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Title: Weight Loss and Maintenance
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Created:Tue Jul 10 1990
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:933
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691.0. "Weight Watchers question" by SMURF::HAECK (Debby Haeck) Wed Aug 14 1991 22:23

    I just joined weight watchers today, and of coarse I have questions
    that I didn't think to ask at the meeting.  Most of them I think will
    be covered in the booklet that was given out, but I have a few on
    allowance/selections that I don't think will be covered.

    Lately I have had a bug on gazpacho soup and miso soup.  Considering
    the ingredients, I think these will fit into the program, but what to I
    consider them.  Gazpacho, I think, would be all vegetable, but what
    about miso soup?  The tufu would be protein, but what about the fish
    bouillon and the miso?

    Thanks
    Debby
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691.1STAR::LEWISThu Aug 15 1991 16:224
    According to the expanded food guide -- which you should get in a few
    weeks miso soup (1 bowl) counts as 60 cal. There's no listing for
    gazpacho. But be careful, some recipes add oil so you maybe should
    account for that.
691.2thanksSMURF::HAECKDebby HaeckThu Aug 15 1991 20:382
    Great.  Thanks
    
691.3chicken skinSMURF::HAECKDebby HaeckThu Jul 16 1992 20:385
    Sometimes I indulge myself and eat the chicken skin.  I know, fifty
    lashes with a wet noodle.  Occasionally I try to be honest with myself
    and record this, but seldom carry thru since I have no idea what the
    exchanges would be.  So, what would your guess be?  An extra 1F? 2F?  
    xxxC?
691.4MILKWY::ZARLENGAain't my type o'hype, baybehFri Jul 17 1992 07:035
    It can't be more than 100% fat.
    
    If it's about a tablespoon in volume, it's 1 fat.
    
    Use your eyeballs and estimate it...
691.5TLE::SHAR::sharoneA Flounder in a CloudSat Jul 18 1992 00:2417
My WW maintenance book lists a sort of Turkey dinner - Turkey, baked or roasted,
with skin, stuffing, and gravy.  When I subtract off the turkey, the stuffing,
and the gravy, leaving "skin", I get 80 calories.  Now, I don't know if
WW means:

	- Simply the fact that you roasted the turkey with the skin on adds
	  80 calories per 4 oz. serving

	- The 4 oz. of turkey includes skin on the edges

	- The 4 oz. of turkey includes an "end slice" with *lots* of skin


When my husband and I cook our DEC turkeys, I get *all* the skin, since he
has no interest in it.  I don't *want* to know how much that adds up to! :-]

--Sharon
691.6y'know, this is pretty disgusting...*skin*? ick.TLE::DBANG::carrolla woman full of fireSat Jul 18 1992 01:0817
At very worst, you can assume the skin is 100% fat. Weigh it.
1 Tbs of fat weighs aprx 1/2 oz, and is equivalent to 3 Fa.  Weigh
a large portion of skin, then estimate how much of it you actually
eat.

I don't believe that you are eating *that* much fat from just eating
a bit of skin with a slice of chicken or turkey, especially if the skin
is very thin and crispy (ie: most of the fat has been cooked out.)

If I were doing WW and I wanted to count the skin I would probably
say that the crispy skin on a large breast of broiled chicken (not the soft
fatty stuff, though - who wants to eat that anyway) would be 1-2Fa.

Me, I just eat the skin on occasion and don't worry about it. To each
their own.

D!
691.7SMURF::HAECKDebby HaeckSat Jul 18 1992 01:131
    Thanks all.  Some good suggestions there.  
691.8WW (weight watcher) vegetable soupADISSW::HAECKMea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!Sat Aug 10 1996 01:087
    In the pamphlet that is given on the first week of the Freedom Plan
    there is a recipe for vegetable soup.  The first step is to cook the
    chicken broth mix with the onion and garlic.  Assuming the broth mix is
    dry, then you are heating something with no liquid and no fat.  And
    then add the sliced vegetables, still no water.  Is that right?
    
    Debby