Thought I'd start the week off....haven't got must to add though LOL


The group total to try and beat this week is 11.7kg And we all have to be really extra good because we are one member down now!


Good luck for the week everyone..

Hi girls, was wondering if I could join in on your little group here. Maybe, I'll be able to help you girls reach your goal loss of 11.7kg this week!

I'll be starting WW at home tomorrow and will be on 22points. I have a tonne of weight to lose and am planning of TTC#2 April/May next year. Should give me a few months to make some progress.

Anyway, just wanted to say hi and I'm looking forward to getting to know you all a bit better.

Kerrie



Me 30
DF 34
Jasmine 19 months

I had weigh in tonight so just reporting in with my weight loss for this week...**drumroll** 1.4kg so I am one very happy WW camper!!!
I decided to stay for the lecture tonight and the lady sitting next to me said she had lost 24.7kg so far...."wow what an inspiration"...and that she had 17.3kg to go
Makes you realise that it is do-able....just have to keep plodding on and reward ourselves along the way when we achieve our smaller goals
Does anyone reward themselves??? What do you do???
I am thinking that when I lose 10kg I might go and have a facial

Kerrie....Let me be the first to say welcome
As they say the more the merrier...the best part is that we can all share the highs and lows of our weight loss journey together....looking forward to getting to know you

Can't wait to see how everybody else goes this week....wonder whether we can beat last weeks total loss of 11.7kg

This message was edited by SydneyMum on Monday, 4 October 2004 @ 9:36 PM

Oh Lizz I have a feeling that I might be a gain this week - I truly deserve one anyway. I have been on one big bender ending with pizza tonight so its either going to hit tomorrow night at weigh in or next week

Big slaps on the wrist & I'll work towards next week I promise!

I love you quote by the way!!

Kerri welcome! Good luck on your weight loss journey & we're all here to keep you going.

SydneyMum, so far I haven't rewarded myself as such but everytime I get into an old item of clothing that I hadn't been able to fit into I get a big buzz. The other night I tried on an old dress only because Mum pressured me into it. I thought it wasn't even going to go close but it fitted YAY! Now I have something to wear to my sisters 18th!!

I'm signing off for now . . geez, this guilt is enough to keep me on the straight & narrow for a while I think!

Hi girls,

I wasn't going to write until I weighed tomorrow, but I just thought I'd jump in to say 'WELCOME KERRIE' and also to let you know that I reward myself every time I lose weight. I have a list of things I'd like ranging from small items like the new J&J's bodywash with baby lotion to big things like a massage or a sports watch. Last week I rewarded myself with a low fat McDonalds meal (low fat burger & smoothie = 11 points) and the week before I rewarded myself with the new J&J's hair minimising body lotion. Each time I lose weight, I pick something from my list to reward myself - and I make sure that there's nothing on my 'reward list' that will blow my points.

I agree Michelle, each time I try on some clothes and they're getting looser, it's an amazing buzz. But, I ALSO reward myself each time I lose weight.

Ok, must go now as I'm off for my walk with the girls down to the beach. "see you" all tomorrow for my report on my weigh in!

Lets get to our goal of beating 11.79kgs this week girls!

Peta

Mum to my gorgeous girls;

Shailen 24/06/02
and
Tamryn 10/03/04

Not such a great loss this week but a loss never the less 600gm so my total weight loss is 3.6 in three weeks.

I went out for lunch on Friday, and had a fundraiser on Saturday (with a couple of wines and some chocolate).

Went for a 40 min walk this morning so that should help.

Sammy

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Hello, can I join in too? I am on my 2nd week of WW, I am breastfeeding so am on 32 points! so it has been easy so far compared to 20 points. I lost weight on WW before my first pregnancy but have put on heaps more since then, this time I really want to maintain it (after I lose it, I have about 25kg to lose). So hopefully this will help me keep motivated.

Tanya
Eloise June 2001
Charlotte July 2004

Hi there, thanks for big welcome. Hi Tanya!

Well, it's day one for me and boy when I hopped on the scales did I get a fright!!! Long way to go for me but hopefully by May next year I should of lost around 27kgs. That's a start. Too embarressed to put down how much I weigh, maybe when I start to lose some I'll share.lol ;p

K, well I'm off eating my toast with vegimite (no butter) and will be tracking, tracking, tracking.

Kerrie

Oh, i need to do my mearsurements too!

Me 30
DF 34
Jasmine 20 months


This message was edited by kerri28 on Tuesday, 5 October 2004 @ 11:55 AM

Had a loss this week too - 1.4kgs

That brings my total loss for the 2 weeks to 2.4kgs. I expect that rate of loss will slow down a bit now though. Also havent tracked tha last couple of days - need to get back onto writing everything down.



Lil_Wombat
Me (32)
DH (34)
TTC #1 Oct 04

Congrats on your loss lil_wombat!! That's pretty impressive.

Me 30
DF 34
Jasmine 20 months

MichelleM...Try not to beat yourself up about your bender.....think we have all been there and done that at some point....just hop back on the wagon and look forward ok...we are all here for support whether it's been a good day or bad day

SammyV....600g is still a good loss...just think thats a bit over a tub of margarine

tanyak1....Of course you can join us.....welcome...I think it's great having more people because we can all share our WW journey together

Kerri28...I know what you mean about getting a fright when you hop on the scales.....same thing happened to me....Just take it one day at a time

Lil Wombat....bet your very happy with your 1.4kg loss thats exactly what I lost this week too

I'm off to start organising dinner for tonight....we are having Honey Soy Chicken Kebabs with a Lite Caesar Salad and a Potato with WW Sour Cream......mmmm I am so hungry I could eat a horse

Catch you all later

Hi girls, and welcome to the new members

I didn't post last week as a I had a gain, .4 of a kilo bit of a bender with big mac's and mc flurry's. But, I had my "off the tracks" week and now I am back.

Weighed in this morning and I am down .85, so back in the 80's, lol.

I bought a weight watchers points calculator and I find it really easy to track my points now, before it was a bit of a chore but it is much better now.

Good luck for the rest of the week, lets get to the 11.7kg.

Kimberleigh



[center]~ Me 32 ~ DH 30 ~ DS#1 10 yr ~ DD 8 yr ~ DS#2 1 yr already!! ~

Can i join you inspirational gals too??

Ive been unofficially doing WW (just at home) for a few weeks now, just to try to get in the swing of it and adjust the shopping/eating/excercising gradually.
I had a bad week last week, maccas a few times, etc..and was setting my goal as starting properly 100% yesterday.
I jumped on the scales yest morning and low and behold the last few weeks of not doing it properly has still got me at a 4 kg loss im stoked !!

Whats the points calculator ive heard mentioned a few times?? I have the books, but is the calculator different??
I struggle to work out what some meals are as we eat lots of casseroles/pastas etc! Maybe this would help??

I walk twice a day, once during the day with the boys and then once scottys home from work we head out for another hike if its not too cold for the boys!

The thing im really struggling with is feeling full, is there such a thing on WW?? I was a serial snacker, used to skip proper meals and would just snack all day (usually on chocolate :S). Im REALLY finding it hard to eat meals that are keeping me full, and finding inbetween snacks that do the same..any ideas or tips??

Also, im not sure if anyone would be interested, not even sure if your aloud to do it, but would anyone be interested in setting up a yahoo or msn group for us eb ww gals?? We could post recipes and menu plans for the week (saw this in another eb thread), shopping ideas for diff foods, before and after pics, goals all that kind of thing??
Just an idea that i thought maybe some others might be interested in?? Id love to get some recipes to try

ANyway im blaberring, sorry!!!!

Ive been doing 300 other things at the same time as posting this, so if its all over the place i apologise

Take care all, heres to good health








Crissty (24)
Scott (24)

Brayden 23/04/03


Kynan 21/07/04

I'm back & I didn't let you down . . . I lost a whole 200g!!!

I'm not unhappy though as it was a loss but I'm scared that its going to come back & bite me on the bum next week!

Tonight I also hit 10% of my start weight - can't remember the real name of it. Anyway I got my star & a hug from the leader so I should be happy!

Peta, good luck for weigh in tomorrow. The McDonalds meal I get is the low fat burger and a salad. I really don't mind their salads actually & the burger (although not a big mac!) is not bad either.

Sammy, good on you for losing 600g, thats great! I'm sooo slow with my weight loss that I love anything over 500g

Tanya, welcome to the group! The BF points are great aren't they. The hardest thing was giving them up though when I gave up breastfeeding!!

Kerri, dont be ashamed putting anything down here. We all share our weights & measurements, scary but true! I find toast without marg/butter but vegimite very boring so I melt a Kraft Free slice of cheese over the top (.5 points).

Yay on the 1.4kg Lil_Wambat!

SydneyMum, I'm back on the wagon this week for sure, I have to or else I'll wreck everything I've done for the past 20 weeks. Your dinner sounds absolutely beautiful! We had a caesar salad (light dressing) & steak ourselves.

Kimberleigh, welcome back! .4 isn't too bad, I put on 1.1kg one week but luckily lost 1.1 the next week! Did you enjoy it is the main thing?? NO use blowing your points for things that you didnt enjoy!! The calculator looked hard when I read the box! Do you find it easy enough?

Crissty, Yes, join us! I was a snacker rather than a propper meal eater. I always make sure I have the three main meals a day as well as morning tea now. I have the WW apple bars for snacks 1.5 points which aren't bad.

I'll join the group for sure, I love seeing before & after (and during) pics, its what keeps me going. I'm mentally thinking about what pics I could put on! Sharing recipes & stuff would be good too.

Good luck to everyone who is yet to weigh in this week xoxox

Hi I would love to join your group if I can.

I have been doing WW for four weeks, into my fifth and havelost 9.6kgs. (I was assited by a hospital stay of ten days and no food and lost a whopping 6.5kgs, but when I came out, I didn't put any back on which is great!)

I weighed in last night after having my gall baldder removed and missing two weeks of weigh ins to have lost another 2.4kgs, so in total I am 9.6kgs lost all together over five weeks of WW. I am so very pleased!

I only have to lose another 700gms and I have lost 10% which is great! so my motivation level is super high right now.

Anyway, hope you all do well with weigh ins this week!

Lou
Proud Mum to Kya Rene
1st May 2004

Lou what a great loss. I also am in my 5th week and shed 1.2 kgs this week with a total loss of 3.8. I don't mind skipping the hospital visit and losing a bit slower..

We had a good week we took out 18 month old for her first thai meal she was so good and really enjoyed it..She adores noodles and the vegetables. It was great to be able to go to dinner and "be good". Luckily my husband is quite supportive and learning about food. It was about 5 days ago so hopefully the impact has already been felt..

This might be a bit jumbled my daughter wants to climb onto my lap..Bye

regards Cathy

Grace 2/4/03
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Hi all,

DH bought me some digital scales last night from Target (they are on special for $35) so, I've now made my final decision to stay at home and do WW by myself as before. I couldn't go back to the meeting today anyway as we had a funeral to go to
So, today I weighed myself on my old analogue scales and lost 1kg (maybe a little bit more but it's too hard to say with the old analogue reading!!). Anyway, I then weighed myself on the new digital scales so I could work out the difference and will now be weighing myself on the digi's from now on!

So, next week I'll be able to let you all know EXACTLY how much I lose. Can't wait!!

SydneyMum & Lil_Wombat, contracts on the huge weight loss. FAN-BLOODY-TASTIC!!

Sammy; good on you for your 600gm loss. Keep up the good work!

Tanya, I've lost 11kgs so far with another 22kgs to go - I hear ya, sista!! Lets just DO IT!! I'm b/feeding too although there's not much milk left in these kegs so I don't know how much longer I can squeeze them dry for. I'm currently having 28 points per day as my dd only feeds 3-4 times a day now.

Kimberleigh - Well done for getting back on track and not throwing in the towel. You need to give yourself a huge pat on the back for being strong. How many times have we all fallen off the wagon and said; "well, I've blown it now. May as well finish these 3 mars bars in the fridge!!" and then never get back on track. Good on ya girl!

Welcome, Crissty. Good on you for walking twice a day. I try to walk once a day (my route is approx 50mins) but am finding it really hard to fit it in (between lunches and the girls sleeping and the sorry weather!!). I'm hanging for daylight savings when I can go by myself once DH is home.

I'm keen for setting up a group. How do we do it? Crissty, do you know how to do it & do you want to start it off?

I have a 'manual' slide points calculator (which I just love and would die without!!). Do those with the electronic ones recommend them?

I'm finally cooking some things out of my 'Too Good to be True' books. Tonight I'm cooking spicy apricot lamb casserole (6 points per serve) and it's cooking as we 'speak'! It smells devine!! Friday, I'm cooking chicken & cashew stir fry. I'll let you know if they're as good as they look!

I was a snacker too (never really got time to eat properly). Now, the things that 'save' me are:

Cheese on toast (real cheese - I can't eat that low fat rubbish!! I'd rather have the real stuff in smaller serves!!)
Nestle diet desserts
WW mousse (packet form)
Low fat flavoured milk
low cal soft drinks (low cal Fanta is really yummy. Just like the real thing!)
low fat choc chip bisc (Lites brand)
low fat ice cream
rice cakes
apples (or any fruit - especially grapes at the moment)
Banana smoothie (made only with low fat milk and a frozen banana. By freezing the banana it makes it nice an thick & frothy)
Heinz Low fat 'rice cream'

When it comes to meals, I just love Lean Cuisine (or similar sort of things). They are quick, yummy and the cals/fat are already worked out for you (per serve I mean. You still need to convert them to points with your calculator). I had a Lean Cuisine chicken laksa for lunch today (5 points) and it was yummmo!

Anyway, my dinner is just about ready (and I've raved on enough!!). Must go now.

If I've forgotten anyone for losing, sorry! A bit fat Congrats to all who have lost!

Have a great week everyone!

Peta

Mum to my gorgeous girls;

Shailen 24/06/02
and
Tamryn 10/03/04

Peta, they are great snack idea's. I find when I am home I am always looking for something to eat. I snack on fruit most of the time, mainly apples and mandarines, yoghurt, (lite) and crispbreads.

Michelle, I find the electronic calculator really easy to use. You press one button for a new day, it remembers your points, you press the use button and enter how many points you want to use, it deducts them from the total for the day. The function that I like is the 1sv, which is the 1 serve button, you enter kj and fat grams and it calculates how many points, and then asks if you want to use them. It also has a 100g button, so you do the same as the 1sv function, but it asks how many grams, eg 250 and it will tell you the points for 250g, not just the one serve or 100g. (Does that make sense,lol.) It also tracks you weight, bmi and is a normal calculator too. I highly recommend it.

Congrats to the ladies that have lost this week. Keep motivated.!!!

Kimberleigh



[center]~ Me 32 ~ DH 30 ~ DS#1 10 yr ~ DD 8 yr ~ DS#2 1 yr already!! ~

Oh no - a friend bought over lunch today, and I felt bad. But the bummer was I only had 1 point left for dinner.

I had to make myself a big salad and put half a small can of salmon. Then my dd decided to eat half the salmon and cucumber out of my 1 point dinner.

Tomorrow will be a better eating day.

Sammy

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Hi Girls

Weigh in yesterday and my weekend of indolgence (DH's 40th etc) has finally court up with me, 300gm on, sorry if I've messed up your total for the week.........
I have determined that this week will see a big loss.... Too p!$$ed off with myself to do personals, sorry, next week I promise.....

Janene :mad:

Hi all
Well I knew that 3 kg loss last week was too good to be true! Despite being on my best behaviour all week, I put on 0.5! personally I think last weeks weigh-in was dodgy! Anyway, still losing an average of 1.25 kg a week which is fine.. Hi all the new people, just a quick one today as I'm supposed to be doing work. Have a good week all, Sarz

Sarz (33)
DH (33)
DD 18/12/01
DS 12/03/04

I went to my 2nd meeting yesterday and lost 2kg this week! Very happy with that, so that is 2.7kg so far. I am feeling very motivated so hopefully it will continue.

Tanya
Eloise June 2001
Charlotte July 2004

Hi
Could anyone tell me, how do you know which foods should be a part of your total sugar points? There are some that are quite obvious, but what about others eg: WW biscuits such as the ginger ones, are they still sugar points?

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the easiest way I do suger points is if sugar is in the top three on the list of ingredients, so yes I believe on those bniscuits they are sugar points.

BTW I just consumed my sugar points by eating jelly babies...lol.



A star was Born
01/05/ 2004
Kya Rene

Just thought I'd mention that I think the WW Thai Chicken Curry is YUM - I don't usu like low-fat frozen meals but this is a tasty meal in a hurry. 5.5 pts.

Em

DS1 Nov 2000, DS2 Jul 2002
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