Comments on: 46 chromosomes

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:17:00 +0000

I think it doesn’t really matter, like you said, what plan you choose, just as long as you pick a real one (and not the 100 bites diet) and stick to it. Even if you do eat nothing but crap on WW, if you’re staying within your points, it’s still less crap. So that’s a start. Maybe your dad will cook for your mom, who knows?

I find WW very tough sometimes and easier when I am in my routine and in control of my own food. It’s almost impossible if I go out to eat all the time, and completely impossible if I’m eating with my family and they’re cooking.

By: Lori W.

Lori W. — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:44:27 +0000

The one thing that’s good about your parents being on the diet together is that he will cook the foods and there will be less tempting foods in the house (I hope). Even Applebee’s has the WW dinner portion so she MIGHT give that a whirl.

I’m going to play with a DVD I bought called exercising for people who are in a chair. It might be something that your mom might try. (At PT, I saw a nifty thing that I might buy for my mom who has a really bad ankle/brace: it’s a bike pedal that sits on the floor and you watch TV and pedal away.)

I hope that they do well; I know it won’t be easy for them (or you by proxy having to hear about it).

By: Zanitta

Zanitta — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:03:31 +0000

I tend to love cooking for myself, mosly because I am free to experiment when I’m on my own. My dad on the other hand, has very traditionally british views on what constitutes a meal. He also hates any new tastes, the only seasoning he uses is salt. Lots of salt. I find the endless ‘peel potatoes/cook meat/open tins of peas’ so boring that I start hating it.

By: PastaQueen

PastaQueen — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:19:37 +0000

I was remarking to my mom and brother on Mother’s Day about how funny it is that I cook almost all my meals now becauseI used to complain about having to cook when we all lived together. They suddenly both groaned and rolled their eyes and were like, “Yeah, you were a total bitch about that.” I was rather surprised. I remembered disliking cooking, but evidently I really whined about it too.

Which is funny because I don’t mind cooking at all now. I find it strange when I occasionally get a comment on my blog about how I must be starving myself because I’ve never been more adventurous with food than I am now. I’m trying all new sorts of veggies and fruits. It helps a lot that I can now stand for long periods of time without my feet hurting. Back when I started I wanted to sit down after 5-10 minutes of chopping.

By: the veggie paparazzo

the veggie paparazzo — Thu, 24 May 2007 00:54:44 +0000

You can eat a lot of CRAP on Weight Watchers just like you can eat a lot of reasonable foods. We’ll see which route your mom takes! It could change her, or she could eat processed foods all day still.