I am looking at joining weight watchers. Due to where I live my closest meeting is an hour away and I would have to take 3 kids so it is just not going to happen.
I was just wanting to get some feedback on the weight watchers online, does it give you the tools to track your own weight loss. I'm really needing something that can give me a week planner with meals etc, just to help me get started.
I have about 30kgs to lose and really need to start focusing on doing that as I can really feel my added weight impacting on my body
I am using WW online as I am about 1 1/2 hours from nearest meeting - and would have to drag 5 kids along - so just not going to happen.
The online system is in my opinion fantastic. I tried WW at home a few years ago - spent a fortune and got all the books etc - but when it turned up it all looked too hard - so didnt do it.
With the online system - it keeps track of your points for you - exercise points, saved points, shows graphs of weight and cm losses. It also has all the calculators for working out points for recipes, off the nutritional panel off packet food etc. It also lets you know when you have reached milestones - like 5 or 10% off your body weight.
It is currently working for me - and I am not feeling hungry at all. It has heaps of recipes on the online planner too - or add your own.
There is also a plan - I dont know the name - where you dont track points. I haven't tried this .... maybe someone else knows how this works online?
I know exactly how you feel about the 30kg. I still have 30kg to lose and I know it has to go - not just for my kids and DH but for me!
Am thinking about joining WW as well. I am registed for the online version, but, for me, i think i need someone to stand over me, someone to be accountable to, so, i think the meetings will suit me better until i get in teh swing of things.
What actually happens at the meetings? How does it work?
I love meetings. They are great if you can find a great leader (I am biased, because when I am not on maternity leave I am a WW leader ).
Basically there are two parts to a meeting. the first half an hour is weigh in time. Some meetings you can turn up at the end of that time, but I know in my meetings you really need to be there at the begining of weigh in, because it gets so busy and the line can take a while - I have done meetings where people have still been getting weighed at the end of the meeting when we are really busy (say around new year). Unfortunately there isn't much that can be done about this, so it does pay to get there earlier rather then later.
If it is your first meeting, this is the time that new members fill out registration forms and get their folder and week 1 booklets that outline the program, the leader will run through the basic outline with the new members. So for the first meeting it is good to get there about 10 minutes before weigh in actually starts.
After weigh in, the actual meeting starts. All meetings throughout Australia and new zealand are give the same topic booklet to talk about during the meeting (and a rough outline of how we should run the meeting), the leader should also take time to discuss any challenges or good news that the members want to share at the start of the meeting. But having said that, although we discuss the same topics, each leader is very different in how they present the information. Some give more of a lecture style, giving the information and asking questions to make wure everyone understands it, other are much less structured and inforrmal and are guided more by the meeting member, facilitating discussion between members and doing group activities - and there are all sorts of styles inbetween. So if you find a meeting / leader you don't click with then have a look around a a few other meetings to find one that suits you (if it is possible where you live). Personally I have gone to some meetings and they haven' been my cup of tea (while the member there like them) so I have moved on to a different meeting until I have found one that suits me (although i like them best when I am running them ).
Thanks Misty..
What sort of Training then do the leaders have? Like, it terms of personaliing something just for me, how good are they?
One of the reasons i ask, is, I'm currently doing a Community weightlose challenage, not sure if they're being run in ACT, but, basically, similar i guess, except you're encourage to use herbalife meal replacements. ANd its a competition for who can loose the most weight over the 6 or 8 week program.
My problem with them is that sometimes when i ask a question, i tend to get a "Should be. .. or a Maybe" style answer. I want a more "It is.. " style.
So am thinking of ww or even a dietitician syle weightlose approach instead, just cause i want someone with more training/experince/knowledge IYKWIM?
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Personally I have gone to some meetings and they haven' been my cup of tea (while the member there like them) so I have moved on to a different meeting until I have found one that suits me (although i like them best when I am running them
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