WW website versus Extrapounds- please reply if you have experience with either or both!
So, I am a member of both sites. I haven't joined the Weight Watcher's online "tools" because it was so damned expensive, and have have extrapounds. Well, now WW has the "monthly pass" where not only do you save 2 bucks every week for the meeting/weigh in, but you can also use their online tools for FREE!!!!!
Well, I kind of like it. The recipies are flowing, easy to access, and easy to impliment. I like the profiling, and trackers. Reminders to weigh in, and meeting reminders are nice as well. BUT--------
#1- There is no "blog" feature, and as I'm sure is quite evident, I like to blog. And- #2- There is SOOOOO much WW advertising and "pro WW stuff" that I feel a little bit like I'm being forced into a cult.
Thier forums are good, but it's like only non-experienced forum goers are there... they don't "search"the forums before posting a new topic, so the SAME questions are asked over and over and over. It drives me crazy! One of the other forums I'm on, if someone asks a question that has already been overed, we ask them (very politely) to read the answers that have already been give. And then we include the link to the forum it has already been posted in!!!! Maybe that's just picky.
Don't get me wrong, I love extrapounds, except for when they lose my posts, but I dn't wanna have to pay for both. I also have these tendencies to go on "hiadis" when I've reached lifetime gal.
Okay.... enough for now. I wouldn't mind hearing from those of you who have experience with both!
I've got some chops marinading in the fridge that I can pop in the George Forman (sp???) grill after weigh in tonight.
I think I've already confessed to knowing that I'll probably gain this week, which, as I think I've already said, is okay with me. (Well, not REALLY okay, but a consiquence of my own actions and choices.) I'm just hoping it's not detrimental.
I'm sitting here typing this and listening to my TurboKick cd for the training that I'll be taking on Saturday. I've never taken a TRUE Kickbox training, and always feel stupid when someone asks me to sub their class since I always have to say no since I don't know HOW to teach it.
Having this new certification will make me much more valuable and help me to continue to grow as a GF instructor! I'm excited!!!! (But, don't tell the Jammers or LM folks that...)
Even though it's a Monday, and there is a long week ahead of me, I'm feeling pretty comfortable and confident about the choices that I'll make this week.
I weigh in a WW today, and I'm pretty sure that the number will go up, but that will be due to the choices I made last week. I will accept whatever number I see on that scale tonight and know that I am what I eat.
This makes me very sad, that everything is gone. I, too, have sent an email to the EP folks, but didn't get a confirmation from the note I wrote. Who knows if they've recevied it?
Starting today, I begin my 4 week, "Do or Die!" get to it plan! Within that plan, I have my birthday and Thanksgiving, but also 2 full 8-hour trainings to look forward to as well as subbing several classes.
Here's to hoping that the next time I see my idol that I'll be 10-15 pounds less!
I haven't been doing so hot the past few days, and I feel guilty about it, but not horrible. And, I feel bad that I don't feel horrible.
I'm not inspired or motivated by much right now. I mean, yeah, it feels good to be able to put on those smaller clothes that I would never even dream of wearing to school because of the huge muffin top that would've crept over the waistband, but that in itself is just not doing it for me.
Oh, I do well at breakfast and lunch, and even work out 5-6 days each week, but it's the DINNER time that I fall down. I can't stand eating at home!!! I love eating out, spending the time with my hubby, people-watching, and NOT sitting around the house.
Nothing much else to report. I've signed up to teach this Friday afternoon class at the YMCA, but would much rather NOT have to teach it at all. I'm jsut sitting here dreading it. It's honestly the LAST thing I want to do on a Friday night. I show up to teach and hope against hope that no one show up!!!! I'm contemplating writing the gal who sets it up and telling her not to schedule me to teach it anymore...
Sorry for the low-key, sorta downer blog today. Wish I had more excitement to share.
and decide to have no social life or any fun, do you think THAT will help me lose weight?????
I feel like I TRY to make good choices, but I'm so freakin' sick of salad. "Let's go get something to eat," says the hubby. "Okay, I'm up for it." And what do I get? Yeah, salad. Or I order something completely insane and the server ends up looking at me like I'm on drugs.
I know that WW advocates making the choice before heading to the resturant and asking for your food however you want it prepared, but why not just order something delicious off of the menu?
So, if I never go out again, except for work and WW meetings, maybe that will help.... I have all of the food I need right here. Geez, wouldn't that be boring??? What the hell would I do? Sit on the couch? Learn how to knit? CLEAN?!?!?!?!?!?!? I just don't see it happening.
And then there's the option where I could just NOT go out, but go work out. Wouldn't that be ideal? Yeah, too bad I don't think my body will hold up to any more working out.
If you're planning to comfort me with words of "oh, it's okay, you're doing great, you're on the right track,' I appreciate your thoughts, words, and effort, but please save it.
I'm so unhappy right now. I just want to eat, drink, and live happily through m life. I'm even unhappyright now with my hubby and his "Suzy FREAKIN' sunshine" attitude about weight loss. He isn't on the WW program, he isn't keeping track of his weight, and he isn't hoping/wishing/praying/working towards a weight loss goal.
I'm SO FREAKIN' TIRED OF DRINKING WATER INSTEAD OF BEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so mad and frusterated and ready to flip someone the bird....
But, I know....... Who would I be flipping off???? Yeah, myself. Who would I be cheating????? Yeah, myself. Who am I doing this for????? I know, I know. I just wanna be lean, fit, and the Jammer that my Master Trainer wants for a Jam Trainer/Presenter......
and I wanna know why it seems as though all of the food I WANT to have would completely blow my entire day?!?!?!?!? It really pisses me off!
Case-in-point: there is this delicioius pizza at my favorite resutrant (which also happens to our regular stopping point before karaoke every Wednesday) that has a pizza called the "Agean." (sp?) Right, I can already hear you, "Pizza?!?!?! Oh, Courtney, it's the devil! Don't do it, don't do it!" And my hubby is supportive that he usually talks me into a better choice.
But, that's not the point.
The point is, if I could choose anything on the menu tonight, in about 45 minutes I would WANT to whoose THAT. which, now bring me back to the original question- why is it that things that I think TASTE good are so freakin bad for me?????
Which brings me to the subject of this blog. If we can fly through the freakin' air, have computers in our cell phones, and live to be 100 years old, why the ?!%?!? can't someone invent a calorie-free beer???? This is all I ask for, and most days after school, all I LONG for??? Can someone, plase, please, please just hook me up with this????
Okay, I feel much better now after this little rant of mine. I've eaten my 28oz of Baked Lays..... yum, yum. I know that Weight Watchers is touted as a "lifeplan," one that teaches healthy eating plans, choices, and ideas, and that the longer that you are on the plan, the more your body begins to crave the "healthy" foods. Yes, I understand all of that. What I guess I'm asking is if we can subtract fat and calories from soda and sugar, why can't we subtract caloric intake from EVERYTHING???????? I want a parmasan crusted, olive oil coated, roasted garlic-laden pizza that is less than 500 calories and 100% of my daily vitamin required intake...
I haven't even hit my 5 pounds down yet, which (I'm not gonna lie) is a big bummer, and a dificult thing to mentally over come... BUT- I feel slimmer in my clothes, have pants that were VERY tight and difficult to wear that I can now (at least) button, and the hubby even commented on the slimmer size my bod is taking on.
I, again, am slowly becoming discouraged. I don't have a concrete "goal" in mind. I want to slim down as much as possible by December, for the quarterly in the first week, but that's not really motivating me as much as I wish it would.
I also am feeling guilty about not bloging much. But, now I have to get ready to go teach some youngsters. Much more to share later.
