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Jul 11

Kitchen Parade: How to Lose Weight with Weight Watchers

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Well, well, if its not that time of year again, the time for weight loss resolutions. Determination soars. "This is the year", we tell ourselves, this is the year we take off the pounds that collect on our thighs and hips and waists. This is the year, we promise, when well really make the food and exercise changes that we know we need we know! to live long and healthful lives. This is the year well really lose weight, we will, really we will!

Ahem. Yes. To keep this real, let me switch from third to first person, even if Im pretty sure Im not alone here. You see, I Alanna, Ive made myself that promise for the past three years. And three years in a row, Ive broken it within a few weeks. (And many Mondays, too, do we all start our diets anew on Mondays?)

As my friend Lyn, a beautiful writer from the inspiring blog Escape from Obesity wrote recently, "[On New Year's Day], the Internet will abound with people searching for things like 'lose weight fast', 'cookie diet', 'how to drop 20 pounds in 20 days', 'cabbage soup diet', and 'magic weight loss pill'. I know, because I used to be one of those people. I was desperate, longing to change what seemed impossible. How on earth can anyone lose 100+ pounds?? It sounds insurmountable. It will take forever. One pound at a time. And I wanted [the weight] gone NOW. FAST. IMMEDIATELY. Ah well, we can dream... but the reality is, we just have to work for it, moment by moment."

So here I am again, I Alanna, making myself a promise and already, in the back of my mind, wondering if Ill keep it. In 2002, just after my mother died, I lost 30 pounds on Weight Watchers and for more than two years, kept it off, maintaining a healthy weight at the bottom of the range for my height and age. Then came five pounds, then another five we know how this goes, right? One year, I even signed back up for Weight Watchers: it was the Monday (theres those Mondays again) the week before Thanksgiving. I weighed in once and never went back. (Something about the online software not working right, I explained. Yeah, right.) Now Im at the top of the range for my height and age.

So as much for myself as for the many readers who flock to the Weight Watchers recipes, low-carb recipes and low-calorie recipes here on Kitchen Parade and the Weight Watchers recipes and low-carb recipes on A Veggie Venture, Im dusting off the notes I took in 2002, my own tips for making the Weight Watchers program work for me. With any luck, the tips will help others too. This is my year.

Note: When this page was first published, I asked readers to add their own Weight Watchers tips in the comments to register for a give-away for a kitchen scale. That contest is now over but please do keep adding your weight loss tips, they're inspiring!

COUNT POINTS Every day, no matter what. Work really hard to go no more than two or three points above the daily point goal, and never to go below the daily point goal. The tight range seems to be important, training our bodies to expect a certain number of calories, no more, no less. Weight Watchers taught me that eating too little is as much a problem for weight gain as eating too much.

CALCULATE POINTS BEFORE TAKING A BITE By the time Kitchen Parade recipes are published online, nutrition information and Weight Watchers points are all neat and packaged. But me, I really must-must-must calculate points before I cook. (software I use to calculate nutrition)

DON'T COUNT POINTS for BREAKFAST or LUNCH What??? Didn't I just say to count points. Well, yes. But I take the counting out of two meals by eating the same things again and again. My favorite breakfast is Microwave Creamy Oatmeal with Peanut Butter for two Weight Watchers points.

GET A KITCHEN SCALE If you dont have a kitchen scale, keep reading! (Yes, readers have the chance to win a kitchen scale!) Otherwise its all guesswork. The average chicken breast? It weighs 3/4 of a pound even though a serving of (uncooked) chicken is 1/4 a pound. The average baked potato? It weighs a pound. We don't know this until we weigh it.

See the article here:
Kitchen Parade: How to Lose Weight with Weight Watchers

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