Written by tigs01 on 08/01/2011 15:33
Oh, the perennial question! And the source of most people's complaints about ProPoints, it would seem. Or at times, anyway.
I have no problem at all with the Vintage Pointers. I am not about to tell you to change what you're comfortable with.
But look, it's like this, okay? Under the Discover Plan, you had to save four points from your daily allowance (no more than that per day) and you were only supposed to eat 10 or 12 of those saved points a week, including any bonus activity points that you earned (so far as I can remember, anyway.)
On ProPoints, the daily points allowance is actually 49 PPs lower over the course of a week because - gasp! - 49 PPs have been saved for you in advance by WeightWatchers. It's true! CJ worked it out and showed his workings out, and it is exactly right.
This makes ProPoints much easier to live with; no more struggling to stay within your daily points or under-eating so you can have a wee splurge. If you eat only your daily points, you are already under-eating. So to my mind, they are there to be used. You get exactly the same in terms of calories consumed if you eat them all as well as all of your daily points as you used to on the Discover plan. The difference is, that you can now relax a little and know that you have that bank of 49 points to use if you need to.
This last week I used all bar ten of mine. I had a little extra every day, a couple of extra for proper meals and five or a little more for a treat. I had my best loss for seven weeks! You will lose weight if you eat them.
It's not about cutting back your daily points to the bone; you don't lose more weight if you eat less than you should. Sooner or later, your loss will shudder to a halt. Or you get to the point where you are close to goal and have only 29 PP a day, and you are struggling to get to goal because you've nothing left to cut out.
This is not meant to be a starvation diet! Normal, skinny people do not live in a state of constant starvation (well, I don't class models as normal, skinny people.) It is not healthy to deprive yourself. Cravings are a psychological issue, and sometimes they have to be indulged or we go totally off the rails. Goodness knows, it has happened to me so many times in the past.
Are you going to argue with four and a half stone lost since May 2010? Are you going to tell me that I am wrong, that my attitude is stupid and pointless and isn't going to get me to goal? Okay, what works for me may not work for everyone. But why shouldn't it work for some?
Have a little faith in WW. Trust the plan. Use those points. Experiment with them and see how many you can use and still lose. How much more do you lose if you eat them? Don't try it for just one week. Give it a month, six weeks, then have a look at your stats.
Go on. I dare you!
I have no problem at all with the Vintage Pointers. I am not about to tell you to change what you're comfortable with.
But look, it's like this, okay? Under the Discover Plan, you had to save four points from your daily allowance (no more than that per day) and you were only supposed to eat 10 or 12 of those saved points a week, including any bonus activity points that you earned (so far as I can remember, anyway.)
On ProPoints, the daily points allowance is actually 49 PPs lower over the course of a week because - gasp! - 49 PPs have been saved for you in advance by WeightWatchers. It's true! CJ worked it out and showed his workings out, and it is exactly right.
This makes ProPoints much easier to live with; no more struggling to stay within your daily points or under-eating so you can have a wee splurge. If you eat only your daily points, you are already under-eating. So to my mind, they are there to be used. You get exactly the same in terms of calories consumed if you eat them all as well as all of your daily points as you used to on the Discover plan. The difference is, that you can now relax a little and know that you have that bank of 49 points to use if you need to.
This last week I used all bar ten of mine. I had a little extra every day, a couple of extra for proper meals and five or a little more for a treat. I had my best loss for seven weeks! You will lose weight if you eat them.
It's not about cutting back your daily points to the bone; you don't lose more weight if you eat less than you should. Sooner or later, your loss will shudder to a halt. Or you get to the point where you are close to goal and have only 29 PP a day, and you are struggling to get to goal because you've nothing left to cut out.
This is not meant to be a starvation diet! Normal, skinny people do not live in a state of constant starvation (well, I don't class models as normal, skinny people.) It is not healthy to deprive yourself. Cravings are a psychological issue, and sometimes they have to be indulged or we go totally off the rails. Goodness knows, it has happened to me so many times in the past.
Are you going to argue with four and a half stone lost since May 2010? Are you going to tell me that I am wrong, that my attitude is stupid and pointless and isn't going to get me to goal? Okay, what works for me may not work for everyone. But why shouldn't it work for some?
Have a little faith in WW. Trust the plan. Use those points. Experiment with them and see how many you can use and still lose. How much more do you lose if you eat them? Don't try it for just one week. Give it a month, six weeks, then have a look at your stats.
Go on. I dare you!
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