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 :)
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Date: 2003-07-08 09:50 pm (UTC)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 :)