Weight Loss Forum / WeightWatchers / December 2004
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T & D - 28 Dec 2004 00:48 GMT Hi all,
LOL. I got such a good response out of the Top 5 tips that I thought I'd ask what typical meals you have during the day with your various points. ;-)
I used to eat 2 pcs toast with applebutter or cherry preserves for breakfast. 2 pts
2 grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch 6 pts
WW meal for 6-8 points.
snacks -- FF Jello chocolate pudding, banana, grapes -- 5 pts
Some days I'd eat Chicken Noodle soup for lunch instead of grilled cheeses.
I think I was supposed to be at 27 pts at the time. I also did 30 minutes of walking per day.
I did get bored with the same-old-same-old though. I did, however, lose 30-40 pds without a lot of trouble. I'm looking at new recipes and trying to make this a *lifestyle* though. I did the Adkins diet for all of about 2-3 weeks and discovered that I really love salads, so that was a good experience, but I couldn't do that diet for life if someone paid me.
BTW, thanks to all for the great tips on the Top 5 tips. I've saved them to my personal files.
Debbie
Laura - 28 Dec 2004 01:15 GMT Hi Debbie,
I am doing the Core plan which might be different from what you are following. Your menu looks like you are lacking dairy, fruits and veggies. I tend to avoid bread these days and eat salads instead of sandwiches for lunch.
Here is my typical set of menus that I try and follow:
Breakfast: 1c cereal (shredded wheat or oatmeal), 1c fruit, 1c skim milk OR WW Smoothie with 1c milk and 1c fruit OR eggbeater omlette with 1c skim milk and 1c fruit
Lunch: Large salad with 3-4oz meat/chicken/fish OR leftover meat/chicken/fish with veggies (hot meal) OR Soup OR 2 boca burgers in 1 roll PLUS 1 cup FF yogurt sweetened with splenda or 1T SF/FF pudding mix (2nd dairy serving) OR fruit Salad dressing is 2teaspoons of canola or olive oil OR FF bottled salad dressing Dinner: 4-5 oz meat/chicken/fish, steamed veggies, 1/2c brown rice or small sweet potato Dessert: FF ice cream (non core)
Snacks: 94% FF popcorn, fruit, cut up veggies
Don't forget to follow the WW basics: 5 fruits/veggies and 2 dairy servings
Since I am on Core I don't have to count points the same as others do on Flex. I do still journal (optional on core) and my points typically come out around 23-24 points per day depending on how much fruit I have for the day.
> Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Debbie Lesanne - 28 Dec 2004 12:46 GMT Ah, now look at all that food Laura is eating, nothing like real food to get lots of satisfaction for low points. This day looks a whole lot like my days do when I am wanting to lose. I also have a couple of treats in every day.
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> Hi Debbie, > [quoted text clipped - 68 lines] >> >> Debbie Laura - 28 Dec 2004 14:40 GMT My problem is that I am having trouble sticking to it this week. Still down a pound despite all of my snacking and our eating out. I'll be so glad to get home on saturday. I start again on Sunday.
> Ah, now look at all that food Laura is eating, nothing like real food to get > lots of satisfaction for low points. This day looks a whole lot like my days [quoted text clipped - 73 lines] > >> > >> Debbie Miss Violette - 28 Dec 2004 15:01 GMT glad you lost, Lee
> My problem is that I am having trouble sticking to it this week. Still > down a pound despite all of my snacking and our eating out. I'll be so [quoted text clipped - 94 lines] > > >> > > >> Debbie T & D - 28 Dec 2004 17:21 GMT Lesanne and Laura, I've printed your daily meals. ;-) I guess I do need to go to meetings and stuff. I try to figure out stuff on my own and I get into the habit of only eating a few things that I know are safe -- and boring as crap.
I also go to the bookstore and look for low fat cooking cookbooks or even WW, but a lot of their meals are foods that I've never even heard of -- like Lesanne's Kashi go lean waffles. Do you have the low cal syrup to put on top of that and still stay in your points? LOL. Because I pour a whole lot of syrup over my pancakes and waffles. I also remember you-all talking about a certain cheese that was low fat and good with crackers, but I can't find that around here. I have found the Boca burgers, but haven't tried those yet. Skinny Cows are on my list. I do have a hard time with the veggies and fruits -- only because it's not a habit. I do like them though. Hmmm -- maybe I should be trying out these yogurts, too.
Thanks again.
Debbie
Lesanne - 28 Dec 2004 18:20 GMT Go girl :) And yes, I do a low cal syrup, and sometimes a tablespoon of peanut butter spread thin and half a sliced banana
Those are frozen waffles, toaster ones. If you can't find those they are similar in points to the whole wheat Eggo waffles. 3 points for two.
You can also do one egg, scrambled with one or two extra egg whites and add whatever to it, low or nonfat cheese slices, or mushrooms or chopped spinach or all of the above. A really filling omelet for 2 or 3 points depending upon the cheese, or not. With reduced cal bread, two slices add one point and you have a real big breakfast.
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> Lesanne and Laura, I've printed your daily meals. ;-) I guess I do need > to [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Debbie T & D - 28 Dec 2004 19:09 GMT > Go girl :) And yes, I do a low cal syrup, and sometimes a tablespoon of > peanut butter spread thin and half a sliced banana [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > upon the cheese, or not. With reduced cal bread, two slices add one point > and you have a real big breakfast. LOL. Thanks, g/f. Printed and saved!
Debbie
Lesanne - 28 Dec 2004 22:27 GMT I should send you the year plus of journals I have ;)
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> >> Go girl :) And yes, I do a low cal syrup, and sometimes a tablespoon of [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Debbie T & D - 29 Dec 2004 14:21 GMT Clapping hands -- oh, oh, please?
Debbie
> I should send you the year plus of journals I have ;) > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > > > Debbie Lesanne - 28 Dec 2004 12:44 GMT Hey Debbie! I don't HAVE typical meals, other than a few favorites that keep coming up. I have a lot of cookbooks ;). One thing about a program designed for the rest of my Life, is that it has to include pretty much everything. Luckily, WW points does, which is the one I use. I lean hard in the "direction" of core foods when I want to take off some pounds, and then eat what I want (defatted usually) the rest of the time. I exercise 6 days a week, and eat those points as well, and I usually use whatever flex points I want. The trick here, is NOT TO TAKE IT OFF RIGHT THIS MINUTE, it is to wake up, this time next year, with a reasonable amount of it GONE FOREVER, and knowing that you have a whole new life. I saw a postcard in my friend "Alice the masseuse extraordinaire"s office the other day. It had this little person with a backpack cheerfully walking down a path right after a fork in the road. The path it was on, said "your Life" the other one said "no longer an option". For fun, here are my last two days of eating... (I will be back at goal by Saturday despite being 2 or 3 over this past Saturday, and despite yesterday and today). Bet anyone who wants to take it.... Sunday, - oatmeal and vanilla yogurt and papaya, orange for a snack, chicken, winter squash, spinach and green beans , rice and a skinny cow ice cream parfait for lunch, grapefruit for an afternoon snack, lean roast pork sandwich on wheat for dinner with carrot sticks, a few tortilla chips (weighed) and a weight watchers ice cream cone. Monday, kashi go lean waffles for breakfast, vanilla yogurt and some kind of fruit, I forget and my journal is not handy. Then a large whole grain cracker and ff cheese for a snack, then the Chinese Buffet for lunch, Late, ate a reasonably filled plate, half filled with steamed veggies and the other half with small servings of evil things such as a couple of ribs and some of that General Tso's chicken. No rice or anything like that, then a very small (1/4 cup serving) of peach cobbler and a couple of tablespoons of vanilla ice cream on it. Dinner was some light frozen yogurt, not really hungry, but wanted something.
I truly think the trick to getting to goal and staying somewhere near it (!) has to do with beginning as you are going to go on. If I were not eating substantially less than I was when I weighed more, I would begin to weigh more. If I were eating enough less to feel as if I were starving, or my body got the idea there was a famine, then I don't think that I would be able to live like that.
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> Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Debbie Kate Dicey - 30 Dec 2004 02:37 GMT > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Debbie A fairly typical day for me would start with a banana sandwich (3.5 points) or porridge (2.5 points plus another for a little milk and sugar).
I often have a 4 point sandwich and a zero point salad for lunch, or bread and zero point soup for 2.5 points.
Dinner is usually a main course of something like salmon and new potatoes with salad or veg depending on the weather. This adds up to 4.5 points, so I follow it with a Yogurt for 1.5 points.
I fill in odd corners with fruit and treat myself to hot chocolate later if I have the points.
I'm on 20 points a day, and do 2.5 points of exercise about 5 days a weak, weather & health permitting.
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