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[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

[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.