The taco salad is pretty easy. i use

1 lb lean hamburger, cooked and rinsed
1 can red kidney beans, I rinse them, not necessary,
1 can diced tomatoes with green chilis
1 pkt taco seasoning.

I put a WW 1/2 cup scoop/spoon on a bed of lettuce, tomato a little cheese, salsa, ff sour cream, and a couple of black olives.

For hubby who has no fat problem, he gets his as regular taco, wrapped in a big tortilla.

It's fast, easy the whole family should like it and with all the lettuce and tomatoes you can make it huge, if you're really hungry.

You look good.. Keep up the good work!!

Had a good day today! Here's the particulars:

Breakfast:
Bread, 1 slice, 1
Peanut butter, 1 tbs., 3
1/2 banana, 0

Lunch:
Taco Meat Mix, 5 (has tomatoes, beans and corn)
Rice, 1 cup, 5
Broccoli, 0
Grapes, 0

Dinner:
Chicken Curry in a Hurry, 1 cup, 5
Rice, 1 cup, 5
Roasted Carrots, 1 (for the oil)


Still have 4 left over, but absolutely no desire for anything else! Which is okay, cause I dipped into wpa yesterday.

This "diet" is such a pleasure!

I would love to join in on this! Need the accountability, which is why I love WW

Had a great day yesterday:

Breakfast:
Fiber One Cereal: 4 P+
Milk: 3 P+

Snack:
Extend Bar 4 P+

Lunch:
Minestrone Soup 8 P+
Carrots 0 P+
Kroger CarbMaster Yogurt 2 P+

Snack:
Apple 0 P+
Banana 0 P+

Dinner:
Shrimp 5 P+
Rice 4 P+
Broccoli 0 P+
Green Beans 0 P+

Total P+ for the day: 30
Total daily P+ used: 29
Total weekly P+ used: 1

Been staying on plan

Going out of town today. Hope I can get dh to eat lunch somewhere decent.

I'll update food tomorrow, when I have more time.

Have a good day everyone!

Journal for yesterday:
Note that it's Friday night and I save my points plus (formerly known as flex points) for weekends, mostly. I like to have a good time on weekends with my food. : )

Points: 29

Breakfast:

1/4 c egg whites and 1 egg scrambled in non-stick spray = 2
3 slices turkey bacon = 2
Banana = 0

Lunch:
"Chef's Salad" I found it hard to calculate the points, but did the best I could with this. I think I was OK. Checked off 2 extra points plus just in case I blew it on the calculations.
Lettuce, tomato, pepper = 0
Ham, lite Swiss cheese, turkey (deli meat) = 6
2 tsp EVOO and vinegar = 2

Points remaining: 17

snacks: apple 0, Rice Krispie treat 2
also took a small handful of chocoate chips, 2

Points remaining 13 (I do regret the chocolate chips...)

Dinner:

Wine = 4
Pork Lo Mein from the new Ready, set, go cookbook = 7
(it was great, highly recommmended)
chicken teriaki = 8

Points remaining <6> used 6 points plus

Dessert: one WW yogurt <2>

Used 8 points plus for the day. Will use more this evening for sure as we are going out. Will try to behave.

I'm sad and dissappointed. I just got back from eating dinner out. I went to a seafood restaurant. On the menu was lobster tails. You could order them either sauteed or fried. I wanted them sauteed, so there would be no carbs. They were brought to me fried. OMG. The _____ waitress didn't come back and ask "is everything OK" and I sat there and fumed. I feel this might blow my entire week as far as my points plus go and I have no clue how to count what I ate. I tried scraping off the fried coating for most of it but it was almost embedded into it.
I wanted to make a big deal out of it but this place is struggling and I know the owner a bit. We try to go there as we know the economy is bad.
So, I did the best I could and I have no idea of what to count this meal as. I'd not have ordered certain other things with the meal if I had fried food, for sure.
So, I feel let down and as if I will gain weight this week. I am annoyed and just don't know what to do at the moment.
I shall be getting on the treadmill tomorrow for sure... darn.

derrydaughter, i am sorry you are feeling sad. whenever i get in a situation where counting is difficult/impossible, i just calculate it the best i can and then add 10-15 to account for what i cannot.

don't feel "doomed to gain" this week. it was one night and extra points are built into the plan just for this reason. remember, no one is at weight watchers because they ate too much just one night. just wake up tomorrow, hit the treadmill if it makes you feel better, and focus on having a better rest of the week. you'll do great!

Thanks, skinnyC, you know what? I shake my head in "wonderment". I figured out what I thought was the right points for all of this and only came up using 8 points plus for the day, but I did not have any dessert - even fruit.
I thought it would be lots lots worse. I didn't have a calculation for "fried lobster tails" but used 9 points for "fried shrimp" that I found in the food companion, as that would be the same. The points showed 9 for 10 shrimp and I felt that was probably equal to what I had, especially as I scraped off most of the batter. I probably had only 1/4th of the French fries.
I did the best I could. I'll journal below..... I am not proud of yesterday, though. I feel my choices were wrong and I accept that I am mostly responsible. There were grilled fish and grilled chicken and beef kabobs on that menu, I should have chose one of those. I could have had rice instead of fries. I chose the fries as I felt I could handle whatever fat the sauteed lobster tails in and the fries as long as I was very good the rest of the day. Then, when this plate of all fried stuff showed up, I should have stood up for myself...regardless of our feelings for the restaurant owner? Yet, I did not. I wrote on the front of my tracker where you can make notes to yourself: "Stand up for what you want in a restaurant, not worth ruining the hard work you have put in".

Yesterday's food journal (which I am not really proud of, but I promised to write it all down for you all and I keep my word).....
AND, it could have been allot worse!!!!
Points allowance: 29

Breakfast:
Orange = 0
Cabot packaged cheese slice, individually wrapped = 2
2 slices lite toast with butter spray = 2

Lunch:
2 large Portabella mushrooms baked with:
ricotta cheese (2) marinara sauce (1) and part skim Mozzarella (2)
total - 5

snacks: S.F. Hot cocoa (1) Banana (0)

Points remaining = 18

Dinner:

garden salad with EVOO and vinegar, asked for a spoon this time so I could measure out the oil! = 2
French Fries = 6 (counted a small fast food serving as this is a "mom and pop" type of restaurant and now way to figure out what it truly was, but I didn't each all of them for sure
Fried Lobster Tails with drawn butter. This is where I went ballistic last night as I ordered sauteed lobster tails and got the deep fried ones. I just ate them and didn't complain. I should have said something. But again, we know the owner and this economy is bad and to ask them to "eat" (no pun intended) a platter of food that was perfectly good, I just couldn't....

So.... I counted 9 points for the lobster even though I scraped off the majority of the batter and 4 points for the butter = 13
wine = 4

Entire meal was 21 points.... I ended the day <3> but actually gave it a <8> on my tracker as I had no clue of how to count it all.

Lesson learned, could have done better....

Good Morning,
i joined WW again on the 30th for the million time. i lost 4 first week. had hand surgery during that week, only ate 3 days on plan so i'll take it. this week sticking to it like glue. i don't think this will be as good as week we will see. i have an extra two days. have doctors appt on my normal weigh in day this week and next.
yesterday was an eye opener for me. DH is sick and we were at the doctors and did some shopping. stopped for lunch he wanted Atlanta bread, cause of the soup. i got a turkey Penni. came home went online and got the NI. it was 18 points. there went almost the whole day. i think i only dug into my extras by 4. it is surprising the amount of points eating out is. oh, well that's life and i have to move on. i did the best i could.
hope everyone has a great day.
later

Linda, I hate those situations where you've tried to stay on plan, and despite your best efforts and through no fault of your own things go screwy. My "fight or flight" response is horrible there - do I "fight" to stay on plan no matter what, or "flee" and do a whole bunch of dietary damage? Sounds like you didn't do too poorly at all!

My day so far:

B:
Coffee with FF creamer: 2
2 small sugar cookies (made with kids last night; I usually don't have anything like this in the house for this reason!): 3

L:
Taco salad: 9

My plan is to eat very lean and lower carb for dinner, even if I don't reach 29 P+. I've used way more of my weeklies this week and I'm sort of freaked out about it. I know they're there to be used, but I don't tend to have good results when I eat ALL of them.

I've noticed I've had plenty of veggies this week, but not as much of the free fruit. Maybe the novelty wore off a little bit?

Happy Sunday to all!

Hello ladies,
had my 2nd weigh in on the new program today and i lost 4 POUNDS! which puts me at a total loss of 25.8 and I am now 156 pounds! so excited..the last time I weighed this much I was like 14

Been staying on track, mostly. Used all my extra points this week.

Had to make a trip out of town for Dh to see a heart ablation surgery specialist. Lots of stress, and several meals eaten out.

Went to my meeting this morning and lost another pound. Was hoping for more, but I am glad to have a loss!