Weight Issues & ??on amount of protien needed&kinds

[Guest guest]

Hiya!

yup i seem to remember people in WW eating LOTS of those breakfast

cookies which ended up being like 1 point but WAY HIGH on calorie

level lol..

I am VERY skinny on top any extra added unnatual sugar or starch i

digest goes to hips and thighs...i can disguise this with certain

style pants for a bit..but being small boned it gets noticeable...i

know if i worked out more wouldnt be such a proublem but just having

the energy to do so lately.

 

be it weather or just me ive been dragging lately..I can eat nonstop

all veggies and fruit and not worry been trying to find veggie ways

of adding in the protein which wont pack on the pounds and are not as

costly as some of the store stuff...my question for all of you though

is how much is enough protien? how much should i be getting? is this

why im dragging perhaps? would one chickpea type salad a day be

enough for protien or no?

Can and will buy veggie burgers but they are soo costlly and rather

my kids eat bean related stuff than that....we are not completly

veggie..me proubly the most lol i could live off of starch only .I

guess you can compare me to the occasional vegetarian...i eat some

ch**k and also some f**h...but trying to cut back in all our

diets..How does everyone here supplement your protien? just a tad bit

curious...ok now i think im a bit off topic perhaps??sorry

thanks a bunch

Regards

Niccii

 

Veg-Recipes, Jamie Orozco <jamie_orozco@s...> wrote:

> Hi Nicole,

>

> I did WW and before you are correct- the more fiber your food

contains, the

> less points it was worth ( so the more you could eat of it.. which

was GREAT

> for me!)- However- they found people like me who eat a ton of high

fiber

> foods anyway were consuming too many calories that way to lose

wieght. They

> were probably right even though I didn't want to hear it. Now they

only let

> you count 4 grams of fiber TOPS- even if it has 13 grams of fiber..

This is

> really not supposed to make you avoid high fiber foods ( I still

eat the

> same things) but really meant to help lower your daily caloric

intake- which

> in the long run, everyone knows- the only way to lose is to consume

more

> calories than you burn in a day.

>

> If any of you to Natural Health magazine- or if it is in

the

> supermarket- pick up this month's issue. It has a section on WEight

loss

> that is great. It tells you how may calories to lessen your diet by

to lose

> 10 pounds in two weeks! It tells you how to figure out how many

calories you

> burn during 24 hours if you were to simply watch t.v. all day & do

nothing

> physical..

>

> I think it's back to calorie counting school fo rme.. ( it also

tells you to

> beware of fat-free or lite foods as they may have less fat- but

sometimes

> actually have more calories! ) This is a trap many of us fall right

into.

>

> So I think for the next coupl eof weeks I'll write down everythign-

see how

> many calories I'm eating and try to balance all the macronutrients

( th

> eprotein, fat & carbos) and then try to cut back on a few calories

a day!

>

> Goo dluck to everyone in my boat..

>

> PS Niccii, I'm in the same boat you are. I'm small on top and

bigger on

> bottom- though not as drastically as some people I know.. My

largest size

> was a 12 if they ran small.. usually a 10.. But I'm also a very

thick built

> girl= solid..I now weigh 145 pounds in a size 6 !! and I still have

about 10

> pounds of fat on me. it's amazing how differently people lose

wiehgt, There

> were people in my WW group who weight 145 in a size 14!!- Depends

on your

> bone structure and how much of that weight was in muscle or fat I

guess!

> haha

>

> good luck to all you " weight watchers "

>

> pss- the protein upping is working wonders for me- my nails and

skin even

> look better after only a week and a half!Shin is feeling better

too! off for

> my run- I got up late this a.m. lazy Jamie...

>