Looking My Best
Hi, I took the plunge and joined Weight Watchers. For the past year I have tried cutting back on calories and walking. Not much success. A friend, Linda, returned to the program. She had fabulous results and then waivered from the program. It was during one of our virtual walks she had mentioned her return.
Saturday I went to my first meeting and signed up with Weight Watchers. With Linda doing the program and our virtual walking, I feel like I have the needed support and accountability to be successful. I do want to mention that I am not being compensated, endorsed for this post. I am merely explaining what I am trying to do to meet a few of my 101 in 1001 goals, #’s 66, 68 and 69.
Counting calories wasn’t working. One day using the tracking method with weight watchers I discovered is more convenient. The Weight Watchers app is very user friendly. The foods I thought I was eating that were ‘good’ was not. For example, I would eat yogurt with granola for breakfast (and still be hungry) for a calorie count of 300. On a 2000 calorie diet this isn’t bad. But that’s 8 points with Weight Watchers. My daily point count is 29. Even with tracking calories, the point method brings more light on weight loss. Most of what I was eating were high points. As long as I can stick with my daily points, I should see 1-2 pounds loss each week.
One thing I will need to do more of, drink water. I do not like the taste of water. Kind of funny, does water have a taste? 🙂
I do have a plan to conquer my dislike of water taste.
After my first Weight Watcher’s meeting, I did my grocery shopping. Kevin went with me and he did not complain about the time it was taking me to scan each item I placed into the cart. And I did, scan each item. Quite a few items I used to get, I had to choose an alternative. I expressed my concerns about the water with Kevin. We went to the water isle and it was here that Kevin pointed out the flavors. Some of the guys Kevin works with uses flavors in their water. I thought I’d give it a try. Water is 0 points and the flavor is 0 too! I selected the berry flavor this time.
One of my main concerns is how my diet for Crohn’s will work within my 29 daily points. I remember telling my doctor I could not be diabetic. All I can eat is potatoes, pasta and meat! I’ll give an update on what I discover for meals that work for me.
I’m embarrassed with my current weight. So I will not share. But, what I will share is my weight progress with you here. Another accountability measure to help keep me on track.
Take Care. Best wishes, Debra
Good luck with your weight loss, seems harder the older we get, huh? I don’t mind drinking water but it does get boring. Those flavored drink additives, they taste good, but my goodness, they make my kidneys hurt. It doesn’t matter which brand I try, they still hurt me. Hubby was addicted to them, he used them every day all day and now he gets kidney stones. Is it related, I don’t know, all I know is if I drink a couple bottles of water with that stuff in it then my kidneys hurt, stop it and they don’t hurt. To change it up a bit instead of drinking plain water, I drink herbal tea, tastes great! By the way, what is a virtual walk? Sounds fun!! I wish there was a way to subscribe to this thread so I’d be notified of your reply.
Hi Dee. I am not sure how to add the feature of how to subscribe to thread. I will check this out. The virtual walk is simply using our iPhones and doing a video chat while we walk. I walk on my treadmill. I live about 25 miles of Lawrence and Linda lives on the other side of Lawrence about 10 out of the city. So meeting in the evenings is easier to do virtually. It has been working for us! Thank you for checking in on me!
Hi Dee, I have sent you an email. My solution will be to send manual emails once I have replied to visitor’s comments. In the meantime I will be searching for plugins to do this automatically. I am not a fan of the Jetpack plugin for WordPress. This is not an option for me.
I do appreciate this feedback, never did consider this as something readers would like having.
Take Care.
Sincerely, Debra
Hello again. Yes, I got your email and replied to it 🙂 Talk soon…
Yes, I got your email and replied to it. Talk soon…
Oh, that sounds like fun and so encouraging for each other!!