anyone on WW??

[elk]

I do the flex plan on line...I'm allergic to meetings. I can eat whatever I want as long as I stay in my point range.

If I write everything down as soon as I can, I find it easy to stay in line. If I save it all up to write later or tommorrow...I careen out of control....

I like the flex plan because I don't have to rebel against it, it's so wide open!

[Susan Otcenas]

I like the flex plan because I don't have to rebel against it, it's so wide open!

Me too. Last night I was jonesing for a gin-and-tonic. I had the points to do it, so why not? Ironically, the very fact that it *was* OK made it somehow easier for me to end up deciding not to have it after all.... Maybe I'm like a little kid. Tell me I can't and I want it even more. Tell me it's OK and the idea isn't as appealing anymore. HHhhhhhmmmmm, I wonder what that says about me?

[elk]

Me too. Last night I was jonesing for a gin-and-tonic. I had the points to do it, so why not? Ironically, the very fact that it *was* OK made it somehow easier for me to end up deciding not to have it after all.... Maybe I'm like a little kid. Tell me I can't and I want it even more. Tell me it's OK and the idea isn't as appealing anymore. HHhhhhhmmmmm, I wonder what that says about me?

We don't like being told what to do....!!!!

[Susan Otcenas]

Anyone ever have a hard time eating all their points?

Some days I'm really hungry, and I have a hard time not eating everything in sight. Those are the nights when I steam big piles of broccoli and have a big bowl of salad with my dinner, so that I don't dip too far into my weekly points (I try not to use more than 2-3 per day, if that.) But on other days, I get to the end of the day and discover I have 3, 4 or 5 points left. Last night I had 5.5 after dinner. I wasn't particularly hungry, but decided to have 1/2 cup vanilla Dreyer's Light Ice Cream -2 points - because I was so far under. I've read that WW really really doesn't want you to go under your daily points allowance (which for me is 21 points), so I felt like I should eat more food.

Do you ever have this happen to you? Do you force yourself to eat all your points, or do you find yourself falling under? How has this affected your weight loss? I don't want to put my body into "starvation mode" by not eating all the points, but sometimes I'm just not hungry enough...

Ideas?

[divingbiker]

Anyone ever have a hard time eating all their points?

Do you ever have this happen to you? Do you force yourself to eat all your points, or do you find yourself falling under? How has this affected your weight loss? I don't want to put my body into "starvation mode" by not eating all the points, but sometimes I'm just not hungry enough...

Ideas?

Unfortunately, I have no trouble eating all my points. My meeting leader is pretty adamant that you should eat your points every day.

But one thing I've heard people do if they have eaten all they really want to eat and there are points left over is to eat something that's pointy, like nuts or peanut butter. That way you're getting something fairly healthy, you don't have to eat a large volume, and you're getting your points in.

I can't wait till I'm in maintenance--nuts are what I'm adding back in to my diet.

[Susan Otcenas]

Unfortunately, I have no trouble eating all my points.

Most days, I'm exactly the same. No trouble eating my points, and could easily do more!

Maybe if I see myself rolling towards a low point day, I should force myself to have a mid-afternoon snack. Yesterday was really busy, and by the time dinner rolled around I'd only had 9.5 points. I had a normal dinner (ahi tuna, couscous, asparagus, salad) , but still had 5.5 left. After my little ice cream treat, I just didn't want anything else. The idea of having so much food after the dinner hour didn't feel right.

I *do* like the nuts suggestion. I'm definitely a salty snacker. Of course, once I let myself have one, it's sooooo hard to not eat the whole bag. :-)

Susan

[elk]

If I eat all my meals...I don't have any trouble...actually, I don't have any trouble regardless!!

my empty snack of choice are the Skinny Cow ice cream cones...only 3 pts and deeeelicous.

So...do you have more or less points if you need to lose more weight?