Comments on: The Winds of Change http://thefinalforty.com/the-winds-of-change/ Losing weight, one mile at a time Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Jennifer L. Nelson http://thefinalforty.com/the-winds-of-change/#comment-155 Jennifer L. Nelson Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:25:57 +0000 http://thefinalforty.wordpress.com/?p=647#comment-155 Hi Courtney,

Thanks so much for following me. It’s great to hear from you! :-D

I really appreciate your feedback and support. Please do keep me posted on how you’re doing, and best of luck with your weight loss! Weight Watchers is the best. :-D

Thanks again!

Jen

]]> By: Jennifer L. Nelson http://thefinalforty.com/the-winds-of-change/#comment-154 Jennifer L. Nelson Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:17:52 +0000 http://thefinalforty.wordpress.com/?p=647#comment-154 THANK YOU!!! I knew you’d be proud of me for the big 5K news! :-D Believe it or not, your encouragement to just bite the bullet and finally sign up a 5K really stuck with me. I’m (slowly) starting to be able to see myself as a real live “runner” now. Thank you again for your support, I really do appreciate it! I’m so excited — and I’ll keep you posted on how it turns out! :-D

This is GREAT advice, thank you. I’m still trying to find my “sweet spot” as far as how many APs I can and should use At the moment, I’d say I’m dipping into about half of them…some days more, some days less. Like you, I used to be able to eat most of my weeklies and ALL of my APs, even on the days when I was earning 8 or more, and losing with no problem. Now, that’s clearly not the case! So that, too, is a big part of my “shake things up” regimen, along with enjoying more 0 POINT options (thank god for fruits and veggies!) and, of course, laying off the carbs a bit.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed for your 75 pound washer! It’s such an amazing accomplishment, and you WILL get there. YOU’RE AWESOME! :-D

]]> By: Courtney Blaise http://thefinalforty.com/the-winds-of-change/#comment-153 Courtney Blaise Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:10:40 +0000 http://thefinalforty.wordpress.com/?p=647#comment-153 Jennifer, I’ve been following your blog for a few months now. I think I found it through WW’s somehow…I can’t remember now. I just wanted to say, keep up the good work. I really enjoyed this post! I’m gonna take into account all of this stuff in my weight loss too! Thanks!

]]> By: hamiltonmka http://thefinalforty.com/the-winds-of-change/#comment-152 hamiltonmka Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:21:44 +0000 http://thefinalforty.wordpress.com/?p=647#comment-152 You are ROCKIN IT GIRL!!! I’m so happy for you! I just knew that all you needed was a little tweaking to get that scale moving. BRAVO!! And you signed up for a race – too sweet! The good thing is, you are already a runner. You just need to show up and DO IT. You’ll be fine! And I agree with you – protein is key. Especially with tall the exercise you’re doing. Some deli ham and lf cheese really helps me along when I’m hungry or just need more energy.

Here are my 2 cents: Be careful using any APs you’re earning with all this exercise. For some reason, when I changed to the PointsPlus program, after a month or so of following is closely and seriously increasing my exercise to train for my half marathon in May, I started to GAIN EVERY WEEK. On the old program, I ate all my APs and some weeklies. But for some reason I just COULDN’T any more. So… if your weight loss starts to stall and you can’t figure out why, think about not using your APs. Maybe you already don’t but I thought I’d mention it since I had to SERIOUSLY shake things up. I was earning 4-11 APs a day and eating them all and still losing. Now I’m a solid 29 points a day. Period. And that’s taken some getting used to for me. I started reevaluating zero point options that I never really needed to do before. So for me, that was the big “shake up”. And so far, I’ve had some good loses. But by GOLLY it has taken me SO LONG to earn that darn 75 lb washer for my 10% keychain!! SO ANNOYING!!! I am hoping this next weigh in. XXXXX XXXXX Fingers crossed!

Keep up the good work!

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