Today, I've got lots of information for you. There were MANY questions last week regarding alcohol! There were also many concerns on how to make the program work for YOU!
Put on your thinking caps and do some reading to help you with your success this week.
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1.) For those of you who like to partake of the spirits now and then........here is a question and the answer.
With regard to alcohol, manufacturers do not post grams of alcohol on their bottles and it’s grams of alcohol that determine the majority of calories in beverages containing alcohol (without added mixers). They do post info for carbs, fat, protein etc which can be confusing and it’s why many of you have been finding beer/wine that counts as 0. An easy rule of thumb for a standard 5 fl oz wine, 12 fl oz beer, or 1 ½ fl oz, is that they contain about 14g alcohol, and count as 4 – 5 PointsPlus values generally. Light beer has about 10g alcohol per 12 fl oz and works out to 3 PointsPlus values. You can enter alcohol information as above in the calculator as fat, as they are pretty close in terms of calories per gram. Just add it to the fat grams info on a label if any.
Sugar alcohol is a little more complicated as calories per gram varies with the type of sugar alcohol used in a product and it can only be entered as carbs in the calculator at 4 cals per gram. On a positive note, unlike alcohol, you may actually count more PointsPlus values than the product actually contains, if sugar alcohol that’s used contains only 1cal per gram. If you have sugar alcohol info for a product and want to know the true PointsPlus value, post it on Connections and we’ll provide the answer.
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CORRECTIONS FOR DINING OUT COMPANION, COMPLETE FOOD COMPANION, and POINTSPLUS POCKET GUIDE3.) "I’m not losing weight on the new program. What could be causing it?"
Hundreds of thousands of people—men, women, tall people, short people, people with more weight to lose and people with less weight to lose, older people, and younger people-- have lost weight with the PointsPlus program. As always, if you rock the program, the program will rock you.
So what might be going wrong? Here are some troubleshooting suggestions:
1) Are you combining programs? The new program, including higher PointsPlus targets and zero-PointsPlus value fruits, only works with PointsPlus values. It means to see success; you need to recalculate the PointsPlus values for everything you eat. Your estimating skills will not be as sharp as they were with the POINTS system—don’t rely on them. Look it up.
2) Are you looking for bargains as we did with the old program? We’ve seen people radically alter their eating as they bargain hunt. Soon they find they are eating below their target and they are full, but they haven’t had a whole grain or dairy product in ages. The Good Health Guidelines are still critical. And whole grains are very important to a balanced diet.
3) Portion distortion is more apparent in PPV. See above. It is easier to monitor with eTools. You can also use your PointsPlus calculator, as well as your Pocket Guide and Food Companions.
4) Fruit. Zero PointsPlus values does not mean unlimited fruit. Eat to satisfaction. Be careful about grazing all day. And if you are eating a lot of fruit and not seeing weight loss results, cut back.
5) You are on a plateau. Check the usual suspects for plateaus. Ask in your Meeting for the Plateau sheet.
Is there a limit on how many servings of fruits and vegetables you should eat per day?
No. We’d like you to eat at least 5, to fulfill your Good Health Guideline requirement. We’d be happy if you had a few more, too, because they would probably “crowd out” other, less-great choices.
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Now, our meeting topic this week is PORTION SIZE!
How much is too much?
Is that all I get?
Why is it absolutely necessary to be exact?
It's so time consuming to have to weigh and measure eeevvverything! How can I cut back on the clock?
Think about these questions everyone. What are your priorities on this program? Perhaps you have hit a plateau and need to work through that. Do you think maybe your guesstimating has turned into a runaway train? Even if you're tracking, if you're not tracking CORRECT information, you won't see the results you want.
PointsPlus values are not meant to be suggestions. If you do the program the way it is designed, then you WILL get results!
I hope that your trips to the grocery store and your pantry renovations included some brainwork about your portions.
This week let's talk about challenges your having with portion control and celebrate successes you've had in tackling those old habits.
See you this week everyone!
-Karen, your Weight Watchers Leader
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