Weight Watchers

Can I just talk for a minute about Weight Watchers? Why sure I can, it's my blog. I started my weight loss with Weight Watchers in February. I tried it once before, years ago when I didn't have much weight to lose. I went to the meetings and felt very out of place. When I decided to do WW this time, I was a bit skeptical of the meetings, so I signed up for the online version. I was a bit skeptical of that too because I was worried that there might not be enough accountability there to keep me going. But, the online program was really good. There were lots of recipes and tracking features. My points plus allowance was around 40 per day with an extra 49 flex points for the week to use. I also liked that you could earn extra exercise points for each week. I really did well and the fact that the new program allows you to eat almost any fruits and vegetables without using any of your points was a huge plus for me. I filled my day with fruits and veggies and continued to cook a lot of the same things for my family. The online program also has a recipe builder so I could put my recipe into the system and it would tell me how many points it was. So, I could just eat a smaller portion of what I would normally eat, add a big serving of steamed vegetables on the side and feel really good.

After three months on the program, my subscription was up and, being the cheapskate that I am, decided that I knew enough of what to do that I didn't need WW anymore. This was the same time that the Biggest Loser competition was starting and my team was trying to use MyFitnessPal online to be accountable to one another. This website gives you a calorie limit for each day, mine was 1320 and that's it. I tried it for a few weeks, but it didn't seem to be working very well with my personality and what I needed, so I bit the bullet and subscribed to WW again. I knew that it worked well for me. For some reason, I needed to be able to not feel guilty about eating a bowl of strawberries for a snack. I know that it's a great choice, but having to count those calories against my day, just didn't help me.

So, back to WW and the points that I am allowed each day continues to go down each week. Now, I'm allowed 29 points per day, with the same 49 flex points each week. It's getting more difficult to stay within my points allowance. I thought it was hard at 40, but now thinking back, 40 would be so nice. I'm also having troubles spreading my points out throughout the day. Since I am still trying to not eat anything past 7 pm, I need to make sure that my points are used up at dinner. That's a hard thing for me. I don't know why. Early on, I had those extra points left at the end of the day and I would snack on some popcorn or something else after I got the kids in bed, but not anymore. I just need to really work on getting those used earlier in the day. So, that's something I am going to work on in the next couple of weeks. I will let you know how I do.