![]() There's a reason that WW has a weekly weigh-in, not a daily or bi-weekly weight-in. We often overestimate how much exercise we do (or points we earn) and underestimate how much we eat. Please don't think because you work out you can eat a lot more. But remember, it's only a small part of the equation. Do what you can, even if it's walking around the block at first, and build up. □️Exercise!Įxercise makes you feel better and you'll gain muscle, which helps to burn fat and calories. However, I would still treat myself to whatever I happened to be craving at the time. And usually, by the time I got to weigh day, I'd have forgotten all about that craving. In the meantime, if I really wanted something 'bad', like chocolate, I'd just have a WW friendly version to tie me over (i.e.: a chocolate graham cracker) and it was enough to satisfy me. I used to tell myself that if I just made it to weigh day, I could have ANYTHING I want! Then I would if I still wanted that thing. Play little games with yourself if that's what it takes. Losing weight is the culmination of a lot of little healthy choices! □Give yourself something to look forward to If you mess up again, don't beat yourself up, just keep getting back on track. Just make your next choice a healthy one and then the next. It doesn't matter how long you've fallen off. Even if you're having a crappy day, week, month, or year and you overindulge and you gain, just get back on track. For me, I just tried to make my next choice a healthy one and then the next.This is a good long-term strategy as well. This is the best way to avoid being overwhelmed when you start on WW. Image by Ulrike Leone from Pixabay □Take it one healthy choice at a time. You can save all your recipes and go back in and find them and edit them, as you need. Click on 'search food' bar at the top, scroll right to 'my foods' then 'create'. I would also recommend that you use the 'Recipe Builder' in the WW app to calculate points for things you make, as it accounts for 0 point food. But when you're starting on the program, you need to get a good sense of the points you are actually eating. You may not have to do this forever (don't worry, trust me, you'll eventually do it in your head). ![]() You'll make it and you'll wake up and have a good breakfast (look forward to that) Yeah you're going to feel hungry, but hunger is not a bad thing.I was never hungry enough for fruit haha! In the early days of my WW journey, I would tell myself I could only eat fruit.Brush your teeth, play dead, go to bed.It's hard at first but you get used to it.And if you do need to eat in the evening, have 0-point foods (0f course there are going to be exceptions, but make it an exception).Make sure you build in your favorite treats (just count them!) □Try not to eat after dinner/after 7 PM If you deprive yourself, you're not going to be able to sustain the lifestyle long-term. ![]() I see so many people saying " I can't have this or that now that I'm on the program" but the great thing is that YOU CAN! You can actually have anything you want, you just can't have everything you want. This is long game, folks so you need to approach it as such. I decided I would share my tips and tricks right here, in one place, because I want YOU to have success too! □WW is a lifestyle, NOT a diet And therefore, I often find myself writing the same things over and over in A LOT of Facebook groups. So naturally, I want to share that information with others. You can read about my personal Weight Watchers (WW) journey HERE. Personally, I have found long-term success (20 ish years) with Weight Watchers. ![]()
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