Weight Loss - Tuxedo Park,NY

An recovering Italian friend once told me....stop making celebrations about the food....make the celebration about the people and about what you do together. Go for a walk after dinner together instead of jumping right into coffee and/or more wine and dessert.

Happy to hear you have lost weight and are trying to lose more. Be in touch with me on my email site ____@____.com and lets talk some more. May have a couple things that can help. Best, I.

wow! 14 in 8 weeks. congrats!!! that right there is enough of a reason to go back! you must feel great, and just think of how great you will feel if you do even more! what you could do is offer yourself goals/rewards not with food.....ie. if I loose 10 lbs I get a mani/pedi if I loose 20 I get a massage all the way up to new jeans...as you will need them! good luck..oh and I did ww before I got preggo and I went to the meetings and they are pretty supportive so if you go to a meeting you just might get the support you need there.

You have gotten some really great advice...follow it!
You have done GREAT! Congratulate yourself and know that you CAN do this. You've proven it! Don't despair. Despair will make you give up.
So much of weight control is habit. You were in a good one, and now you're slipping into a bad one, so nip it! Just get back to your good habits. Don't try to lose the few you gained back all at once, just think long term and get back to healthy habits.
You're doing great! Keep it up!
S.

Go back to meetings. Nothing will get you back on program more than seeing that number on the scale. What the others said about giviing youurself non-food rewards is a great idea. Manicures, put a $5 (or whatever you can afford) in a jar for every pound lost, etc.

Time to face the music. Good luck.

Don't beat yourself up about it. Just resolve to improve a little bit. Instead of denying yourself any 'treats', let yourself have one less than before. As you have success with that, pull it back. In the mean time, have a look at your rewards system. You want to keep that weight off for the next 50 years, so even once you lose the 45 pounds, you can't go back to eating pre-Weight Watchers. The idea is to retrain your mind and eyes and stomach while on Weight Watchers so that you can get off weight watchers while maintaining your weight. Rewarding yourself with 'treats' - high fat/sugar food - is not going to keep your weight off. So, give yourself grace. And figure out a rewards system which also encourages your weight loss/weight maintenance.

In my experience, there is often some underlying emptiness inside of you which eating tries to fill - I'd really encourage you to have a look at that.

When I complete a kenken puzzle, I give myself a star. What are non-food non-expensive treats you can give yourself? Verbal praise, call a friend, give yourself a 15 minute break to enjoy the blue sky or blustery wind.

Great job working on it. That's the main thing - falling down and getting back up again!

Yes, treat yourself, but not with food! Treat yourself by doing your nails, going for a walk, taking a bubble bath....all those neat indulgences not food. And write it all down! Everytime I think of a treat to snack on, I look at my food journal and say, "wow! I've done so well today---why mess it up with a brownie?" And I go do something else instead.

Every day is a new day. If you mess up at lunch, then do better at dinner. If you mess up today, do better tomorrow. Don't think that if you mess up, you need to wait until next week or next Monday or next month. Do it now.

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My Weight Watchers instructor had a motto: "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels."

Good Luck!

Dear J., Just think "summer is coming" The 14 ponnds is a great start and even if you did put a few back on, there is always tomorrow. Open your WW book, get out your log sheets and start over again. You can do it!! Grandma Mary

This is a tough one. Try to treat yourself with manicures or buying a new top instead of food treats. It is so hard to stay focused on a goal so I find it helpful to have a friend in a program with me. Right now I am doing the Fitness Edge Revolution witch is a completion with before and after photos and measurements--maybe taking the photos in a sports bra like they make us do would be enough. An another weird piece of advice--for a really healthy mouthy rinse with Hydrogen Peroxide ---your dentist will love you and you will not want to eat for a little while because of the after taste! Good luck!

Diet food needs to look pretty. Have fun in the ways you present your diet food. Think of the pretty colors combinations of the fruits and vegies. You can also post a picture of yourself on the refrigorator...It has to be a picture of the body you want, so cut out your head and paste it on a really good looking body to remind yourself that this is what you want. Take up a hobby/reading to keep your hands busy. Instead of thinking, "I deserve that treat" or "That treat looks so good" or "One little bite won't hurt," reprogram your thoughts to think, "Do I really want to spend all my calories/fat on that or have something better" or "Once on the lips, a pound on the hips" or "I'm doing so good on my diet, why should I ruin it".....

Congrats on the weight loss! That's a huge accomplishment! I am a personal trainer and have some ideas as to what may be going on with you. One idea is that your body is getting used to the diet and you're hitting a plateau. I would suggest to start exercising. Pick an activity that you enjoy doing (bike riding, exercise class, dancing, walking, etc...). Take baby steps and start out doing cardio 20 minutes 3 days/week. Make yourself accountable to someone... either yourself, a workout buddy or a trainer. This way, you won't try to make up excuses to not workout.
Try to keep your diet consistent with weight watchers and the exercise should give you a jump start to more weight loss.
I hope this helps and good luck!

The best motivation is a new cute exercise outfit and a pair of new tennis shoes. It will make you look really cute and feel good and motivate you to exercise and keep eating right. Good luck!!!!

Hi Jacqueline,

I always advise good nutrition and that is primarily what weight watcher's teaches. The problem with "treating" yourself is you have to decide whether you really want it or not. When you REALLY crave something, you're body is not fully nutritionally satisfied so, if that is your case, then you need additional help absorbing nutrition. I take an absorbable mulitivitamin/mineral complex that is guaranteed to absorb. My husband lost 110 pounds by taking this vitamin. The first 60 pounds with no diet change or activity change. Nutrition absorbing, not only will make a world of difference in losing weight but, will also KEEP the weight off to. My husband lost his weight 5 years ago and has kept it off. No struggles.

Hope I helped and feel free to ask if you want more information.

M.

Hi J.-

First-congrats on losing the weight! I too am on weight watchers and understand your position. There are all sorts of tricks out there-you just have to find what's best for you. For me-I will put on a pair of pants in my goal size and look at myself in the mirror. I feel how uncomfortable they are and then visualize how I want them to fit. I keep that in my head. When I start to lose that-I do it all over again. I also make sure to go to my meeting every week. I can't tell you how much that helps. I get loads of inspiration from others. Finally-when it's more my stomach than anything-I drink peppermint tea. I don't know what it is about that but it fills me for a bit til I can get beyond the urge to inhale all the cookies in my pantry!

Best of luck to you!

Stay postive I myself did the ww thing a lon time back and my mom is a lifetime member for over 20 yrs, so it works. You just have to want it I quit it because it was not right for me at the moment. I am working out w a trainer and going to the Y in kingston like 5 times a week. Try to stay positive you will get back on track I promise you know if you want to get together sometime to go walking I live in Tillson. I am a stay at home mom and dont really know many people would love the company. Anyway I believe in you go for it just remember that your worth it.

"They " say it takes approx. 28 days to end/begin a new habit...just keep with it! I would suggest that you alway eat a breakfast and it should be high in protein...you will stay fuller longer and you will burn more fat...try and eat about every 3 hours...have some whole grain crackers with some reduced fat cheese or nuts for a snack, eat whole grain foods (replace white breads, pastas and rice with whole grain) and of course exercise! I do Gilad's body scuplting everyday. I do not have to leave my house, it only takes about 25 minutes and you will definitely see results by the end of the 28th day...by then it will be a habit...you will feel and look better!