Re: April's Weigh In & 5th Week Update

[Guest guest]

April - you are doing fantastic! I can hear the excitement in your " voice "

!! Way to go!

Bette

[Guest guest]

Way to go, April!!!!!

Lyn

April's Weigh In & 5th Week Update

I weighed in Saturday morning and I was down 2.25!!! I was estatic

after I had such a large loss last week, too. I'm now a little over

five pounds from my WW goal weight! I'm going to really bust my

bottom and try too get there by the end of November/first of December.

My husband, who doesn't do WW with me, but has lost about 20 pounds

just by virtue of me eating heathier and providing him less " bad "

options for snacks and dinners, told me he was proud of me. He says

he can tell that I've really " recommitted " myself over the past two

months and he knows I'll make it to goal. He said he was going to

commit himself to eating healthier, too (during the day when he eats

on his own).

By the way, here's my week five update since I've been keeping the 12-

week journal (I've posted previous weeks earlier):

Week 5:

Total Points: 203 (WOW!! Most I've ever been able to eat in one week)

Activity Points: 29

Flex Points: 35 (14 of which were eaten before weigh in on Saturday

morning--I " rewarded " myself Saturday by eating my maximum allowed

and still staying on program!)

April

[Guest guest]

April, congratulations on your weigh-in and getting close to goal

weight!!!!

Question for the group: April talks about " rewarding herself " for her

progress

by " eating her maximum allowed points and still staying OP " ). I can't

decide whether this is destructive (still tying " eating " and

" rewarding

oneself " together as we all used to do before WW) or constructive

(the reward wasn't a super-size value meal). Whadya all think?

Mitch

> I weighed in Saturday morning and I was down 2.25!!! I was estatic

> after I had such a large loss last week, too. I'm now a little over

> five pounds from my WW goal weight! I'm going to really bust my

> bottom and try too get there by the end of November/first of

December.

>

> My husband, who doesn't do WW with me, but has lost about 20 pounds

> just by virtue of me eating heathier and providing him less " bad "

> options for snacks and dinners, told me he was proud of me. He says

> he can tell that I've really " recommitted " myself over the past two

> months and he knows I'll make it to goal. He said he was going to

> commit himself to eating healthier, too (during the day when he eats

> on his own).

>

> By the way, here's my week five update since I've been keeping the

12-

> week journal (I've posted previous weeks earlier):

>

> Week 5:

> Total Points: 203 (WOW!! Most I've ever been able to eat in one

week)

> Activity Points: 29

> Flex Points: 35 (14 of which were eaten before weigh in on Saturday

> morning--I " rewarded " myself Saturday by eating my maximum allowed

> and still staying on program!)

>

> April

[Guest guest]

April talks about " rewarding herself " for her

> progress

> by " eating her maximum allowed points and still staying OP " ). I

can't

> decide whether this is destructive (still tying " eating " and

> " rewarding

> oneself " together as we all used to do before WW) or constructive

> (the reward wasn't a super-size value meal). Whadya all think?

>

> Mitch

Interesting point, Mitch. I never really thought of it as

destructive, but in a way, I guess you could see it as still thinking

of food as a reward. I don't necessarily think of it that way,

though. To me, having most of my flex points left for Saturday is the

reward because (although I still journal religiously that day) I have

so many points I don't have to really think about food much. I sort

of get to eat what I want (within reason) and I always have plenty of

points for it. I don't wake up (like other days) and plan every meal

and every snack, I just let the day go by and see what happens. That

feels like a reward for myself because of that. It's like I get a

breather from being so strict with myself. Many weeks, I don't even

eat all of the flex points I have for that day.

April

[Guest guest]

OK, This sounds more then reasonable. I too, find, that if I have plenty of

flex points left at the end of my week, I tend not to eat many of them

..... I

guess part of it is because Friday is the end of my week and my weigh-in

is Saturday morning -- but part of it is because psychologically, I don't

want to " take away " from a really good week.

Mitch

arminor75 wrote:

>April talks about " rewarding herself " for her

>

>

>>progress

>>by " eating her maximum allowed points and still staying OP " ). I

>>

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>can't

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>>decide whether this is destructive (still tying " eating " and

>> " rewarding

>>oneself " together as we all used to do before WW) or constructive

>>(the reward wasn't a super-size value meal). Whadya all think?

>>

>>Mitch

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>

>Interesting point, Mitch. I never really thought of it as

>destructive, but in a way, I guess you could see it as still thinking

>of food as a reward. I don't necessarily think of it that way,

>though. To me, having most of my flex points left for Saturday is the

>reward because (although I still journal religiously that day) I have

>so many points I don't have to really think about food much. I sort

>of get to eat what I want (within reason) and I always have plenty of

>points for it. I don't wake up (like other days) and plan every meal

>and every snack, I just let the day go by and see what happens. That

>feels like a reward for myself because of that. It's like I get a

>breather from being so strict with myself. Many weeks, I don't even

>eat all of the flex points I have for that day.

>

>April

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