Written by tigs01 on 17/01/2011 10:01
I have 35 ProPoints a day and 49 weekly points. The only thing I am likely to have exactly in common with you is that weekly 49 points.
I'm 39, 5' 8 (and a quarter. Yes, it matters.) I am not very active. I am presently 16 stone 5.5 pounds. This is why I am on 35 PPs a day. If I were twenty years younger or a foot taller, I would have a lot more daily points. If I were starting today at 21 stone, I'd have more points than I do now.
So, in that respect, we're all different. Different people have different daily allowances. Until, that is, we are getting closer to goal, in which case we all have 29 PPs and 49 weekly PPs.
ProPoints has been in use in parts of Europe for just over a year. It works, you know? Plenty of folk in Holland and Germany can attest to that.
Why is it, then, that so many people think they know better than WeightWatchers? 'I'm not eating those extra 49 points, they'll make me fatter.' I will probably still be saying this until I am old and grey, but those 49 points are not extra points. They have been pre-saved for you and put in a pot ahead of time, taken out of your daily allowance so that you don't have to save them up yourself. If you don't eat them, you're depriving yourself of - for most people - over a day's worth of points. Almost two days' worth, if you're on 29 PPs a day.
Why would you want to starve yourself in this way? What is it that makes apparently intelligent people believe that they know better than the experts who devised this plan?
I'm a lawyer by training. I worked in hard facts and evidence, not conjecture and supposition. I want to see proof, I want the nuts and bolts and the intricate details to be laid out for me so that I can see for myself. So, I read everything I can on how the plan is meant to work, how it was devised, how to put it together.
What matters to me is results. I know that any change in eating pattern takes time to assess. ProPoints is very different to Discover. Discover was very different to Exchanges, or whatever that plan was called. I have to admit I was very glad indeed to find that Discover had come in when I went back to WW after my first attempt; I lost too fast on Exchanges, I think - it didn't matter what weight you were at the outset, you had this many carbohydrates, this many protein, this many dairy, this many fruit and veg, this many fats. It wasn't a plan I could stick to comfortably for any length of time.
I lost weight on Exchanges. Very quickly. I was bored silly after eighteen weeks, though, and stopped going to classes. I gained three stone in six weeks.
I lost weight with Discover. More than once. I always got bored after about eighteen weeks, once the weight started to plateau, and gave up.
This time around, I started on Discover and never got bored with it. Somehow it just finally clicked, and I was doing very well indeed with it. I lost three and a half stone on Discover; I was very pleased with that indeed.
Since ProPoints came in nine weeks ago, I've lost another eleven pounds. I had my first really extended plateau and didn't get below the weight I was the first Saturday in December until the first week in January. I lost six and a quarter pounds, gained a pound and three quarters, lost half a pound, gained three quarters of a pound, lost a quarter pound, stayed the same, lost half a pound. Then finally, three and a quarter pounds came off in a week. Three quarters of a pound last week. I'm hopeful that I will lose again this week. Two pounds to go to the half way point, and this year I want to get to goal. I'd really like to have lost six stone by my one year anniversary, I've just under 20 pounds to go and four months in which to do it. That's only five pounds a month! I haven't weighed fourteen stone since I was about 21 or so.
A nyway, the evidence is there, to my mind, to show that ProPoints works. It works for me, anyway, and all that I am doing is following the plan guidelines and using my common sense. It may work for you, too.
I'm 39, 5' 8 (and a quarter. Yes, it matters.) I am not very active. I am presently 16 stone 5.5 pounds. This is why I am on 35 PPs a day. If I were twenty years younger or a foot taller, I would have a lot more daily points. If I were starting today at 21 stone, I'd have more points than I do now.
So, in that respect, we're all different. Different people have different daily allowances. Until, that is, we are getting closer to goal, in which case we all have 29 PPs and 49 weekly PPs.
ProPoints has been in use in parts of Europe for just over a year. It works, you know? Plenty of folk in Holland and Germany can attest to that.
Why is it, then, that so many people think they know better than WeightWatchers? 'I'm not eating those extra 49 points, they'll make me fatter.' I will probably still be saying this until I am old and grey, but those 49 points are not extra points. They have been pre-saved for you and put in a pot ahead of time, taken out of your daily allowance so that you don't have to save them up yourself. If you don't eat them, you're depriving yourself of - for most people - over a day's worth of points. Almost two days' worth, if you're on 29 PPs a day.
Why would you want to starve yourself in this way? What is it that makes apparently intelligent people believe that they know better than the experts who devised this plan?
I'm a lawyer by training. I worked in hard facts and evidence, not conjecture and supposition. I want to see proof, I want the nuts and bolts and the intricate details to be laid out for me so that I can see for myself. So, I read everything I can on how the plan is meant to work, how it was devised, how to put it together.
What matters to me is results. I know that any change in eating pattern takes time to assess. ProPoints is very different to Discover. Discover was very different to Exchanges, or whatever that plan was called. I have to admit I was very glad indeed to find that Discover had come in when I went back to WW after my first attempt; I lost too fast on Exchanges, I think - it didn't matter what weight you were at the outset, you had this many carbohydrates, this many protein, this many dairy, this many fruit and veg, this many fats. It wasn't a plan I could stick to comfortably for any length of time.
I lost weight on Exchanges. Very quickly. I was bored silly after eighteen weeks, though, and stopped going to classes. I gained three stone in six weeks.
I lost weight with Discover. More than once. I always got bored after about eighteen weeks, once the weight started to plateau, and gave up.
This time around, I started on Discover and never got bored with it. Somehow it just finally clicked, and I was doing very well indeed with it. I lost three and a half stone on Discover; I was very pleased with that indeed.
Since ProPoints came in nine weeks ago, I've lost another eleven pounds. I had my first really extended plateau and didn't get below the weight I was the first Saturday in December until the first week in January. I lost six and a quarter pounds, gained a pound and three quarters, lost half a pound, gained three quarters of a pound, lost a quarter pound, stayed the same, lost half a pound. Then finally, three and a quarter pounds came off in a week. Three quarters of a pound last week. I'm hopeful that I will lose again this week. Two pounds to go to the half way point, and this year I want to get to goal. I'd really like to have lost six stone by my one year anniversary, I've just under 20 pounds to go and four months in which to do it. That's only five pounds a month! I haven't weighed fourteen stone since I was about 21 or so.
A nyway, the evidence is there, to my mind, to show that ProPoints works. It works for me, anyway, and all that I am doing is following the plan guidelines and using my common sense. It may work for you, too.
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