We have lots of great recipes planned this week from lots of different Weight Watcher cook books. Between friends giving me/letting me borrow their Weight Watcher cook books and finding cook books at the library I am building my own nice little recipe binder full of Weight Watcher recipes! I have been doing Weight Watchers for almost three months now! Can you believe that, because I can’t! Honestly, it does NOT feel like it has been 3 months. Well, technically it hasn’t. But next week it will be so close enough. 🙂
ALISHA’S WEIGHT WATCHER PROGRESS REPORT.
I have lost over 20 pounds now! My long term personal goal is to lose 100 pounds. My short term personal goal was to lose 20 pounds before we took our family trip to Disney and I have managed to do that. We still won’t be leaving for another 20 days. I have gotten to the point where I can feel a difference in my clothes, which is good because I realized I was squeeeeeezing into pants still that I really didn’t have any business squeezing into anymore, so those pants are loose now and that feels good. I went out and bought some really comfortable walking shoes and some great work out clothes this week and I worked out in them today and loved it. I went to an athletic store in our area called Extra Mile Fitness and had one of the worker’s help me find shoes that would be perfect for me. They were pricier than any shoes I have ever gotten in my whole entire life, but I went in there knowing that would be the case. I really like them and not just because the colors are perfect… although that doesn’t hurt. 🙂 Here are my new Brooks:
I learned this week that Kohl’s has some decently priced good quality plus size workout clothes! When I found them and tried them on I was giddy. If you are not plus size then you probably don’t know that that is a big deal but it is so it’s worth mentioning. Here was one of my favorite finds. For less than $10 I got this adorable, comfortable, durable tank and I love it… so I got three. (they come in lots of different colors)
(By the way, no one is paying me for telling you that I like Kohl’s work out clothes, that Extra Mile Fitness Company is where I snagged some great kicks, or that Weight Watchers is the way I have lost weight. Just thought I would put that out there)
I have learned a few things since starting Weight Watchers and I was thinking I would share just one little WW meal planning tip today that I have found helps me.
Alisha’s Weight Watcher tip:
Don’t do seven new recipes in one week. Allow yourself to do a few tried and true recipes each week and sprinkle in new ones. I didn’t do this and after a couple of weeks my husband said, “Do you think we could do some recipes this week that we already know we like?” and I was like, “YEAH! Totally. That is easier for me anyway. I’m not sure why I didn’t think of that!” and I went and found some recipes that I knew were low in Weight Watcher points that I knew my family liked and tossed them into the next week’s meal plan. I suppose maybe I was just excited about all the recipes I was looking at in the cook books so I wanted to do a new one everyday, but to do a brand new recipe every day can wear you out and make you not want to cook, which leads to eating things you probably didn’t plan on eating… and we know what happens then… Oops! Great, now I have to eat just vegetables the rest of the day. Not good. 🙂
Sarah and I want this website to be a great resource for moms so we do the meal planning work for you, but by all means, pick one or two recipes you like from our meal plan and sprinkle them in with your tried and true recipes each week. You might find that that is easier for you. As always, we love feedback, so please do not hesitate to let us know what is most helpful for you!
We have a little Mexican, Italian, seafood, and a couple of pork recipes this week. I hope you love them all.
This week’s Dinners
Easy Chicken Parmesan
Asian Pork Burgers with Spinach Salad
Garlic Shrimp Tapas
Mexican Chicken Soup
Honey Mustard Pork Chops
Nachos Grande
This week’s meal plan
Here is a word document of this week’s meal plan:
MPM-weight-watcher-meal-plan-August-16-21 Word document
Here is a PDF of this week’s meal plan:
MPM-weight-watcher-meal-plan-August-16-21 PDF
This week’s Grocery List
Here is a word document of this week’s grocery list
August-16-21-WW-friendly-Grocery List Word Document
Here is a PDF of this week’s grocery list:
August-16-21-WW-friendly-Grocery List PDF
A couple of things worth noting:
On the meal plan page you will see that the names of the meals are connected with a hyperlink to the recipe. Once you are on the recipe page you will be able to print that recipe, or just follow the recipe straight from your iPhone or computer.
On the grocery list you will see that there are numbers beside each food item. Those numbers are connected to the recipe number. For instance, the garlic shrimp tapas are recipe #3 so you will see that “shrimp” on the grocery list has a #3 next to it. This way if you decide not to make a particular recipe you can cross off the ingredients for that recipe on your grocery list. For instance, if you decided you did not want to make the garlic shrimp tapas you can cross off anything with a two next to it. You can also skim your cupboards before you head to out to the store and cross off anything you already have on hand. The blank lines on the grocery list are there for you to fill in your own extra foods you need to get that week.
Blank version of our printable resources:
For a blank version of our printable meal plan and grocery list that you can fill in on your own you can go here.
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