These recipes are developed by Snack Girl and are not endorsed, sponsored or approved by Weight Watchers International, Inc. Homemade Kettle Corn Recipe - 2 Points+ per servingįudgsicle Review - 2 Points+ per popsicleĪpple Peanut Butter Oatmeal Recipe - 7 Points+ per serving More Healthy Snack Ideas I decided to calculate the PointsPlus value for some of the snacks on Snack Girl: Karen-Miller Kovach: Sliced apples with peanut butter The PointsPlus program leaves room for indulgence, making the program livable and flexible to ensure members do not feel deprived. Karen Miller-Kovach: The Weight Watchers approach does not say what you can or can't eat but provides information, knowledge and tools to help people make healthy eating and activity decisions that are right for them. Snack Girl: What is the Weight Watcher's philosophy about snacking? While the environment today makes it hard to make the right food choices, the new PointsPlus program guides people towards making smart, healthful and satisfying choices to lose weight without having to think a whole lot about it. Karen Miller-Kovach: PointsPlus is a guidance system that makes the healthy, satisfying choice the easy choice. Snack Girl: Is this program going to help people lose weight AND eat healthier? That being said, these foods do contain calories so we’ve factored that into the calculation of a member’s daily Target (the number of PointsPlus values they are assigned per day), so that a PointsPlus value of 0 can be assigned and member’s will still successfully lose weight. So our strategy was to assign these foods a PointsPlus value of 0 to encourage more consumption of these very nutritious foods that are also very filling. Karen Miller-Kovach: Most adults don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables. How are the calories in a banana different than the calories in the Vitamuffin? A 2 ounce Deep Chocolate VitaMuffin is now 3 points (also 100 calories). Snack Girl: One change that I noticed is that a banana (100 calories) is now zero points. It was critically important looking at 2010 and beyond, that are our current methodology reflect the latest research. Karen Miller-Kovach: We’ve learned so much more in terms of weight management since the original POINTS system was developed 13 years ago. Snack Girl: Why did you change the POINTS Weight-Loss System? She is the chief scientist and general manager of research & development for Weight Watchers. I was lucky enough to get a chance to interview Karen Miller-Kovach, MBA, MS, RD about the new program. As long as I remained below their calorie limit for the day, it didn't matter what I ate. Weight Watchers would allow me to eat 4 donuts for my 24 points. It became much easier to avoid donuts when I realized that 25% of my daily calories were going to go to that donut.īut, one thing mystified me about the program. A donut was counted as 6 points and I only had 24 points to eat in a day! I found it helpful because it woke me up to the amount of calories in my favorite treats. Snack Girl tried Weight Watchers about 5 years ago. Check out my list of Smart Points Recipes for inspiration! The recipes are listed by Smart Points value to help you in your quest for staying on plan.
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