Why I stopped weight watchers

This is a hard one to write. There were a lot of reasons why I stopped my online membership with weight watchers. I still am a regular on the ww forum boards, I find alot of motivation and support from them, but the actual membership was costly and I am trying to cut down the budget at the moment. The ww tracker annoyed me as the food points were not keep up-to-date, it is 3 months since point came in for pumpkin, corn etc but the tracker still hasn't been updated. I basically felt ripped off.

In one of the ww forums one of the girls was talking about the Calorie King Database. I took the 7 day trial and found it a much better tracker than the ww one. It calculates not only kjs and sat fat but protein, carbs, sodium. It is a lot more comprehensive and gives me heaps of reports to track my progress. After the 7 day free trail we downloaded the database for $50, we don't have to pay a monthly fee like ww, it is ours to keep, and it gets updated at least once a month with new foods. There is also an online membership that I have just joined (for free) and that seems really good too.

So the good news is that I haven't given up on leading a healthy lifestyle and losing weight, just changed my provider. I also feel good as I am watching that I eat more protein and less carbs which makes me feel better about myself.

Onto other matters... I am getting my stitches out on Monday (can't come quick enough). I am sick of the big bandage on my face and t is in my line of vision which is very annoying.

During the last week and a half I haven't been able to exercise (surgeon said not to) so I don't expect to lose a lot of weight. I worked out how much weight I have lost each month this morning. Although the results aren't as good as Tam's (who has lost over 12 kgs in 5 weeks) I am happy with them. On average I am losing 0.6kgs a week (Nov 06 - 3.3kgs / Dec 06 - 1.8kgs / Jan 07 - 1.3 / Feb 07 - 2.5kgs).

Well that's it for me this week.

Still as focused as the week I started!

Sonia