Yay to all of us!
JA, your new shoes sound perfect. Bet they were expensive though. My pair of trainers I bought were $250 and they were one of the cheaper pairs in the shoe store! But having said that, they have lasted me a good few years now and are ultra comfortable, never had blisters with them or anything. I have sports socks too, special sweat absorbant ones, they are fantastic and don't slip around in my shoes like my old pairs did. Makes such a difference when you buy the right gear for working out!
I have ongoing lower back issues too JA, will be fine for months, then have a spell of a month or so where it niggles away for me, go off to physio, it comes right eventually and is fine for a while before it will start nigggling away again and around and around in this cycle I go. I also have a dodgey knee socket (going to the Dr next week to look into that), but just try to not do the exercises where I put alot/all my weight on that knee. My trainer is great and gives us oldies who have injuires alternate exercises, so we never get to sit anything out. Gotta love him! lol
Hi Lorraine, sorry to hear you had a bad experience with WW.
When I was last on WW (about 8 years ago), I was like you, went to a few meetings, but they were pretty boring, didn't learn anything new after the first few, so in the end didn't hang around for them. But I did continue going to weigh in's each week, but left straight after. Did you go for weigh in's each week or stop going to those as well as the meetings? I'm in NZ, and when I went years ago, I think it was if you didn't attend weigh in's/meetings for 6 weeks they assumed you had stopped going, and if you started up again, they would charge you a re-joining fee as if you were starting over again. Which I think makes sense since they are in the business to make money afterall.
What I love about the new WW plan is that you can do it online or you can go to the meetings if you prefer. I'm doing it online, which means that I weigh myself once a week at home, I track all my food online (instead of in the old paper journal), you get info emailed to you each week. They have discussion forums for everything....and I don't waste time driving to a meeting, hanging around getting weighed etc which was what I didn't like last time I did it. I have a young family now, and before the meetings were always right on dinner time too, no way that would work for me now.
Great that you've been jogging! I love jogging. Have you heard of the couch-2-5k jogging program? I did that last year with some girlfriends. You start off really slow, week one is something like jogging for 1 min, walking for 1.5 min, repeat that about 8 times. By week 9 you are jogging about 30mins continuously with no walking intervals inbetween. It's a really good program which eases you into jogging and is very doable. We loved it (and were very unfit to start with but progressed through the weeks ok).
Hey Eli!
Would your hubby be willing to try new recipes? Even if you didn't tell him they were neccessarily healthier recipes? Maybe you could just start with sneaking in 1 healthier dinner meal each week and see if he says anything?
Thankfully my hubby is great and eats pretty much what he's given. No knows better to complain lol
Having said that, I don't make WW meals specifically, for the past month since I started on WW again, I've just been making regular dinner meals, I add up the points for each ingredient, then divide it by the amount of portions it does. I don't eat anything special for myself for dinner, just whatever the family is having. I might have a bigger helping of salad or veges, and a smaller portion of meat & carbs, otherwise it's the same meal
For lunches I have a sandwhich or soup which I make up in advance, a weeks worth of soup, then it's just heat and eat, really easy, and practically 0 points if you select your veges and things right.
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Mondays and Fridays we do alot of work with dumb-bell weights for muscle and core strengthening. Wednesdays are cardio days, we jog everywhere with short bursts of various exercises inbetween.
. It is really hard to find the thing that works for you. So glad this is going well. And don't worry about the weight. All this exercise is so good for you. I might have to look at WW as well. I have never done it. I just try to eat healthy but it is hard when the people around you don't.
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