I find one of the most important things to make weight watchers successful for me is planning. For a while it felt like my whole world revolved around food, always planning what I am going to eat, checking everything for points, writing everything down. Even now I sometimes feel like my whole world is only about food.
I do spent a few hours a week planning what I am going to make for the week. This makes it easier to keep on track without having to think about it all the time, I also find that this can help save money. I know eating healthier is not always cheap, making sure I have my daily serving of fruits and veggies can get expensive when they are not in season. Planning my meals for the week allows me to take better advantage of what’s on sale that week and I can save money by buying common ingredients in bulk.
My weekly planning always starts on Thrusdays. Thursday is when the sales flyers come out for sales starting on Friday. I get all my flyers online and they are already booked mark so can find them quickly. Most of my flyers I get from flyerland.ca, great website with tons of flyers.
Once I know what’s on sale I can start planning my meals. I only cook for myself and my boyfriend so there are usually left over. Most the recipes I have serve 4 so I like to pick recipes that I can use for lunch the next day. For example I made BBQ chicken sandwiches with apple slaw from Weight Watchers 101 Best Quick & Easy Recipes. For lunch the next day I sliced up some extra chicken and put it in a wrap with the left over apple slaw. I get bored very easily with food and don’t like eating the same thing for days straight, although it is sometimes unavoidable. So making things I can use in other recipes is important.
Having my meals planned out for the week helps me keep on budget and within my points. I don’t spend money on extra things I don’t need or won’t end up eating, and I don’t end up grabbing a burger on my way home from work because I don’t know what to make.