Most of us have heard the song, “I
can’t get no satisfaction!” although I’m sure he wasn’t talking about food but if
he had’ve been, maybe he was making the wrong choices. This week I’ve decided to try the Simply
Filling plan as it’s the first week in a long time when I won’t be out Friday
for lunch, although I will be out Saturday night, I can save my weeklies for
that.
What’s Simply Filling? It’s in the red Live book that you got in
week two, and I didn’t start yesterday morning intending to following it I was
just going to eat more fitting and healthy foods and have a good healthy week.
On the ProPoints plan there are foods
that come under the ‘filling and healthy’ section, that will guarantee
satisfaction and they are easy to identify because they are always highlighted
in green. A lot of my members think filling and healthy foods only include
fruit and vegetables, but this isn’t the case, that mushroom omelette I was
going to have for my breakfast yesterday was filling and healthy, the eggs on
toast (low calorie bread) with baked beans and mushrooms I had instead was also
F&H, the cod and the cannellini beans I plan to use in my cod and chorizo
dish I want to cook next week ( cooking for two recipe book) were both filling
and healthy foods. It’s not just about carrots and bananas, it’s the good food
that’ll fill you up day in day out leaving you extra ProPoints for the treats.
If you think about it, Weight Watchers
have took the hard choices away, by highlighting everything in green, it takes
the guesswork away and helps us make wiser choices.
As I said initially I’d planned to just
add and ProPoint as much of the F&H foods as possible, but instead I’ve
decided to try a Simply Filling week, one because I don’t have to ProPoint
anything that’s on the F&H list and two because I’m curious to see if I
have learned to recognise when I’m full.
This is something I think we all struggle with, recognising when we’re
full or satisfied is more important, I’m going to practice to see if I can tell
when I’m ‘just right’.
Yesterday I started the day with 2
boiled eggs on 2 slices of WW bread, 2 tbsp baked beans and mushrooms, it was
delicious, then I made chicken and broccoli in pasta for lunch, I did use ½ jar
of WW parmesan and pesto sauce to lubricate it which meant I had to take 1pp
from my weeklies, and I was amazed that I left half of it, I just got bored
eating it so decided I couldn’t be hungry.
By teatime I was ready for something so I had 2 WW tortilla wraps (ordinary
ones are not on the F&H list and when I checked the label it’s because of
the high fat content in them, WW has removed it from theirs) with lots of
salad, chicken breast and a bit of mustard.
I also had some mixed fruit and when I’d finished I was still peckish
and knew if I didn’t have more of something I was going to have a bag of crisps,
so I had a third wrap and boiled ham with the last bit of salad leaves.
Now if I’d been ProPointing all that
which I wasn’t, I’m guessing it would’ve been more than my usual daily
allowance, so it will be interesting next week to see if I do lose anything and
if I don’t it will prove I still haven’t got my appetite and my off switch
under control. I’d stayed the same on
the scales this week which I’m happy with.
Mmm what shall I have for breakfast
today, I’m planning on making a beef casserole for later mmm, just off to check
out the recipes on the Weight Watchers website.
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