The BWW Weight Watchers Club- Page 76
The BWW Weight Watchers Club
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#1876weigh in
Posted: 4/15/08 at 11:15am
This is a good group - I actually found the BWW group more helpful than the WW (I lost 15 lbs last year). Good tips and recipes on this thread.
Baby Peach will be here in a little over a month, which means I will be back in the group then to try and lose the extra baby weight! Till, then, I am eating what I am supposed to (incuding my 300 extra calories per day -- which is kind of nice!). 
I had always done Flex, but I think I am going to try Core. It reminds of Phase 3 of South Beach. Since I've been watching sodium for a little while anyway, I realize I eat more "Core-like" to begin with (whole grains, lots of fruits, veggies and lean proteins, "good" fats, and very little processed food). Plus I can still get my sweets and bread with those 35 points they give you on Core. The only things I don't like about Core are:
-the fat free dairy (I prefer 1% milk and lowfat yogurt over fat free. Plus I don't like the artifical sweeteners in ff yogurt).
-the whole wheat pasta (I prefer whole grain breads, brown rice and such, but when it comes to pasta, I like the white stuff best!)
#1877weigh in
Posted: 4/15/08 at 1:31pm
I've been doing only core for a few weeks, and am getting mighty sick of all the same food all the time.
I want to know how I can be sticking to core, not even using all my weekly points, getting lots of exercise at the gym and walking around outside all day, and yet I am up in weight????
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#1878weigh in
Posted: 4/15/08 at 1:41pm
Liotte, could it be portion size? If I recall, in Core you don't have to measure everything out, but I've had friends who hit plateaus due to portion size.
I've always done Flex, so this will be new to me too (plus I am going to miss my freebie extra preggo calories!).
I think someone on this thread last year had luck doing Core foods but counting points for a week or two (a la Flex) when at plateau, although at that point, you could always just do Flex and eat what you want, which sometimes sounds better because there is more slection.
#1879weigh in
Posted: 4/15/08 at 4:19pmI just started Jenny Craig on Sunday. I already cheated. But I'm optimistic. My goal is 20lbs. If I lose it, then I'll try for 10 more each time.
#1881weigh in
Posted: 4/15/08 at 11:03pm
You say you're up in weight?
It's possible you're building muscle mass. Because I've got a lot of muscle (and flab =/) but muscle is denser then fat. Trust me, since starting up my track workout for SHOT PUT (yessss) this winter, i've gained a lot more muscle
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#1884weigh in
Posted: 4/20/08 at 4:16pmI only lost .6 this week. Technically it wasn't a full week, only 6 days, and I wasn't planning on going this morning so we had a very heavy dinner late last night. I am still not unhappy. I haven't been able to work out in two weeks. And hey... down is down, right? 13 weeks, 28.6 pounds and I only had one week where I was up and that was very early on.
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#1889weigh in
Posted: 4/27/08 at 10:48am
Down three pounds this week! 31.6 in 14 weeks. Pretty freakin' happy.
My boss started a few weeks before me and then asked me if I wanted to go. He was kicking my ass in the weight loss at first dropping 6 or 7 pounds a week. I would get frustrated. Then he started being up one week and down the next. He stopped going to meetings. He blames his renewed poor eating and resulting weight gain on a minor surgery he had and the death of a friend. I call crap. He just gave up. I guess slow and steady is the way to go.
#1893weigh in
Posted: 5/13/08 at 2:07pm
Well, I finally went back on WW Online last week after having struggled for months.
I lost 4.7 pounds this past week. It's amazing what a lil structure can do.
The site has changed somewhat. I also had a lot more points than last time for my starting weight. This is good as I think they had it at too few points last time I did it.
#1894weigh in
Posted: 5/13/08 at 3:03pmI was up .4 last week. Didn't weigh in this week, but according to the home scale I just held steady. Mom was in and we were not very good...lol. Now I have the AIDS walk Sunday, so I will weigh in Monday. Jumping back on program today.
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
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