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Non-Dairy & WW
#226683 - 11/22/05 11:10 AM
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Snorkie
Reged: 02/15/05
Posts: 1999
Loc: Northern Illinois, USA
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The soy milk products I've used are all 1 or 2 points.
IE, Silk and regular 8th Continent are 2 pts a cup and have the calcium. 8th Continent Lite is 1 pt a cup and still has the calcium.
Galaxy veggie cheese slices also have the calcium and have 1 or 2 pts. (I'd have to double check.) The Tofutti slices taste icky (to me) and don't have the calcium.
Soy yogurt is going to be about 3pts a cup (well, Silk anyway). Stoneyfield Farms is 2 pts for the little 1/2 cup portions w/ 15% RDA calcium. I believe for it to count as a calcium serving, it has to have either 20 or 30% of the RDA.
OMG. I sound like a commercial.  I'll stop now.
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No, no, no, you don't sound like a commercial. This is GREAT stuff! I'm printing out your post.
I'm not real crazy about soy cheese. The only kind I like is Veggie Slices, and even then it has to be in a casserole or on top of a ground dead cow, barbecued over charcoal. "Soy Dream" vanilla "milk" isn't bad, but again, I could never drink it straight.
Hmmmm.... don't know if this gonna work for me. But hey, if you can do it, so can I, right? RIGHT????
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I rarely drink soy milk straight. It's usually what I cook my oatmeal in. As for soy cheese, yeah, I usually eat it on some sort of sandwich.
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Silk brand Chocolate Soy milk is something like 3 points for a 3/4 cup serving. 
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Core or Flex?
#226707 - 11/22/05 01:19 PM
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Bevvy
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Which plan did you ladies like best, and why? It sounds like not counting would be easier, but is it really?
Also, did you do it online or at meetings? I like the online program, but then where's the support?
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Re: Core Flex?
#226722 - 11/22/05 02:00 PM
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Snorkie
Reged: 02/15/05
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Loc: Northern Illinois, USA
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I follow Winning Points, which is what they had before Flex, so I'll say Flex. They are very similar.
I did meetings. I liked the support and the accountibility.
I say "did meetings" because since I'm "lifetime" I just weigh in once a month and rarely stay for meetings.
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It's working great for me! My weigh-in today was 3 pounds down. So far I haven't found it too tricky. I drink low fat soy milk instead of the regular soy milk which brings the points down a little. I also have a few favorite Amy's frozen dinners that I found to be pretty good on points. You have to be more creative but you can make it work. I don't know how the core plan would work with it because I haven't tried core with ibs yet, but the flex plan has been working great for me. You could even ask your weight watchers leader for some tips. If you talk to them about your special diet, they may be able to help you work it in with the weight watchers program.
You will notice that some will say that it won't work because they make you eat alot of insoluble fiber. But you don't have to follow EXACTLY what wieght watchers says. They are just guidlines. As long as you eat ibs friendly foods and try to keep them within your points range (if you are on flex plan) then you should be fine.
I've been on weight watchers for just over a year now and am 30 pounds down in total. I was diagnosed with IBS only a short time ago (a month or two ago I think).
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Hi Bevvy!
#226753 - 11/22/05 04:14 PM
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Reged: 03/10/04
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As always, it is lovely to see your face around!
BTW -- I wanted to ask you, do you hear at all from LauraSue? I miss her! She used to be quite the regular on this board!
Anyway, back to WW! I have personally never been on BUT I thought about it and decided against it because my mom was on it and I looked at her material and thought it wasn't for me.
My mom (5'2-5'3, I guess... 140 lbs) only gets to eat the equivalent of about 1200 calories a day. From everything that I have read anything below 1200 calories is "starvation mode" and I discovered that a lot of my weight gain came from not eating enough calories.
MY other problem with it was what others have mentioned -- how difficult it is to eat SF foods. I don't eat very much bread, but I found anything like rice or potatoes or pasta would up my points super high.
I personally cannot tolerate ANY raw vegetables and have a hard time with about 80% of cooked vegetables, so I was never eating even close to what I should have been.
If these aren't problems for you, though, you might be totally fine! I would say that you know your body enough not to starve yourself.. eat if you feel hungry, even if you are almost out of points. If you exercise, make sure you eat enough to input enough calories to fuel your body.
I think one thing about WW that some people really enjoy is having the accountability of going to the meetings and weighing in and having that support.
Good luck, and let us know how it goes!
**hughugs**
--Steph
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stephie!
#226759 - 11/22/05 04:51 PM
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jaime g
Reged: 07/27/05
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speaking of lovely faces great to see around, it's been a while since i've seen you around here. how've you been?
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