Calling All Experienced Weight Watchers

[montana20024]

Please tell me your best advice for me to lose with weight watchers...and any little tricks or tips that you have...I am in dire need of advise ....from the experienced ones...thanks.

[Runner Girl]

How can I help? I am an experience w/w but am having a hard time getting restarted myself. This may be helpful to me too ;)

 

The things that really worked for me:

 

Eat lots of veggies and have fresh veggie snacks readily available

Oatmeal for breakfast in the morning.

Keep a pot of the 0 point vegetable soup on hand

Skinny Cows are a great evening dessert (only 2 points!)

Be sure to excersize each day.

 

If I think of more I'll add them!

[bUU]

Exercise was key for me. I lost 75 pounds on Weight Watchers 12 years ago. After I lost my weight, I took a job where I was traveling 200+ days per year and wasn't able to exercise every day. That did me in. It is critical to consider it a life-long commitment to a new way of life.

[montana20024]

What are Skinny Cows??????????I am from Canada, i never heard of them..

[MrsSparticus]

Not sure I would consider myself an expert but I've been doing WW for 16 weeks now and here are a few things I've found that have worked for me.

 

I exercise every day

Make a plan of what you expect to eat for the day/week and then journal it

Make sure you get all the food groups in (dairy, fruits, veggies)

Don't think of it as a diet - it's just the new way you eat

Set mini goals for yourself and then attach a non food reward

Light and Tasty is a great magazine for low cal meal ideas and they taste good

[montana20024]

What is an acceptable exercise for the day, how much and how long

[bUU]

What are Skinny Cows??????????I am from Canada, i never heard of them..

http://www.skinnycow.com/

[montana20024]

Thank you so much Bicker....i will definately try some Skinny Cow...sounds like something I might NEED>>>

[Runner Girl]

Thanks for the link Binker!

 

A big key for me was keeping plenty of healthy zero point snacks on hand. I always have fresh veggies and when I go to a party, I bring a veggie tray. At parties I want to snack practically nonstop. The fresh veggies allow me to do that without blowing it.

 

As for excercise, I would say at a minimum, 20 minutes of excersize each day that gets your heart pumping. A good power walk, run, cycle, swim, any cardio machine at a gym. I chose walking, which became running because I learned that I needed some type of excersize where I wasn't dependant on another person, another schedule, a piece of equipment or a gym. With walking and running, all you need is your shoes and those travel pretty easily!