6 Point Meals Weight Watchers
Latarsha Dorrance
For many years, everyone who counted points using WW was on the same plan. At the end of 2019 they split the program into three different color plans, each with their own list of ZeroPoint foods. Then a year ago they individualized it even further by introducing PersonalPoints, where every member had their own personalized ZeroPoint foods list. I did hear frustration from some members during this time that they felt it was more difficult to find and share meals, recipes, and foods with others on the program.
It seems like WW has decided to regain that sense of community for its members and get many members back on the same plan. However, diabetic WW members will have a slightly different ZeroPoint food list, so some of my recipes moving forward will list two different Points values per serving. Here are the ZeroPoint food lists for both the standard and diabetic Points plans:
There will still be a separate ZeroPoint food list for diabetics. If you select that you are diabetic in your WW settings you will not have fruit, yogurt, cottage cheese, or corn/popcorn as zero points. Though diabetic members will not have those ZeroPoint food categories, they will have a higher daily points allowance to balance it out! The ZeroPoint foods for the diabetic Points plan will be:
Although WW is moving on from their PersonalPoints program to the new Points plan, their formula for calculating points is remaining the same. The points are calculated using calories, fiber, protein, added sugars, saturated fats and unsaturated fats. The algorithm is intended to help guide you toward foods higher in healthy fats, fiber, and protein and lower in added sugars and saturated fats.
As far as people using the diabetic plan having different ZeroPoint foods and therefore different Points values for recipes containing those foods, I will work on getting those listed as well! Again, if you have chosen the diabetic WW plan in the app then when you click the links in my recipe posts it will show you the correct Points per serving for your plan in the WW app.
Thank you so, so much for this information. I have been watching YouTube videos and reading extensively about the new program, wondering if I should rejoin. Your post is the most thorough, complete post I have read on the new plan. You gave us facts instead of droning on and on with opinion. I am glad I accidentally found this post. Thanks again. I will be following you from now on!
Finally, WW screwed their head back on. I loved the Blue Program. Then they started to fiddle with it. I then threw in the towel and moved on to Healthi. There the Better Balance is like the Blue. Points and all. Now people will once again be able to loose weight and. be able to keep it off.
I have been a WW member for years and have seen a lot of changes. I have learned to adapt to them all. I will miss having brown rice as a zero point food, but I will still eat it and will use my weeklies, if necessary. If I work the program, WW works for me.
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I am losing on personal points but I loved the blue and was doing very well on it when they changed. I am happy for one plan. Although changes come to WW, I am never disappointed. Their Plans are healthy and they WORK!
I am really happy with the changes. I lost almost 30 lbs on the Freestyle program and have STRUGGLED with the noew programs since. I had gained all of my weight back because I had health issues and I am really hoping I can lose it again with the new Points program. Freestyle was easy to follow and I never went without.
It was so difficult to try and find recipes from other WW users, not to mention try to talk to others on WW. My father is also on the program (to lose only 10 lbs) but it was so hard to try to explain to him why my points were different than his.
Thanks so much for the concise update.
I appreciate your hard work. I am not sure about the new plan but willing to try. I loved green.
It would be great if you would create a broth based vegetable soup with corn, peas, carrots and optional chicken breast. It is finding a good seasoning combination that I need help. Maybe one soup with different types of seasoning options
Enjoy your family during the Thanksgiving holidays. My family will be having several of your recipes for Thanksgiving weekend including the pizza dip for a Saturday football party
I would look for a better deal for WW. When I go to the site I am seeing way better deals than that. They have different membership levels based on whether you want to attend meeting or just do it online and the online level is much cheaper than what you were offered.
I just checked on the app and I am VERY confused Brown Rice went from ZERO points to 6 points for 1 cup and White Rice is 6 points for 1 cup. If WW now has brown and white rice as the same point value for 1 cup how the heck was brown rice very a zero point food?
WW was a true success for many including myself back when they used only the daily points system. I am NOT a fan of the new program nor have I been a fan of WW changes. Why cant they stay with one plan that was simple and worked. I have my points calculater from back in the day and go back to using that only. The new changes and plans are a waste of my money and confusing.
I am not happy with the new plan. I too liked potato, sweet potato and wheat pasta which they eliminated. The points for these are now quite high. They did add fruits but fruits do not fill me up. I was OK using my points for fruit. I cancelled but they allowed me a free month but I know the plan will not work for me because the free foods are not filling/enjoyable enough for me. Too bad, I was enjoying the journey but am quite sure I will cancel once the free time is over.
Someone asked me if you use your weeklies points, how do you get the blue dot? I understand that WW wants you to not go over more than 10 points of your daily points. . So if they decided to use 12 of their weeklies one day, will they still get a blue dot? Keeping the blue dot streak going is very important to a lot of people on the program. Thanks!
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Here is a Weight Watchers Freestyle 3 Day Meal Plan Using 0 Point Foods for those of us on Weight Watchers Freestyle. I thought it would be interesting to see what varied meals I could come up with using only the 0 Point foods. Now, I know the point of Weight Watchers Freestyle is to not base your entire day around 0 Point foods. But I thought doing this would be helpful should you be struggling with a weight plateau, planning an upcoming vacation or just need a baseline 0 Point menu to work off of and then you can integrate your daily points into the menu.
This tasted fine the day I prepared it but tasted phenomenal the next day! Wow!! I imagine it would be even better if prepared in a crock pot too. The only thing I did differently is that I used a can of 3 bean mix instead of just kidney beans. Thanks a million for this guilt free, zero point meal. I will definitely make this again.
Hi Katherine
This Zero Point Chili is Zero points on the WW Blue plan not 12 points as you state! Please take a look at the screenshot from the official WW recipe builder.
I suspect that you have worked out the SmartPoint using the nutritional information that is been provided at the bottom of the page. As explained, this information is automatically generated, is an estimate and does not account for the fact that WW do not count the calories, saturated fat, sugar and protein of the zero point foods in a recipe (which is most of the ingredients in this zero point chili!) when working out points.
I hope that makes sense!
Kind regards
Marianne
I was wondering the same thing. I used some online conversions and came up with this. The meat will be just over a pound. The beef stock is about 16.9 fl oz. The tomatoes and kidney beans came out to 14 0z, which would be one can each. The temperature on the oven was unclear, but the conversion from 200C to Fahrenheit was 392F. So I am going to go with 375 to 400 and just keep an eye on it and adjust baking time as needed. Hope this helps! I am excited to try it!
Hi Susan
I am so sorry but just at the moment I am not in the position to be able to offer a Canadian 'button'.
I will continue to look in to this and will keep you posted.
Best of luck with your WW journey
Kindest regards
Marianne
Hi Susan
If you click on the Personal Points button in the recipe card it will take you straight to the WW App which will show you how many Personal Points that particular recipe will be for you.
I hope that helps!
Kind regards
Marianne
Hi Jamie
If you click on the Personal Points button in the recipe card it will take you straight to the WW App which will show you how many Personal Points that particular recipe will be for you.
I hope that helps!
Kind regards
Marianne
I just made this today (new to WW) and it was great. I changed up the process a bit though. I added the spices to the ground turkey the first time I stirred it instead of to the veggies in the pot.I found that infused the flavour more fully. I also added a big pinch of salt to both the veggies and the turkey (and probably had a heavier hand with the spices as well). I love cheese with chili so I topped it with cottage cheese, but I may even sprinkle nutritional yeast next time! Overall this was great and it's nice to have a 0 point lunch that's filling on a day when we're planning a big supper. Thanks !!
Hi, I'm Marianne! Welcome to Pointed Kitchen, a website for anyone following the WW program and wanting more recipe ideas. I'm a Lifetime member (Gold member) & have been maintaining a healthy weight with WW for a number of years now.
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