FRESH START! DONE with WEIGHT WATCHERS | Weigh In with Me! CALORIE DEFICIT Weight Loss Journey

hey guys welcome back to my channel it's Lauren I figured today it is June 1st and it is time for a little update on my weight loss journey and my health journey I relaunched into this journey on January 1st 2024 with my focus being on Five Pillars of Health my Nutrition Fitness sleep Stress Management and mindfulness we've made some big strides on some things we haven't made as many strides on others and I've actually made some really big changes specifically to my nutrition and exercise pillars in the last month nutrition and fitness have been my main priorities of the pillars the last few months because my biggest Health goal is truly some weight loss and getting myself to a healthier Place physically in January I started back being dedicated on the WWE Weight Watchers plan I tried out using a rebounder for the first time I got back into walking daily and I really tried being consistent on those things for the first few months of 2024 but by mid April I still wasn't seeing very good results I would lose a few pounds and then gain them back losing and regaining the exact same weight over and over again I have had success with ww in the past I still stand by that as a program for people who are just starting out trying to lose weight trying to find something that's simple and an app that holds their hand and walks them through the beginning process of trying to make big changes to their diets and lifestyle I myself lost 80 lb in 2 years on the plan before having my second child but for some reason for me I don't know if it's changes that were in the program from the last time I was really on it or just how points were being calculated personally for me I was getting 45 points a day on the WW plan I just haven't been seeing results so we have to know when it's time for a change you can't do the same thing over and over again with no results and just keep doing it the same sometimes we need to make big changes to make big Str rides so something I have done before and that I'm comfortable with is counting calories I've usually done it alongside of WW just to compare like how many calories a day was the 44 45 points a day I was eating but I haven't truly just focused on a calorie deficit along with tracking Protein that's something new for me in the last few weeks this is what I have settled on I'm taking a break room ww and I'm just focusing on being in a calorie deficit counting my calories and and getting enough protein in every single day I could have just lowered my points and made sure I was only eating 36 points a day on WW but then what's the point of using that app if I'm not following the guidance it's giving me and I've told you guys this before but I am not sponsored by Weight Watchers ww never have been they don't pay me to do the program and share videos I pay for the program myself and always have every single month so I got to the the point where I'm like I've been on WW now like with the exception of the time I was pregnant which I was still using the app to kind of track and keep aware of what I was eating in nutrition during my second pregnancy using the app so I've had the app for the last 4 years paying around $20 a month that's $240 a year for 4 years and I still have not met my health and weight loss goals so the fact that I have felt pretty stagnant since re begininning the program in January the fact that I've been paying every single month for four years that's a lot of money towards a program that just hasn't been working for me right now we just got to mix it up we got to try something new so for those of you asking can I still keep posting ww points along with calories for the recipes I'm sharing unfortunately I no longer have the program I canceled it so I can't look up the points for it anymore I can give you rough estimates I guess if you ask but you can always just enter in I always give all the ingredients and amounts for the recipes I share so you can enter it into a recipe into your own app and calculate that out but yes I have canceled the WW program for now I am using the my fitness app which is a free app I did not do the paid for upgraded version yet everything that I'm using right now which is tracking my calories every day and my protein all of that is available in the free version in addition to using my fitness pal for tracking to get started on my calorie deficit and Counting protein I had to figure out what my personal goal goals were going to be for that I found a calorie deficit calculator online I will link the one that I used in the description box below but similar to when I started ww and I had to fill out my profile with my gender my height my weight my activity level and my goal for how much or how quickly I want to lose that's what you enter in the calorie deficit calculator and it's going to figure out how many calories your body is probably using just to function daily and then based on your goals which I personally selected that I wanted a bigger deficit to lose more faster so for a goal of maybe losing 2 lbs a week it gave me the number of calories I should be aiming for daily for me personally the calorie deficit it wanted me at was 2,50 calories a day it also broke it down and told me of those 250 calories what percentage I should be aiming for for carbohydrates fats and proteins and that proteins number gave me a goal of eating 154 g of protein a day that's a lot of protein previously on WW I had started looking at protein also and my goal was to reach 100 g of protein a day which now looking at that calculator was way too little for my goals but it is hard it was hard for me to reach 100 g of protein when I hadn't been tracking it at all then so it has been difficult uh making that huge switch to eating that much protein a day I feel like I'm eating a lot lot more during the day and more frequently that being said I don't feel hungry I feel very satisfied when I've met my protein goals I've definitely needed to start pushing my boundaries and try to get creative about what kinds of things I can be eating that have more protein in them cuz I'm someone I can't just sit down and eat like a whole bowl of shredded chicken and call it a day for a snack like right I got to have something that is still a recipe that still tastes good that I'm going to be excited to make I'm a cook you guys know that I've been following along with my story I love cooking I love to bake I love to eat that's you know how I got this way and I love to cook for others so I've definitely had to get a little bit creative and do research and searching on Tik Tok and Pinterest and blogs for new recipes to try or substitutes that I can make where I can sneak more protein into my day than I have been but still eat kind of similar to the things that I already enjoy so I don't get bored of it or sick of it or want to table it and I keep motivated to keep going so one of the biggest things that has helped me get my protein in every day is really loading up on protein first thing in the morning I'm starting with a good protein filled breakfast a food based breakfast but I'm also trying to keep things simple it is summer break both my girls are at home with me all day so I don't have time to be really a cooking Michelin star restaurant quality breakfast every morning but sticking with something like scrambled eggs with some cheddar cheese chicken breakfast sausage and some grapes have given me a really well-rounded breakfast meal that adds up to just under 30 g of protein for breakfast I then usually follow that up a couple hours later with a morning snack of a protein shake so when I said food based protein first thing in the morning I'm eating food then doing a protein shake a little bit later as a snack on the go cuz we're busy we're busy in the morning we're off to the playground or off to the pool or to run errands or the library and I can take that on the go with me to help space out those snacks meals and all that protein throughout the day and then if I've eaten that in the morning I can do like a nice big salad maybe in the afternoon with some chicken and for dinners we're focusing a lot on you know Meats with a side of veg that keeps it simple it helps keep me in my calorie deficit cuz those are pretty low calorie meals but you still pack in a good amount of protein and the kicker has definitely been for mother's day if you guys saw one of my recent videos I got a ninja creamy and we have definitely been putting recipes to the test sometimes I've been doing protein ice cream which I've shared here it's truly using either protein powder or a protein shake and you can blend it into an ice cream base that I can eat in the evenings as a dessert but it's a dessert full of protein so that's been really good I've also been making more of a classic frozen yogurt that the whole family can eat um I don't usually give my girls any sort of protein powder or like protein shake based things but making this Greek yogurt based froya has been so delicious we've tried strawberry we've tried a pistachio and then the girls have lots of fun deciding what kind of little treat add-ins we can do to mix it up and have something fun but it spins about one pint of ice cream although it does seem larger than the typical pint you would buy at the grocery store so I don't know but basically when we do one container of the creamy frozen yogurt we end up being able to split it between the four of us just fine everyone gets a little creamy treat and it's been a lot of family fun coming up with one or two ideas to do each week in the creamy it's not an every night treat but a couple times a week it's really fun I'm still also focused on my fitness pillar I've kept up with walking pretty consistently now that it's summer it gets really hot really early here so we really need to push ourselves to get up get dressed and get outside to enjoy the outdoors before it gets too hot but depending on which route I'm doing in the neighborhood whether I'm walking my dog or I'm going with the girls with nor and the stroller Lyla usually rides her scooter we'll walk down to one of our neighborhood parks we have a couple that we can walk to in our area and so just depending on the routes I do I end up with doing about a 40 minute to an hour long walk each day between being there and back I do need to get back into using my rebounder daily I found not just for you know more cardio exercise but I felt like it was like helping with my core strength and also even my posture which is terrible I know I'm working on it y'all but I felt like it was helping with those things when I was consistently using the rebounder so that's actually going to be a goal moving into next month is to get back on my rebounder for 15 minutes like 3 to four times a week even in addition to the Daily walking and then my goal is hopefully in this next month we're trying to work out schedules and everything with our family but I want to join a gym again it has been a few years since preco um since I've joined a gym but I think it would not only be good for me to get back into some lightweight lifting maybe some group exercise classes help to mix it up find Fun and Fitness again but also hopefully I can find one that has a child care center and then the girls can get out of the house get some activity in and I can also for the mindfulness part of being a stay-at-home mom life take a little break during the day that's just for me and a breather they get to play and have fun I get to get a little bit of a workout in but also some alone time I think that'll be good for everybody so now that I've chatted with you guys about the changes that have been happening how I've been keeping up with my pillars my switch from ww to being in a calorie deficit and tracking with protein what's the proof where are the numbers at so I would say I kind of sto tracking with ww getting towards like the middle of April I got kind of overwhelmed we had Nora's second birthday we had family come visit us I ended up traveling to Chicago for a family funeral then immediately coming back to Mother's Day and the end of the school year and all the activities going on with the kids my husband wrapping up with the busiest part of his year so it was just like a lot on my plate I got distracted from my goals I stopped tracking but coming back miday I really tried to refocus and said okay I can either let myself let all of these distractions and the busyness of Life get in the way or I can do something to re-engage myself in my journey take a breath take a fresh start and recommit before I get too far off track so being off track for those couple weeks between mid April to miday I did gain a little bit of weight May 13th the day after Mother's Day and when I got back in town and all that I reweighed in for day one my new day one we always have a new day one but you know what as long as we just keep going and keep trying and don't just give up we're going to make our progress and we're going going to get there so May 13th was the start of tracking my calories and protein and I weighed in at 323 lb it's now not quite a full month later it's been just at 3 weeks today is June 1st after 3 weeks of tracking my calories and protein switching things up recommitting I weighed in this morning at 36.8 lb I very proud of that that's a 6.2 lb loss in the last 3 weeks that is a bigger month loss than I have had any other month since January when I kicked off this health plan and it wasn't even a full month it was only 3 weeks so that's an average of a 2 lb loss per week which was my goal I feel like tracking protein has really been the biggest difference I am eating so much more protein I feel full I feel satisfied I'm craving less snackies and like sugary things towards the end of the night because I've been eating enough throughout the day I will say one thing I want to keep working on now that I've added all this protein to my diet is I really need to up my fiber as well protein and fiber really work hand inand if you're really increasing your protein you need to increase your fiber just for your gut health and your system if you know what I mean um so increasing fiber will definitely help even more so that's added to my uh June goals so in comparing you know doing now the calorie deficit to being on Weight Watchers one of the biggest mind shifts I've had is looking at certain ingredients with different eyes I feel like for the last 4 years I I am a coffee girl I have my iced coffee the remnants of that I've been sipping on as I planned for this video this morning right here I love my coffee and I don't want to have to give up coffee in the way that I love it I do drink profy coffees which is a protein shake with espresso that's a lot of times how I drink that protein shake um midm morning for that midm morning meal but sometimes I also just like to have a regular coffee and I'm a sweet coffee girl I'm not a girl who can just do the black coffee thing I know it would save on calories and you know everyone thinks of coffee gamer being such a terrible thing but when I started looking at the difference on WW versus tracking the calories of coffee creamer and realized why am I thinking of this as such a bad food item I really hate thinking of foods as good food and bad food it's all just food some things fit into your day some things don't but you make room for them other days and I feel like that's a really important lesson that I not only am trying to ret myself but also to teach my girls as they grow up in their relationship with food there are no bad foods there's just foods that work now and some foods that don't work now or foods that are maybe occasional foods and don't give us as much energy and nutrition as other Foods I want to keep our mentality around food positive again that's really important to me especially as a girl mom and a woman who has struggled with my eating since I was a little kid so going back to this one specific example of coffee creamer if I were to track three tablespoons of regular coffee creamer I personally just choose not to do a lot of sugarfree or artificial kinds of food if I can avoid them they tend to really upset my system and my stomach in particular so even on WW I was sacrificing points to have regular coffee creamer I do prefer the Chobani brand just because they do use real cream and real sugar and honestly I felt like I could use less of it because the flavor was so nice but to track 3 tablespoons of coffee creamer on WW was 7 points some people only get 23 points a day even when I was getting 45 points a day if you look at that in terms of a percentage 3 tbspoon of coffee creamer was consuming 15% of the points I was allotted to eat that day when I looked at it with calories it was under 100 calories for 3 tbspoon of coffee creamer it's 90 calories so if I have a cup of hot coffee hot black coffee and I add 3 tblspoon of creamer to it it's not like I'm having some four or 500 calorie fancy coffee it's just a cup of coffee with 3 tspoons of creamer it was only coming out to just around 100 calories and in comparison 100 calories to the 2,000 calories that I get a day is only 5% of what I can consume for the day so for me a nice coffee that I enjoy being 5% of my day that's totally worth it when it turns out to be 15% of my day that's now taking away from me being able to eat things for lunch or a snack or what I can and can't eat for dinner later when I'm counting ww points so coffee creamer is just one of those examples there's a number of foods I've have come across that I used to feel guilty eating on WW that now I'm looking at well this is just how many calories it is that fits with the meal I'm looking at things more meal-based or full day based instead of individual items because something may have a little bit more calories but I look at in total how much protein I'm getting in that meal and I don't feel guilty for adding that in and I'm enjoying the food so that's been a little bit eye opening otherwise I have felt pretty satisfied tracking calories on my calorie deficit it's hard to eat that much protein but we're working on it it is you know work to do it every single day but obviously based on the numbers and my loss in the last 3 weeks it's worth it and I don't feel like my journey is totally consuming my everyday I'm still doing things with my kids we're getting outside for fun yes I'm kind of thinking about how much I'm walking every day or the fitness I'm getting in but I'm making it a part of my everyday routine with the kids so I'm excited to continue for now on my calorie deficit and tracking protein I'm still going to be sharing tons of healthy family option meals with you guys I know I won't have the WW points anymore but I will always include all of the ingredients and amounts so you guys can calculate those out if ww is what's working for you and you're continuing on it that's amazing do whatever is working for you at your time in your journey I hit a Hiatus I needed to change so here we are anyway I'm going to wrap up this video for now thank you guys for joining me for my update video video please hit the like button if you enjoyed today's video subscribe if you want to keep following along with this new step in my journey and until next time never thought I wouldn't jump oh what a fool but if I fall I will get up again

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Length: 19min 58sec (1198 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 03 2024