Free Weight Watchers Friendly Meal Plan with FreeStyle Smart Points #36 (2024)
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It is my pleasure to bring you another free Weight Watchers friendly meal plan this weekend using some of our most recent MPM recipes! This week’s meal plan includes steak, chicken, tortellini, meatballs, shrimp Alfredo, and cheesy broccoli soup. Each recipe makes between 4-7 servings and is between 1-6 WW FreeStyle Smart Points per serving. Plus, an added bonus to this week is that all of these six entrees reheat well, so any leftovers you have each night can be used for lunch the next day. I love that! Don’t you?
Before we get to the meal plan, though, let’s talk about you. How are you doing? I have been thinking about you lately and I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you. Your kind words through comments, messages and emails have been a great encouragement to me and I always love hearing your ideas when you have them. Whether you pop on here occasionally, are here for the first time, or come back regularly, I am honored that you chose to come to Meal Planning Mommies today. Thank you!
I am LOVING the freedom of the new WW FreeStyle plan because I love all the foods you can eat guilt-free. Perhaps I was getting a little too confident, though, because I stopped tracking what I was eating. I was feeling really good about the few good food choices I was making and the walks I was taking and somehow I had managed to convince myself I was losing weight this week. No joke. Like, I literally thought my clothes felt looser. So I was surprised today to see that I gained weight since the last meeting I went to… which was about A MONTH AGO. None of that sounds very inspiring, does it? 🙂 This is my truth. A lot can happen in a month (that’s kind of a long time to go between meetings) and not tracking isn’t working for me… so…
And yesterday, I got on Pinterest and got all inspired and made this:
Isn’t this a fun idea? This one pin inspired me to start a whole new Pinterest board, “Lose 100 pounds”. There isn’t a ton on there yet, but I am planning to add things to the “Lose 100 Pounds” board that would inspire and motivate someone like me… someone who needs to be reminded over and over again that losing weight can actually be fun, rewarding, and always worth-while. Feel free to hop over there and follow the board if this sounds like something you would be interested in. For me personally, when I am creative I get more motivated, so I loved the idea of coloring in little tiles each time I lose a pound. I am eager to start coloring in some of this little tiles and filling up my countdown (or is a a count-up?) chart.
There was a sticker that came with my planner this year that said, “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.” Don’t you love that? I decided to put this “100 Pound Countdown” in my planner, because it is my “plan”.
What’s in your plan?
Is this week’s free MPM Weight Watchers friendly meal plan going to be a part of your plan? All of the work is done for you!
Click on the meal plan pictured below for a printable PDF of this week’s meal plan that you can save to your computer or print off. Hyperlinks on the recipe names will take you to where the recipe is online or you can always come back to this post for the links to the recipes.
Click on the grocery list pictured below for a printable PDF of this week’s grocery list that you can print off and take to the store with you. Numbers in (parenthesis) next to the ingredient match up with the number of the recipe in the lower right corner. If you don’t want to do a recipe, you can simply cross off the ingredients with that number next to them.
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What's the Same: SmartPoints – The new Weight Watchers Freestyle program still uses SmartPoints with the same calculation, so the majority of foods (with the exception of the new zero point items) will keep the same SmartPoints. SmartPoints are calculated based on calories, saturated fat, sugar and protein.
Based on our science-backed PersonalPoints® system, WW Freestyle encourages you to eat more fruits, veggies, lean protein, and less sugar and unhealthy fats. Our program also has over 200+ ZeroPoint™ foods you never have to portion or track. Spend your personalized PersonalPoints Budget on any food you like.
Every food is assigned a SmartPoints value — one, easy-to-use number based on four components: calories, saturated fat, sugar, and protein. Calories establish the baseline of how many SmartPoints values the food is worth.
What is negative about Weight Watchers? Weight Watchers lacks education when it comes to nutrition and learning about why and how the foods you eat affect your weight. You also can't follow the points system outside WW, making the plan hard to continue after canceling your subscription.
You get a weekly PointsPlus Allowance of 49, and we want you to use it! Also consider eating some — or all — of the activity PointsPlus values you earn. You'll still lose weight.
Weight Watchers now has 3 different food plans to choose from: the blue plan, the green plan, and the purple plan. While they all follow the same basic formula of tracking your food intake throughout the day, they do offer slightly different SmartPoints and ZeroPoint foods.
So, you may be able to lose 5 pounds in your first week or two on Weight Watchers, but as you get used to the plan, you may plateau and will probably slow down to just a couple of pounds per week. Not only is this normal, but it's also preferable.
But you have to count the points for any non ZeroPoint ingredients you add to your oats. Does it matter if I use instant oats or if I cook my own rolled oats? Nope! Plain oats—no matter the type—are a ZeroPoint food.
(If you're active, maybe you can consider 1,500.) Most regimented diet programs, like Weight Watchers, are similarly based on a 1,200 caloric intake, just hidden behind a “point” system so it doesn't feel like calorie counting.
One of the biggest differences between SmartPoints and PointsPlus is how sugars are calculated. They cost much more on the SmartPoints plan than they did on the old PointsPlus system. You can still enjoy things that contain sugars, but be aware that they will count higher than they used to.
The concept of the Weight Watchers SmartPoints system is fairly different than the old PointsPlus system. First of all, SmartPoints goes above and beyond calorie counting. There is a new algorithm to take into account sugar content, foods with artificial sweeteners and low-fat products.
How many Weight Watchers smart points are you allowed per day? Users are usually allowed about 30 smart points a day. This varies from person to person according to factors such as age, weight, and gender.
Do I need to eat all of my Points (even the ones I add)? Your Budget is yours to use in any way you want! We understand that every day is different—some days you might go a little under your Budget, some days a little over. Either way is perfectly fine and leads to healthy eating and weight loss.
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It is my pleasure to bring you another free Weight Watchers friendly meal plan this weekend using some of our most recent MPM recipes! This week’s meal plan includes steak, chicken, tortellini, meatballs, shrimp Alfredo, and cheesy broccoli soup. Each recipe makes between 4-7 servings and is between 1-6 WW FreeStyle Smart Points per serving. Plus, an added bonus to this week is that all of these six entrees reheat well, so any leftovers you have each night can be used for lunch the next day. I love that! Don’t you?