anyone on WW??

[Susan Otcenas]

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

The heavier you are, the more points you get.

[surgtech1956]

I need to get back on the 'ww wagon'. I don't like going to the meetings, in the past have done it on my own - sometimes it works, somestimes not(depends if I have a friend doing ww too). I've been thinking about joing ww online. How does the online work - is there support, etc... is it more than just a point tracking place? I've heard the online forum isn't very good.

I've been sort of watching what I've been eating. I work - 7a-3:30p, I've been eating oatmeal(quick oats) in the morning - 5:45am - then I'm hungry around 9am and eat a ww yogurt or Fiber One Bar(love the peanut butter/oats). I'm starting a new shift in 2 weeks - 6:30a-5pm, I work in surgery and sometimes don't get lunch or any opportunity to eat anything until 1:30pm - so I'm starved by then. Once I start my new hours(6:30a-5pm) I don't think I'm going to eat breakfast before I leave and just wait until I get a break at work - take my chances that I will get a break. Anyone else have this problem?

[divingbiker]

I need to get back on the 'ww wagon'. I don't like going to the meetings, in the past have done it on my own - sometimes it works, somestimes not(depends if I have a friend doing ww too). I've been thinking about joing ww online. How does the online work - is there support, etc... is it more than just a point tracking place? I've heard the online forum isn't very good.

I've got the monthly pass ($40/month) so I attend meetings and use the online tools. I lost 50 pounds 3 years ago doing WW on my own, and gained 40 of it back, so I realize I need the discipline of the weekly meetings to keep me on track, especially once I get to goal. I've also found a leader I really like, and the meeting place is just two blocks from my office, so it's really convenient to go to a lunchtime meeting.

The online forums at WW are all over the place. If you can find a spot you fit in, they're great. The vegetarian board is where I hang out, and it is much like TE--friendly, fun, and not nasty. I've made great friends there, just as I have here. The Filling Foods (was Core until this week; they're changing the program) board is full of junior high mean girls. The ones that are x pounds to lose, the fitness ideas board, the 50+ board, they all seem ok but I don't spend much time there.

[Susan Otcenas]

Anyone else notice that WW changed how APs are used online?

They seem to have turned it into a weekly budget, not tapped until AFTER you used up your 35 extra weekly food points. In my mind, this really sucks, and is nutritionally a bad idea.

The old way - where APs had to be used on the day earned - made far more sense, because it maintained the relationship between exercise and eating to fuel your body's activities.

But now, if you go over your daily target, the tracker pulls from your 35 weekly points, even on days with APs earned. This sucks. I used my 35 points for "extras" or eating out. Special things. And I nenver use all of them. But now they get tapped for exercise 1st and I don't think that is the way it should be. It also means that there is no longer any DAILY correlation between inputs and outputs.

Anyone else irritated about this?

I already sent WW an email, but I'm sure it will go into some great big black hole...

Susan

[divingbiker]

Anyone else notice that WW changed how APs are used online?

Yes, this change is part of the new "Momentum" program. It's back to the way they used to do it, before they made APs be used the day they're earned (they started doing that a few years ago.)

I do my tracking on paper, so I'm still doing it the old way. For me, I kind of like the ability to bank APs, especially since I earn 8 on some days and occasionally 0 on others (usually only one day/week).

Maybe you can find a way to just keep track mentally? It's a pain, though, I know.

[greycoral]

Yeah, that seems pretty lame. I've also noticed a ton of messups with points after they switched over. 4 oz of ground turkey is 4 points, but 5 oz is somehow 19.5 points? Puhlease. Maybe they've started fixing the bugs, but luckily I know the points of the food I eat pretty often.

I also never track my AP's in WW. I keep a hand written log of my daily exercise along with calories burned, what I did, how I felt, etc (I use a HR monitor). I also don't use my 35 Flex Points, well, usually I don't, so for me the tracker is just used for dailies.

In other news, I finally broke my plateau! I lost 1.2 lbs this week. So excited!

[solobiker]

Way to go Grey.. that is great. I am still on that long plateau that has lasted forever. What is your secret? I know I need to increase my veggie intake.