Written by tigs01 on 07/02/2011 23:52
I try to check on the comments to my 'Can you eat the weekly 49 points and still lose weight?' blog post every day or two.
I think I've had a rant along these lines before, but tonight I've noticed a couple of people saying things that have made me think that WW really haven't explained this stuff at all well.
One lady bitterly complains that she's not losing weight. She never eats all of her dailies because she thought the point of learning healthy eating habits is not to continue to eat once your hunger is sated. She has never touched her 49 nor any of the - I think she said thirty - activity points she earns each week.
This, gentle reader, is a prime example of 'I know better than WeightWatchers' syndrome. Mind you, this lady is studying nutrition and hopes to become a dietitian.
It's a little like me, when I was a first year law student, declaring that Lord Denning was a doddering old nutter who didn't know his posterior from his elbow. Sixty or seventy years in the law, finishing up as Master of the Rolls and our senior Law Lord. I will never, I doubt, know better than he where the law is concerned.
If you can't eat all your dailies, are you filling up on fruit and veg and not on higher-energy foods? Are you having two servings of healthy oil a day? Have you tried slicing half an avocado into your lunch? Snacking on nuts? Using full-fat milk or semi-skimmed? Or drinking a full pint of skimmed (5PPs there, easy as that.)
There is a whole team of nutritionists, scientists, dietitians, behind WeightWatchers. They trial new plans, spend years working on them and put in the hard work to make sure each plan works. Then people come along, and either don't understand what they've read or been told or figure they know better, and complain that it just doesn't work for them.
If I told you that I held the secret to steady, sustainable, long-term weightloss, would you listen to me? Would you follow my words to the letter? Or, would you think, oh, what does she know? I am one individual. WeightWatchers is a decades-old, global business, which has seen thousands - tens of thousands, maybe more - achieve their weight loss aims. I am not telling you anything you won't find if you read the plan, listen to your leader and get from reading the boards.
It works. Do what you're told, and it works. If it isn't working for you, think hard. Are you doing what you're told? Are you eating all the fruit you possibly can without considering that WW guidance is that you not go over two to three portions a day, and if you do you should point it? Are you exercising hard six days a week, but not eating any of your activity points? You're not following the plan properly, in that case.
It seems some leaders say you should eat your weekly 49 and activity points. Others say use them if you need them, they're optional. There really needs to be a consistent, comprehensive answer to this. Clearly people are confused and unhappy, and yet we're three months post-launch and other European countries have had the ProPoints plan for a year longer. Surely these wrinkles ought to have been worked out by now?
It's kind of depressing that folk are still so confused, and that there are still so many questions being asked.
I'm just one person. I follow the plan to the letter. I followed every plan to the letter. When I do that, I lose weight. When I don't, I gain. I have not yet in the last eight and a half months cheated. Not once. I weigh and measure everything. I point and track everything. I eat all my dailies and most to all of my weeklies. When I am earning thirty APs a week, I will likely eat some of those, too.
I do what I am told. I lose weight. I follow the plan. That is the secret to healthy, sustainable weight loss. That is my secret. 8 months, two weeks and 66.5 pounds lighter. 66.5 pounds to go. And I am going to do it.
I think I've had a rant along these lines before, but tonight I've noticed a couple of people saying things that have made me think that WW really haven't explained this stuff at all well.
One lady bitterly complains that she's not losing weight. She never eats all of her dailies because she thought the point of learning healthy eating habits is not to continue to eat once your hunger is sated. She has never touched her 49 nor any of the - I think she said thirty - activity points she earns each week.
This, gentle reader, is a prime example of 'I know better than WeightWatchers' syndrome. Mind you, this lady is studying nutrition and hopes to become a dietitian.
It's a little like me, when I was a first year law student, declaring that Lord Denning was a doddering old nutter who didn't know his posterior from his elbow. Sixty or seventy years in the law, finishing up as Master of the Rolls and our senior Law Lord. I will never, I doubt, know better than he where the law is concerned.
If you can't eat all your dailies, are you filling up on fruit and veg and not on higher-energy foods? Are you having two servings of healthy oil a day? Have you tried slicing half an avocado into your lunch? Snacking on nuts? Using full-fat milk or semi-skimmed? Or drinking a full pint of skimmed (5PPs there, easy as that.)
There is a whole team of nutritionists, scientists, dietitians, behind WeightWatchers. They trial new plans, spend years working on them and put in the hard work to make sure each plan works. Then people come along, and either don't understand what they've read or been told or figure they know better, and complain that it just doesn't work for them.
If I told you that I held the secret to steady, sustainable, long-term weightloss, would you listen to me? Would you follow my words to the letter? Or, would you think, oh, what does she know? I am one individual. WeightWatchers is a decades-old, global business, which has seen thousands - tens of thousands, maybe more - achieve their weight loss aims. I am not telling you anything you won't find if you read the plan, listen to your leader and get from reading the boards.
It works. Do what you're told, and it works. If it isn't working for you, think hard. Are you doing what you're told? Are you eating all the fruit you possibly can without considering that WW guidance is that you not go over two to three portions a day, and if you do you should point it? Are you exercising hard six days a week, but not eating any of your activity points? You're not following the plan properly, in that case.
It seems some leaders say you should eat your weekly 49 and activity points. Others say use them if you need them, they're optional. There really needs to be a consistent, comprehensive answer to this. Clearly people are confused and unhappy, and yet we're three months post-launch and other European countries have had the ProPoints plan for a year longer. Surely these wrinkles ought to have been worked out by now?
It's kind of depressing that folk are still so confused, and that there are still so many questions being asked.
I'm just one person. I follow the plan to the letter. I followed every plan to the letter. When I do that, I lose weight. When I don't, I gain. I have not yet in the last eight and a half months cheated. Not once. I weigh and measure everything. I point and track everything. I eat all my dailies and most to all of my weeklies. When I am earning thirty APs a week, I will likely eat some of those, too.
I do what I am told. I lose weight. I follow the plan. That is the secret to healthy, sustainable weight loss. That is my secret. 8 months, two weeks and 66.5 pounds lighter. 66.5 pounds to go. And I am going to do it.
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