Weight Watcher's Thread

[vernon]

Vern, do you do SW on line ,I was looking at it ,£80 for the first thee months but may be worth it.

Hi there.

I go to the sessions after work. It's convenient for me. Some of the meeting is entertaining as some of the members get emotional when they try to identify where they went wrong in the previous week which has led to a weigh gain of 1/2 lb or a 'maintain' or even a lower loss than they wanted.

I thought that £80 was a bit pricy for three months as conventional membership over the same spell would be around £60 but, you do get a years subscription to the mags and the food optimising book which works out about the same.

The recipes in the mags are good and one or two of the 'real life' weight loss stories are interesting.

The recipe books are also good. There's one for curries.

I can honestly say that I have not starved or suffered since starting on the eating plan. Some of the members in my group do struggle because they are picky eaters: 'I don't do veg', 'I don't do yoghurts with bits in'

or miss the point entirely: 'I can't live with out cheese, chocolate and copious amounts of alcohol'

Give it a go - I don't think that the kidney stones mentioned in your later post will be affected as high (non-alcoholic) fluid intake is recommended and the recipes are v.low fat.

 

[The Jogger]

Thanks Vern, I'm starting this from Wed, shopping getting done Tues, fry light spay, low fat ingredients etc and then off I go. I may join the group or go on line, groups are difficult for me with the shifts and travelling, eiher London or Sussex etc, so on line might be best. She has two ladies in work who are doing it, so se will be talking to them today.

I like the fact you don't go hungry and your weight loss has been brilliant...........

 

[guitarpete247]

Went for weekly weigh in on Saturday. I'd only lost 1lb on her scales. So 3lb's more to go on hers. I've now moved onto the "My Life" step. £8.50 for 30 days on line recipes and ideas. I'll see how I get on with that over the next week or two.

 

[david k]

careful which alcohol you chose. i like stout, well i like anything alcoholic really ill drink anything, but i used ot think wine was good but a quick google search and its actually high calorie???? the best is guiness, yeh i was surprised too!! i drink 8 cans once a week, sometime 12 but im knackered the next dat.
i eat 3 times a day, only snack on fruit and make sure most meals are healthy and im losing weight slowly

 

[The Jogger]

careful which alcohol you chose. i like stout, well i like anything alcoholic really ill drink anything, but i used ot think wine was good but a quick google search and its actually high calorie???? the best is guiness, yeh i was surprised too!! i drink 8 cans once a week, sometime 12 but im knackered the next dat.
i eat 3 times a day, only snack on fruit and make sure most meals are healthy and im losing weight slowly

Have you just had them

 

[Sittingduck]

I weighed in this morning and lost 2lbs in the past 6 days (had to weigh on Tues, last week). Slightly too much at this stage of the game, so I will be adjusting my goal to eat more in the next week or 2 and keep the exercise regime the same. I would prefer to lose 1 or 1.5lbs/week not in excess of 2lbs. Am 106lbs down now, since Oct 25th

 

[david k]

Have you just had them

ha, ha, unfortunately not, its going well, since drining lots of guiness i have only put on 2 and a half stone, its slowed my weight gain right down

 

[The Jogger]

I weighed in this morning and lost 2lbs in the past 6 days (had to weigh on Tues, last week). Slightly too much at this stage of the game, so I will be adjusting my goal to eat more in the next week or 2 and keep the exercise regime the same. I would prefer to lose 1 or 1.5lbs/week not in excess of 2lbs. Am 106lbs down now, since Oct 25th

Flippin amazing.........................

 

[guitarpete247]

...... Slightly too much at this stage of the game, so I will be adjusting my goal to eat more in the next week or 2 and keep the exercise regime the same. I would prefer to lose 1 or 1.5lbs/week not in excess of 2lbs. Am 106lbs down now, since Oct 25th

+1 on the rate of weight loss. As I get close to my target I'm expecting to be loosing about 1lb a week.
106lb down since October, fantastic. Costs a fortune in new clothes though doesn't it. And I've only lost 51lb's.

 

[vernon]

Thanks Vern, I'm starting this from Wed, shopping getting done Tues, fry light spay, low fat ingredients etc and then off I go. I may join the group or go on line, groups are difficult for me with the shifts and travelling, eiher London or Sussex etc, so on line might be best. She has two ladies in work who are doing it, so se will be talking to them today.

I like the fact you don't go hungry and your weight loss has been brilliant...........

You can use any group to check in at. You'd probably nominate a 'home' base. I use the group nearest to work and although I could use a one nearer home during the school holidays I still drive over to Bradford for the weigh ins.

Five pounds off this week. It would have been more if I hadn't scoffed three packs of the four for a pound Bounties .

 

[guitarpete247]

GF and I just got back from a weekend at my dad's. We really need to be good for the rest of this week. Got weighed this morning and I've put on 5lb's and she did 4. He keeps getting the wine out. We went through 3 bottles Saturday night and another 2 Sunday. Chinese takeaway Saturday and Toby Carvery Sunday. No wonder he's piling on the weight. We did take skimmed milk and tried to be good for breakfast. But it was too easy to be tempted to have another serving of chilli beef and rice and sweet & sour and ........ .
He said we looked ill and needed feeding up so maybe he got his way.

 

[Sittingduck]

GF and I just got back from a weekend at my dad's. We really need to be good for the rest of this week. Got weighed this morning and I've put on 5lb's and she did 4. He keeps getting the wine out. We went through 3 bottles Saturday night and another 2 Sunday. Chinese takeaway Saturday and Toby Carvery Sunday. No wonder he's piling on the weight. We did take skimmed milk and tried to be good for breakfast. But it was too easy to be tempted to have another serving of chilli beef and rice and sweet & sour and ........ .
He said we looked ill and needed feeding up so maybe he got his way.

Betcha it's virtually all water weight, through too much sodium. Drink a lot of water and eat cleanly for 3 days and it'll be gone, I'll wager

 

[The Jogger]

I'm going to bite the bullet and go to my first SW meeting tomorrow evening FI might as well do something about it instead of posting about it..............I only have 28lbs to lose but it is gradually going up.

 

[guitarpete247]

Betcha it's virtually all water weight, through too much sodium. Drink a lot of water and eat cleanly for 3 days and it'll be gone, I'll wager

You were right. It must have been water.
Went for weigh in today. I've lost 2lb's (on her scales). Now down to 12st 7lb's. Reached my target .

I need to buy some more clothes as my XL shirts and T-Shirts are looking silly. This weight loss is getting expensive.

Got a Team EBC jersey couple of days ago size L. I got it with my gift voucher.
Last years I'd have split the seams.
Looking for some more fun jerseys now. Any suggestions? Must be reasonable price.

 

[Sittingduck]

Good work my man!