Upstate NY Babies
Weight Watchers?
I've seriously thought about doing WW to get myself more on track to lose weight. But, I've always been worried about calculating points when my husband cooks meals and doesn't always measure out what he's putting in the food. Can anyone that's done WW tell me a little more about how the points work? Is it hard to do? It's really not in our budget to sign up for WW so I want to make sure it's worth it before I put the money into it.
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Re: Weight Watchers?
I think it's pretty easy, but I do most of the cooking.
I do it online, and you can find pretty much any food in the search. You can also add your own foods... like say you eat cereal, and you don't find the exact brand in the food list (they do have a lot of name brand foods, and even restaurant meals). You just type in the fat, calories and fiber and it calculates the points for you. Then you can save it to your favorites, if it's something you eat often.
If your H cooks a lot, you can still probably follow it.... it's pretty easy to guesstimate the points. There is also a recipe calculator, and you can enter in your own recipes, and it will tell you how many points each serving is.
I've done WW before and have done really well with it. Usually when I'm on the WW Wagon, I do a lot of the cooking and our meals seem to be simplified. So calculating points has never been too hard. The first time I did it (over 5 years ago!) my mom was going to meetings and got me the points book and point calculator. I was in college and couldn't afford the meetings. I've pretty much always done it on my own (no meetings, not online). I did got a couple of meetings (when they had free registration) before I got pregnant and was trying to lose some weight. If you just go to 1 meeting, you can get the info you need to get started and you can buy the points books. There also are a lot of websites help with recipes and points.
If you're going to do it, maybe talk to your husband explain how to calculate points you need to know what/how much of each ingredient went into the meal and he can adjust his cooking style to help you keep track of things.
I'm trying to motivate myself to get back to counting points and keeping track of what I eat, but am having trouble getting started this time. I really would like to drop at least 25 lbs (35 would be great too!).
Someone told me about sparkpeople....I'll have to check that out if it's free!
Ok, one more ? for all of you. Do you have a food scale you use and recommend to help get 'point' values (or the like if you use sparkpeople or myfitnesspal.)
I've never used WW, so I can't comment on that, but earlier this year I started using www.thedailyplate.com in order to track my eating and excercise. From what I understand, it works pretty much the same as the WW online but with calories instead of points. It worked really well for me, and I lost 10 lbs right before getting pg (figures, right?!) I'm not someone who would go to meetings, and didn't feel like paying for the WW online, so this was perfect for me.
Good luck to you!