I get 20 points a day. Been on it for over a year. My food today:
Lower sugar instant oatmeal (maple & brown sugar) w/ 2 Tbl of SF Cary’s pancake syrup - 2 pt
1 oz. of Genisoy potato soy crisps - 1.5 pts
2 Tbl of sour cream (full fat) - 1.5 pts
1 low fat mozzarella string cheese - 1 pt
1 WW yogurt (they make awesome yogurt) - 1 pt
2 sugar free Dove chocolates - 1.5 pts
1 Hill’s Bro. Carbwise Cappuccino (this is my addiction; I have three of these a day) - 1 pt
For dinner I’m planning to have a Jack in the Box Asian Chicken Salad (half the dressing, but with the croutons from my husband’s salad) - 9 pts
I’ll also exercise and have 2 more cappuccinos and probably 3 more chocolates or some other dessert.
On Friday I made some awesome chicken enchiladas that are 5 pts each enchilada, and had two of them on Friday & Saturday each. They’re totally worth it.
By the way, I don’t normally eat that much pre-processed food. We’re running out of food to cook, though, and we need to make a trip to the grocery store.
Yeah, but I try to go out of my way not to go to any restaurants big enough that people on Weight Watchers have put their nutritional info online. I mean, that’s the problem, especially when you go somewhere really nice. I mean, you can take the fish that doesn’t have the cream sauce, but you have no idea what’s really involved in it - “sea bass encrusted in potato with a creamy risotto blah blah blah”, well, who knows what went into it? (Except tasty sea bass goodness, that is.)
My bugaboo is Cold Stone Creamery. The one I like consists of chocolate ice cream (smallest adult size–sorry, but I refuse to call it a “Like It”), graham cracker crumbs, cookie dough, and a squirt of chocolate syrup. I checked it out on their website–it’s 18 points! For a small!
I don’t get those very often anymore, but they’re *so * good…
Cinnabons are scary too–I think a big one is 16 or 18 points. At least the small ones are only 7. Still bad, but possible if I’m good the rest of the day and get my exercise in.
The one thing I refuse to give up is pizza–once a week, the spouse and I go to our favorite pizza place and split a small one (cheese and Canadian bacon). However, since I managed to lose over 100 pounds on WW while still continuing my weekly pizza ritual, I see no reason to deny myself this great pleasure.
It’s amazing, the things that you thought weren’t that bad. The BF and I often have Jimmy Johns deliver us some sammiches. Now I see they’re all in the 18-20 point range, and that’s with me refusing to look up my BLT.
Best frozen entrees ever: Lean Cuisine Spa. Particularly the Salmon with Basil. 230 calories (4 WW points) and amazingly tasty. A little spendier than the standard WW entrees though.
I actually just bought a few WW entrees this morning for work; the supermarket near my work never carried them before so I thought I’d try them. The one I did try (some sort of long penne-style noodle with cheese and tomato sauce) was pretty good!
Anything we want to. Just smaller portions. I personally don’t eat more than a bite of Fetuccine Alfredo any longer, because it’s ridiculously high in points. I’ve learned that the second, third, twelfth mouthful tastes the same as the first. I am at 24 points per day, and I’m also gaining 5 ‘activity’ points average per day from exercise (one activity point = 100 calories burned).
What I have eaten today:
Vita-Muffin - 1 point
tea - .5 points
fat-free latte with sugar - 6 points (20 ounces of milk)
whole wheat pita with herbed cheese and cucumber - 3 points
chocolate fudge ice creamy thing (weight watchers) 1 point
steamed rice - 4 points
tilapia baked with butter and lemon - 6 points
nectarine - 1 point
salad - 0 points (no dressing, I like it naked)
I still have a point and a half to eat today; plus, if I want, I have 6.5 activity points.
I experienced the identical horror. I have emailed the company to find out just what the hell they’ve got in that burger. So that delicious (I’m not kidding, it’s my very favourite veggie burger evah) thing will never pass my lips again.
Thankfully, I don’t eat them. But, I looked at one of my partner’s Marie Callendars pot pies the other day. They have over 1000 calories and about 50 grams of fat.
I was shopping yesterday and there was a display of some sort of squeezable coconut spread in the aisle and since I love coconut, I stopped and looked at the nutrional panel out of curiosity and almost dropped it when I saw that it had ~250 calories per every two tablespoon serving.
I mean, that’s the problem, especially when you go somewhere really nice. I mean, you can take the fish that doesn’t have the cream sauce, but you have no idea what’s really involved in it - “sea bass encrusted in potato with a creamy risotto blah blah blah”, well, who knows what went into it? (Except tasty sea bass goodness, that is.)