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WeightWatchers & "How Many ProPoints?" Thread
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Weigh in tomorrow and I'm dreading it
Went a bit mad at the weekend to celebrate exam results and also had a First Holy Communion. I've honestly never seen so many gorgeous deserts in one place and yes, I tried them all! Was doing great since Sunday until I put my back out in the gym today. Physio has told me no more gym for at least a fortnight. Was so annoyed I came home and ate half a tub of ice cream, which of course I'm totally peed off with myself for doing now. Getting really frustrated. Every time things start going to plan something throws me off. Sorry for the rant. 0 -
Rugby Chic26 wrote: »Thanks for all that Monife.
That sounds like a very good idea with the meal planning. I work shift work & find it very hard to make dinners now. I think its also down to being lazy & very unorganised & it has definitely contributed to my weight gain. I think I will definitely benefit from being organised & taking a day to make a few meals & freezing them for the week ahead!
The way you describe yourself before you started exercising sounds just like me! I'm constantly using my car for short journeys & constantly making excuses to avoid exercise! I think if I start off like you said with the walking & build on that then I will more than likely stick with it. I'll definitely check out the couch to 5km!
Thanks for all the tips!
Your welcome. I would recommend starting with the walking, if you were anything like me, and once you have built up a comfortable decent distance, then start the couch to 5k. I started it in March, so that was 4 months after I started the walking.0 -
Question, what are these BNS chips??
BNS Chips are AMAZING!!! A few ppl have different ways of making them but this is how I do it - crank up the oven as far as it will go (250 on mine), half the BNS and put in, skin side up, while the oven is warming up. This will loosen up the skin. Take out, let it cool for a min, then skin it, chop into wedges. Spray a baking tray with a bit of oil, load them on, then spray the top of them with a little oil and bung them in for about 40 mins, turning once. Nom nom, would actually love some now and it's only 7.50am :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac: Since I discovered these in Jan, I have not made normal chips at home at all! Haven't wanted them
WI tonight Fully expect to be up because of the weekend :( I know that was an exception but I think I will ask my leader if I can bring my tracker in next week to see if she can give me any pointers. I'm trying to use more points during the day so I don't end up eating crap in the evening but in spite of eating loads yest, I still ended up with 5pp left by 9pm!
Oh and just on the ppl posting up what they have eaten during the day - I don't know that it would be considered a food diary? I have done it before (this week, I think), but I don't do it as a "Look, how good I've been", I do it more as a "this is what I've had, how can I improve it" both from a WW pov and a nutritional pov. That's just my opinion! 0 -
Lady Lainy wrote: »Muffin recipe.....this is my own tweaked concoction
125g white self raising flour
40g Light brown sugar
30g odlums wheat bran (dunnes stores)
1 whole egg
table spoon of low fat natural yoghurt
100 skimmed milk
Fruit of your choice (strawberries, blueberries, rasperries, banana all work great)
15g splenda
1 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Soak the bran wheat in the milk for few mins,
Cream the sugar/splenda/egg together,
Sift the flour/baking powder/bicarbonate at least twice to get it nice a fluffy.
Combine all of the above ingredents. taking care not to work it too much or they will sink and go flat. just at the end fold in the fruit.
(if using bananas have them thouroughly mashed with fork before folding into mixture)
This recipe makes six decent muffins at 4pp each! High fibre, really filling, with slow releasing carb energy. to make them even better again you can also use self raising brown flour (i've only seen that in super valu)
Oven should be pre heated to about 180 - 200 degrees, and they only need about 20 mins....leave them in the oven until cold if you can...if you open the door too quickly they can fall...so you could even get away with turning off the oven at about 16 mintues
(Took me ages to learn all the knacks...trial and error)
Hi Lainy,
I was just reading this recipe this morning and you have mentioned Natural Yogurt in the ingredients but no mention of it in the method. Where does it go in?
Thanks! 0 -
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Hey folks,
After talking about this with the other Mods we've decided that we're going to keep a WW thread but it's going to start over from scratch: new thread, new start.
This thread will be locked but not deleted, so you can just keep a link to it in case you want to read over some things in it.
There's a few things to bear in mind here:
WW is a business. Boards.ie is not obliged to support and advertise any business for free and it's easily arguable that the thread is breaking a number of rules that the Mdoerators are duty bound to uphold, but by virtue of this being such a hugely popular topic and the volume of posts that it generates it will stay.
The thread is also bound by the forum rules, and this includes maintaining a healthy eating theme. If any posts are deemed to be going against that theme they'll be deleted, simple as.
While it's a fantastic idea to have a group of people all supporting each other in their goals please bear in mind that there is a whole other forum out there to be explored. While there may be people out there who don't agree with WW they are perfectly entitled to that opinion. You may find their disagreements not to your taste (no pun intended
) but that doesn't mean that what they are saying is invalid. Don't be afraid to think outside the WW box.
Finally, please, please use the report button if you see something that you don't like - that's the surest way to get a Moderator's attention. Don't take things into your own hands because that will more than likely end up in you getting negative attention.
I'll leave this open for a bit and will start a new thread later today.0 -
Well that's very disappointing I have to say. The traffic in the new thread will probably reduce now,I hope not though. I think people are probably feeling like they can't be themselves, which obviously they can't be. I'm really gutted, so many people have got such support off this,and now they'll get disheartened.
Let's just try and keep it together I guess
I really feel I'd love to suggest we move to a certain networking site, where at least we can be ourselves,and not feel like we are being watched and fear we will be quoted on other threads,which is also against the sites rules,but has not been respected. I certainly will be wary of posting on this new thread, in case I get in trouble.0 -
I really feel I'd love to suggest we move to a certain networking site, where at least we can be ourselves,and not feel like we are being watched and fear we will be quoted on other threads,which is also against the sites rules,but has not been respected. I certainly will be wary of posting on this new thread, in case I get go trouble.
m'lady I'm a little at a loss to see where you're being told you can't "be yourself"?
I've already said a number of times that quoting from one thread to another is not allowed, this has been apologised for, and that's exactly the kind of thing I'm asking people to report to bring to Mods' attention.0 -
Well I guess I'm thinking in this new thread that we won't be able to say we had a bad day etc, or we ate a load of chocolate and feel annoyed with ourselves, in fear that we are breaking guidelines. Maybe I've taken you up wrong,and if I have I apologise. I'm sure you can see since all this trouble started people have been afraid to say what they would have said before?m'lady I'm a little at a loss to see where you're being told you can't "be yourself"?
I've already said a number of times that quoting from one thread to another is not allowed, this has been apologised for, and that's exactly the kind of thing I'm asking people to report to bring to Mods' attention.0 -
m'lady I'm a little at a loss to see where you're being told you can't "be yourself"?
I've already said a number of times that quoting from one thread to another is not allowed, this has been apologised for, and that's exactly the kind of thing I'm asking people to report to bring to Mods' attention.
I have to say I agree to some extent with m'lady - I will be very unsure of where the line is drawn between "healthy eating" and "ww promotion" and will be nervous of making any comment, whereas up to now I haven't felt the need to be nervous. I will feel that if I comment on anything other than lettuce leaves and water I will be told I'm promoting unhealthy habits. I have always felt I could comment freely here without feeling that a moderator was looking over my shoulder, ready to tell me off - even though I understand why that can be necessary.
G'em - I understand the concept of the new thread but I think in reality it will be difficult to make it work but I hope it does. 0 -
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Well I guess I'm thinking in this new thread that we won't be able to say we had a bad day etc, or we ate a load of chocolate and feel annoyed with ourselves, in fear that we are breaking guidelines. Maybe I've taken you up wrong,and if I have I apologise. I'm sure you can see since all this trouble started people have been afraid to say what they would have said before?
I had a really bad day on Monday and spent the evening with a friend who fed me tea and a Whispa bar. It was absolutely bloody delicious On both a personal and a Moderating level I don't feel that's unhealthy as an isolated incident. So no, if you've had a bad day and you want to rant or vent about it then that's cool.
But the problem is when people start to use food as a crutch, and that's where the Mods will start to get a little edgy. We can't in good faith allow a thread that supports that kind of behaviour. So can you see why it's difficult for us to have the thread at all? We have to put faith in the thread users to not support that, and I will, in all honesty, be keeping an eye on that. It's part of the reasons why the Food Diaries were closed down.
Similarly anything like "I'm going to a party tonight so I'm only eating a bowl of zero-point soup all day to save my points" or "I want a take-away today so I'm starving msyelf from 6am onwards" - that's just not healthy, it's sacrificng good eating for the sake of points.
Does that make more sense?0 -
I have to say I agree to some extent with m'lady - I will be very unsure of where the line is drawn between "healthy eating" and "ww promotion" and will be nervous of making any comment, whereas up to now I haven't felt the need to be nervous. I will feel that if I comment on anything other than lettuce leaves and water I will be told I'm promoting unhealthy habits. I have always felt I could comment freely here without feeling that a moderator was looking over my shoulder, ready to tell me off - even though I understand why that can be necessary.
G'em - I understand the concept of the new thread but I think in reality it will be difficult to make it work but I hope it does.
You put it better than I did,thanks! I'm doing this off my phone and racing for work,so can't think straight.0 -
G'em thanks for taking the time to post and let us know where things stand. I honestly don't mind a new thread this one is too big & makes searching cumbersome at least the new thread will just be pp oriented & not 700 pages of old points too.
M'lady we can still make a new thread work don't lose hope! We're still here to support each other. If the anti WW want to read the new thread they will but they've been reprimanded & apologised their attack took a very personal turn & there was no call for it & for the record I'm not an emotional tubby saying that! :P
G'em not to put words in mladys mouth, it's not you who has made us feel unwelcome more so the comments in the other thread where a couple of posters actually said the WW thread had no place here, it's put posters off & some feel they were unfairly judged by the anti WW crowd.
Are we still okay to post recipes pro point values of items etc? Lastly I was having a discussion with Lady Lainy yesterday if someone posts up what they ate in a particular day & the pp value is that considered a food diary? I don't do it but some posters do & my fear was that would be perceived as a food diary & would get the thread into hot water so could you maybe but the dos & donts in the first post of the new thread so there is no ambiguity going forward? Thanks 0 -
I had a really bad day on Monday and spent the evening with a friend who fed me tea and a Whispa bar. It was absolutely bloody delicious On both a personal and a Moderating level I don't feel that's unhealthy as an isolated incident. So no, if you've had a bad day and you want to rant or vent about it then that's cool.
But the problem is when people start to use food as a crutch, and that's where the Mods will start to get a little edgy. We can't in good faith allow a thread that supports that kind of behaviour. So can you see why it's difficult for us to have the thread at all? We have to put faith in the thread users to not support that, and I will, in all honesty, be keeping an eye on that. It's part of the reasons why the Food Diaries were closed down.
Similarly anything like "I'm going to a party tonight so I'm only eating a bowl of zero-point soup all day to save my points" or "I want a take-away today so I'm starving msyelf from 6am onwards" - that's just not healthy, it's sacrificng good eating for the sake of points.
Does that make more sense?
Yes it makes more sense, but there is such a fine line there, that comments will be taken wrong etc,I'm just afraid people will be too afraid to just chat, and that will ruin the supportive atmosphere that we have had.0 -
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recipes and pro-points are fine, but daily postings of point intakes is a little too diary-ish unfortuantely. I'll make a note of that in the OP of the new thread, great ideaAre we still okay to post recipes pro point values of items etc? Lastly I was having a discussion with Lady Lainy yesterday if someone posts up what they ate in a particular day & the pp value is that considered a food diary? I don't do it but some posters do & my fear was that would be perceived as a food diary & would get the thread into hot water so could you maybe but the dos & donts in the first post of the new thread so there is no ambiguity going forward? Thanks
It's a very fine line alright, and we'll just have to play it by ear for a while. I guess my biggest concern is that support is great, but support of unhealthy behaviours is where we get into trouble - and in all honesty it does the dieter no good either in the long run.Yes it makes more sense, but there is such a fine line there, that comments will be taken wrong etc,I'm just afraid people will be too afraid to just chat, and that will ruin the supportive atmosphere that we have had.0 -
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g'em, thanks for taking so much time to answer questions and clarify. It's much appreciated. Am I right in thinking that it's not so much unhealthy foods but unhealthy ways of eating that you are more concerned about?
exactly I was only thinking that I may not have made that very clear first time around. 0 -
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