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WeightWatchers & "How Many ProPoints?" Thread
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I have to say, for my chocolate fix lately I've become addicted to these
They come in two sizes, and the bigger one (36g) is only 4 propoints. They're so worth it. I think the smaller one is 3propoints. I think they're much more worth it than curly wurlys!0 -
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Hey Everyone,
Just started on the new system two weeks ago, with my 2nd wi on Weds.. Bit nervous but finding the new system much easier, esp with fruit being free! Amazing
Having problems doing nice lunches for college though.. Anyone have any good ones? (I always want to keep most of my points for dinner...)0 -
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Hey Everyone,
Just started on the new system two weeks ago, with my 2nd wi on Weds.. Bit nervous but finding the new system much easier, esp with fruit being free! Amazing
Having problems doing nice lunches for college though.. Anyone have any good ones? (I always want to keep most of my points for dinner...)
I usually go for a WW wrap (3PP) with either small tin of tuna (2PP), lettuce, cucumber & Tomatoe or instead of tuna, tesco chicken tikki mini fillets, there is about 6 in a pack and the pack is 6PP. I would use 2 for the wrap making it 2PP.
OR
Tuna salad, with beetroot, radishes, lettuce, cucumber, tomotoe.
OR
Homemade veg soup (or other 0PP soup) with 2 slices of mccambridge and flora light. Pointed the mccambridge as 2PP for 1 and 3PP for 2 slices, 1 for the spread.
This week I am having chicken sesame salad. I use romaine lettuce, baby tomatoes, cucumber, babycorn, radishes & toss the lettuce in a bit of sweet chilli sauce (1PP per tbsp). For the chicken (if making 4 lunches) get 400g chicken (12PP), chop into strips, fry in 2 tsp of stir fry oil (2PP) or sesame oil with onion and chilli and garlic and 3 tbsp soy sauce (1PP) and when almost cooked add 2 tsp of sesame seeds (2PP). So thats 18PP for 4 lunches, I point it as 5PP per salad just in case I want to add a bit more sweet chilli sauce.0 -
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Hey Everyone,
Just started on the new system two weeks ago, with my 2nd wi on Weds.. Bit nervous but finding the new system much easier, esp with fruit being free! Amazing
Having problems doing nice lunches for college though.. Anyone have any good ones? (I always want to keep most of my points for dinner...)
perfect timing, this weeks ww article of the week on the uk site is about packed lunches!
Five Lovely and Light Lunch Ideas
Making your own lunch to eat at work or home is a great way to stay satisfied at lunchtime and keep on track with your weight loss. Here are five luscious and light lunch ideas that could be just the midday meal inspiration you need!
1. Roasted Courgettes with Feta, Mint and Pomegranate
Makes 1 serving
ProPoints® value | 4 per serving
This is a wonderfully colourful salad. You can prepare everything the night before and leave it in the fridge until you are ready to eat.
Ingredients
2 courgettes, roughly chopped
2 sprigs of thyme leaves
1 tsp olive oil
40g feta cheese
2 tbsp pomegranate seeds
Juice of half a lemon
A handful of torn mint leaves
Salt and pepper
Instructions
Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees. Mix the courgettes, thyme leaves, olive oil and a good pinch of salt and pepper in a mixing bowl. Spread the courgettes out over a baking tray and roast in the oven for 35-40 minutes or until the courgettes are cooked through and tender. Remove from the oven and set to one side to cool.
Put the courgettes in a mixing bowl, crumble over the feta and add the pomegranate seeds, mint and lemon juice. Mix everything together really well. Tip the wonderful salad into your lunch box and pop it into the fridge until you are ready to eat!
2. Vietnamese Chicken Salad
Makes 1 serving
ProPoints® value | 5 per serving
This wonderful salad, straight from the streets of Hanoi, is so healthy and really speedy to make. The cashew nuts add a great crunch to the salad. However, if you are really watching the points you can leave them out.
Ingredients
100g chicken breast, grilled without skin and roughly sliced
2 carrots, grated
¼ red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
A handful of coriander leaves, finely chopped
10 individual cashew nuts (1g each), bashed
Juice of a lime
2 tsp fish sauce
Instructions
Put all the ingredients into a large mixing bowl and toss everything together. Spoon the zesty salad into your lunch box and put it into the fridge until you are ready to eat.
3. Prawn and Noodle Salad
Makes 1 serving
ProPoints® value | 7 per serving
This wonderful cold noodle salad is so quick and easy to make that even the busiest of us don’t have any excuses! You simply buy everything, apart from the dressing, ready to go from the supermarket, so all you have to do is mix everything together and tuck in.
Ingredients
120g peeled, cooked prawns
150g cooked egg noodles
50g beansprouts
A handful of washed baby spinach
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp olive oil
A squeeze of lime
Instructions
Mix all of the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl so that everything is covered in the lovely oriental dressing and serve immediately.
4. Chicken and Houmous Wrap
Makes 1 serving
ProPoints® value | 10 per serving
Wraps are so versatile and great for lunch as they don’t go soggy. This wrap has loads of lovely fresh salad, chicken and low fat houmous. It's super healthy and really delicious.
Ingredients
1 wholemeal tortilla wrap
2 tbsp reduced fat houmous
70g chicken breast, grilled without skin and roughly sliced
¼ red onion, finely sliced
½ tomato, sliced
A handful of rocket
Instructions
Lay the tortilla wrap on a chopping board and spread the houmous in a line down the middle. Put the chicken on top of the houmous and arrange the red onion, tomato and rocket over the top. Carefully roll up the tortilla and tuck in!
5. Chickpea and Yogurt Salad
Makes 1 serving
ProPoints® value | 6 per serving
This refreshing Indian style chickpea salad is so tasty and lasts perfectly in the fridge so you can prepare it the night before.
Ingredients
4 tbsp drained chickpeas
150g 0% fat Greek style yogurt
¼ cucumber, finely chopped
A handful of roughly chopped mint leaves
Juice of ½ a lemon
½ tsp ground cumin
A pinch of salt
Instructions
Mix all the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl and transfer everything into your lunch box. Pop the cooling salad into the fridge until you are ready to eat.0 -
I thought I'd pop in and say Hi. I haven't been on here in a few months or so.. this day last year was the very first time I decided to go on my diet and joined WW.. lost my 70 pound in 7 months and its been 5 months since I reached my target.
I thought I wouldn't be able to keep the weight off but the past 5 months I have just gone up 1 pound and down 1... been eating alot more since I reached my goal but working out even more so I am able to maintain my weight
Hope everyone is doing well and close to their target
and hello to all the new people 0 -
I thought I'd pop in and say Hi. I haven't been on here in a few months or so.. this day last year was the very first time I decided to go on my diet and joined WW.. lost my 70 pound in 7 months and its been 5 months since I reached my target.
I thought I wouldn't be able to keep the weight off but the past 5 months I have just gone up 1 pound and down 1... been eating alot more since I reached my goal but working out even more so I am able to maintain my weight
Hope everyone is doing well and close to their target
and hello to all the new people
wow thats amazing! any tips? I'm hoping to lose 60lbs by christmas, i've 16lbs down so far...0 -
The main things I done was sticked to my points everyday except on Fridays when I ate anything I wanted.
I wrote out what I would eat the night before so I wouldn't go off track
my main thing was walking but after awhile I started jogging because I wasn't losing any weight with walking anymore.. but that will be different for everyone.
I just kept picturing myself in a size 10 dress
hope it all works out for you.. good luck .. you will do it 0 -
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I thought I'd pop in and say Hi. I haven't been on here in a few months or so.. this day last year was the very first time I decided to go on my diet and joined WW.. lost my 70 pound in 7 months and its been 5 months since I reached my target.
I thought I wouldn't be able to keep the weight off but the past 5 months I have just gone up 1 pound and down 1... been eating alot more since I reached my goal but working out even more so I am able to maintain my weight
Hope everyone is doing well and close to their target
and hello to all the new people
wow thats amazing well done 
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Thats fantastic! Well done!!I thought I'd pop in and say Hi. I haven't been on here in a few months or so.. this day last year was the very first time I decided to go on my diet and joined WW.. lost my 70 pound in 7 months and its been 5 months since I reached my target.
I thought I wouldn't be able to keep the weight off but the past 5 months I have just gone up 1 pound and down 1... been eating alot more since I reached my goal but working out even more so I am able to maintain my weight
Hope everyone is doing well and close to their target
and hello to all the new people0 -
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I thought I'd pop in and say Hi. I haven't been on here in a few months or so.. this day last year was the very first time I decided to go on my diet and joined WW.. lost my 70 pound in 7 months and its been 5 months since I reached my target.
I thought I wouldn't be able to keep the weight off but the past 5 months I have just gone up 1 pound and down 1... been eating alot more since I reached my goal but working out even more so I am able to maintain my weight
Hope everyone is doing well and close to their target
and hello to all the new people
Well done, that is fantastic!!
Did you find the jogging hard to start with?? I feel Im walking so fast that my poor legs are DYING to jog... but Im afraid!! Dont know why but I just cant let myself do it.
On another note went to Zumba tonight. OMG I loved it, some workout.:D
Now if I am not down tomorrow night Im gonna hit something, ha.0 -
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I thought I'd pop in and say Hi. I haven't been on here in a few months or so.. this day last year was the very first time I decided to go on my diet and joined WW.. lost my 70 pound in 7 months and its been 5 months since I reached my target.
I thought I wouldn't be able to keep the weight off but the past 5 months I have just gone up 1 pound and down 1... been eating alot more since I reached my goal but working out even more so I am able to maintain my weight
Hope everyone is doing well and close to their target
and hello to all the new people
It's lovely to hear someone's success story. It lets us all know that it achieveable. Well done you on the weight loss & the maintainance.0 -
Shoelover I think you did really well at the kids party, sometimes you have to eat at these things to be social especially if ppl dont know you are on ww & if the host has gone to so much trouble but fair play to you, you pointed it all & supplemented yourself with 1pp soup & fruit
As you say before you wouldn't have done that so I would look on that as a huge positive like you I get mean with my pp & hate wasting them on crap, I beat myself up after it (S***e meal out in Berlin springs to mind!) but the trick is realising that life gets in the way of WW sometimes but we can balance it out over the rest of the day/ week & do more exercise.
This plan has to be liveable once we all get to goal, it's unrealistic (well for me at least!) to not have the regular sweet or savoury treat. A few glasses of wine or a meal out I don't want to eat like a saint for 12 months get to goal then undo all the hard work, it is a lifestyle change & I'm making pp fit into my existing life as much as is humanly possible!
Thanks Kay! Support on here is great, just what you need when down in the dumps 0 -
Mondays are my bold days...cos of my long breaks in college....but i'm usually really good on tuesdays so it balances out
At least its a nice short week college wise...so have more control over when and when i eat
Got a new boxset (true blood 1+2) today cos i had a couple of hmv vouchers i got at xmas Something new to watch while on the treadmill
Night All....I know its only Monday...but i'm already dreaming about getting to sleep in on thursday...0 -
I thought I wouldn't be able to keep the weight off but the past 5 months I have just gone up 1 pound and down 1... been eating alot more since I reached my goal but working out even more so I am able to maintain my weight
wow congratulations mrs, that's a fantastic achievement. You must be so Proud of urself.
Do u still go to meetings regularly?0 -
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