Creating the perfect Weight Watchers Food List

There's  a Weight Watchers food plan that ignores calories and other numbers! I was told it's not really new to the PointsPlus program but it's new to me.  It could be the piece of the puzzle that gets me to my goal weight. It might be helpful to you also.

I've been paying Weight Watchers for months but not really following the plan, which is the opposite of conscious spending.  While leaving a meeting, where I'd gained, I decided that something had to give.  Of course the thing to do was to do Weight Watchers by the book.

So at the next meeting I listened really hard. The topic was the virtues and rewards of tracking. I listened with an open mind. I thought about it as people answered questions the leader put out there. Finally, I told the group I had really tried it but I had a couple of issues with long term tracking.

What’s a wanna be healthy woman to do?

 

 

Basically, my issues involve enjoying real food. I don't like to eat prepackaged foods. But if food is not in a box or otherwise packaged, it's harder to readily have information like the number of grams of fat, carbs, protein, and fiber. The numbers you need to calculate PointsPlus values and thereby be an accurate tracker. Plus, I eat out a lot but not at chain restaurants which have most of their nutritional information printed somewhere. What could I do? 

 

The leader reminded me  about the Simply Filling plan. I'd read about it briefly but hadn't taken it seriously. How could I eat whatever I wanted without maying attention to how much I ate and lose weight. At first glance it sounded like the “plan” that led to my being overweight in the first place. 

 

I reread the Simply Filling materials. It is something concocted for us non-trackers. I still don't understand how it could work but I'm willing to try it. You simply eat “Power Foods”, which are basically real foods, foods in their natural state. You eat what you want until you feel “satisfied”, not bulging full, but “satisfied”. 

 

I like the word satisfied and the thinking behind using it. It may be the reason why Simply Filling works. It's no secret that a lot of eating is emotional. Knowing that you can and should eat until you are satisfied will most likely ease your mind without you really being aware of it. I know I'm more relaxed, and less likely to need comfort food, when I don't feel deprived. So I promised myself to really follow the plan.

 

 

Wait! I had one more food list issue.

The Weight Watchers food list in their Simply Filling “situation worksheet” sums up what you can eat on the plan. But it doesn't work for me – it has food divided into the traditional food pyramid categories. Which means I still need to do a lot of thinking about what to eat every time I'm about to eat. 

 

To simplify it so I could just do the thinking once I decided to make my own Weight Watchers Food List. It will do triple duty and also be a shopping guide and a menu. 

 

Being in this format will help while shopping by ensuring that you have meals not just random food.  Thinking less about what to eat is one way to ease weight loss anxiety. I need all the help I can get. So here's a weight watchers food list, menu, and shopping guide all in one.

Gwen’s MultiPurpose Weight Watchers Food List 

Here are 7+ weight watchers breakfast ideas.

7 lunch menus

7 snacks

7 dinner menus

Losing pounds with the Weight Watchers Food List

If you are truly following the Weight Watchers plan and are switching to Simply Filling here’s the rest of the story …

• You also have 49 PointsPlus for the week. You can use them for items not on the Power Foods List.

• Exercise is still necessary so work on those activity points!

• You have to do EITHER tracking OR simply filling. Switching back and forth within a week will not work.

• Remember the word “satisfied”. You don’t have to eat to over-fullness or even fullness. Get to that satisfied feeling then go find a hobby.

• Only eat foods you enjoy.

• Try new foods as much as possible (how else will you know the full range of what you enjoy?)