Hi,
I'm new here. So I apologise for the rant. I joined WW a couple weeks ago.
3 years ago I was over 21.5stones. I was happy in myself and never weighed, but it was a shock finding out I was that big. I was facing surgery (not weight related) and so set about getting fit. I took up with a trainer, who taught me that I wasn't actually eating enough as a result of being told 'eat less, move more' and had bad malnutrition and something called 'starvation mode'. As a result of eating properly and more food than I had done in years, I began to lose weight. Over a year and a bit, of 6hours working out a week, and I got down to 13.8stones.
After surgery, my weight was stable for ages. My diet had changed radically, as I can't eat anything with high fats in it, or loads of other 'bad' stuff due to allergies, I didn't think there was ever going to be a chance of radical weight gain again, and all was good. Diet and excercise were all going great.
However a year later, over 14weeks I gained 3.5stones, with no major diet change. I went to GP, who told me to stop eating crisps and sweets and diet, and my thyroid was borderline underactive. I test again in 6months for that. She dis-regarded my insanely anal diet diary (she binned it infact, saying people always lie in them!), which I'd kept for 3 years, and dismissed me saying 'go on a diet'. The upsetting result was, I ate a lot of foods in a bl***y mindedness, despairing temper tantrum, over a week, that made me very ill, and then after a while of that and more weight gain, I decided to buck up and start again.
Since November, I have lost nearly 1.8stones, but I'd plateued. I joined the NHS Weigh2Lose programme, but got nothing out of it but my body measurements and a blood pressure reading...so decided to join WW - starting at 15.8stones.
Thing is, the first week I followed to the letter the WW quickstart week, and had a major running tummy for 3 days on it (lol), was thoroughly miserable, felt weak all the time, and had craving for protein like plain grilled chicken like you wouldn't believe (can't believe a skinless quarter chicken is sooo high in points, compared to a burger!) so I really thought I had lost weight. However, I weighed in the 2nd time at 16.3stones. I felt shocked and upset. But I had restarted my 7hours of Zumba a week and my daily hour long homeworkouts too, plus walking, after a 4 week break, so I was assured it was possibly muscle weight and that I would probably lose again the next week as my body adjusts. I was also told to make sure I ate all my 32 points a day. So I did that the next week. Still felt weak, still craving protein.
Now the third week and I've gained yet again. I'm following the diet, but I can't keep on gaining like this, and just don't know what to do anymore... and omg! The craving for meat is so bad. Even my pets are beginning to look tasty! Lol.
Then someone said the Core Plan on WW and Propoints is interchangeable, and on the Core Plan you can eat as much lean meat and fish as you want and maybe that's what I need. My diet had been mostly protein due to allergies to a lot of vegetables, sorted out by my trainer, and I guess I'm withdrawing from that protein need. But if Propoints says chicken is expensive, how can you interchange that with 'have as much as you want' on the other plan, which I can't find much mention of. I just don't get it. I've stuck again, to the WW Plan I'm on, until I see my advisor again.
In the meantime, my Arthritis in my ankles hurts all the time, and it's getting worse again with every pound, I feel hungry and miserable and weak, and I don't know what to do anymore. But what I really want to do, is comfort it a blue whale sized portion, of prawns, grilled chicken, grilled steak, and grilled lamb, with a large side of fresh salad with no dressing!
I'm just so dis-heartened. Anyone else felt this way?
Sorry for the 'pity party tale'. Just so down over it all.
I'm new here. So I apologise for the rant. I joined WW a couple weeks ago.
3 years ago I was over 21.5stones. I was happy in myself and never weighed, but it was a shock finding out I was that big. I was facing surgery (not weight related) and so set about getting fit. I took up with a trainer, who taught me that I wasn't actually eating enough as a result of being told 'eat less, move more' and had bad malnutrition and something called 'starvation mode'. As a result of eating properly and more food than I had done in years, I began to lose weight. Over a year and a bit, of 6hours working out a week, and I got down to 13.8stones.
After surgery, my weight was stable for ages. My diet had changed radically, as I can't eat anything with high fats in it, or loads of other 'bad' stuff due to allergies, I didn't think there was ever going to be a chance of radical weight gain again, and all was good. Diet and excercise were all going great.
However a year later, over 14weeks I gained 3.5stones, with no major diet change. I went to GP, who told me to stop eating crisps and sweets and diet, and my thyroid was borderline underactive. I test again in 6months for that. She dis-regarded my insanely anal diet diary (she binned it infact, saying people always lie in them!), which I'd kept for 3 years, and dismissed me saying 'go on a diet'. The upsetting result was, I ate a lot of foods in a bl***y mindedness, despairing temper tantrum, over a week, that made me very ill, and then after a while of that and more weight gain, I decided to buck up and start again.
Since November, I have lost nearly 1.8stones, but I'd plateued. I joined the NHS Weigh2Lose programme, but got nothing out of it but my body measurements and a blood pressure reading...so decided to join WW - starting at 15.8stones.
Thing is, the first week I followed to the letter the WW quickstart week, and had a major running tummy for 3 days on it (lol), was thoroughly miserable, felt weak all the time, and had craving for protein like plain grilled chicken like you wouldn't believe (can't believe a skinless quarter chicken is sooo high in points, compared to a burger!) so I really thought I had lost weight. However, I weighed in the 2nd time at 16.3stones. I felt shocked and upset. But I had restarted my 7hours of Zumba a week and my daily hour long homeworkouts too, plus walking, after a 4 week break, so I was assured it was possibly muscle weight and that I would probably lose again the next week as my body adjusts. I was also told to make sure I ate all my 32 points a day. So I did that the next week. Still felt weak, still craving protein.
Now the third week and I've gained yet again. I'm following the diet, but I can't keep on gaining like this, and just don't know what to do anymore... and omg! The craving for meat is so bad. Even my pets are beginning to look tasty! Lol.
Then someone said the Core Plan on WW and Propoints is interchangeable, and on the Core Plan you can eat as much lean meat and fish as you want and maybe that's what I need. My diet had been mostly protein due to allergies to a lot of vegetables, sorted out by my trainer, and I guess I'm withdrawing from that protein need. But if Propoints says chicken is expensive, how can you interchange that with 'have as much as you want' on the other plan, which I can't find much mention of. I just don't get it. I've stuck again, to the WW Plan I'm on, until I see my advisor again.
In the meantime, my Arthritis in my ankles hurts all the time, and it's getting worse again with every pound, I feel hungry and miserable and weak, and I don't know what to do anymore. But what I really want to do, is comfort it a blue whale sized portion, of prawns, grilled chicken, grilled steak, and grilled lamb, with a large side of fresh salad with no dressing!
I'm just so dis-heartened. Anyone else felt this way?
Sorry for the 'pity party tale'. Just so down over it all.
I even questioned this on both size and point count, and she confirmed it. I questioned her about this because, someone in the meeting told me that a Whopper Jnr burger from Burger King was only 11points. Now I'm really confused. 
