The same applies - you have to eat those points!!! Your body requires
those minimum points to run your body. If you were completely sedatary,
you'd still require a certain number of calories to keep the heart,
lungs, kidneys etc running properly.

One suggested way to help lose (or break plateaus) is to vary the number
of points you take in each day. This way your body doesn't become
comfortable and very efficient at burning the 28 points. Vary it by up
to six points a day but DON'T go below 28 points (and have one day that
you vary it up to ten to twelve points). By varying it you go into the
35 extra so ensure that you don't vary the points so that they exceed
231 points.

Yes! That is a better alternative and will work. But, remember, the
activity is going to build muscle mass which is heavier than the fat
being burned. So you may think you're losing weight but can't see it on
the scales. The best way to see weight loss is to measure your waist,
chest etc. You may not see the loss on the scales all the time but you
will in inches (and in loose clothing). From mid-Jan to mid-Feb I
actually gained 2 lbs but my waist and chest went down a full inch.

Eat the points. It took time to put the weight on, it'll take time to
lose the weight. One to two pounds a week or five to ten a month. It
adds up. It needs only patience.

 ..

One day isn't gonna make a real difference (unless it sends you on a binge
for the rest of the week.. you don't want to go below 20 though.. that's
what the body NEEDS

;o)

it's a fine balance. Weight loss is all about conservation of energy.
If you eat less then you will tend to lose weight. However your body
hates you and does it's best to make your life hell. If you eat less
for a time the metabolism slows down to preserve weight.
Somewhere there is an optimum point. WW presumably have spent a lot of
money on research and believe that they have it right for the majority
of people.
But everyone is different so where the optimum point is only you can
tell by trying it. Try to average 28 points per day for a while and
then average a few less for a while. See how things work out.
So long as you eat about the right number of points you should be OK.

oh yes another complication is that it varies over time! I ate about
2000 calories for ages and lost weight, but eventually I had to reduce
the amount of food I ate to continue losing. And sometimes it works
the other way. If your metabolism has slowed right down you might have
to eat a lot more for a week or two to get it working properly again
before you start the downward journey again.

Ray

In message <421eae60@x-privat.org>, Wysong *~ <me@my.net> writes

How come you keep escaping from my kill-file, Wysong?

For the sake of Kenny, yes, if you eat few points per day you would lose
weight fast, but unfortunately you cannot lose fat that fast, so most of
the weight lost would be water; And secondly, you'd never keep it up
unless you were anorexic. The more you deprive yourself, the worse the
eventual binge in my experience. So in the long run, eating too little
will only result in you cracking earlier.

If you are stuffed on a couple of bowls of soup, maybe you've got a
tummy upset?