Is ww for me?

[NurseP]

I am 40, fat and exhausted! I work 3 nights a week and have 2 young children. I need to lose about 4 stone. Is ww easy to follow? Does it allow freezer dinners? I rely on a quick oven dinner before work, something like breaded chicken and chips ( could change for home made potato wedges )
Any advice? I have tried SW lots before but go off course with no portion control. Also, not keen on the sitting in a circle and find this difficult to fit into my week so thought I could do it online.

Hi I could have written what you have written
I did SlimmingWorld before and found it the best as I bought a lot of their prepared meals and lost 3 stone
Then I couldn’t go anymore so I put 4 stone back on 🙈

Thanks for your reply, I am not keen on most of their ready meals as I dont really like spicy food and find them all a bit expensive and a bit samey if you know what I mean,plus, its easier to try and do something for all of us. I really need to do something though as this cant go on. I am fed up with being tired and feeling like crap! I need a good kick up the arse!!
I am going away for a week on saturday so will try and get myself on the right track when I come back and draw a line under it.

Yes you are right about them all being the same 😊
Enjoy your week away and when your back
Attack with a vengeance
I think it’s time I do the same !!!

I did WW and got on really well with it but one of the big changes I made was to have less ready made meals like you’ve described. I think making everything from fresh was what made a big difference; I did it to lose the baby weight so I didn’t exactly have a lot of time to cook and found it possible to make fresh meals quite quickly or batch cook

Thank you. I think batch cooking is the way to go, then I have a nice quick dinner to grab before work.

Hi! Yes definitely! I do blue plan and basically you can have fruit, veg, lean poultry, fish, eggs & fat free yogurt. Anything else you need to add up the points. SO you'd need to work out within that what you can have which is basically:

• Breakfast = Greek yogurt plus berries or something egg based

• Lunch = protein + veg/salad

• Dinner = protein + veg/salad

So, any hot or cold poultry/fish/egg + veg. Work out what you can have e.g. for me it's omelettes; salmon; prawns; fish, chicken or turkey, grilled/panfried/cold sliced with the veg. Also you can use the barcode checker to work out what ready meals might work, so I like Sainsbury's Lower Fat Quarter Pounder with onion or top with salad, a Sainsbury's fish cake with salad etc. You can make zero points turkey chilli using frylite, onions, turkey mince, tomatoes, beans etc. There are loads of fab low point things on the app you could make and freeze. I have really found it good. I do it online and I like not going to groups and the WW Connect section where others post is very supportive.

Best thing is it's flexible so you can e.g. go out for lunch as long as you then have something light in the evening as long as you stay within your daily points. I am not spending the whole time thinking, well I had a piece of toast so I've blown it and I might as well give up. It feels flexible and sustainable to me and helps you recognise what are healthier choices.

Give it a go! (No I don't work for WW!)

Agree yes to batch cooking in your position but sorry no to chicken and chips, but baked chicken and salad/veg yes! Good luck! It's fab.

I joined ww online following the blue plan (it works for me) I have lost 26 lb in 10 weeks and the best is I am enjoying the plan
give it a go

Really like WW as, as others have said, you don't have to constantly be cooking. I find a heathy Waitrose or M&S ready meal for lunch for only 4-5 points. Great that almost all of food outlets eg Pret, Costa etc have points. Obviously if you have time to cook, then it's good too Lots of zero point protein foods - eggs (your NBF), chicken, fish et. However, my only problem with WW is that avocados have zillions of points!

Hi all, been looking up the new plan as considering joining. Would someone mind explaining the difference between the 3 colour plans
I’ve tried SW in past but it’s not worked for me (me not sticking to it)
Debating whether to bite the bullet and do group or just on line ??? Thanks

•   <strong>*Green:</strong> Offers the smallest list of zero point foods, and the largest daily points budget. The lowest daily points total on Green is 30 SmartPoints. The zero point foods list is limited to fruits and non-starchy vegetables. This plan will feel very familiar to WW members who did the program a couple years ago before Freestyle was introduced, because it is extremely similar to the Beyond the Scale program (the original SmartPoints plan). If you choose this plan you’ll have less zero point food options, but more daily points to spend on whichever foods you like.
  

•   <strong>*Blue:</strong> This is the plan formerly known as Freestyle and is now the middle-of-the-road plan. The lowest daily points allowance on Blue is 23 SmartPoints. In addition to fruits and non-starchy vegetables, the Blue plan adds some starchy vegetables like corn and peas, skinless chicken and turkey breast, eggs, fish and shellfish, beans and legumes, nonfat plain yogurt, tofu and tempeh to the zero point food list. If you choose this plan, you’ll want to incorporate the zero point foods into your meal planning, but you’ll also have a moderate daily points budget to use on other foods.
  

•   <strong>*Purple:</strong> Offers the largest list of zero point foods, and the smallest daily points budget. The lowest daily points total on Purple is 16 SmartPoints. In addition to all the zero point food categories offered on the Blue plan, the Purple plan adds potatoes, whole wheat pasta and certain veggie pastas (like chickpea pasta), brown rice, oats, and other grains like barley, quinoa, and farro to the zero point foods list. This plan reminds me a bit of the old Simply Filling plan, so if you loved filling up on healthy basics with less tracking on that style of plan, this one may be for you. If you choose this plan, you’ll base your meals around the longer list of zero point foods, and have a smaller daily points budget to spend on other foods.