Lose Weight and Keep it Off

I went a little over my daily pro points allowance yesterday in the 100 Day Challenge. That didn’t matter because I have my weekly pro points, and I actually made the decision to go over a little. I was enjoying the muffins that I made on Sunday. Sometimes we will make the choice to eat a little more, and there is nothing wrong with doing that on Weight Watchers. That’s what the weekly pro points allowance is there for. However, you need to keep tracking. If I didn’t track yesterday, I could have pretended that I still had the 34 weekly pro points left from the weekend. I don’t have that. I’m down by another 5 and now have just 29 weekly pro points left. That extra five may not seem like a lot now, but imagine if that happened every day. By Friday, I’d think I still have 25 weekly pro points left and it would lead to a weight gain on Saturday—possibly the week after if my body decided to delay it a little. So, this is why I always say that tracking is important. On...

At Weight Watchers, we have a wee saying: if you eat it, track it. It doesn’t matter what you eat, as long as you write it down and it is within your propoints allowance. While not everyone follows Weight Watchers, it is still important to track what you eat if you want to lose weight. You could follow Slimming World, Scottish Slimmers or even have a calorie-controlled diet. Whatever it is, you need to create a calorie deficit. Did you know that by not tracking, you’re more likely to eat 30%-50% more than you should? That’s the problem with not tracking. You eat too much. You Don’t Remember the Little Things If you don’t track everything you eat, it’s easy to forget. But it was just one biscuit, I hear you say. Well, what about if it was two biscuits, or one biscuit every day? That’s still extra calories/propoints that you’re eating. Do you really have the allowance for that extra biscuit or two that went untracked? Image: Pixabay You’re not p...