Why Am I Doing This?

I have been a Weight Watchers user for a long time, and I am pretty good at it too, when I want to be.  However, after struggling to keep on the strictness of the normal plan these last few months, I decided to try out their simply filling technique and fell in love.  Not only do I lose weight with it, it is an actual technique that I think I can keep in my life forever.

For those of you who don't know, the normal Weight Watchers technique has you track all the food you eating, keeping you in line with a personalized daily and weekly allowance of food points,  Hit your limit, and you either have to exercise to get more points, or eat a lot of baby carrots until your next week starts. The Simply Filling technique allows you to eat as much food as you want on the very important list of Power Foods.  So while eating brown rice in the normal technique docks you 5 points for 1 cup, Simply Filling points are 0.  You still get a weekly allowance of points to use on items that are not on the Power foods list, such as a Taco Bell Bean Burrito (9 points, in case you were wondering).  The nice thing is, you can switch back and forth between the techniques on a day by day basis.  This is awesome, because Simply Filling is great for cooking at home, but very challenging for eating out.  So if I know I have that family BBQ coming up or date night with my husband, I will probably use the traditional method.

Sadly though, there are not many recipes that are devoted to this kind of plan.  My goal is to modify my recipes to fit this plan and display them here,  Maybe it will help 1 or 2 people, maybe more, but in any case, at least my stuff will be organized for me.

I hope this helps you.