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Weight Loss Forum / WeightWatchers / February 2007Grocery store prison
I may have made this comment before but I'm curious how you feel...After losing quite a bit of weight I now try and make every food decision the best possible...I often eat out and have no problem making any meal compatible...But if I want to stop at a 7-11 or similar market I spend so much time reading labels and rarely finding a reasonable substitute...The other day I stopped to look and thought that even some baked chips would be fine but this market is in a Hispanic area and the clerk says that no one was interested in them (that's another issue)...All the sandwiches were not labeled with nutrition information which I would need to make a decision...After looking at most of the store I walked out with an apple...Most fast food is now a turn off but I understand the salads are OK...Anyway know of any quick stop answers?...I guess yogurt and similar milk based products would work...I follow core and do try and avoid bread but sometimes I enjoy a sandwich...Anyway...Always enjoy the journey...GG Eating out on Core isn't easy.. soups are often a good option.. veggie sandwiches (subway) or wraps.. A little Cafe in my town makes a devilish poratbello sandwich! Not a fast stop.. but my savior sometimes :o) Will~ >I may have made this comment before but I'm curious how you feel...After >losing quite a bit of weight I now try and make every food decision the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >milk based products would work...I follow core and do try and avoid bread >but sometimes I enjoy a sandwich...Anyway...Always enjoy the journey...GG >I may have made this comment before but I'm curious how you >feel...After losing quite a bit of weight I now try and make every food [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >work...I follow core and do try and avoid bread but sometimes I enjoy a >sandwich...Anyway...Always enjoy the journey...GG Core is very difficult for me.. At the mom and pop stores I look for fruit, pretzelsand products I'm already familiar with. At fast food places the charbroiled or chicken sandwiches with lettuce, tomato and no special sauce is a good choice with a side salad. The WW Dining Out book shows some good choices for each of the fast food places. At Taco Bell a regular taco without cheese is 3 points. At Carl's Junior the charbroiled barbecued chicken sandwich is 7, a side salad without dressing is 1 pt and a garden salad to go is 2 pts.McDonald's fruit and walnut salad is 6 or 3 if you don't eat the walnuts. A plain small hamburger is 6 points. You can always get salads with meat on them at Subway. Sometimes I know it's good to have food from home in the car. I take fruit and tea to work. If I know I will not be home for lunch and don't know where I'll eat I'll have some food with me. Audrey > I may have made this comment before but I'm curious how you feel...After > losing quite a bit of weight I now try and make every food decision the best [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > milk based products would work...I follow core and do try and avoid bread > but sometimes I enjoy a sandwich...Anyway...Always enjoy the journey...GG I agree that doing core & fast food is almost impossible. The chicken in the salads is not core so you are basically left with plain baked potatoes (wendy's) and garden salads unless you want to use some of your points. I worked next door to a wendy's this summer. My usual lunch out was chili (no cheese) over a side salad or baked potato for 4 points. I will do some of the low point chicken salads at Wendy's or mcDonalds if those are my only choices of places to stop. Stopping at a 7-11 is difficult too. Some have salads, fruit cups and LF yogurt. I made a trip from NJ to MA last June. My only choice on the highway was McDonalds. I got their apple-walnut salad and some chicken nuggets. Finger food for the road but it made for a simple lunch for not too many points. I get the camels soup at hand, or fruit or sometimes I get so grossed out that I am no longer hungry, and in a real pinch fruit or vegetable juice, the salads are not bad, avoid dressing and all have nutrition and most are on the WW data base, Lee > I may have made this comment before but I'm curious how you feel...After > losing quite a bit of weight I now try and make every food decision the best [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > milk based products would work...I follow core and do try and avoid bread > but sometimes I enjoy a sandwich...Anyway...Always enjoy the journey...GG All good ideas...The reality is that although many of us do care...Many still do not...The fast food and grocery stores want us to eat...To eat in huge portions...Many burger places offer 1 lb hamburgers with fries Burger King offers a triple whopper with cheese 1200+ calories close to 1600 mgs of sodium and 81 grams of fat...Does anyone really need to eat like that...Well I did and never thought much about it ...I ate like this for many years...I remember stopping at my local 7-11 and getting a package of Hostess cupcakes or snowballs not realizing that the package was 700 calories...About half of my daily intake today...No wonder many of us suffer from obesity...We were raised that way...And of course if we ate it quickly and tossed the wrappers and no one saw us it would be even better...I went to Applebee's the other day knowing from their marketing in WW to try a new portabella sandwich...Funny that when I looked at the picture I would never have know it was half the size of any other sandwich they offer...It wasn't bad just interesting...Had I noticed the small strawberry in the corner of the picture I might have been aware of it's true size...My brother ordered the cowboy burger and fries and gave me a look when they arrived together...I think the awareness of just what we eat is critical in achieving success over this monster...Well I have gone on long enough...Always enjoy the journey...GG >I get the camels soup at hand, or fruit or sometimes I get so grossed out > that I am no longer hungry, and in a real pinch fruit or vegetable juice, [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> milk based products would work...I follow core and do try and avoid bread >> but sometimes I enjoy a sandwich...Anyway...Always enjoy the journey...GG > All good ideas...The reality is that although many of us do > care...Many still do not...The fast food and grocery stores want us [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > this monster...Well I have gone on long enough...Always enjoy the > journey...GG Gary One of these days I am going to write a letter to Applebees. Why should the portabella sandwich be small when we know we can make one for a low number of points and it can be big and filling. They could have added a very nice sized portion of strawberries and/or other fruit and that would be one point for the fruit portion. I tried just one of their WW offerings and was just turned off because it wasn't satisfying. That doesn't mean I want or need supersized portions. I just want a bit of common sense to be used. On my green salad this evening I can put lettuce, radishes, tomatoes, green onions, carrot, celery, a few cooked green beans because I need to use them, sliced mushrooms, and have a nice presentation of food to eat with my pomegranate vinegar from Trader Joe's. Oh, well, it definitely is a journey. Audrey There were 3 pineapple wedges but it just wasn't satisfying...Applebee's in our area is not very good...Although they are great at illusion marketing they are a lousy restaurant in my opinion...Oh well..The journey continues...GG >> All good ideas...The reality is that although many of us do care...Many >> still do not...The fast food and grocery stores want us to eat...To eat [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Audrey The WW menu was great when it came out.. but it started with the veggies and went downhill from there.. microwaved tilapia last time.. I'm done with them... yuck! Wi`ll~ > There were 3 pineapple wedges but it just wasn't satisfying...Applebee's > in our area is not very good...Although they are great at illusion [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >> >> Audrey Ours has gone downhill too. They used to have a great chicken stirfry on the WW menu. That's gone and replaced by a very dry grilled chicken sandwich. yuck. I do like the tilapia dish but our local mexican place does a better job so we go there instead for fish. > The WW menu was great when it came out.. but it started with the veggies > and went downhill from there.. [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] >>> >>> Audrey another thing you can do is order whatever you want, but also ask for a take home container with your meal... then put half of it in the box when you have portioned out what you want to 'point' out, and have the rest as a leftover the next day... people keep talking about this rush rush rush society... but really if you actually stand up to others and say stop... it will get done in due time... and being five minutes late is NOT a bad thing... then you can take the time to eat a decent snack or meal instead of stopping in at all these fast food places... how many times did you think about "we'll just grab something on the way home" instead of popping in to the grocery store for some stir fry veggies and chicken breast to make a good meal... I've done that countless times, and with the exception of one or two things *weddings, good movies* I don't rush anymore... *G*... I don't do fast food anymore... and If I need to rush a supper, its soup and a sandwich that I know I made... > All good ideas...The reality is that although many of us do care...Many > still do not...The fast food and grocery stores want us to eat...To eat in [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > >> milk based products would work...I follow core and do try and avoid bread > >> but sometimes I enjoy a sandwich...Anyway...Always enjoy the journey...GG we just had that sandwich, it was good the service at ours is hideous, Lee > All good ideas...The reality is that although many of us do care...Many > still do not...The fast food and grocery stores want us to eat...To eat in [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > >> milk based products would work...I follow core and do try and avoid bread > >> but sometimes I enjoy a sandwich...Anyway...Always enjoy the journey...GG |
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