December Weight Watchers: We Are Worth IT!

[Thompson'sMommy]

This is the last month of the year! It is time to kick these pounds off and finish out the old year with a "BANG"!

WE ARE WORTH IT!
YOU ARE WORTH IT!

LET'S DO IT!

[Curlita]

I'm in... NAK, will post more later.

[katiedidbug]

Yay, it's December. I joined Monday, and since I'm a monthly member, I also went today, and since Monday, I've dropped 8.6 pounds. :
Someone please tell me how this is possible.

Either way, I'm happy ...I've been a bit hungrier this week, but I'm happy with the loss.

[eclipse]

I'm starting WW (again) today. I know it works, if I stick with it. It only doesn't work, when I don't do the work. I know what I have to do - I just have to do it. (Can you tell I'm pep talking myself? ) So, here I am.

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[Maiasaura]

i'm here, too. found myself up a couple pounds (again, sigh) and i'm trying trying trying to crack down some. i did NOT have sweets today! that's a first

i had pumpkin fluff, though, does that count? it was made with whole milk cause i didn't have skim. oh well. tuesday is grocery day.

that menu for drowning sorrows (at the casino) sounded pretty dang good. i'da done the same thing!

pamela

[EmmaJean]

I will be here! Missed the last two weeks' meetings......

[katiedidbug]

For those of you on Flex, how often do you use your 35 a week Flex points?
I'm finishing up my first week, and so far I've only used 6. What do you guys do?

[eclipse]

For those of you breastfeeding toddlers, are you eating your nursing points? My two year old nurses a ton still, so I planned on using them - but yesterday I didn't even use all of my regular points, let alone breaking into the extra 10. I wasn't hungry, and felt like I would have had to stuff my face with junk at 10PM to get them in. OTOH, I don't want to not eat enough and sabatoge myself that way. Thoughts?

[katiedidbug]

DS is 13 mos (so prob not a full fledged toddler) and I took my nursing points, because I still feel like he nurses a ton. I have been using them, and I'm still hungry, so there's no way I'm giving those up yet! I guess you could watch your milk supply and see if that's affected at all.

[Curlita]

Congrats on the 8.6 loss, katie! When I joined I lost 6 lb my first week... some of it is water and the rest is your body being shocked by the change in habits. It probably won't be that way every week, but isn't it nice to have positive reinforcement?

Stil not counting points yet, but getting my dairy and fruit-n-veg, and not bingeing. Baby steps.

[Maiasaura]

well, i'm here posting because i don't want to. i want to eat sweets. so i am actually for once doing the right thing! *sigh* yay for me!

did not exercise today, or yesterday. i said i was gonna then i had a buncha really important phone calls, and there went my exercise time.

hey though, guess what?? i wrote a buncha emails and calls, and the gym corporate says they are refunding my money w/in 30 days! i hope it's going to be the full $424. if not, i will keep b*tching, you betcha.

so i am not Coring. i made a WW (community recipe) scone recipe this morning (ooh, yummy, now i have 9 more servings to eat cause ds didn't even want to try them ) and i made pizza for dinner. no lunch cause church takes up the whole middle of the day. i am not going to double the crust recipe anymore! it's good, but too much crust. it's also a WW (also community recipe) recipe that's only 6 points per crust, so mine tonight was 12. i had two pieces. not too much mozz cheese, and roasted red peppers and mushrooms.

those of you who do Core, and eat omni, what does a couple of your dinners look like? it's easy for me to eat salad for lunches, or nosh on meats and cheeses and eggs, but tell me about your breakfasts and dinners? i need lots of ideas...

thanks so much!
pamela

[emmasmommy]

For me on Core my breakfasts are usually oatmeal or shredded wheat with fruit and milk. when i have time to cook something more, I will have eggs and Canadian bacon. A typical dinners for us include some kind of meat a veggie and rice, potato or pasta. Or spaghetti with meat sauce. Pretty much what we ate before.

I survived the weekend. i did go over my 35 weekly points, but not by as much as I have been so that's good. I know with all I have going on over the holidays big losses are just not going to happen, so I am just hoping to maintain over the holidays. I will do my best to lose, but I will be OK with maintaining. I guess it's part of learning how to deal with holidays without going too much out of control!

[Curlita]

I decided to count up my points for today, since I could pretty clearly remember what I ate. I have not counted my points for months, mainly because I have been pregnant. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I only went over my daily total by 5 points! So I chalked them up to this week's flexies and decided that I may as well count 'em up tomorrow, too.

Looks like I'm back in the game!

[treemom2]

Originally Posted by eclipse

For those of you breastfeeding toddlers, are you eating your nursing points? My two year old nurses a ton still, so I planned on using them - but yesterday I didn't even use all of my regular points, let alone breaking into the extra 10. I wasn't hungry, and felt like I would have had to stuff my face with junk at 10PM to get them in. OTOH, I don't want to not eat enough and sabatoge myself that way. Thoughts?

I nurse my 3 year old about 4-5 times a day. In the beginning I took 3 extra points a day to cover the nursing (I still make tons of milk). Anyway, I wasn't losing but maybe .05-1 lb a week so I decided to drop the nursing points. I do notice when he wants more milkies a day that I tend to be more hungry on those days, but most of the time I think I am okay and he is still happy.

I am having such a hard time getting back OP since Thanksgiving. . .actually since I got sick. UGH!! DH asked me today if I am still doing WW since my eating has been so bad. I told him yes, but since we haven't gone to the store in a while for my healthy staples, I have been having a really hard time. I need to get to the store soon because my scale is not happy with me (I just keep gaining--ugh). I have been making myself get out of the house everyday though and walking some. I also ordered the Walk Away the Pounds video yesterday online hoping that will help some.

I'm really worried about the holidays. Every year we go all out in the Christmas treats department. I usually make treat baskets for close friends, pumpkin bread for all DH's coworkers, Christmas cookies with frosting with the kids, gingerbread houses, candies, etc. . . UGH!!!!! I have such fond memories of cooking with my mother every year and I have such a need to share that with my children. Unfortunately everything I cook is high fat, high sugar, and super yummy:: I don't know what to do!!!! HELP!!

[lorijds]

Originally Posted by mercyn

those of you who do Core, and eat omni, what does a couple of your dinners look like? it's easy for me to eat salad for lunches, or nosh on meats and cheeses and eggs, but tell me about your breakfasts and dinners? i need lots of ideas...

I kind of dabbled in WW last month, I'm seriously starting today. I do Core.

I have my breakfast in two rounds, kind of like a hobbit. It depends upon my exercise routine, and whether I worked all night or whatever. One breakfast is either oatmeal with milk and splenda or brown rice with milk, splenda, and cinnamon. The other is fruit--either a piece or two of fresh fruit, or a bowl of warmed up frozen fruit (this is my favorite right now. I put frozen strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries into a saucepan, heat over the stove for a couple of minutes and it makes a hot fruit soup--it's so yummy when it's cold out).

I always have brown rice and black beans prepared ready to warm up from the fridge or freezer. Whenever I need something to eat, I can make something fast with that. If I don't have those readily available, I tend to end up eating something that is not on the list.

So I'm in like Flynn this month, and I'm also doing the 1000 minute challenge.

90/1000 so far (haven't gotten to the gym this morning).

[Maiasaura]

can you redo the recipes so that they are more WW friendly? how about posting some of them so that we can all try to help?

i am not doing cookies this year, i just am not. as much as i love to. we are traveling to upstate NY from Asheville NC this year, and that's two days up and two days back (road food, UGH) plus one day while i am up there, i'm driving over to Syracuse for an overnight for a huge reunion party of all the punk rockers i hung with back in the 80s :::: snap

so i have enough on my plate, no pun intended, let alone making room for cookie making. nope. not doing it. i made pumpkin gingerbread cookies (yum, and not bad for you really) with icing (a whole stick of butter, ick ) and my ds can nosh on those. i've had a few, but not too many. no more than two in a day. i should have left some uniced for me. live and learn.

i SO need meal suggestions. thanks emmasmommy. what kind of meats and how do you prepare them?
do y'all mostly have leftovers for lunches?

pamela

[lorijds]

I am doing Core.

Dinners for us are frequently brown rice based. Sauted veggies and then an appropriate sauce and spicing--a little sour cream and cheese with salsa for a spicy Mexican style, tamari and ginger for Asian style. To Mexican style meals I'll add some black beans, to asian style I'll either add baked tofu, scrambled eggs, lentils or peanuts.

I'm a big fan of quiche; I just decrease the cheese content a little, increase veggies, and use my points for the crust and the rest of the cheese.

If we have meat, it is usually steak, marinated and then grilled. Very occasionally we will have salmon (again, marinated and grilled). I don't eat brats, but my husband will often buy them and grill one to go with the meal. I don't like fowl, bratwurst, or most fish, both my kids are vegetarian, and dh is allergic to shellfish, so most of our meals are vegetarian with maybe a little meat on the side for dh.

Now that winter is coming, I often make broth based veggies soups. I serve it with bread, but I try not to eat that myself. My favorites are potato-leek, a yummy, spicy sweet potato soup, straight up traditional veggie (I think I got it from WW a long time ago), and vegetarian chili made with TVP.

For an appetizer or to up the protein content of a meal, I cut tofu into cubes, sprinkle olive oil on it, and bake it in the oven. Then I make some sort of dipping sauce for it--apricots, fresh ginger and mustard is always yummy.

We almost always have a salad or fresh carrot slices. I usually don't make dessert. Our family routine is that, after dinner, the kids (ages 9 and 12) finish their homework, practice instruments, get ready for bed, and then one of us reads aloud for a while. While we're reading, the kids usually eat a piece of fruit, some frozen fruit with a little sugar sprinkled on top, or have hot chocolate. So dessert kind of comes much later in the evening, and I usually just abstain.

Hope that helps.

[emmasmommy]

We typically have chicken or beef. In the summer we mostly grill our meat, but now that it's winter, I am doing stir-frys and am using my crock pot a lot as well. I also make fajitas with chicken a lot. I will either count points for a tortilla or if I don't have the points available, I will have it as a salad. For lunch it is either leftovers, or soup or salad, or whatever we have at home. I tend to eat couscous at lunch since whole wheat couscous is core and dh doesn't like it, so I will cook couscous to eat with leftover meats and veggies for lunch since it cooks really fast and keeps well in the fridge for a few days.

Supper last night (it was dh's birthday, so we don't eat this well all the time!) was a roast beef tenderloin with a pepper, olive oil and garlic rub, and then I roasted potatoes and carrots with olive oil and salt and pepper. I was really good and all core with the exception of the bernaise sauce that dh requested to have with it (made from a powder mix). I find it easy to come up with core meals.

[zinniamars]

Originally Posted by eclipse

For those of you breastfeeding toddlers, are you eating your nursing points? My two year old nurses a ton still, so I planned on using them - but yesterday I didn't even use all of my regular points, let alone breaking into the extra 10. I wasn't hungry, and felt like I would have had to stuff my face with junk at 10PM to get them in. OTOH, I don't want to not eat enough and sabatoge myself that way. Thoughts?

I just started this week, and I'm exclusively my nursing 4 month old daughter. i'm supposed to get 33 points a day, but i'm having the same problem- it seems weird to go all out at night just because i have points left, but i can't seem to get them in during the day. could this mean that i'm not getting enough food/calories, and that's why i haven't lost any more weight since the first week postpartum? It sure would be great to be one of "those moms" who instantly lose the weight while nursing, lol!