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[Chiclets]

Stir Fried peppers, onions, carrots and cucumber (fried in hemp oil) and a tsp of sweet & sour chilli sauce and some soy sauce. A portion of chicken fried in hemp oil (6 points)

Plug this all into the recipe builder as well. I'd do it now myself but running out the door in a minute. I think it'll show up as more than 6pts but I could be wrong.

 

[Chiclets]

Stayed close to point yesterday even with eating out once so I'm happy about that! I think I used 3 of my weekly allowance points with yesterday's points so not bad at all. Now to stay strong for today! So far so good.

 

[Hope39]

I didn't realise if you put 0 points food into a recipe, it then gave you points, i best recalculate my meals!

I was never explained this

Thanks

 

[Hope39]

Breakfast - A smoothie made with hemp milk, frozen summer fruits, banana and satsuma (2 points cos of the hemp milk)

This would be much more than 2pts. Put the items into the recipe builder because when you use 0pt foods in a recipe like a smoothie, it changes the value greatly. You might be suprised. I know I was! Just with a 1/2 cup of hemp milk and a 1/2 of a banana as a smoothie would give you 4pts. That's not even counting the rest. If you used a whole banana instead of a 1/2, that's 7pts instead. When you change the consistency of a fruits/veggies in recipes, they earn a point value because our bodies digest them differently. Or something like that. Maybe ask on the WW board? I'm still confused about it all.

I must be doing something wrong on the recipe builder, i entered the following:

1 serving hemp milk
1 medium banana
1 pack summer fruits mix
1 medium apple

Propoints Value is 2

Why do you get something different

 

[Hope39]

Stir Fried peppers, onions, carrots and cucumber (fried in hemp oil) and a tsp of sweet & sour chilli sauce and some soy sauce. A portion of chicken fried in hemp oil (6 points)

Plug this all into the recipe builder as well. I'd do it now myself but running out the door in a minute. I think it'll show up as more than 6pts but I could be wrong.

Right for this recipe i entered the following:

1 individual chicken breast
1 medium pepper red
1 medium pepper yellow
1 portion cucumber
1 medium carrot
1 medium onion
1 tsp olive oil (couldn't find hemp oil)
1 serving amoy dark soy sauce
1 tbs sweet chilli sauce

Calculated it at 7 points

 

[Chiclets]

I must be doing something wrong on the recipe builder, i entered the following:

1 serving hemp milk
1 medium banana
1 pack summer fruits mix
1 medium apple

Propoints Value is 2

Why do you get something different

I've tried to take a screenshot of mine after I put it in the recipe builder and I guess WW has it blocked so that we can't do that.

Here's what I put in:

1 cup (8oz) Hemp Milk, Original ..... (PPvalue=4pts)
3/4 lg banana (since you said medium) .... (PPvalue=0pts)
1 cup summer fruit....(ppvalue=0pts)
1small apple ... (ppvalue=0)

When I put all 4 ingredients in the recipe builder, it gave me a value of 9 points per serving.

To use the recipe builder, I open my "track your food" window. On the left hand side are the the different things to click on like pointsplus tracker, weight tracker, progress reports, find & explore, and recipe builder. I click the recipe builder there and then add each ingredient to the recipe. At the bottom of the recipe it'll give the pointsplus value for the recipe. Is that what you're doing?

 

[Chiclets]

Was all the ingredients in the chicken recipe only making 1 serving or more? For 1 serving I got around 9-10 points on the recipe builder. For 1 serving it was closer to 5 points if the recipe was enough for 2 total servings. It might vary a point because I had to estimate on a couple of things I wasn't sure of on the serving size you used.

 

[Hope39]

Was all the ingredients in the chicken recipe only making 1 serving or more? For 1 serving I got around 9-10 points on the recipe builder. For 1 serving it was closer to 5 points if the recipe was enough for 2 total servings. It might vary a point because I had to estimate on a couple of things I wasn't sure of on the serving size you used.

It was 7 points for one serving, but to be honest, i don't use a medium pepper, i use about quarter of one, i need to weigh what i actually use for a more accurante measurement i suppose

Not sure whats happened to the smoothie points, i entered 1 hemp milk serving but i had used my propoints calculator with the nutrition info on the carton so get it to 2 points anyway

I have just made a chicken casserole, weighed all the veg and put it in the recipe builder and the whole lot came out at 17 points, my partner and i will get a meal out of it each tomorrow and there will be loads left which we then blend for soup so its about 4 points per serving. There is s**t loads of veg in it, my slow cooker is full to the brim!

 

[linzylinz]

hi ladies i have just joined ww i had my first wi yesterday and lost 3 lb

how does everyone find it? i struggled the first week with portion sizes im so used to having oh size portions.
hopfully it will get easier xx

 

[Chiclets]

Awesome job on the 3lb loss. The first week I'm usually more hungry than normal because of the portion control. I think my hardest time though is when I'm a 3-4 weeks in. Last year I started to burnout close to then & I hope not to burn out at all this time. Trying to stay strong here!

Not sure whats happened to the smoothie points, i entered 1 hemp milk serving but i had used my propoints calculator with the nutrition info on the carton so get it to 2 points anyway

I don't know either! Atleast it saves 2 pts on the hemp milk so the smoothie is down to 7pts instead at the most. I think that is why I HATE to waste my pts on drinks. Most of the juices I like are 3pts per serving and they say a serving is 8oz most times. All the juices I like aren't that sugary stuff either! Supposedly a large to 100% fruit but it still adds up in pts when I use the nutritional info in the calculator. I usually like to drink 12-16oz of juice when I do drink it so that adds up really fast. I did find a V8 juice that is combined with a tea that is only 1pt per 8oz serving and have been drinking that when I want some juice. Had some this afternoon actually!

 

[DarlingGirl]

Happy new year everyone!
Fell off the wagon slightly over Christmas and New Year so am trying to get back on track and losing weight again. Have lost 11 pounds so far, which I'm pleased about, but need to get motivated again after all that lovely Christmas grub!
Hope everyone's doing well.
linzy - it takes a little bit to get used to the smaller portion sizes. I was definitely having too large portions pre-WW. One way is to fill up with lots of veg/salad with your meals and to eat lots of low point but filling food, like fat free Greek yoghurt with fruit and fat free cottage cheese. The WW desserts are also brilliant for how low in points some of them are!

 

[Kimboowee]

I lost 6.5lbs last week!

 

[skweek35]

WOW Kim!!! thats a great weight loss!!!
I lost 2lbs this last week! My mom lost 2 1/2lbs and my sister lost 4 1/2lbs!
I am hoping for another 2lbs loss this week but will see what this week holds

 

[Chiclets]

Great losses! I'm worried that the last 2 days are going to ruin my week for me. I didn't stay on point so well. That's what happens when we travel. I have a really really hard time with staying on point. I've got to try much harder next week! No doubt!

 

[Dimples81]

another 2.5lbs gone

 

[skweek35]

Fantastic Dimples!!!

 

[Try Rocking]

Great job!

I'm now down 11.8 lbs

 

[opalfruits]

I WI 2mro I weighed on my mums scales and they only show a half a pound loss, I'm really worried as ive been mega good this week!!

 

[Chiclets]

Great losses this week, everyone!!!!!!

My weigh in was yesterday & the scale showed a 2.2 lb loss for the week. Happy for the loss!

I can't remember who is doing the front page right now but I started my WW tracking of weightloss over on Jan 1st. Clean slate and all that since I had gained before this. So I should have mine say 2.4lb loss to date. Thx!

 

[bathbabe]

Down 1.5lbs, i will update everyone later on

Well done on all the losses ladies xx