
Diets & Weight Maintenance Support Group
Chat about how well your latest diet is -- or is not -- working. This group is a great place to find support and accountability as well as share success stories and valuable lessons with the community. From where to start to weekly weigh-ins, get help from others to reach your dieting and weight maintenance goals.

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Hi. My name is Laura Ann and I am new to this site. I am here to find and give support in dieting. I would love to meet people who are going through the same sorts of things i am. I am 27, a mom, a student, and over weight. I am Beginning weight watchers. I can not afford to go to the meetings so i am using the information i got from a friend who attended and what i found on the internet. Please let me know if any of you have any advice. God bless. Laura Ann.
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WELCOME! Always good to hear you want to support others. I stay away from Weight Watchers because for any diet to work you have to stay with it forever. Once you quit nothing has changed and the weight comes back. To be honest, weight Watchers is just counting your calories for you with their prepackaged food. Counting calories works, but you might as well learn to do it your self. If your interested I can go into more detail, drop me a note and I will elaborate.
Here is a tip; your weight x 7 =the amount of calories you should eat a day to lose weight.
At that point, what do you do? Most people just go back to their old BAD ways of eating.
So, what to do. Well, you need to revamp your whole style of eating.
And that's a whole 'nother topic!
As for weight watchers, I know that quite a few people swear by it and follow that strange point system thing but to me, it just seems weird. You can't very well stay on it forever, can you? So what do you do when you stop?
No, I say you are better off to get onto a clean way of eating for good.
Counting calories, or points, is just too problematic.
I don't know about the points, but I do know that anyone counting calories needs to know their ideal caloric requirements then not drop below that number by any more than 500, or the loss will be only water and muscle.