Hello & Happy Sunday everyone! I am Kelly and this is Weight Watchers Virtual Workshop #405 brought to you by If You Have an Egg.com. Today is Sunday, March 9, 2025 and if you were not able to join us LIVE, just visit https://www.youtube.com/@ifyouhaveanegg to watch (or listen!) whenever you can!
If you are new or returning to our LIVE workshop please give us a shoutout so we can all welcome you…we are glad you are here!
This week over on the If You Have an Egg Facebook Group, our Focus Leader Julie will be chatting about this week’s focus topic “Focusing on Pushing Past a Plateau!”. Join us and don’t forget to comment to join in the fun! If you aren’t already a member of the group simply visit the group here and remember to answer those 3 questions so I can let you in 🙂
It appears the final roll out for the remaining Macros Widgets is finalized! Nothing like waiting for the last minute, I got the notification from WW and then voila there it was. If yours hasn’t updated, I would suggest logging out and back in. Your choices on macros are now: Protein, Carbs, Fats, Fiber, Sodium, Calories and Added Sugar.
To Add or Remove one touch the empty square that says Add/Remove
→ You will see Customize the nutritional totals you want to see on MyDay and all of the owns you already have selected will be “wiggilng”
→To remove one simply touch the red circle with the red minus sign and it will move to the “Available To Add” tray
→ To add one select the green circle with the green plus sign and it will automatically move up to “currently showing”
→ Hit Save and you are ready to go!
This week’s Good Egg Award actually goes to a company! Hard to believe but I was so excited when I saw this campaign at Kroger this week. Kroger, Costco, Sams, you name it have always been known for sample giveaways. Historically, these are usually a quick serve, snack, pre-packaged, heat and serve, or other fairly processed food that is easy to sell from giving someone a sample. While at Kroger this week I was greeted by a lovely young lady with a big smile who was giving out of all things slices of Sumo Citrus! What is that you say? A fresh fruit, freshly peeled, from a fresh face? Yes, that’s what I said! I was so excited to sample the already deliciousness and so happy that adults and kids alike were being served a real, unadulterated, whole food that it warmed my heart. And check this…they are having a Citrus Lovers Sweepstakes this month (March 2025). Double win win Sumo Citrus, you are a good egg! Keep posting that good news this week over in our If You Have an Egg Facebook group for a chance to be next week’s Good Egg Award recipient!
Push Past Plateaus!
We’ve chatted about plateaus versus maintenance so many times over our years together. It’s an important topic. It’s a real thing to consider so let’s take another look!
Did you know?
In both fitness and weight management scenarios, a plateau refers to a period of stalled progress. Losing and gaining the same couple of pounds over and over until something changes or you pull your hair out. Maintenance on the other hand is an intentional stage of maintaining a desired weight or fitness level. This period of intentional maintaining could be because you are at your desired weight or because current life circumstances warrant focusing on something else besides active weight loss at that point.
Have you ever experienced a weight loss plateau?
- Did you choose to maintain your weight because you were at your final goal?
- Did you choose to maintain your weight because something else was going on and it was more important to hang on for dear life to what you had lost rather than focus on losing more weight?
We’ve all been on an unplanned plateau, what are some things you could share with others that helped you get through it?
- Going into Intentional Maintenance and switching my WW app to help keep myself on the same weight instead of giving up and gaining weight.
- Changing up my routine after losing a significant amount of weight.
- Pay more attention to protein consumption.
- Looking at calories to evaluate if they are actually TOO low!
STAR Goal Icon:
Who can tell us a STAR goal they have for tracking this week? Remember it needs to be:
S-pecific so you will know if you did it
T-ruly doable in a week’s time
A-ctionable meaning you will DO something and not not do something
R-elevant to your journey!
Topic: Lighten this up! Peanut Butter Pie
When I signed up to help with the kids at church, I thought I was going to be with a class similar in age to Beau. I like 3 year olds, I love to get down on the floor and play, and I love play doh! Apparently, new guy at church didn’t get the memo… so I got put in Bed Babies. I usually cannot handle more than 1 baby at a time, so I was feeling really outside of my elements.
However! The two ladies I was working with this week were great. One is a great grandmother and the other is a young grandmother like me! They were discussing all of the different ways that women within the church were making this one recipe… and they turned to me to get my opinion. I had never actually made it! So they challenged me to make one for myself… a Peanut Butter Pie!
I decided to take Mary Francis’s way (and tips from the other ladies at church too!) to make a No Bake Frozen Peanut Butter Pie…. and it was 33 points. So naturally, I challenged myself even further and decided to make a WW point friendly version! I looked at the recipe tab on the WW app, and typed in “frozen peanut butter pie” and I chose a Frozen Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie recipe. I saved the recipe using the bookmark tab, and you can edit it to change it to what you need. It said it was 7 points per serving, and that’s MUCH better than 33!
The original recipe that WW gave me had these ingredients:
- Powdered Peanut Butter (I used PB Fit)
- Water
- Plain Fat Free Greek Yogurt
- Confectioner’s Sugar
- Salt
- Nonfat Milk
- Graham Cracker Pie Shell
The Substitutions I Made:
- I used Swerve Confectioner’s Sugar instead of full on Sugar
- I got some reduced fat Cool Whip, because Mary Francis’s daughter uses a whipped topping on hers!
- I got graham cracker crumbs to make my own shell
- I ignored the Nonfat Milk
Attempt #1 serves 8 and is 5pts per serving. It’s good! But it is missing something… so I changed a few more things and went straight ahead with attempt #2!
The One Change I Made the Second Time:
- Instead of Nonfat Greek Yogurt, I mixed up some of my Fat Free Cream Cheese
Attempt #2 serves 8 and is 5pts per serving. It is so much lighter and fluffier, and it was delicious!
If you want to follow along with the recipe that I used, please watch the chat videos on YouTube! I attempted two different versions of this pie, and I want to know which one you would make!
Would you make this WW friendly Peanut Butter Pie? Let us know in the comments below!
