Confession & a maintenance question

[Guest guest]

I was wondering for those on maintenance how many points do you eat per day

or week?

I'm back on program after having fallen off for a couple months. I reached

my goal in June and then had a major life change and I have been off program

since September. We put our house up for sale, bought a new one and moved. I

did great under all the stress of selling our house and buying the new one.

I managed to stay in control and kept on plan very well. Then we moved into

our new house and everything just sort of fell apart. I think my major

problem was the drastic change in routine. I am a very organized person and

I once I get used to doing something a certain way it becomes pretty easy to

maintain. Moving meant a change in routine and I don't think I have handled

it to well. I had really thought that if I could make it through the stress

of selling our house and buying a new one I could handle anything.

Apparently I was wrong!

I have tried to get back on plan several times and I haven't had much luck.

I journal for a day and then by the second afternoon I'm blindly eating

whatever I can find and not paying attention to how much I have eaten or how

many points things are. It has been very frustrating and I'm not proud of

it. I really thought that after 2 1/2 years on WW and some seriously long

plateaus I would never fall off program. My leader said that if I could

stick with WW for as long as I have and hold out through the plateaus and

the very slow weight loss I should have no problem with maintenance. Well, I

have managed to maintain and I am still under my goal weight but it's only

luck and not because I have been doing all the right things. I don't know

why I am having such a problem journaling and getting back on plan but I am

determined to stay thin and healthy and get back in control of my eating.

Today will make two full days of journaling and being perfectly on program

with water and fruits and veggies.

Another problem I think is that I haven't really tried to maintain my

weight. I kept at my regular point target of 20 because I thought I wanted

to loose more weight. Well I got down to 126 and I started to look drawn out

and older I didn't like that to much. It could have been more a result of

loads of stress and less about the weight loss though. So now I am back on

plan and I'm trying to determine my point target. I know I don't want to go

back to 20 points (plus flex) because with all the added stress and activity

I wasn't feeling at all satisfied. I managed to maintain for the past two

months and I was probably eating around 40 points a day. That is way to many

and I don't feel in control with that many points. I know I will squander it

on junk food and things that I don't need to be eating. So I think I will

shoot for 24 points and do it with the Wendie plan so I have more control

and still have a variety each day. That puts me at 195 points per week and

I'm not sure if that is to many on maintenance.?? Any suggestions or words

of encouragement are much appreciated. )

Kris

194/132/129

[Guest guest]

You are only supposed to stay at your point range till you reach your goal.

Once you are at your ideal weight you get to add back points two at a time

till you are maintaining without gaining. As long as you are still

maintaining you can keep adding 2 points per week. So my old ww leader was

about 125 lbs and she was eating 40 points a day. She did a lot of weight

training though so that would account for some of her points. I never did

the adding back points thing, I just went off the deep end and stopped

journaling and just ate Oreo's till I didn't want anymore. Not smart! I

told hubby he can't buy Oreo's unless he hides them, obviously they are a

red light food for me. I tried going back down to my old range and it was to

restricting and since I don't want to loose any more weight there is no

point. I'm thinking if I maintained for a month being out of control that I

should be good with 24 points as my target. If I loose this week that will

be good but if I gain I will cut back 2 points.

Kris

194/129/132

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From: Beth Skeen

Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 5:48 PM

To: Serious-Weight-Watchers

Subject: Re: Confession & a maintenance question

I would for certain use WW's suggested guide for points based on your

weight.

Right now, I am at 229 and get 28 points per day. So far, unless I am WAY

off my " eating right " path, I can stay within the 28 points with really no

problem.

<<So now I am back on plan and I'm trying to determine my point target. I

know I don't want to go

back to 20 points (plus flex) because with all the added stress and activity

I wasn't feeling at all satisfied.>>

Could it perhaps be the food choices your were making for your points. I

know for myself I can't live on salads alone. I am hungry two hours later. I

have to eat a WW meal or something around 4 or 5 points with salad on the

side. Loads of water and vegetables help satisfy me too.

Just some thoughts from a newbie! (I have only been on it for 4 weeks.)

Beth

241/229/155

[Guest guest]

I eat 30 points a day Monday-Thursday. Friday I eat up to 39. Saturday

and Sunday I eat up to 49. So that's an average of 36 points a day.

(I don't always eat all the way to 49.) I maintain at about 115. BUT,

I do an hour and a half or more of exercise per day, and on the

weekends I usually run at least one long run of up to 13-15 miles.

When I put the values into Fitday I average about 2000 calories per

day over a week. On M-Th this comes to around 1600-1700 per day, with

up to 2200 on the weekend days.