PointsPlus Virtual Meeting (Nov 10-16): Earn Activity Points

-If you have anything to celebrate, share and give yourself a bravo sticker: +

I already posted about my WL for the week, since I WI on Fridays. I will celebrate enjoying the LSU-Bama game (Go Tigers!!!) with gumbo, garlic bread, snacks and beer, while staying OP.

-If you want to make it official, you can weigh yourself and put it in your tracker or share it!

-.6 11/8/19 & -3.5 total

- What do you do to earn activity points?

Walk for 30-45 minutes most days, 45-60 minute yoga classes 2-3 times per week, walk around the house or outdoors while talking on my cell phone. I had a 50 minute conversation with my cousin one day last week and met my step goal for the day!

- Do you use your activity points for food?

Usually. This week, I hope to leave some of them on the table.

- What is your activity point goal this week?

I aim for 3-4 per day at least 6 days per week, so my goal is 18-24 APS.

-This Week’s Routine: Before you leave the house, make sure you have a healthy snack with you.

I will keep a Kind bar and a 100 calorie bag of nuts in my car.

-This Week’s GHG: Milk Products: Get at least two 1-cup servings of non- or low-fat milk products per day
I drink at least a cup of milk in my coffee daily and eat lots of yogurt, so I usually get my 2 C. I also eat lots of berries, which are surprisingly high in calcium.

-Meal of the Week: Snack
-What are you having for snack?

My favorite snacks are: yogurt, fruit, baby carrots with hummus, boiled egg, roasted edamame, nuts, string cheese, Stacy's Pita chips, Just the Cheese bars.

Official WI...177.8; up 0.6. Blaming too much salt yesterday, and moving on.

+ DIY bravo for “biting the bullet” and jumping on the scale anyway.
The old me would’ve postponed WI...and the resultant accountability.

- What do you do to earn activity points?
...walking with DH and Grrrzelda, for now..!
Need to add some strength training and stretching to the weekly routine...
and start adding some bicycling to the mix.

- Do you use your activity points for food? Yes, instead of my Weeklies!
But I usually save them up, to use Fri.-Sun.
@ the moment, I still earn fewer APs than my total of Weeklies,
so even if I use all my AP’s over the weekend,
I’m ahead of the game.
Bonus: “earning” and “saving” APs
is its own little sense of accomplishment.
Esp. When the APs are budgeted out wisely and “invested”
(And treats stop being some sort of “consolation prize”
for any aggravations du jour..!)

- What is your activity point goal this week?
Whatever works out to 10k+ steps/day, @ least 5x wk.

This Week’s Routine: Before you leave the house,
make sure you have a healthy snack with you.
Yep...and a bottle of H2O!

This Week’s GHG: Milk Products:
Get at least two 1c. servings ff/lf milk products per day
Easy one. 1 c. / day nf milk set aside for coffee.
Other serving is ff Greek yoghurt or ff / lf cheese.
(If only salads were that much of an automatic go-to!🙄)

Meal of the Week: Snack
What are you having for snack?
a.m. fruit, dairy
p.m. veg, hummus

Recipe of the Week: Homemade Kettle Corn (2PP for about 2.5 cups)
sounds delicious...which makes it too risky to try at the moment. 😂

Did try making the Cauliflower Potato Curry (aloo gobi) at long last. Mmmn!
Also made cream of mushroom soup from scratch for the first time ever last week.
3 PP per cup, supposedly. Worth every point.

Have a great week, all! 

- What do you do to earn activity points?
When the temperature outside is above 50, I like to walk. Now that it is getting colder, I am not sure what I am going to do. I should have a plan because it is not like winter is a surprise. Lol. I lack motivation to exercise when it is cold outside.

- Do you use your activity points for food? No.

- What is your activity point goal this week? 20-30 minutes of some type of activity or at least less time sitting.

What are you having for snack? Either 10 unsalted almonds, low-fat string cheese or this morning I had some Plan FF Greek yogurt with some thawed frozen unsweetened cherries with a packet of Stevia.

I totally agree with you. I think PointsPlus is the last program that correlated with calories. Yes, the fruits and "most" vegetables are "free" but everything else is 40 calories = 1 Point.
The free fruits and veggies work for me because I'm really bad at eating them and even when they're "unlimited" I definitely do not over eat them. Also, it's factored into the plan, I think 250 calories or so taken off the top to compensate? Anyway, I don't think I can handle anything SmartPoints.

This is a hard time of year with all the temptations, not only the holiday-related-food, but just the cold weather and comfort food. I'm really relying on low-point soups and bean burritos to get me through it.

Anyone else have some good ideas for low/reasonable point, winter-time foods?