• Buy lots of Weight Watchers BBQ Flavour Savoury Snacks crisp packets and Weight Watchers Chocolate bars from the weekly meetings. They are very low in points compared to normal well known savoury and chocolate snacks and are much better to run to if you just can’t avoid giving into the need to snack. I have managed to cut down my snacking a lot since starting weight watchers and my tactic is to always visualise an apple, which has a points value of only 0.5, sitting next to a Snickers bar, which I love, but has a points value of 8. The apple will fill me up much more than the Snickers bar and it even looks bigger and more appetising. And this is coming from a chocolate fiend. Imagine how many apples you could eat for just one Snickers bar? It is not worth it. If you have had the apple and are still craving chocolate into the night then it is much better to reach for a 1.5 point value Weight Watchers Caramel Whip bar than a Snickers bar or Mars bar. It is more about getting into the habit. You may think you will only have the snickers bar once, but that becomes a habit and all the 8 point bars add up eventually. It is easier to break the habit altogether and just go for lower points value snacks. Even healthier than a Weight Watchers Chocolate bar is a cereal bar. I buy the Tesco Light Choices Maple Bars, they come in packs of 6 and each bar is only 1 point. They are great when out and about and the hunger pangs attack. Most of my hunger is psychological and based on snacking habits, so having fruit or cereal bars around really helps.
• Start looking into and buying the low fat healthy ranges from the main supermarkets. Tesco’s have their TESCO Light Choices range, with everything from sandwiches to ready meals, and they all have the Weight Watchers points already calculated and labelled on the packaging. So do the ready meals for the Marks and Spencer Count on Us Range and Sainsbury’s Be Good to Yourself range. They have been a life saver for me. Sainsbury’s have their Be Good To Yourself range. Marks and Spencer have their Count On Us Range. Even if you are in a hurry, as I was last Saturday at Waterloo station, it is worth finding a Count On Us or Tesco Light Choices sandwich or salad and when you work out the points, as I did using my nifty little Weight Watchers Points calculator, you will really be amazed. My Marks and Spencer Count on Us Chicken sandwich was 4 points, whereas the Chicken sandwiches form the normal range were all around 8/9 points.
http://www.tesco.com/health/food/healthy_eating/tesco_food/LC_index.page
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/food/foodandfeatures/sainsburys_food_ranges/be_good_to_yourself/bgty.htm
http://www.marksandspencer.com/Count-on-Us-Healthy-Lifestyle-About-our-Food-Food-Wine/b/193241031
The Most Dangerous Man in America
14 years ago
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You, my dear cuz, should be drinking lots of water. Cut out all other juices, tea, coffee, soda, all that. Those are empty calories that have little to no nurtitional value (its better to eat the fruit than drink its juice). If you drink water, you'll be more hydrated, have more energy, flush toxins out of your system, avoid calories, and stay fuller longer. You'll be less likely to misinterpret your thirst for hunger and give into a snack. Good luck bro!
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