Weight Watchers for Night Nurses

Nicki_RN · Dec 5, 2007

Hello! I have been doing WW for 2 years now (lost 100lb), and I work as a receptionist for WW on my day off from Work. I start my night with 5pm as if it were 5am, then at midnight pretend it is noon, but I usually eat around 2am. Then when a I get home in the AM eat a light meal like toast and a banana. It's kinda tricky, so If I need to eat and dont want to use up all my "night" points" I keep Zero point soup handy in the freezer to hold me over. Just whatever works for you! Bring your own snacks so you wont feel tempted! Hope that helps!

Diary/Dairy, RN · Dec 5, 2007

The is a healthy Living thread actually - I think the current title is Healty Living Part IV.

Weight watchers worked for me when I was doing it - I never did go to meetings though - just did the online thing. Good luck to you!

Diary/Dairy, RN · Dec 5, 2007

https://allnurses.com/forums/f240/healthier-living-thread-part-v-253622.html

Link to the Healthy living thread. :)

labrador4122, RN · Dec 8, 2007

I want to do weight watchers too!!!

I never heard of anyone doing the online thing, but I will try it because I am so sick of not looking good.

5 years ago (I'm 27 now), I used to run around in a bikini at my friend's pool, and now I am trying to hide myself... I feel so sad.

Today I bought "spanxs" and I thought they would make me look good... and that's only if I had a little bit of fat... not 40lbs extra!!

what a bummer!

Diary/Dairy, RN · Dec 9, 2007

Good luck to you Patty in your quest! :icon_hug:

borntobanurse3 · Dec 9, 2007

I did weight watchers online and lost 50 pounds! :lol2: I have kept in off for a year. My biggest meal is and was supper. As long as you can stick somewhat to the program you will succeed.

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Dec 9, 2007

I've had gastric bypass surgery, but I still need to diet in order to continue losing the weight and keep it off. I happen to live in an area where there are gobs of WW meetings--2 a day at 2 different centers that are near me. I've tried to attend them on three different tries. It is not the people but the WW setup. WW seems to be geared to eating out--at least that's all that was ever covered in the meetings I went to. My problem, as I suspect the problem is of most people, is what they eat when they are alone. WW doesn't really address this very well and when I used to bring it up this issue got pushed aside very rapidly as no one at these meetings seemed to want to discuss this dirty little issue. However, I didn't get to almost 400 pounds by eating like a pig around other people at parties. I did it when I was sitting at home alone stuffing my face.

I am a big fan of Biggest Loser and I am amazed at the huge weekly weight losses of some of these people. It isn't totally because of their diets. It is because they are burning off huge numbers of calories by working out. Joining a gym for a nominal monthly fee is well worth the money. Out here is the west we have 24-hour Fitness clubs that are great as they are open 24 hours a day for us who like to be up at night. You might also check your local hospitals to see if they have a health and fitness center that you can join that might offer a lower monthly fee than a gym. Some of the larger physical fitness providers also offer this kind of service as well and may offer competitive pricing with the local competition gyms.

The WW core diet is basically the Zone diet, which is a low glycemic carbohydrate diet, along with the rules that you should eat only whole grains and stay away from goodies. If you do the points, then you can add goodies. I just think that is dangerous for anyone who has issues with how much they can control themselves. Take it from someone who had to resort to a drastic way (surgical alteration) to keep to a diet plan. . .the best thing you can do for yourself is to clean the cookies, cake, donuts, ice cream and other goodies out of your cupboards. Start eating fresh fruits and vegatables that are on the low glycemic lists, lean cuts only of meats and steam, boil or broil them, eat fish as well and only eat whole grain pastas and breads. Don't even put candy, cookies or things with processed sugar in them into your mouth. Start using Splenda or Equal as a sweetener and drinking diet drinks. That alone will net you weight loss. It's the processed sugars that are in most of the pastas, breakfast cereals, chips and all the goodies we eat that are the culprit for our weight gains

You also need to consider the issue of insulin resistance and diabetes as it is on the rise. I was diagnosed with it 4 years ago. Following the Zone diet kept my blood sugars in check and since my bypass surgery I am now off all oral diabetic medication and my blood sugar levels are normalized. One of my cardiologists was adament about his patients being on the Atkins diet to maximize weight loss (this is basically protein provided by lean meats and water). I will still have days where I will do protein drinks only to help with my weight loss. The nice thing about having had bypass surgery is that I never get hungry anymore which is a blessing because I can go for hours without eating if I want although that really isn't a good thing either.

Diary/Dairy, RN · Dec 10, 2007

Daytonite - Congrats on your sucess - thanks for the info!!