You mean I'm allowed to eat an extra 2 days worth of food over the week in addition to my daily points balance? Yes please!
When starting out my journey (a couple of weeks ago), this new system (I've previously had great success on old points system) had my jumping through hula hoops as I was struggling to fit all of my meals into my daily points balance. Extra weekly points to use meant simple things for me, I can have potato with my dinner (sings 'these are a few of my favourite thingsss'), I could have a couple of beers sitting in the sun in the weekend. MAYBE I could still have a chocolate bar every now and then too. Excellent news. I felt like squealing along with jumping through hula hoops at this.
Until I tried it.
And I gained on my start weight.
I'm sorry, say what now?! Yep. That happened. Devastated, angry, confused - you name it, I was going through it.
Back to the drawing board I went and analyzed everything. Maybe I didn't exercise enough, maybe I'm kidding myself on my portion control, maybe I am holding onto the lakes full of water I'm drinking. Or MAYBE it's because I'm eating 2 days extra of food a week and my exercise can't keep up with countering that.
This week I've taken a slightly different approach to test what's going on here. I've increased my exercise to earn over 50 exercise points this week, but still kept the weekly allowance points for emergency deliciousness. Because lets face it, if WW has prescribed this - it should still work. I don't officially weigh in until Monday so I have a couple of days until the results of this test are revealed.
However, I have a confession. I had a sneaky peek at the scales this morning, and low and behold. I've gained 1.2kg! To say I'm outraged is an understatement. But, the last two days I have had a bit of a binge including chips with my dinner (I hadn't had potato in 4 days!) and used up all of my weekly allowance - so I am praying that the next two days of normal points at least gets it back to normal.
Best case scenario I'm expecting to see no lose, but hoping for the gain to have settled down.
I doubt that will happen.
Next week I'm going to scrap my weekly points completely and just stick to the daily ones, keeping my exercise above 50 - preferably more. Extra planning will go into this as we have people staying with us for the whole week which will make my planning a bit harder but I will do my best to push through. Basically I'm going back to the old system that worked for me the first time but the point values have altered.
What's your experience with the extra weekly allowance? Do you feel you need to counter it with even more exercise to balance it out in order to have a good loss on the scales? or does the prescribed system work for you?
I will get this right! It's just not the profound start I was hoping for...
Trace xo
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