Can't beat a list...

19th July 2015

Things are never happy at the moment of change, but sometimes that unhappiness just means that you're doing something worth doing!

Cracking day yesterday, how fab was that weather and I was lucky enough to get to spend it with epic people from the moment I got out of bed!  Great meeting, followed by a delicious lunch and some good chat with a few of my members and my bestie!  Then I came home to a lovely afternoon with my mom who's always the best company.  Yeah sun shines makes me smile but it's BeYOUtiful people that make my life so fulfilled. 

Mom said I see beauty when I look in the mirror, all my wrinkles, it's just a face and I've earned this face" when we were driving to work on Thursday morning and I just thought that really summed up how we should all see ourselves, you get what you're given and you should love it really shouldn't you, there ain't much you can do about it, that doesn't involve surgery anyways.  Yeah see your BeYOUtiful I say, then you'll always be happy to look in a mirror.

We were talking about holiday yesterday and I have no desire to go anywhere at the moment other than my back garden, then it was pointed out to me that maybe that's because I've already travelled and that's absolutely true.  I've been on a lot of trips, visited a lot of countries and I've fulfilled my wanderlust, now I'm happy to just kick back and chill out with my people :)

In my meetings this week we talked about lots of stuff but one thing was what our Ultimate Weight Watchers Shopping List would look like, those foods you'd put on to make losing weight easier because what you're eating is delicious, healthy and filling you up.  I started a thread in my group last night and this is what they've come up with so far;

Eggs

WW wholemeal thick slice bread

Potatoes

Chicken
Weetabix

Fruit & Vegetables

Tinned tomatoes

Baked Beans

Passata

Wholewheat pasta

Ham

Brown rice

Mayflower curry sauce powder (tastes just like Chinese curry but for 2pp!)

Herbs & Spices

Healthy Cereals such as porridge, shredded wheat, weetabix

Bacon

5% beef mince

Quorn

Salmon

Tinned Tuna

Tinned fruit in juice

Fat Free natural yogurt

Quark

Warburton brown thins

Skimmed milk

Lean Beef Steak

Crumpets

Light cheese triangles

Babybel Lights

Colmans sauce mixes

Turkey mince

Gammon steaks

Weight Watcher Yogurts

Warburtons Bagels

Chocolate

I love that chocolate made the 'must have' list because let's be honest there are those foods that we want to eat that by allowing them into our daily diet we are more likely to stick to a weight loss plan.  It's all about the balance and knowing what you can handle having in the house and what you need keeping as far away from you as possible!

If we've missed anything off that list, let me know.

I think I'd add;

Quinoa / Couscous / Lentils and any grains, if you haven't tried them you should!  I love to try new things, enjoyed something called Freekeh the other week, that's a grain.

Maggi so tender papyrus seasoned cooking papers (I love these wrapped round chicken or salmon and cooked in a pan or my George Foreman)

Bachelors Condensed soup to make sauces with.

Tinned sardines/mackeral - high in ProPoints but delicious and healthy

All fresh fish, cod, trout, mmm so healthy and low in ProPoints

Chorizo, high in ProPoints but really adds flavour to food.

Sundried tomatoes, great to add some umph to a meal

Tasty jar sauces for days you just don't want to cook. 

Fish paste, a blast from my childhood, but quite low in ProPoints

And on behalf of my mom, she would add toasted teacake and butter as that's her breakfast every morning, 10pp of keeping her sweet!

So guess what, Weight Watchers website already has a plan friendly shopping list on there, http://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=49381&sc=3022, I reckon the one my members put together is better :)

Anyway, it's Sunday, hopefully you've got a nice day planned, I have no plans, I think my brothers coming round to help with a garden project but I'm guessing the weather might stop that, we'll see.  Just got a bit of paperwork to get done this morning, then my days my own, who knows what I'll do!