Weightwatchers Points: Strategic Food Planning
Brown rice spaghetti, spinach, and turkey meat sauce |
As in all things, moderation is key. Eat as often as you
like but eat in moderation. As here in this picture, one cup of most
carbohydrates per meal is enough to sustain the body to fulfill its functions.
Here I have a cup of brown rice pasta (yes, there is such a thing!), spinach,
and ground turkey in spaghetti sauce.
I love the Weightwatchers program. I wanted to eat
spaghetti today with meat. I did not want to
compromise that by eating some plastic food or some frozen food, or some
doctored/laboratory version, or TV dinner, or packaged food. I wanted to cook
my food from scratch or as close to scratch as I can get.
At church this morning, we were offered free donuts,
lemonade, and coffee. What do you think? Of course, I went to get my share! I
avoided the SUGAR-LOADED lemonade and went for coffee. I squandered 6 points on
that breakfast. No, the donut was not glazed. Glazed is 7 SPV (Smartpoints
value). I spent 5 points on donut and one point on the Coffee Mate for my
coffee. I am being generous by calculating 5 points for plain, unglazed donut.
For lunch I ate my home-cooked brown rice spaghetti with
meat sauce and spinach. Let’s say that I spent 10 points on lunch (and I am
being extremely generous again; it should be more like 8 points, truth be
told). That leaves me with about 8 points for dinner. I am not even that hungry
anyway. Just to be on the safe side, I have reserved a 2oz turkey patty (2
points), broccoli (zero), and spinach (zero) for dinner. That adds up to only 2
points. I still will have 6 points for snack before or after dinner, an apple,
possibly, and herbal tea: chamomile. I do not intend to use the 6 points. This
is what I mean when I say that I am a strategic food planner: SIX POINTS LEFT!
I have not dipped (and will not dip)
into my 35 splurging points for this week. I believe that I may not need to use
these extra points. Even as I say this, the plain dark chocolate bar in my kitchen
cabinet is calling my name. Right now, I am completely deaf. My hearing will
return around Wednesday, hump day, when the work load gives me a craving for
chocolate. Right now, I am safe; so are my points! Doing great! Just great!!
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