(Hope)

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Welcome Hope., I'm pretty new to the list but not to WW... ..

Everyone seems so helpful here. Good luck on your weigh to your goal

Thea

Hi, everyone.

I joined the group about a month ago and, with the exception of one

post, have been just " hanging out " and reading other members' posts. I

am the proud mother of a nine month old baby; I gained 70 pounds during

my pregnancy, and returned to WW to lose those unwanted pounds. I have

lost 63 pounds to date; 7 more to pre-pregnancy, 12 more to being

satisfied, 17 more to being truly happy!

I generally exercise 5 times/week - 35 minutes on the elliptical, 15

minutes of weight lifting and 5 minutes of abs every other day, and then

45 minutes of elliptical and 5 minutes of abs every other day. Until

today, I calculated 3 AP points for both workouts. I use WWCalc the

Palm handheld program created by Bob Withers, and had calculated my

workouts as moderate. Today, I decided to classify my workout as high.

Why? I hit a plateau a few weeks ago, so I changed my workout

routine, added another couple of weight exercises, etc. and still no

change. Then, I started eating more food, and my plateau broke. I

continued to eat a little more food than my target + 3 AP points/per day

+ whatever flex points I wanted to use for that day, and noticed that I

continued to lose weight. So, I've now concluded that I need to eat

more in order to lose weight. That sounds weird to me, but I think it

will work. On today, when I imputed my exercise, I switched the

intensity to " high " and now my workout earns me 7 AP rather than 3.

We'll see how this goes.

Hope

240/177/160

Thea B. wrote on 9/13/04, 10:52 AM:

> Does everyone use extra points for exercise.... and if so do you limit

> how many you would count.. I'm still new to the flex plan.

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> Thanks

> Thea

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