Weight Watchers

[Miss Shelby]

Feb 1st I started it and have lost 15 lbs. Roughly a pound a week. I just finished the 12 week session. Anyone else do it? That along with circuit training at the gym and it just came right off. They basically follow the diet that they tell people with diabetes to follow, which is 5 servings fruits vegetables, 2 milk servings an oil, certain amount of fiber and protein-- and you follow a points system to help you get enough of all. I have some tried and true recipes that do not taste low fat that I will post as well. I feel a lot better, it's really helped with my disposition. Not that it needed any help.

[Dingfod]

I feel a lot better, it's really helped with my disposition.I can tell.Not that it needed any help.Actually...

[Miss Shelby]

I will try not to inundate with recipes since it's not the food forum, but one thang that I made for Easter that I know by heart is this one:

Butterfinger Angel Food Cake

1 angel food cake

4 butterfinger bars, crushed

16 oz sugar free fat free coolwhip

1 box french vanilla fat free sugar free pudding

1/2 cup skim milk (lemme check on that dosage I am doing this from memory)

mix milk, pudding mix, cool whip.

Break up the angelfood cake.

In a trifle bowl or a 9x13 baking dish, layer some of the angel food cake. then layer some of the coolwhip mix. then layer some of the crushed butterfingers.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

the only calories come from the butterfingers. It's a light and tasty desert and does not taste low fat or low cal.

[Dingfod]

I wouldn't say the Butterfingers are the only calories. 16 ounces of sugar-free, fat-free Coolwhip Free has 720 calories (15 calories per 9 gram serving). (http://www.thedailyplate.com/nutrition-calories/food/kraft/cool-whip-whipped-topping-free-12-oz) Angel Food cake has 160 calories per 2 ounce serving, or 1280 calories. (http://www.peertrainer.com/DFcaloriecounterB.aspx?id=8402) Fat free skimmed milk has 45 calories in a half cup. (http://www.peertrainer.com/DFcaloriecounterB.aspx?id=32150) Add that all up with the four Butterfinger bars, you're looking at almost 400 calories for a slice (1/8th).

[Miss Shelby]

oh you're spankin' me monkey. well I can't remember how many points per serving it was. but it is all about the points, you know.

[Ensign Steve]

I do it. I did it 13 years ago and I lost 80 lbs over the course of 22 months. In 10 years I gained nearly all of it back, through no fault of the program, as I stopped following it. Every once in a while I'll go back on and I always lose some weight. I have been back on since January of this year and I have lost 25 lbs. This program works when I work it, and doesn't when I don't.

:themoreyouknow:

[Miss Shelby]

This program works when I work it, and doesn't when I don't.

:themoreyouknow:

that's what i have heard from a lot of people. that's kinda one of my fears--that I will let myself get out of the habit and gain the weight back. can't imagine having type I diabetes and having my livliehood literally depend on following a balanced diet etc. well I suppose in the end it does affect most of us over time that way, but a lot sooner to someone whose body doesn't make their own insulin.

[Qingdai]

Type II diabetes, not type I.
Type II is the type of diabetes we give to ourselves. Type I is of unknown cause.

[Miss Shelby]

Whether you have type I or type II they still recommend you follow the same diet . I mentioned type I because I used to work for an endocrinology group and some of my co workers had type I. I suppose that’s why they went into the field. One girl who's had it since age 13 is ‘super human’ according to her physicians because she’s so good at following a regimented diet and exercise program. I’m sure she blows a lot of peeps out of the water regarding being healthy.

[Shake]

It's a good program. My mother joined back in the 80s and has done fairly well with it. She actually works for them 1 night a week in her town helping run the meetings, distribute literature and sell products. She's passed information and coupons on to us and I've found that some of their food products are quite good, actually. The whole program is really about being accountable for what you eat and exercising good portion control. Those are both very important elements in effective weight loss.