Do you have trouble fulfilling any of the GHG on a regular basis?

For me, I have trouble getting my 2 teaspoons of healthy oil. I can usually get one t in the morning when I cook my egg for breakfast, but I have so much trouble getting that 2nd teaspoon in. (And cooking one egg in 2 t seems ridiculous, as even one full teaspoon is more than enough.)

I also have trouble with dairy. Since I'm over 250 lbs, I'm supposed to have 3 servings and I know I don't get enough. I always have one, often have 2, but that 3rd serving is tough sometimes. (Although, now that I think about it, it would be so easy to just bring a single slice of cheese to eat with my lunch. Huh.)

I usually have a Skinny Cow frozen dessert bar (the mint white truffle are SO GOOD) or an ice cream sandwich as a treat when I get home from work, but I feel so weird counting ice cream as one of my dairy servings.

Do you eat any cooked veggies or salad? No matter what dressing i use (mostly oil and vinegar) i put my oil in the salad and mix it up. I've put it in my rice instead of butter, in spaghetti sauce, on popcorn, on potato.

No, I usually eat my veggies raw. Like, dipped in hummus or on a sandwich. I never would have thought about putting oil on popcorn, though.

It's only 1 pt for a teaspoon. I get 2 in a day but i'm bad about my dairy too as i hate milk so much! Mix it in your hummus, that would work too!

Salad! Definitely. Nice dressing with oil and balsamic vinegar (or other vinegar). Or mix your oil and yogurt with herbs for dipping.

As for dairy, I eat a lot of yogurt. I am not a milk drinker. So yogurt it is :-) and sour cream instead of heavy cream in sauces

Can you add cheese somewhere? Those laughing cow wedges are great, the WW cheese sticks or other low fat ones that are comparable in points. Great, pre-portioned is always good.

Stir the oil into your hummus.

i dont even try for the oil ^_^

A personal favorite of mine- 1/2 cup cottage cheese with some hot sauce, black pepper and crushed red pepper as a dip for baby carrots, cucumbers and/or celery. Yummm!

Small fruit/veggie with yogurt/milk for breakfast or snack?

Oils- What about lunch or dinner? Stir-fries are a great use for oil. Lately, I've been getting in one of 2 tsp oil by using 1 tsp oil to cook my quesadillas and sauteed bell peppers/onions/garlic and green beans along with some salt and pepper. Yum! You could do the same with broccoli, squash or whatever veggie you like.

GL!

i asked a leader at the meeting today if my .4 loss was normal.. she said yes and asked if i was getting my guidelines in, i told her yes except the oils. She suggested, dipping bread in it - like at corabas (what they do - i've never been there) but its a suggestion for some of you

At first I had the hardest time getting in both my dairy (I do not drink milk of any kind) and my oils.
To get myself to do it I have decided to use them as my treat if I need to with full fat salad dressing and full fat cheese.
I have noticed that my weightloss is much better when I hit my GHG's all week!

I am a bit out of touch with the current WW guidelines. Can somebody outline the GHG with amounts instead of points or is that already against the forum rules? Thanks!

i forget which oils are "Good" too XD

Jinksie, I know olive and canola oil are considered "good." There are I think two others, but I never use them so I'm not sure.

Today I added 1teaspoon and stirred it into my hummus for lunch and brought a single slice of cheese to also eat with my lunch. I don't know why either of those didn't occur to me, but I managed to get get those guidelines all full for the day!

I don't have any problem getting my GHGs in now - on the Momentum plan I regularly ignored the oil guideline because I didn't want to waste two points on oil. Now that fruit and most veggies are 0, that's freed up some point allowance so that I pretty much get them in every day. The one thing I am not so strict with is the type of oil; I generally use olive oil but if I use sesame or walnut oil, I count that as oil. I would not count snacks like Skinny Cow as dairy, though. And I'm not sure, but would one LLC be enough to count as a serving?

Here are some examples of what I eat to get in my dairy (I only have to eat 2 servings a day, but often get 3 - note that I don't eat all of this every day):

- 1 cup nonfat Greek yogurt with blueberries
- hot chocolate made with 1 cup nonfat milk and sugar/fat free cocoa packet
- 1 oz crumbled cheese on salad
- 6 oz flavored nonfat yogurt

Oils? Brush them on meat and veggies before baking/roasting/grilling. Pan fry chicken or fish. Use with vinegar as a salad dressing. Use in stirfry. Mix into sauces and dips.

Hope this helps!