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I'm in my first week (day 4). I signed up for three months online.
I've lost 9 1/2 lbs. in three days. I know it's only water, but my ankles are grateful nonetheless. So are my feet and my knees... On my first day, trying to catch up on this newsgroup, I was rolling my eyes at some of you who just couldn't seem to eat enough food to use up their points. I knew I would eventually get used to smaller portions and so forth, but puh-leeez! Today, I was running around like crazy, ate a light lunch, grabbed a V8 to take in the car, had a bowl of vegetable soup at home before running out, and later on, sat down to dinner at 9:30 without taking time to review my points situation. I was very hungry, and ate 10 ounces of yellowfin tuna, cooked rare on the grill. That's only 6.5 points! I'm going to have that a lot, and shrimp. Anyway, after dinner, I caught up my points tracker and I still had 11.5 points to go. I grinned to myself, thinking I'd better stop rolling my eyes now. Well, I really enjoyed my big bowl (two servings) of Great Grains cereal with raisins, dates and pecans, and 8 oz. of 0.5% milk, followed by a Swiss Miss chocolate ice cream bar! I'm still patting my oh-so-full tummy. Most of the points seem pretty straightforward so far. One thing that confuses me is that a cup of raw carrots has 0 points. Steam those carrots for 10 minutes, now the same serving has 1 point. This makes no sense to me. What gives?? Stan |
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Welcome Stan, and congrats on the loss! It might be a lot of water, but it
's still a loss! As for the carrots : can't help you, they are always 0 points on the european system :-) -- Nathalie from Belgium 134.1/103.1/minigoal 102.3 Goal 68 Kg 295.6/227.3/minigoal 225.6/Goal 150 pounds SWWC 238/227.3/226 "Stan" wrote in message ... I'm in my first week (day 4). I signed up for three months online. I've lost 9 1/2 lbs. in three days. I know it's only water, but my ankles are grateful nonetheless. So are my feet and my knees... On my first day, trying to catch up on this newsgroup, I was rolling my eyes at some of you who just couldn't seem to eat enough food to use up their points. I knew I would eventually get used to smaller portions and so forth, but puh-leeez! Today, I was running around like crazy, ate a light lunch, grabbed a V8 to take in the car, had a bowl of vegetable soup at home before running out, and later on, sat down to dinner at 9:30 without taking time to review my points situation. I was very hungry, and ate 10 ounces of yellowfin tuna, cooked rare on the grill. That's only 6.5 points! I'm going to have that a lot, and shrimp. Anyway, after dinner, I caught up my points tracker and I still had 11.5 points to go. I grinned to myself, thinking I'd better stop rolling my eyes now. Well, I really enjoyed my big bowl (two servings) of Great Grains cereal with raisins, dates and pecans, and 8 oz. of 0.5% milk, followed by a Swiss Miss chocolate ice cream bar! I'm still patting my oh-so-full tummy. Most of the points seem pretty straightforward so far. One thing that confuses me is that a cup of raw carrots has 0 points. Steam those carrots for 10 minutes, now the same serving has 1 point. This makes no sense to me. What gives?? Stan |
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I was told it is because cooking carrots brings out the natural sugar in
them. Don't understand why that affects the points but I guess WW knows what they are doing. |
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Maybe because 1 cup steamed carrots weighs more than 1 cup raw? i.e., they
shrink when cooked therefore more fits in a cup If you took 1 cup raw carrots and steamed them, I don't see any way in the world that the calories, fat, or fiber would change. Of course you would probably be left with something like 3/4 c carrots when done. "Susan" wrote in message ... I was told it is because cooking carrots brings out the natural sugar in them. Don't understand why that affects the points but I guess WW knows what they are doing. |
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Probably has something to do with the fiber breaking down during
cooking allowing the body to extract more "sugar" or other nutrients or requiring less work to digest and utilize the cooked carrots???? On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:38:36 -0500, Stan wrote: I'm in my first week (day 4). I signed up for three months online. I've lost 9 1/2 lbs. in three days. I know it's only water, but my ankles are grateful nonetheless. So are my feet and my knees... On my first day, trying to catch up on this newsgroup, I was rolling my eyes at some of you who just couldn't seem to eat enough food to use up their points. I knew I would eventually get used to smaller portions and so forth, but puh-leeez! Today, I was running around like crazy, ate a light lunch, grabbed a V8 to take in the car, had a bowl of vegetable soup at home before running out, and later on, sat down to dinner at 9:30 without taking time to review my points situation. I was very hungry, and ate 10 ounces of yellowfin tuna, cooked rare on the grill. That's only 6.5 points! I'm going to have that a lot, and shrimp. Anyway, after dinner, I caught up my points tracker and I still had 11.5 points to go. I grinned to myself, thinking I'd better stop rolling my eyes now. Well, I really enjoyed my big bowl (two servings) of Great Grains cereal with raisins, dates and pecans, and 8 oz. of 0.5% milk, followed by a Swiss Miss chocolate ice cream bar! I'm still patting my oh-so-full tummy. Most of the points seem pretty straightforward so far. One thing that confuses me is that a cup of raw carrots has 0 points. Steam those carrots for 10 minutes, now the same serving has 1 point. This makes no sense to me. What gives?? Stan |
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Hi Stan,
Carrots have natural sugar in them that comes out in the cooking process, so they end up higher in points. Also there is more fiber in the raw ones, so that affects the points too. Carol -- .................................................. ........... 318/254.6/169 63.4 lost since December 2002 I am a slim person in process. .................................................. ............. "Stan" wrote in message ... I'm in my first week (day 4). I signed up for three months online. I've lost 9 1/2 lbs. in three days. I know it's only water, but my ankles are grateful nonetheless. So are my feet and my knees... On my first day, trying to catch up on this newsgroup, I was rolling my eyes at some of you who just couldn't seem to eat enough food to use up their points. I knew I would eventually get used to smaller portions and so forth, but puh-leeez! Today, I was running around like crazy, ate a light lunch, grabbed a V8 to take in the car, had a bowl of vegetable soup at home before running out, and later on, sat down to dinner at 9:30 without taking time to review my points situation. I was very hungry, and ate 10 ounces of yellowfin tuna, cooked rare on the grill. That's only 6.5 points! I'm going to have that a lot, and shrimp. Anyway, after dinner, I caught up my points tracker and I still had 11.5 points to go. I grinned to myself, thinking I'd better stop rolling my eyes now. Well, I really enjoyed my big bowl (two servings) of Great Grains cereal with raisins, dates and pecans, and 8 oz. of 0.5% milk, followed by a Swiss Miss chocolate ice cream bar! I'm still patting my oh-so-full tummy. Most of the points seem pretty straightforward so far. One thing that confuses me is that a cup of raw carrots has 0 points. Steam those carrots for 10 minutes, now the same serving has 1 point. This makes no sense to me. What gives?? Stan |
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Hi Stan. Welcome aboard this great newsgroup. Congratulations for getting
of that 9.5 pounds. That's a tremendous start! Elaine K 331.4/194.2/179 Stan wrote: I'm in my first week (day 4). I signed up for three months online. I've lost 9 1/2 lbs. in three days. I know it's only water, but my ankles are grateful nonetheless. So are my feet and my knees... On my first day, trying to catch up on this newsgroup, I was rolling my eyes at some of you who just couldn't seem to eat enough food to use up their points. I knew I would eventually get used to smaller portions and so forth, but puh-leeez! Today, I was running around like crazy, ate a light lunch, grabbed a V8 to take in the car, had a bowl of vegetable soup at home before running out, and later on, sat down to dinner at 9:30 without taking time to review my points situation. I was very hungry, and ate 10 ounces of yellowfin tuna, cooked rare on the grill. That's only 6.5 points! I'm going to have that a lot, and shrimp. Anyway, after dinner, I caught up my points tracker and I still had 11.5 points to go. I grinned to myself, thinking I'd better stop rolling my eyes now. Well, I really enjoyed my big bowl (two servings) of Great Grains cereal with raisins, dates and pecans, and 8 oz. of 0.5% milk, followed by a Swiss Miss chocolate ice cream bar! I'm still patting my oh-so-full tummy. Most of the points seem pretty straightforward so far. One thing that confuses me is that a cup of raw carrots has 0 points. Steam those carrots for 10 minutes, now the same serving has 1 point. This makes no sense to me. What gives?? Stan |
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My leader said this was changed with FlexPoints and carrots and onions, cooked
or raw, are all ZERO points again. Dash |
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That's what our WW leader said . . . cooking brings out the sugar.
-- Donna in Idaho! Project Linus Boise/SW Idaho Coordinator Website: http://donnakwilts.tripod.com/ Remove ".remove.invalid" to reply The ultimate inspiration is the deadline! "Susan" wrote in message ... I was told it is because cooking carrots brings out the natural sugar in them. Don't understand why that affects the points but I guess WW knows what they are doing. |
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Wow Stan, congrats on your success thus far! Almost 10 pounds is nothing to
sneeze at! -- ~Kristin O~ 272/238.4/172 Here's our FAQ: http://www.didian.com/asdww/ and welcome notice: http://www.geocities.com/welcomenotice/index.html "Stan" wrote in message ... I'm in my first week (day 4). I signed up for three months online. I've lost 9 1/2 lbs. in three days. I know it's only water, but my ankles are grateful nonetheless. So are my feet and my knees... |
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