Well, I’m happy to say, MrsT has hit her first milestone with WW with her weigh-in today: in a month, she’s lost a total of 12 pounds, which means she’s seen her first adjustment to her daily points allowance.
In true MrsT fashion, she said, “That feels more like a punishment!”
Yeah, if you win in WW you lose points. Unfortunately slimmer bodies need less fuel.. that's where I've often slipped up in the past. But I reckon too much is at stake for me to do the same thing again.Well, I’m happy to say, MrsT has hit her first milestone with WW with her weigh-in today: in a month, she’s lost a total of 12 pounds, which means she’s seen her first adjustment to her daily points allowance.
In true MrsT fashion, she said, “That feels more like a punishment!”
I wanted to add that I can't for the life of me seem to get any kind of motion going with menu planning since MrsT started WeightWatchers. I think it's because I'm trying to use recipes from their site, and I find it to be the clumsiest app and website to use for recipe searching/saving. It's brutally bad, and I continually put off looking for something until I absolutely have to.
), it shows up in another area, so you have to constantly remember how you saved a recipe in order to figure out where it is. 
Yep it's a nightmare to navigate. I just adjust my normal recipes to their stated portion sizes, or use my zero points to think of something. Maybe that helps you too?I wanted to add that I can't for the life of me seem to get any kind of motion going with menu planning since MrsT started WeightWatchers. I think it's because I'm trying to use recipes from their site, and I find it to be the clumsiest app and website to use for recipe searching/saving. It's brutally bad, and I continually put off looking for something until I absolutely have to.
What's worse...their app and their website are nothing alike when it comes to the recipe searching and saving bit. You're on the app and save a recipe, it shows up in one area. You're on the website and save a recipe (well, for a start, you don't "save" a recipe on the website, you can only mark it as a favorite, but on the app, there's no favorite, but there's a save button
And recipes you create/enter yourself and save...those go to an entirely different area.
I'm just glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's a mess, because as I'm watching videos about different aspects of WWs, by coaches and members not affiliated with them, they all say, "You really have to use the app, it's so super-easy to use and makes everything super-simple and super-fun!"
Yeah veg with a high water content like greens and broccoli for example works for lowering calories, keeping more glycemic carbs at bay which stabilizes blood sugar and insulin levels which effects our hormonal responses to fullness in a positive way and when adding to a decent size protein can be a very effective weight loss strategy, I like it and one that I've been using for quite a few years. BTW fruit doesn't have anything important that you can't get in a vegetable. Mine is more generally referred to as a low carb diet. Protein also uses about 30% of the calories for digestion alone, so for every 100 calories your absorbing 70. Cheers. IBS could be exasperated on a higher fiber diet, contrary to popular belief, so there is that.
Yep, that's one funny bit about carbs, I sometimes feel weak and hungry right after I've had a heavy carb meal, like a bowl of pasta or a burger with fries. I've read about the carbs impact on insulin, but until recently I wasn't able to really figure out how I could lower my carb intake without starving myself, because I grew up associating carbs with satiety: in my family the main meal always consists of protein and a heavy dose of carbs, we don't do that healthy thing of accompanying the protein with salad or veggies. It's been really a process of re-educating myself.
Yeah, the problem eating lots of carbs is the surge in insulin to remove the sugar because generally the pancreas overcompensates and produces more insulin that most people need. Normal glucose might be in the say 100 mg/dl before a meal and shoot up to 160 and then drop down into the 60's which is the crash, light headedness, lethargy and a good sign someone is on their way to insulin resistance, is insulin resistant or has diabetes. Removing sugar keep glucose levels fairly stable although protein does effect insulin somewhat, but not much. Also insulin interrupts or stops fat metabolism. If you remove the all day grazing that removes the possibility of a continual response to the elevated glucose which also partitions fat to be burned as fuel. I consume 2 meals a day generally, 1 in the morning and 1 at night and I have stable energy and rarely to I feel hungry, and never have the need to count calories, ever, a win win. Good luck with your plan.
