Weight Watchers Support Thread 2010 and Beyond !

tara747

bigmommamuppet wrote: »

Yep. I cook all my food from scratch, always have done so it would be strange for me to start eating ready meals. The only thing I do differently now is prepare and point all the ingredients before I start to cook and then chuck everything in the pan as usual. When I dish it up I then portion it for the no. of pts I want to eat then serve the rest to the family, no seperate meals in this house. It takes an extra a couple of minutes when making dinner but it's worth it. A notebook and my WW scales are now a permanent feature in my kitchen.

Tonight we've just had Italian Stew with Borlotti Beans & Sausage which was very yummy.

Becks

Thanks.

I cook everything from scratch too, but just can't be bothered weighing every ingredient and working out the points. I guess I should do it on my most regularly cooked meals and then save it in my tracker, so I only need to do it once.

bramble1

Week one of WW done and i've lost 2lbs, pleased with that, Had 2 slices of WW toast for breakfast today and i am starving!!

Need to really think about lunch and no idea what we're having for dinner today so want to save as many points as possible.

Gemmzie

Mrs_Toast wrote: »

Hi, please can I join. I joined WW 3 weeks ago and lost 7.5lbs already:jbut am having trouble trying to find interesting lunches. I have coeliacs disease so can't have any gluten unless I buy the expensive gluten free stuff which isn't really MSE! I normally have jacket potatoes or gluten free toast which is home made but I'm getting fed up with them. Any ideas would be gratefully received.

Gemzie - I make the carrot and parsnip bake from the website which is scrummy and only 2.5 points. You could have some bread or a pudding with it but it's so filling for what it is.:)

Thanks Mrs Toast, I'm gluten free too and dairy free. Be very careful on the gluten free cakes - they are really high in points I discovered yesterday :eek: Spelt and rye bread is nice, if you can tolerate it, not sure on the points of it though. Oh and rice noodles are yummy in an otherwise free soup for bulk.

Gemmzie

Thanks for the welcome My target is 10st. I'm about 11st 1lb at the moment, safe enough for my height but I'm just not comfortable.

lostkelly

Hi everyone, just weighed myself and lost 2.5lbs! Yay. Thats 10lbs in total, i cant quite believe it! The extra exercise has really paid off!
Bye for now.
Kelly x

bramble1

Well done on the loss!

Office lunch today, they want to do dominoes, i see there is 3 points in a slice of any pizza, we're getting small pizzas each, still 3 points per slice?

superfran_uk

1.5lb loss for me this week - making 16lb in the 2 months i've been doing it. Obviously it's slowing down so i'm starting to up the trips to the swimming pool and have signed up to a 40 length swimathon in April so hopefully having a target will help my motivation.

superfran_uk

Gemmzie wrote: »

Hi, I'm new over here so hope it's okay to post. My mum successfully did WW and lost three stone so I have the basics without going to meetings. So now me and OH are on board - very difficult to feed us both with such a vast difference in points (20 to 35).

I've used too many points on lunch, so have four left for tea and I'm starving. What's low/free and filling?

My favourite is a king prawn stir fry - 0.5 points for 8 prawns and as much veg as you can handle but without anything else, or maybe add 2 or 3 for some rice if you feel you want it.

ragstoricheswannabe

hi, have just joined weight watchers (yesterday evening in fact) and trying to get the hang of it. Just wondered though, i make all my cakes, biscuits, bread etc to save the pennies, but have no idea how to point them????? how do you all do it?

well done on the weight loss so far, its encouraging for a newbie like me!
love rags
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cheeky841

Hi there, you need to work out the points of all your ingredients, then divide it by how many you made. i.e if all your cake mixture was 20 points and you made 10 fairy cakes itd be 2 points each.