Ai Yi!

[qos]

I just did my first Weight Watchers weekly weigh-in.

I knew that because I'd been sick I hadn't had any trouble keeping to my daily points six days out of seven, and even on that 'other' day I hadn't come near to exhausting the bonus 35 points we get a week.

I had been hoping for three pounds gone -- one more than the ideal of two per week.

I lost six pounds this week.

Now, this is not an entirely good thing. It's a bit too much, a bit too fast, for good health.
I should avoid such dramatic drops in the future.

But it is heartening. It works. I can do this.

I just have to work a bit on the balance between self-indulgence and asceticism.

Comments

[toesontheground.livejournal.com]

Good for you! Kia kaha!

[qos.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm thrilled!

[royalbananafish.livejournal.com]

Is the points structure something pretty easy to explain or is it complicated?

Is it based on your starting weight, your goal weight, or something else?

[qos.livejournal.com]

How many points you get per day is based on your current weight. Minimum is 20 points per day. I'm at 24. When I hit 174 pounds, it will go down to 22, and then to 20 when I hit 150. The scale goes up to 34 points for someone weighing 350 pounds.

A "point" is calculated by an equation that looks at calories, dietary fiber and fat. I don't have the precise operation, they give us little slide-tools that we use to line up the three elements. But I've seen the equation online somewhere.

While keeping to the daily points limit, each day we are also supposed to be consuming at least six glasses of water, eating five helpings of fruits and vegetables (most vegetables are 0 points), at least two servings of lean protein and two servings of milk products, and taking a multivitamin.

[aerden.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good, healthy system, though I think I'd find the point-counting a lot of work.

Chantal

[qos.livejournal.com]

The counting isn't all that bad, especially since I tend to eat a lot of the same things. I know my grilled chicken thighs are 3 points, as is one serving of Maple & Brown Sugar Quaker Oats and one of my South Beach Diet bars. 20 GenSoy BBQ bits are 2 points. My tortillas are 2 points each. An Egg McMuffin is 7 points. Lettuce, cucumber and salsa are 0 points. One serving of lean ground beef is 3 points.

Eating something new provokes a bit of work, but once it's written down, I have the record, so it's easy from then on.

[aerden.livejournal.com]

Qos--Fantastic! It is a really good feeling to lose weight. Keep it up! :)

Chantal

Great progress!

[jaynefury.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's stupendous! I hope for two pounds a week and anything more is gravy.

Keep it up!

Re: Great progress!

[qos.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[princesca.livejournal.com]

Don't worry... even aside from sickness, the weight loss in the first week is always much bigger than subsequent weeks. I've often contemplated that, since so many diets seem to stop working after a few months, that the perfect diet would be switching diets every three months just to keep your body guessing and unused to speedy processing of the kinds of eating you do on a particular diet. :D

I've done Weight Watchers multiple times and have always lost 4+ lbs the first week or two, then petered down to 0-2 in following weeks, which is really the safe way to go.

Congrats on the loss, though! Sometimes, germs can be your friend. ;)

[princesca.livejournal.com]

Oh! I forgot to tell you... on a completely-unrelated note, I watched a movie with Katee Sackhoff called Fifteen and Pregnant, starring Kirsten Dunst. She had a speaking role for about 30 seconds, and she was god-awful. Totally unconvincing. I think she must have just really hit a good role for her in Starbuck.

And the movie was horrible. It totally glorified teenage pregnancy. Even without getting into right to life issues, I don't think that anyone would agree that fourteen and fifteen year olds need to be tempted into having babies.

[qos.livejournal.com]

Even the best actors can be horribly mis-cast (and/or badly directed) and give atrocious performances --- and even a so-so actor can hit the jackpot with a role that really fits him/her.

And I'm with you on the teen pregnancy bit.

[qos.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing your experience. You know, what you say about switching diets really does makes sense: the body does adjust to stresses put on it, whether diet or exercise. That was one reason my personal trainers always changed the work out once every 3-6 weeks, after the muscles had shown strong improvement, we changed the lifting technique and the specific routine, to keep them stimulated.

And I love your new icon! That's one of my favorite quotes. In fact, the image on the icon I'm using for this comment came from a t-shirt with the same quote.

Hmmm. . . I sense a discussion for the heroine_addicts community.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_storyteller_/]

That is wonderful, but the health issue is a factor. WW does work as a moderator so I am confident of future progress.

[qos.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm going to be a bit more gentle with myself this week. And hopefully not being sick will help too.