WeightWatchers CORE plan. Anyone doing it?

[suzywong]

Hello

I need to lose 7 kilos. I have joined WW but simply cannot bring myself to give literal houseroom to diet cottage cheese and jam and the like and I must cook Proper Food.

I all looks highly similar to a low GI diet which is nice

Anyone care to share any stories or tips?

[Anchovy]

I'm having a little "post Christmas correction" on it. I tend to use WW Core when things have gone a bit "pear shaped" (literally and metaphorically!). I like food a lot, have to entertain a lot through work and am only just under 5'4". It is basically GI food.

I have lost 4 kgs in a month (am usually a size 10-12 - use this when I'm straining at size 12 things).

Very, very easy to follow and you can eat out quite easily, I think. Also very easy to cook proper things on it (at home we pretty much cook everything from scratch).

My favourite is oats with skimmed milk and a grated apple for breakfast - bizarrely, genuinely tasty.

The only eating fruit and veg for snacks is, I think, a good life lesson anyway.

I use all my spare points on wine!

[suzywong]

hello Anchovy, 4 kilos is very impressive well done.

so do you do that 21 points a week on any old crap thing that it recommends in the brochure?

Care to share any recipes with portion sizes? You don't have to give me blow by blow steps just some core food combinations if you would be so kind?

[Anchovy]

Interestingly, I haven't done any particular portion size control, other than being careful. I do like food a lot and always feel a bit twitchy if I have to have small portions!

We eat a lots of home made vegetable soup with pulses, and I use very little olive oil for that - 1 or 2 tsps to sweat the vegetables. I will have that for supper Mon-Thurs (last night was a sweet potato soup spiced with Ras-al-hanout spices). DH always picks up some nice fish on a Friday evening and makes home made oven chips, with minimal oil; Saturday we often have a bit of game from the butchers with a root vegetable puree and some greens with garlic; Sunday often a roast chicken or similar with the DCs.

Haven't eaten any puddings at all, but then I don't normally. More relevantly, I haven't had a single fish finger/sausage, piece of toast and peanut butter of the children's left-overs (real weakness for me!)

[fatzak]

I'm thinking of starting this too. I'm pretty good with my meals, it's just the wine and er,well the wine that buggers up my diets!!!

I may well look into it as I need some motivation for my holiday in April.

[suzywong]

yeah, the old finishing the fish fingers pitfall.

right, well you ahve given my inspiration to do it. I will still go to -fat- -club- WeightWatchers as the weigh-in ritual of triumph/humiliation does work well, but no more pretending I can bear to even read diet sheets pushing diet baked beans and bacon that one microwaves.

so I'll get on to the bircher museli for breakfast with dired pears and blueberries and lots of vegetable and pulse thins for lunch (far far too hot for soup here) and good protein and veg with no carbs for dinner and one evil snack per day.

[TigerFeet]

I'm doing the core plan. I find it easier than the points plan tbh because I hate counting points/calories etc. I just need a list - you can eat this but not that

Every week I make a massive pan of soup, portion it up, freeze some and have it for lunch every day Mon-Fri. I am just starting to get bored of it when it runs out and I can make a new one.

Just done three so far - Winter Veg, Watercress & Potato, Tomato & Lentil. I spice them up with a bit of chilli and chuck a couple of stock cubes in. No real recipes as such, just take whatever you can find starting to -go-- off in the bottom of the fridge, boil it, add stock cube, pepper, herbs, chilli if you like. Blend. Done.

[Anchovy]

I'm surprised/chuffed at the weight loss. It has not been hard and I have never felt hungry/deprived.

The other thing I have done is have a box of chopped up veggies in the fridge for when I get home from work - I used to eat a lot when I just got through the door. In my box is at least carrots, peppers, cauliflower, sugar snaps. Funnily enough everyone else in the house has really got into this - our nanny grazes on it during the day and tops it up for me if she does, and the dcs have gone bonkers for sugar snap peas.

[TigerFeet]

Bugger just read about the no soup bit! Well, I suspect that Gazpacho is doable on the core plan and very nice

Your plan sounds a good one

[suzywong]

yes, yes a box of veg in the fridge...

I did gazpacho for a dinner party on Friday, and a salad nicoise with roast topside of beef sliced thinly instead of tuna, but then coffee and khalua icecream for afters and lots of booze. I shall make some more and keep that i the fridge and have it with some very very dry and virtuous crackers and NO butter.

shall we all keep in touch via this thread? or Can I bore you rigid and talk about ME on this thread?

thanks

[Anchovy]

I am happy to be your Gillian McKeith as long as I don't have to look at your poo...

[suzywong]

ah go on, go on, look at it

well I 'm pretty clued up about what I should be eating, it's just planning it and not getting sidetracked.