RawrGirl is so excited for you and your weigh-in tonight.
If RawrGirl understands correctly, refeed is a shake for breakfast and lunch and then a real dinner...but for only one week, and then for week 2 and onward, you are going right to Weight Watchers?
RawrGirl has some tips if she may be so bold (she did WW for over a year in 2010/2011).
Even if you are doing points, still record all your calories in My Fitness Pal every day...for a year. WW will put you on about 29 points a day, but I guarantee, this will be more than the 15% less recommended calories a person who just lost weight should be eating to maintain their loss.
Bear in mind that WW is meant to have been losing on points the whole time. People had been eating roughly 2000-3000+ calories a day (let's estimate that to around 50-60 points), so when they join WW and start eating around 29 points (approx 1500 calories), their calories have been drastically reduced and they lose. But since you've been on a VLCD (approx 15 points) and then jumping to 29, RawrGirl fears you might see a gain.
RawrGirl strongly recommends slowly working your points up to 29 over a period of 4-6 weeks (18 a day for a week, then 20, then 22, etc.), while keeping an eye on the scale to make sure you don't gain.
If you talk to a WW leader about all this, keep in mind that they are trained only with WW. They are not nutritionists, they are merely WW people who reached goal and went through WW leadership training. They are only
allowed to talk about WW food plans, and they are forbidden to let you eat less than 29 points. If you were to start gaining on 22 points, they will tell you that you are gaining because you are not eating enough...
RawrGirl suggests discussing all this with your Lipotrim pharmacist...tell them how many points you've been eating on Lipotrim and see if they also recommend slowly working up to 29 rather than jumping right to it. You've done so good, and RawrGirl wants to see you reach goal.
Here is an online WW calculator so you can see exactly how many points you've been consuming with your shakes:
Weight Watchers Points Calculator
(Use the "Points Plus" calculator, not the "Previous" one, as their whole system changed about a year or so ago. The Points Plus is better system it takes into account carbs now, so something with the same calories that is all carbs is more points than something that is the same calories but mostly protein. But even with that, points = calories. It's just that some days on 29 points could be 1200 calories if mostly protein and other 29 point days could be 1600 if mainly carbs.)
RawrGirl also recommends keeping an eye on your carbs. She didn't lose much with WW (despite jogging 3 miles a day 4-5x a week) until she started keeping her carbs under 30 grams -- not including fiber. (So if total carb count of a roll is 20 grams and 6 of those grams are fiber, then subtract the fiber, and count the roll as 14 carbs or 14 Net Carbs as they call it with Atkins).
Personally, needing to keep track of calories and carbs is why RawrGirl will be using Atkins to maintain, not WW. And Atkins is free. But WW is good for the emotional support the meetings can provide. This is why at first RawrGirl actually still paid for WW meetings even when she switched over to Atkins.
So anyway...as long as you keep using My Fitness Pal, you will be fine, but calories should take precedence over points. Hope all that made sense.
