WeightWatchers & "How Many ProPoints?" Thread MkII

Baby75 wrote: »

have WI this morning so hoping I see a loss of at least half a pound!

I made a mistake on Saturday I had some crackers with my lunch and miscalculated the pp only copped this morning going over my tracker :mad:

Off to WI soon too, really hoping for a teeny loss, have 3 pounds to go to my 4th silver seven and would love that by end August.

javagal wrote: »

Have been away from this thread for quite a while getting comfy.. But i'm on hols in 3 weeks and determined to shift 3lbs so I can enjoy myself over there...

History:
Started WW in April at 13 st 10.. My goal weight was 10st 13.. I'm now 11st 5.75 and loving my new figure...

Gonna read back through this thread for new recipes

Hey Javagal - we are very similar! I started at 13 st 11.5 lbs, now I'm down to 11 st 2 lbs and am a very happy bunny!

My leader reckons my goal is about 10 st 7 lbs but I'm going to set it at 10 st 5 lbs - here's hoping I lose that 11lbs by Christmas!

Bring it on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS Folks, was gutted that pumpkin seeds are so high in points! I throw a load on my cereal in the morn but it's like 2pp for a tablespoon.
And here's me thinking I'm being healthy. :rolleyes:

Kayleen wrote: »

Hi Lady Lainy
Just wondering how the lasagne tasted as I printed off your recipe yesterday but want to see what you think of it first :-)

Turned out REALLY well....like yeah pasta sheets would be nicer.....but you know....it wasn't bad.....holy freaking hell......seriously so so so filling....i had so much fruit and veg yesterday my body didnt know what was going on....and woke up this morning....and i'm not kidding i swear some of my tummy is gone down...no bloating at all. which i normally have after pasta.

next time i'm goint to season the courgette a bit more tho, when i'm layering it going to sprinkle herbs/pepper/spices/garlic onto the couregette before adding the next layer....i think the courgette it self just needed that zing of flavour.

next time i might bring the pessata down to 400g, i did find it very runny....so when serving....kinda just looked like a plate of mince with courgette :P tasted great....just went very runny LOL

Back from WI and stayed the same this week Totally my own fault as though I did lots of walking and sensible eating my tracking and weighing foods was a bit hit and miss. Some emotional eating too which I've been successful with so far, used to reward myself with food for the happy times and then eating sh*te when things went awry instead of taking the time to prepare proper food. OH's 22 yr old daughter is back living here full time for the summer and easy it ain't. All I wish at times is that her mother would adopt her for a week! Anyways thats a story for another forum!

So anyways onwards and weighing and tracking everything this week and I WILL get that 4th silver seven by end August!!!

Oh ya anyone know - heard from someone that the class I go to may be cancelled the week of the Rose of Tralee, would I be right in presuming we would not have to pay for a missed week then? I may be able to go to another class that week in the town I work in though.

Hi, someone posted a recipe for chorizo and chickpea soup a while back! I copied and pasted it but there's no mention of the pp value. Can anyone help or remember it...

It went as follows:
100g chorizo. finely chopped
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
2 sticks of celery, finely chopped,
3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
250ml tomato passata
1 tin of chickpeas, rinsed & drained
1L veggie stock, or water with a good stock cube thrown in
250g spinach
Freshly ground black pepper and sea salt

Cook the chorizo, onion, celery & garlic on a low-medium heat in a saucepan with the lid on. After 15 minutes throw in everything else except the spinach, add lashings of pepper and a pinch of salt. Bring it to the boil, then lower the heat and simmer with the lid on for 40 minutes.

When the soup is ready take out half the mixture and puree. Pour it back into the soup pot, stir it up and season. Just before you’re about to eat get the soup to piping hot and throw in the spinach, mix it up until the spinach is just wilted. Yum.

Baby75 wrote: »

have WI this morning so hoping I see a loss of at least half a pound!

I made a mistake on Saturday I had some crackers with my lunch and miscalculated the pp only copped this morning going over my tracker :mad:

How many points are in crackers???

Baby75 wrote: »

I think I have that one! the new one must be out soon so!

I got the September issue last Wednesday or Thursday I think, next edition is due 1st September. Nice recipes alright - Gnocchi puttanesca bake - saw packs of fresh gnocchi last week in Tesco's, Beef and aubergine lasagne, recipes for tapas - are some of the ones I honed in on!

Weighing, pointing and tracking EVERYTHING today! Downwards!!!!

havana wrote: »

Despite my promises on here a few weeks ago I never did start the C25k. But I've just completed day 2. I arrived home a lovely beetroot red but it was actually not too bad. I had to push myself to go but at the end of the day it's only half an hour out of my day so no excuses!!

All going well. Have lost 16lbs in 7 weeks and really starting to see a change in my shape. I'm so glad I started all this and my only regret is that I didn't do it sooner. I'm walking a lot more which is helping and now with the C25k I feel I'm finally getting into the swing of the last change I needed to make - excersise.

The first few weeks I tended to eat a lot of the same foods cos they felt safe and I was losing so didn't want to take any risks. But this week the meeting was about variety in your diet so I went shopping straight after and did a totally different shop than I usually would. Looking forward to seeing the outcome!!

My main tips for anyone new to PP is to plan, weigh and track. Everything!!! I'm now getting to know the size/ amount of things and their PP but if I hadn't have weighed everything religiously in the beginning I know my portion sizes would have slowly crept up.

Best of luck everyone!!!

Hi, I'm just on the last week of a 5k training plan, thought I'd never be able to do it but its amazing how fast you get fit, so stick with it and congrats on the excellent results so far:)

Baby75 wrote: »

Water and fruit but I'm preaching to the expert

far from the expert....i did munch my way thru a packet of ryvita thins....but hey....cud have done ALOT worse than ryvita!

Had a BIIIIIIIIIG dinner...and tonnes of fruit if u do want something later...but i'm ready for a food coma now....today was grocery shopping day....nothing in the fridge...freezer packed...but had no milk, no eggs, no salad, no fruit, so lunch was skimpy today...thats why i was hungery....cous cous and ryvtia and coffee LOL

But had a HUGE Hearty DEVINE dinner. loads of protein, had two stuffed chicken breasts, spuds...with skins...FIBRE!,Gravy & Salad ooooooh 20pp (well into my weeklies) but i'm stuffed and proteined up to my eyes :P

Mountain of fruit for breakie tomorrow

Plenty of protein at lunch, maybe chicken omelette or something...

and.....might make spag pol with REAL beef mince :P as a treat....thats hilarious....red meat is my treat LOL

Caros wrote: »

I got the September issue last Wednesday or Thursday I think, next edition is due 1st September. Nice recipes alright - Gnocchi puttanesca bake - saw packs of fresh gnocchi last week in Tesco's, Beef and aubergine lasagne, recipes for tapas - are some of the ones I honed in on!

Weighing, pointing and tracking EVERYTHING today! Downwards!!!!

i got it last week too,lovely recipe for a beef and aubergine lasagne for 9pp per serving alsoone for mediterranean chicken,nearly like lainys one stuffed with cheese and wrapped in ham!!

Saw strawberries yesterday in Aldi yesterday €2.49.

Micki wrote: »

I have been trying to use fruit for my morning break in work instead of cereal bars, yoghurts and anything that has propoints. I had found i was using between 5-7 propoints for morning break after having my breakfast and then having to go into my weeklies for dinner!!! But i am finding that it is not filling me, i am hungry quicker!

I think i will go back to using the points for my break because last week i used all my dailies & all my weeklies and ran and done kettlebells 6 days of that but didnt use exercise propoints earned and i lost 4.5lb. I have gone under the weight watchers goal, i just have another 10lb to go to my personal goal so a weight loss of 4.5lb at this stage was a big deal, well to me anyway!!

I think using all the weeklies does work in helping loose weight is what i'm really trying to say!!

Especially if your kettle bells, you need the extra food, so you would need to use your weeklies i say. I'm getting back into the kettle bells this week, and dear god.....they have made SUCH a difference already, and i definitely need to eat more when doing the weights! I think with weeklies it defiantly comes down to what ur eating.... When i spend them on chicken, ryvitas, soft cheese, eggs, spuds, i'm okay, but when i spend them on pasta, bread, rolls, toast, im doomed....

Micki wrote: »

Yeah i couldnt believe how hungry i was the few days after i started using the kettlebells! I thought it was my imagination! I hated normal weights but like the kettlebells and i get to incorporate squats and lunges in some of the exercises too so thats all good! I have been at them 2 weeks and i could swear i can see a little difference in my biceps! Maybe thats in my head too!!

nah....they do make a difference....i did them all last summer, lunges squats, star jumps, plus used dumbells, (under trainer instruction) and fecking hell...i could actually see it...and i'm the worst critic of my self...a coat i got in the states a year before starting ww....if i put it on me now....i can actually fit my 4 year old cousin in the coat with me....Well that was summer....but with college i didint have time or mental motivation for weights...so i went blodgy and soft again and i had full intention to my self back into for the summer but other things got in the way.....but this week now...my mental motivation is back, even if the scales are bad....my shape WILL get better....in the past week alone...i've noticed the bloating going way down....and when im doing weights....its PROTEIN i CRAVE....kinda find my self going oooooh wonder if theres any chicken ....instead of wondering if there's any digestives around LOL.

Going to start taking measurements next week....so if even if the scales are bad....but the measurements are good i can say havent lost weight....but i've lost X inches..with my head held high....my aunt is totally old school....she thinks its all about the scales! oh u hadnt lost weight....u must not be doing it right...

Micki wrote: »

I have been trying to use fruit for my morning break in work instead of cereal bars, yoghurts and anything that has propoints. I had found i was using between 5-7 propoints for morning break after having my breakfast and then having to go into my weeklies for dinner!!! But i am finding that it is not filling me, i am hungry quicker!

I think i will go back to using the points for my break because last week i used all my dailies & all my weeklies and ran and done kettlebells 6 days of that but didnt use exercise propoints earned and i lost 4.5lb. I have gone under the weight watchers goal, i just have another 10lb to go to my personal goal so a weight loss of 4.5lb at this stage was a big deal, well to me anyway!!

I think using all the weeklies does work in helping loose weight is what i'm really trying to say!!

Used to do the same Micki, have porrideg - 40g - and fruit before I left for work round 7.30 ish, then yogurt and fruit for break round 10.30 - 11, and be bloody starving by lunch time, 1.30 to 2 so what I do now is porridge & fruit as normal, have some homemade soda bread 4 or 5 pp's and banana at break and leave the bread bit out of my lunch and have ham/chicken/turkey with salad at lunch or sometimes the fruit and yogurt will do me and I've still a good amount of points for dinner and it really keeps me going far better all day.

Boop22 wrote: »

Hey,
Just wondering if anyone can explain to me how using all your weeklies will actually make you lose more than if you don't eat your weeklies?
I have found tis to be true on a couple of occasions myself but it makes no sense to me. I thought i was being good by not eating any of them and hoping for a big loss but that wasn't the case, I have actually seen better results in the weeks that I have used at least half of them:o

In think if you are eating less than you should be on a diet then your body kind of goes into starvation mode instead of letting you loose weight, its kinda like a machine, it needs fuel to work. I think that really applies if you are doing a lot of exercise too. Our leader says that a lot that you have to be eating enough to loose weight too...

Micki wrote: »

Yeah a lot of people i know dont even believe in scales! I went to see a trainer and she told me to stay off the scales but mentally i need to see on the scales to control myself if that makes sense, i need it for reassurance! What routine do you follow for the kettlebells? I just have a few i got off You Tube and the net...

Its one the trainer did out for me, kinda circuits of lunges, swings, presses, and squats, step ups, cardio and bench work with dumb bells and resistance bands...the trainer i had is a local woman, who lost all her weight on weight watchers...and then became a personal trainer from that.
She's travelled all over the world studying fitness, she went to america and got formally certified by kettlebell to teach it. being a woman too made it easier too for me....saw her twice a month, she'd do out a new "Plan" each time i saw her, and i'd do that programme for two weeks then go back to her...and she cud tell if you were doing it or not. BEST MONEY I EVER SPENT!
Cos its about the breahting and posture aswell, to engage the different muscle groups, when to tighten up, when to breath in when to breath out ect.

Just had a WHOLE tortilla Quiche + salad 13pp!