My job actually pays out an incentive for completing Weight Watchers if you meet your first 12 week goal! Since I'm on track to gain 40 lbs this pregnancy despite my best laid plans, I think I'm going to sign up when I come back from maternity leave. I love that they have a nursing mom's point system in place. Has anyone else tried it?
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I lost 40 lbs on the system about 5 years ago. It was great!
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@highwire: you had some great results.
I tried it, but wasn't very successful. I cheated way too much.
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I tried to join WW online to lose the last 5 lbs and finally get to my 'goal' weight, but they wouldn't let me sign up since I was already a healthy weight. I then joined sparkpeople which was awesome and actually free, so in a way I was glad WW didn't let me join!
I am thinking about joining after the baby comes though, first I will see how much weight I lose in the first few weeks then if it doesn't look like it's dropping at a steady pace I'll definitley sign up for some kind of weight loss plan.
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I like it. I think it definitely works. I am on a modified version now.
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It has been the only way (other than post partum breastfeeding and no appetite diet) that I have lost more than 5 lbs. About 5 years ago I lost 25 lbs! I did the online version and my type-a personality of recording and keeping track of everything worked well with the online system.
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My husband used it and had great success! He lost 30lbs and it taught him better healthy habits.
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i lost 12 lbs over about 6 months doing it last year, but then was traveling a lot and fell off the wagon. by that point though i had basically plateaued and was just maintaining (my goal had been about 10 lbs less). i found it really useful for learning portion sizes though!
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Yep. Signed up online 12 weeks pp and lost 16 lbs. almost all the baby weight! I only used it for 3 months but it worked for me. I loved that I got so many extra points for nursing. I got more than my DH!
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I am doing it for the second time now. Last time I lost about 20-25 lbs on a "normal" plan -- in-person meetings, etc. Now I'm doing it online and have lost 25 lbs since January which was 3 months PP. Obviously I had already lost like 20 lbs when I had the baby. So I'm happy with it. I MUCH prefer online. I felt my "leader" last time set my goal weight too low and I was very frustrated at the end and never reached my goal despite the fact that people were telling me I was too thin!
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I did it years ago, online, and lost 40 lbs. Think I am going to sign up to lose the last 8 lbs of baby weight. Cause really I need to be 15 below that.
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I did it years ago with success and did it again to shed the last few pounds of baby weight and now I'm a few pounds lighter than my pre preg weight.
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I love it! I did WW Online from October to April, and I lost 35 pounds. I learned sooo much. I joined because I had a friend who lost 60 pounds between her first and second pregnancies, and now after her second, she's lost another 40. I was so inspired, I decided to give it a go as well. Best decision ever!
It really does a good job of teaching you good habits which are applicable at all kinds of places. I was really surprised at how many of the tools I was able to use and habits I was able to aquire relatively easily. This is even more surprising because I joined a week before Halloween and so was on the program through Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year's-Super Bowl-Valentine's Day-St. Patty's Day-winter carb-binging season. Looking back, maybe that wasn't the *best* time to join, but whatev-I did it! I definitely plan on going back when it's time to lose baby weight.
Good luck, you can do it!
(BTW, with online, you can adjust your goal weight manually. There were lots of times that I would switch it almost every other week-I needed to be able to celebrate small victories. This is something that I really liked about doing it online...it was really flexible to what *I* needed.)
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@Smurfette: Same here. I had 10 newly acquired pounds of fluff on me due to the Aruba trip I mentioned on @babycanuck's travel thread. You were right... the food there is amazing!
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@LovelyPlum: YES I love the goal weight feature online. I felt like I needed an act of congress to change my goal weight with my group leader.
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I tried and lost 5 lbs.... and then got pregnant. But I still feel like I learned how to eat healthier from it.
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I used it 3 years ago to lose 20 lbs and lost 10 before I became tired of logging food everyday and paying the monthly membership once I could figure out the points in my head. I think it's great for jumpstarting weigh loss and if you can, sign up during one of their specials and get a month free. A quick google search will also give you a lot of resources to learn the WW rules and essentially do it for free.
I've since gained back the 10 I lost (plus more, yay! not.) and recently started using MyFitnessPal and I really like it so far. It's free and similar to WW.
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i did before my wedding and lost over 2 dress sizes! it was about 25-30 pounds. after LO #2 is here, i think i'll be going back on it again.
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I lost 25 pounds using the WW online. I loved it - honestly, after a few weeks of counting points, I really got used to it.
I didn't know about their nursing program - I might join again after baby gets here! -
Yes in college ! It works great!
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@redsmarties: It's awesome! All the nursing moms I work with have said they get enough extra points that they can still lose weight without experiencing a supply dip. My office mate gets 14 extra points a day for it.
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