than 150lbs = 18-23
150-174 = 20-25
175-199 = 22-27
200-224 = 24-29
and so on. You can use a couple of sites to look up points for stuff, although they may not list everything. One of the most useful is
http://www.dwlz.com
It has alot of good stuff you can pick up on by checking around the site. Not the best laid out, maybe, but lots of info.

Some people are like, if you want to know about it, join! I'm not like that, so if you have questions, feel free to ask. You might want to try to take a test run with it, start writing down what you normally eat in a week, and then see how many points that works out to, so you can see where the weak spots are.

[horrorvenus.livejournal.com]

Yay to the loss of weight:o)
Boo to the headache :o(
Yay to kitty snuggles :o)

The :o) outweigh the :o( so you're in good balance!
:o)