Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Weighing In - Week Two
For “Weighing In”, you should post the following things: (1) your weight loss, maintenance or GAIN (yes, own up to it if it's true) for the past week (2) your personal goal for the rest of the week (try to restrict it to one) and (3) your anticipated non-food reward for achieving that goal. Since it seems we are all choosing to weigh-in on Tuesdays, I will create a post for every new week the day before we weigh-in (Monday).This would be a good post to add encouraging words for other individuals as well.
Tips and Tricks - Week Two
TIP: I don’t know about you, but I HATE milk… and that makes it even more difficult to get my dairy in each day than it already is. It’s difficult just to know what I can have instead. It seems as if there are so few things that constitute a full dairy serving. A calcium pill doesn’t cut it, since there are many more things in dairy that we need than just calcium. Only the following items are considered a full dairy serving: 2 ½oz of powdered milk, 4oz of ricotta cheese or condensed milk, 8oz of milk, yogurt, yogurt drink, or instant pudding, 12oz of latte, milk shake or cottage cheese, 16oz of cappuccino. A dairy diet shake (like Slimfast) works, too. Hard cheeses have more fat than value (and therefore are highly pointalicious) so try to avoid using them to get your daily dairy; you’d have to eat an awful lot of cheese to check off that little box…
TRICK: We all know portions at restaurants are out of control. When placing your order, also ask for a box to go. When your food arrives, immediately put 1/3-1/2 of your meal in the box and set it aside. Do not eat it while you are at the restaurant. If you boxed up lunch, then eat the other half for dinner; if for dinner, save the rest for tomorrow’s lunch. However, if you’re like me, you’ll tear into that box almost as soon as you get home. Even THAT would be better than eating it at the restaurant, because either way you were going to eat it… but by taking it home and drawing the process out, you won’t eat that additional snack. Other restaurant tricks? When placing an order, you must make it clear that you want your vegetables steamed, your condiments on the side (like salad dressing for dipping rather than pouring), your butter substituted for olive oil, and any other healthy requests honored. So why is a baked potato at home 2 points when the one at the restaurant could be as many as 5? You better believe they brushed it with butter. Be assertive, always ask before ordering, and never assume that vegetables are plain.
RECIPE: I myself struggle with breads, but since, according to last week's poll, 40% of the group identifies chocolate as its biggest problem, let me suggest a simple recipe for satisfying the sweet tooth. Buy a box of Fiber One cereal and a bag of regular baking chocolate chips… those are all the ingredients you need! Microwave two cups of chocolate in a mixing bowl until melted (not long), then mix in one sleeve (each box has two) of Fiber One cereal. Quickly form the mix into 24 no-bake cookies, or 48 mini-drops. One whole crunchy, chocolatey cookie is only 1 POINT! I especially like the mini-drops because you can have one and then eat the other later for the same single point. Because it’s real chocolate, it definitely satisfies the craving, and the extreme fiber keeps the pointage to a minimum. Eat up, chocolate lovers!
TRICK: We all know portions at restaurants are out of control. When placing your order, also ask for a box to go. When your food arrives, immediately put 1/3-1/2 of your meal in the box and set it aside. Do not eat it while you are at the restaurant. If you boxed up lunch, then eat the other half for dinner; if for dinner, save the rest for tomorrow’s lunch. However, if you’re like me, you’ll tear into that box almost as soon as you get home. Even THAT would be better than eating it at the restaurant, because either way you were going to eat it… but by taking it home and drawing the process out, you won’t eat that additional snack. Other restaurant tricks? When placing an order, you must make it clear that you want your vegetables steamed, your condiments on the side (like salad dressing for dipping rather than pouring), your butter substituted for olive oil, and any other healthy requests honored. So why is a baked potato at home 2 points when the one at the restaurant could be as many as 5? You better believe they brushed it with butter. Be assertive, always ask before ordering, and never assume that vegetables are plain.
RECIPE: I myself struggle with breads, but since, according to last week's poll, 40% of the group identifies chocolate as its biggest problem, let me suggest a simple recipe for satisfying the sweet tooth. Buy a box of Fiber One cereal and a bag of regular baking chocolate chips… those are all the ingredients you need! Microwave two cups of chocolate in a mixing bowl until melted (not long), then mix in one sleeve (each box has two) of Fiber One cereal. Quickly form the mix into 24 no-bake cookies, or 48 mini-drops. One whole crunchy, chocolatey cookie is only 1 POINT! I especially like the mini-drops because you can have one and then eat the other later for the same single point. Because it’s real chocolate, it definitely satisfies the craving, and the extreme fiber keeps the pointage to a minimum. Eat up, chocolate lovers!
Questions - Week Two
Have a random question about the Weight Watchers program or anything else diet and exercise related? Post it here. Have an answer? Go ahead and enlighten us all!
Gripes - Week Two
Go right ahead and gripe! We all have the option to read them or not depending on how we feel. If gripes don't fill you with negative energy, sometimes it's nice to know how much the people around you are suffering, too. Yeah, it sounds bad, but you know it's true...... ;)
Questions - Week One
My mom mentioned that it would be a good idea to also have a post just for questions. If you have questions about the program, I will answer them according to what I know... and if I don't know, I still have the massive leader manuals where I can look up answers. General questions can be answered by anyone if you know the answer.
NOTE TO ALL: I will be changing this page tomorrow morning to "Week Two". I've also decided to change the main page on Monday evenings from now on, that way when we weigh-in, we will post it at the beginning of the week rather than the end. We can look at our postings all week long rather than only for a few hours on a Tuesday evening. That would make more sense. So even if you post your results for the week today, please copy/paste and repost them tomorrow (or the next day, whatever). After that, I think things will run smoothly from that point on....... YAY! Please email with specific questions/concerns about that particular idea of mine.
NOTE TO ALL: I will be changing this page tomorrow morning to "Week Two". I've also decided to change the main page on Monday evenings from now on, that way when we weigh-in, we will post it at the beginning of the week rather than the end. We can look at our postings all week long rather than only for a few hours on a Tuesday evening. That would make more sense. So even if you post your results for the week today, please copy/paste and repost them tomorrow (or the next day, whatever). After that, I think things will run smoothly from that point on....... YAY! Please email with specific questions/concerns about that particular idea of mine.
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