Welcome to this Week's Weight Watcher's Meal Plan!
Every Saturday I share my Weight Watchers Weekly Meal Plans with Points and Recipes here on Simple Nourished Living. It includes what I'm planning to have for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well a few snack and dessert ideas.
Meal times so much easier when I've taken the time to think about what I'm cooking and eating ahead of time. With the shopping done and weight watchers recipes at the ready I can just walk into the kitchen and get cooking.
I don't always stick to my plan one hundred percent. Life happens. But, it helps to have a rough guide and prevents me from reaching into the cookie jar or bag of chips too often. Whoever said that failing to plan was planning to fail was spot on!
The Benefits of Cooking at Home More
Since I like to cook I may be biased, but I've always believed that the food you cook for yourself is essentially good for you. Taking the time to cook for yourself is a supremely nourishing act of kindness…
And mindfulness. When I step into the kitchen and begin to cook I lose myself in the process, becoming completely focused in the simple acts of chopping, mixing, stirring, smelling and tasting. It gives me pleasure and keeps me grounded and connected to myself, my family and the world.
My Overall Weight Watchers Meal Plan Strategy
Even when you like to cook, it can be the last thing you want to do at the end of a long day. I've found that the key is to keep things simple. Just reading many of the meal plan programs out there suggesting a different breakfast, lunch and dinner every single day are enough to make me run from the kitchen screaming. Are you kidding me? Who cooks like that? Not me or anyone I know.
I've experimented with many of the sophisticated meal planning programs out there, but I've never been able to make them work for me. Yellow sticky notes and iPhone lists are more my speed.
As a creature of habit, I tend to rotate between the same one or two breakfasts and lunches the days I eat at home each week. And because we are a family of two most recipes result in leftovers that we are happy to eat again or transform somehow. So, I usually only cook from scratch three or four times a week. We like to eat out a couple of times, usually during the weekend.
If we end up with more food than we can eat, I portion it out, package it up and pop it in the freezer for future quick and easy lunches and dinners.
I hope these posts make it easier for you to stay on track with your weight loss and/or healthy eating goals too. It's a process that gets easier with practice.
And remember, there's a Weight Watchers Weekly Meal Plans Section on the blog so you can get inspiration from all of the previous weekly meal plans too. Enjoy!
Weight Watchers Weekly Meal Plan (Week #57)
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I feasted and celebrated and plan on reigning things way in this week. One of my most successful strategies for post-feast compensation is soup. I plan to make a couple batches this week to enjoy for lunch and dinner. Have a lovely week and remember to take the time to cook something healthy and delicious for yourselves, dear friends!
Breakfast
This week I'm going to begin the day with a cup of black coffee (half calf/half decaf) (0PP)
1. Half Banana (0PP) with Peanut Butter (1 T - 3PP) and Whole Wheat Toast (1 slice - 2PP)
2. Scrambled Egg (2PP) and Whole Wheat Toast (1 slice - 2PP) and Fruit (0PP)
Lunch
I like to keep lunch quick and easy. Limiting my choices makes weight loss/maintenance easier. (Here's research that supports the idea.) I end up meeting up with my mom and/or girlfriends a couple of times a week for lunch, something I look forward to. Now that the weather is cooling off I'll be eating more soup. It's one of my secret strategies for staying slim all year round.
1. Slow Cooker Turkey Vegetable Barley Soup (4PP) - Just what my body wants after a long weekend of indulging. It’s one of those easy dump and stir recipes that takes just a few minutes to toss together. Perfect after a long weekend of cooking when you’re ready to take it extra easy in the kitchen.
2. Leftovers from dinner
Dinner
Because we are a family of two most recipes result in leftovers, so, I only cook from scratch three or four times a week. (We eat out once or twice.)
1. Slow Cooker Turkey and Wild Rice Casserole (8PP) and a Simple Tossed Green Salad (0PP) dressed with Light Dressing (1T - 1PP) - A tasty way to use leftover Thanksgiving Turkey
2. Sweet Potato Tomato Soup (4PP) - A simple and delicious soup made from sweet potatoes, broth, tomatoes and orange juice and a Slice of Crusty Bread (2PP)
3. Leftovers
4. Roasted Shrimp and Broccoli (6PP) - I really love dinners that bake in the oven. They’re easier, less stressful and much less messy than most dishes you cook on the stove-top.
5. Leftovers
Snacks
I try to limit my snacks to one in the late afternoon which keeps me from being overly hungry when I'm getting dinner. To prevent snacking while I'm making dinner, I often chew gum. A former Cheez-Its junkie, I've pretty much given up on processed, packaged snack-y foods that I can never seem to get enough of once I begin. Weight Watchers calls them Trigger Foods, I call them EVIL and have expelled them from my house 🙂
1. Grape Tomatoes (0PP) and WW Cheese Stick (1PP)
2. Sliced Turkey Breast (2PP) and Fruit (0PP)
Dessert
I usually try to limit dessert to once or twice a week. I don't keep many sweets around the house. You can't eat what you don't have 🙂 And I usually save my points plus for homemade sweet stuff, which is more work, but always tastes so much better. Through the years I've convinced myself to not waste my valuable points on ho-hum sweet treats.
Healthy Baked Apples (3PP) - A lighter, healthier alternative to apple pie. We are cutting way back on sweet treats following the holiday.
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And remember, there's a Weight Watchers Meal Plans with PointsPlus section on the blog so you can get inspiration from all of the previous weekly meal plans too.
Have a wonderful week!
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