I state first that I’m not doing WW right now. I’m still not over them changing it to Fainting Points when I’d had incredible success with Points Plus. This new plan seems more reasonable than the last one but I have trust issues lol.
But I did lose 80+ pounds healthily.
Just...have plan materials in written form. So when they change the plan in the future to something you can’t do you won’t be lost.
Any WW pros willing to share any concrete advice/tips?
Eat all your points. Weekly and activity. Just do it. The honeymoon period is real, but eventually you’ll feel hungry.
It’s scary to add points in later.
So start with all of them. If you lose line tgat, that is a massive win win.
If you can’t, if you’re not losing AT ALL after *several* weeks, then start slowly lowering points.
Don’t play games. Take each weigh in as it is. This will serve you in maintenance. Maintenance is so much harder than losing, and it’s forever. If you start by playing scale games, when you’re in maintenance you’ll understand yourself will playing games.
I’m not sure Lifetime-Maintenance is the same for At Work, but just in case, and for those doing meetings...a scale game looks like weighing May 1 to get your free online code, then not weighing again until the last meeting of June. Totally legal to do, but that’s a LONG period of no meetings or weighins.
OK, a question.
I've been good for a week-- weigh in is today. I've only used 2 of my weekly points last Friday; most days I'm a point or two below my 23 point target. And I know I could have a snack to use them up, but I'm honestly not hungry.
Why do you say to use all the points everyday? I can see that some days I'll want them, and to even dip into the weeklies. But is it OK to be a point or two below my daily target on most days?
See above. Eventually you’ll get hungry. Best to start high and if you cannot lose at all then start slowly lowering (it’s the opposite of what you’ll do for maintenance). I think many more can eat more than they think they can, but when you start all “diet-y” you can harm your metabolism and long term success.
For me, that first big cheat has always been the issue-- I figure that this diet simply won't work for me and I give up.
So consider those 23 points as using your weeklies. So now you've never fallen off the wagon. Stay on track today.
You’re never off the wagon unless you choose to be. We considers people like me to always be lifetime, even if we aren’t doing the program. The next meal can get us back on track.
Weigh in at the end of week2: down another 1.2 pounds, for a total of 4.8.
Slow and steady, I'm happy with my progress.
That’s not slow. That’s very very fast especially since I think you said your goal is a 25 pound loss.
Eat more. Slow it down. The longer you take to lose the more you’ll solidify how to eat, and the easier maintenance (the rest of your life) will be.
And don’t expect steady! You will have gains. You will have maintains. It’s all OK. I rejoiced when I had my first gain, like I rejoice when a new car gets its first scratch. It happened, I survived, I move on.