Healthy Eating / Healthy Living

[Stan4dSteph]

I did Weight Watchers. It worked well, and helped me lose a good amount of weight. I was stalled out for a while, and with my marathon training I found it too hard to count the points and still get the right kind of foods I needed for training.

I'm off it for now while I'm in France, but they have it over here too. There are the frozen meals in the grocery cases. I did the online without any meetings and it worked, but it's definitely a help to have other people to connect with. They have message boards there, but I didn't really like them.

[3894]

I really like the Turbo Jam series. Does anyone else do those?

[lizziebith]

Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

I did Weight Watchers.
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I did the online without any meetings and it worked, but it's definitely a help to have other people to connect with. They have message boards there, but I didn't really like them.

I'm doing the online program too...I like being able to just enter a food and have the points pop up! I keep the books in my car, which proved helpful the one time I was out doing errands and got hungry. I don't like the meetings because they seem to foster competition, are shame-based, and, although they encourage attendance after the weight is lost, people give you the fish-eye if you do. And I agree the online WW boards are terrible. I hang out at "3fatchicks.com" where there is a wonderfully diverse group of men and women, and support for most healthy eating plans.

And the scale? I avoided it while putting the weight ON, so now I force myself to check fairly frequently. Not really daily, but certainly more than weekly, just to pace myself. And I take an evening "off" the program once a week, to combat that drudgery of being good all the time! Hey, that's what those flex points are for, eh!?