Weight Watchers: How are you eating unsweetened yogurt?

[Anonymous]

I tried the cinnamon idea this morning and while I don't know that it did much for taste (maybe I didn't add enough), it made it smell good which helped a lot.

[Anonymous]

Not all unsweetened yogurts are alike! I will only eat Fayeh Plain Greek Yogurt because it tastes so rich and delicious on its own. I generally cut up bananas and combine them with the yogurt.

[Anonymous]

Try eating unsweetened yogurt for a week. I found it very hard to stomach when I first tasted it, but now I can honestly say I love the Fage plain. It's fine to add some chopped fruit, but try it for a week without. I think you'll get to like it. (I used to eat very sugary non-Greek yogurt.)

For those of you who are looking for a less-sugary yogurt, but not plain, Giant has Chobani "Hint of" Greek yogurt on sale this week for $1. It has about 8 or 9 grams of sugar and is less tangy than some Greek blends. No artificial sweetener and no Stevia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm trying to get the most of the 0 points foods, but I am not feeling the taste of unsweetened greek yogurt. Do people really eat this kind of yogurt plain? If not, what do you do with it?

I add a tsp of maple syrup and lots of berries and a banana. If I want to add points, I add granolaon top for crunch.

[Anonymous]

Wallaby full fat organic Greek. It’s heavenly

[Anonymous]

Frozen cherries or blueberries

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My friend suggested an artificial sweetener (Stevia, Equal, Nutrasweet, whatever you deem to be ok). Personally I just add fruit and deal with it.

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Anonymous wrote:I put it in smoothies with frozen strawberries, blueberries and spinach

smoothies aren't zero points

me again, I apologize, that sounded really rude! That wasn't the question, and you likely don't care. I meant to offer advice to OP that smoothies are not 0 points. Carry on.

That makes no sense, all those foods are 0 points.

This has been a program rule for a long time, and is now built into the online tools (although some people decide to ignore it). Smoothie ingredients aren't calorie-free, and their research has shown that when people blend foods into a drinkable form, they tend to consume a much greater volume than they would if they were eating the solid foods. Some members were consuming hundreds more calories per day via smoothies than the program intended people to consume from zero-point foods, so they created the rule that if you turned solid food into a beverage, you had to count the points. A reasonably-sized smoothie (e.g., 8 oz.) still isn't going to cost you a lot of points, and it keeps people from drinking 20 oz smoothies and then wondering why the scale doesn't move.

It’s the volume but also that the act of blending destroys the benefits of actual fruit in digestion - the ruffage - that was slower to digest, and slower to spike your insulin. A blended smoothie (or plain juice) takes away those benefits - hence why juice has points and its fruit counterpart doesn’t.

That's not correct. Juice has points while the fruit doesn't because the act of juicing physically removes the juice from the solid portions of the fruit (including the fiber). Blending whole fruit into a smoothie doesn't do that, it's functionally the same as chewing up your fruit before you swallow it.

[Anonymous]

sweet: fruit, cinnamon, a tsp of maple syrup or brown sugar.

savory: cucumbers or canned beets for a raita, or onion powder, garlic, and black pepper for a dip. I also like dill added to it.

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Anonymous wrote:I top it with a bunch of frozen fruit (favorites are raspberries and peaches) an 1 tsp of sugar. That makes it 1 point. By lunch time (I pack this in the morning or night before) the fruit is thawed and the mix of fruit juice and sugar is sweet enough for me. Actually preferable to the pre-sweetened stuff, which was always too sweet.

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I don't use the sugar.

Try the pitted frozen cherries from Trader Joes

[Anonymous]

I put unsweetened applesauce and 1/4 cup of Bear Naked chocolate cereal in mine with a little extra stevia. 2 point breakfast. Normally I hate eating the same each day but I enjoy this. Sometimes with a banana.

I’ve heard tips to mix it with dip or salad dressing mix for veggies or add instant pudding mix to it as well.

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Forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the whole point not to try and cheat the diet?

[Anonymous]

Cinnamon & stevia

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Anonymous wrote:Forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the whole point not to try and cheat the diet?

You're not "cheating the diet." Fruits are 0 point foods on Weight Watchers. I eat about 10 fruits a day and have lost 33 pounds on Weight Watchers.

What do you think dieting is? Starvation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you tried shredded/diced cucumbers with dried mint? Greek and middle eastern people eat it this way. Also could try mixing in cooked spinach with salt and pepper. Another middle eastern way of eating yogurt.

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Essentially make tzaziki with it (shredded cucumber, lemon juice, oregano, garlic powder, salt, pepper) and use it as dip for grilled chicken and veggies (also zero points, I think?). Use a spicy marinade and the yogurt is cooling and really delicious.