re: PuttaDaForkDown

Yeah, I like WW. That's where I'll probably end up. I just started on Atkins for the jumpstart.

The best thing about WW is nothing is off limits. You can remain really balanced.

I never really had to use WW specific recipes, but just made minor modifications to our normal stuff to eliminate the fat and calorie bombs.

I'll come up with some other stuff later, but this is a really good soup that my wife makes.

We call it 5 can soup, but I don't know if it has an official name.

2 cans of canned chicken (we use the pretty big cans from Sam's)
1 can of Rotel (we like the hot)
1 can veg-all
1 can of black beans, pintos, red beans, or whatever you like
1 can of turkey chili
1 can of corn
1/2 packet of taco seasoning
1/2 packet of ranch seasoning
drain the chicken, but don't drain the veggies. If you want it soupier, add a can of water also.

Just throw everything in the pot and cook it a while to let the flavors mix.

We've also done it with green beans, potatos or any other can of veggies. I like beans, so I sometimes sneak in an extra can of black beans, white beans, or whatever.

You can really just add your favorites. It's really hard to mess this up.

When we're not dieting, we use ground beef (brown it first, obviously) and beef chili. We also serve it over Fritos with sour cream and cheese, but those things make it not-so diet friendly.

I usually just add up all of the calories, fat, and fiber that goes in the pot, then figure out how much I have total and determine from that how many points are in a cup.

I just found a spreadsheet where I figured the points using ground beef (10% fat) instead of canned chicken. Here were the ingredients that time:
Beef (10%)
corn
veg-al
rotel
northern beans
green beans
pinto beans
black beans
taco seasoning
ranch dip (dry)

This recipe was 5.2 points per cup. I'm almost positive it was fewer points when we used chicken.

By the way, this recipe will get blasted in a few minutes by Cad, Myth and some of the others because of all of the canned foods and the sodium levels and other bad crap. They are right, but my only answer to them is that there's a reason my wife and I are fat...we're lazy, and this recipe is sooooo easy and tastes really good.

Myth you ain't gonna die mayn

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I am going to stay induction for another 2 weeks. I lost right under 10 lbs in 2 weeks, but didnt start any cardio until last friday

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That's what I'm doing. I am in my last week of induction now, a full month. It really trains you how to control your hunger and discipline yourself. I'm ready to move on to OWL though. I'm ready for more variety.

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worcestershire

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has carbs. Not tons, but certainly would stay away while in induction. Makes me sad, I love marinating steaks and stuff in worchestershire.

Id think some mayo, horseradish, and tobasco would do well. I think there's such a thing as low-carb, low-sugar ketchup.

I am about to go postal on some bitch on another forum that just told me she wishes she could convince me that eating unhealthy to have a nice minute on the scale was not worth it.

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I have been doing WW since the beginning of October and have lost 25#. Slow and steady.

Definitely some awesome recipes on Skinny Taste. Everything I have tried has been awesome.

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I'm on WW maintenance. I lost 28 lbs. last year. I love the skinnytaste website for recipes also.

Cooking light has some good recipes on their website also...they're just not all as light as I need them to be sometimes.

Good luck!

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Tell her to watch Fat Head!

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that show is just common sense but its nice to see all the data presented together.

i ranted about the same stuff..maybe in the first 10 pages or so..also for the last year i've been getting *DESTORYED* by TD know-it-alls when i tell them mayo and saturated fats in meats are actually a GOOD THING.

i watched the documentary last night and was very pleased with how he took aim at all the bullshite.

"low fat" dieting + that government/political shitty food pyramid has done more to destroy the health of people than anything. miserable food eating designed by miserable human beings that want us to eat plankton and tree bark.

its that puritan mindset we have...we automatically assume if we enjoy something its bad and therefore must be 'metered' or 'limited'.

i dont freaking get it.

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why aren't y'all outraged that this information has been suppressed???

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As I said. I was about to go postal. It gets old, especially when some idiot tells me fad diets don't work AFTER I've told them I lost 120 freaking pounds.

It's like their brains just skip over the 120 pound loss. It can't register. They just keep spewing out old flawed science.

It does appear that more and more legitimate studies are coming out showing that a low fat diet gives people higher cholesterol, blood pressure and weight.

The problem is that 40 years of hearing fat causes every ailment from heart disease to tether (use blue star ointment) will take time to be removed from the American populace if ever.

Fat is the George Bush of the nutritional world. They have been blaming it for every problem for so long, they don't want to give up that crutch.

The Mexican feast was not kind on my scale reading today.

323/198.4/185

I know mostly water blah blah blah.
Maybe even a little muscle from the bike.

Moving the wrong damn direction this week.

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how about BUTTER. yum yum

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Yeah, I'll definitely do some in butter, but I was looking for something with a little spice for the rest.