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Hi guys welcome back to my channel welcome back to another video so wanted to do a little intro here for my what I eat in a week video if you’re new here my name is Jess and I do follow the Weight Watchers program and I also track
My calories and my protein through the L It app so throughout this video you actually I think I’m going to do a little bit different I I it takes a lot of time when I take the screenshots of my actual apps to put on each food so
I’m just going to do like I used to do and just kind of put a little title there saying how many calories how much protein and how many points each of my meals are and at the end you’ll see screenshots of the actual day and I’ll
Tell you what my totals were for the entire day so I get a lot of questions on what apps I use I do use the Weight Watchers app and the Lose It app the Lose It app is free um there is a premium version which I did purchase
Because I got it on a super good deal like three years ago for like a lifetime membership so I did purchase it but honestly the only difference that I can really tell from things that I have found is that you can change the color of the background I mean I’m sure
There’s other differences but I used the free version for a very long time so you do not need to upgrade to the premium the free version is just fine um so if you’re new here I hope you will stick around and subscribe to my channel you
Can follow me also over on Instagram so what you’re going to see in this video is I will show you usually two or 3 days in these videos of what I eat in a day I do want to preface this with I do work a full-time job outside the home um two
Days a week Thursdays and Fridays I do work from home Monday Tuesday Wednesday I am in the office so that’s why sometimes you’re going to see a lot of take and go meals you’re not going to see a lot of meals on actual plates um
It’s because I do have to grab and go quite often um also I do um show you snacks that I may take with me to take to work we do do have a refrigerator at work microwave all of that so I do take snacks I don’t always eat them so
Sometimes if I show you like snacks that I’m taking and you’ll see calories and points and all that on there but then at the end of the day you’ll see maybe it doesn’t all Jive up and it’s because I don’t always have the opportunity to eat my snacks while I’m at work just
Depending on the circumstances I may not be at my at my desk I may be at somebody else’s desk or maybe on one of our other building sites it just it just it’s you never know you never know with my job where I’m going to be at what time so I
Don’t always get a lot of snacks in but I do try to take them with me for those circumstances when I am hungry or um when I do have time to eat so that being said we’re going to go into this week’s what I ate this week video I start every
Morning off with a protein coffee or a profy coffee today I’m having the Atkins Cafe caramel and The Stoke cold brew along with that well actually I had the coffee first thing this morning when I get to work I’m going to have my protein loaf this I believe was the cinnamon one from
Devotion or The Salted Caramel cannot remember which one I do also have some I Can’t Believe It’s Not light butter which that’ll be in the points that you see here on the screen oh here it is right here I have um a tablespoon of that and then for a morning snack I’m
Going to bring along a mixed berry yogurt along with some blackberries and raspberries and then for an after snack I have my usual pure protein in the strawberry milkshake and then I have some veggies and dip that I’m going to bring along for an afternoon snack for lunch today I’m going to have
Some soup let me show you the soup this is the um chicken noodle Campbell well yes soup so I did it so on the back it has two different servings either per one cup or 200 calories for for the entire can so it’s 100 calories for a
Cup 200 for the entire can so I went ahead and measured out what an entire can was and it’s exactly two cups so I just tracked two cups which is 3 points um I was going to put use the crackers these are the oyster crackers I was
Going to put them in the soup but since there’s noodles in there I think I’m just going to put them on my salad kind of like croutons so that sounds good and then the dressing is going going to be the Olive Garden Italian dressing I have
2 tablespoons of that and then my salad I did weigh out my avocado I have 35 G of avocado a h griled egg and then this is why I wanted to prep everything this week so I prepped all of the stuff in my meal prep video so check that out um
That way I could have make my salads really easily so I’m going to add in a little bit little bit more carrot and then we have like I said the hardboiled egg we have some cucumbers some celery um some tomatoes and then a bunch of the
Spring mix and like I said I’ll just I’m going to put these on top so I did weigh out 15 G of that which was a serving um so I will pop on the screen here hold on okay I will pop on the screen how many points calories and protein cuz
That’s really what I track um but I need to get myself a fancier little like soup bowl like the ones with like the lids and the if I’m going to have more soup which I’ve been really craving soup a lot so I may um but anyway so I will
Have the points on there for the salad the only thing I have to count points for is avocado and the dressing of course and then um the soup I guess that is three points for the entire can so this will be my lunch today hi guys I’m getting ready to make
Dinner so I’m going to do this barbecue turkey tur sloppy joe recipe I have some smart buns that I’m going to use for the buns which I take out of the freezer um which they should thought out in time um I’m not going to change this recipe up
Too much I don’t need the olive oil I don’t um cuz I think it needs that for to sauté up the onion and pepper and I’m just going to use cooking spray so I have some 99% um fat-free ground turkey and then I have onion and bell pepper um I’ll use
The tomato sauce I’m going to use the um what is it the baby rays um sugarfree I think I have the sweet and spicy or I have the Smokey I can’t remember which one but I’m going to use that barbecue sauce I’m not going to do brown sugar because I don’t think that
We really need it cuz I don’t wouldn’t want this really sweet anyway and then I’ll do the onion powder garlic powder um I don’t really think I want to do the chili powder like I don’t I don’t know about that yeah I’ll do a little bit of
Chili powder and the Wester Sher sauce and so I’m not so I’m just not going to really change this recipe at all so I’ll go ahead and just link this recipe down below and I’ll show you what it looks like I think I’ll pair this with a
Either a side salad or I may do some green beans in the air fryer I have some frozen green beans so I may go ahead and just put those in the air fryer season them up and have that on my side I had a salad for lunch so I think that’ll be
The plan but yeah this recipe looks really good it’s from together as family um I just found it on Pinterest so like I said I will link it down below here are the smart buttons I was talking about so I get them from the smart Baking Company I just store them online
Yes they’re kind of expensive but I don’t get them very often and you get four of them in here and I kind of figure they’re one point for a bun I can’t find any of the low Point buns like some places can find like the low
Car buns that are really low points the only ones I can get around here are the fr keto ones which I’m not a huge fan of sometimes my Kroger store will have the carb Master ones but not all the time those ones are okay I think they’re two
Points possibly but they’re not as big as this so I like to do this so tonight I’m going to do this um we’re going to I’ll use these so I’m going to go ahead and take one out and let it thaw out while I get the rest of the dinner
Cooked some frozen green beans here so I’m going to take these and spray with some cooking spray add some of the blend seasoning which is salt pepper garlic that’s going to go in the air fryer at 400 for about 10 minutes or so then I’ll
Check them but the air fryer is the best way to make frozen green beans I tell you you’ll see when they come out what they look like this is the barbecue sauce I used the sweet and Smokey one of my favorites and here’s what we’re looking like it smells really good so
I’m going to let this simmer for a while while my green beans are cooking and then I’ll show you my finished plate okay I decided to have my Sloppy Joe’s open face and then here’s my green beans doesn’t that just look yummy I did try a little bit of this and
It is really good so highly recommend this recipe and here you can see how I ended my day here’s my calories my points and my protein that’s really the only thing that I track is try to make sure I’m getting usually more calories than this
That I got for the day but I try to strive for more but it doesn’t always work out that way but this is how I ended my day on Tuesday for breakfast today we’re going to have a protein yogurt Bowl so we have our Catalina crunch our protein yogurt
The Cataline crunch has 11 g of protein and a lot of fiber we have 15 g of protein and our yogurt and then I have some cherry berry blend for a snack today I’m going to have some of these love corn this barbecue one is so good I got these
Little snack packs off of Amazon it was like a variety pack okay I’m going to show you how I like to utilize leftovers without making them feel like you’re eating the exact same thing every day so I have these potatoes that I meal prepped um I’m
Going to use half of them for today’s lunch and the other half probably tomorrow for a breakfast bowl so I’m going to take half of these and this is my Sloppy Joe’s from last night I’m going to put them on top of those and have myself like a little sloppy joe
Bowl um if you want you could add like I’m thinking actually I have a the avocado from yesterday so I actually may add some avocado but no I think I’ll save the avocado for tonight for my salad um but anyway so that’s how you can kind of utilize it and it feels like
You’re eating something different um when you’re not I mean you’re really just eating the same thing so I had to pack this up cuz I have to take it back to work to eat um at my desk while I’m working so I’m going to go and get this
Packed up and then I’ll show you um the the points and calories and all of that stuff and there is my lunch nothing exciting nothing special but it’ll be nice and filling and this this barbecue um Sloppy Joe’s I have to tell yall like
It is so good um I don’t know if I’ll make Sloppy Joe’s any other way again another way I’ve made Sloppy Joe’s is by doing a Philly cheese steak Sloppy Joe’s I haven’t made those in a long long time those ones are really good too
But I have to say I think these barbecue ones may beat that out um now yesterday I did not eat my dip and carrots and celery that little um veggies and dip that I took I did not eat that so that’s still at work so I’ll probably have that
This afternoon because this is a little bit of a lighter lunch um I’m just not feeling very hungry so I still have my protein drink and those veggies and stuff and the pickles and all of that so I’ll probably actually eat the pickles with this cuz that sounds really good
Um and then if I’m hungry later I’ll have that as left yesterday I got too busy I got stuck um at my desk working and then I ended up having to go to a couple other offices in the building and I was not like at my desk to be able to
Grab my um to grab my snacks that’s usually what happens when I’m in the office so when I’m in the office sometimes it’s a little bit harder for me to get calories in for the day so my calories you saw yesterday was with without that stuff it literally was just
What I ate and the only thing I did not show you was I did have an apple at the end of the day lately I’ve been just having a plain Apple at night um and just chopping it up and just snacking on it while I’m reading or something and
It’s been really just super nice to have I kind of look forward to it every day now so that’s the only thing that I had that I did not show you yesterday so anyhoo okay I’m going to head off back to work okay I’m making dinner I I am
Exhausted it’s been a busy last couple of days at work and I didn’t leave until after 5 both days so I am looking forward to working from home Thursday and Friday that’s for sure um so I’m going to make um I was just going to make myself um I planned on
Making what was I going to make I don’t remember I don’t remember what my plan was to make but I was going to make my husband tacos so I thought I’m going to make tacos too so I’m going to use the 96% oh I was going to make a um make the
Burger salad or Burger bowls Burger bowls that’s what I was going to make but then I decid I’m just going to make tacos cuz I’m making H tacos and just be a lot easier because like I said it’s already 5:45 and I just got home and I
Left the house at 7:00 this morning so I’m tired so I think I’m just going to make us B tacos so I’m going to use my 96% lean ground beef and make tacos instead of making the burger bowls I only have one pound of that so that’s
What I’m going to do and then for him he’s going to have crunchy shells cuz he likes crunchy shells I like soft shells um and then I have some fat-free reff fried beans and then I’m making hem rice but I’m going to do like a sight salad
So that is the plan I’m not sure which tortillas I’m going to use um I have the LA banita carb counter ones the snack size so I could do two of these or I have the mission zero carb um little mini ones and I could do two of these so
I’m thinking I’m going to go with these cuz I’m am kind of hungry again once again did not get a chance to eat my snack I am actually just drinking what did I do with it okay it’s all way over there in the living room I was drinking the chocolate
Pure protein shake which that’s the first one I’ve had um I love the strawberry absolutely love love love the strawberry I don’t I I like the chocolate but I don’t love the chocolate so I don’t think I’ll repurchase the chocolate I think the strawberry is enough but I’ll
Drink the four that I have not a big deal like it’s not like undrinkable I’d like them but just don’t love them does that make sense um so I’m just drinking that right now and so I did not have an afternoon snack at all um so I am I am
Actually a little bit hungry so I think I’m going to do two of these with some and I’m going to put the fat re refried beans on here with the meat and then um a a little bit of cheesee and then I’m just going to make myself a side salad
And that’ll be my dinner so I will show you that next but like I said this just going to be um 9 96% lean ground beef so I’m not going to show me cooking it and then like I’m just going to heat up the fat-free refried beans which are zero
Points I believe these are one a piece but I think when you have two it makes it three points maybe um I think that’s possibly but you’ll see the points on the screen when I show you my plate okay decided to do one taco which is bean and cheese and
One taco with meat and then I’m going to put the rest of my meat on my salad so I’m going to have like a little side taco salad and then a couple little tacos so just so you know when I show you my plate I’m going to use some
Guacamole this guacamole and then I’m going to use plain non-fat Greek yogurt for sour cream and here is my finished dinner for the day oh my gosh you guys this was so good oh tacos are the best I love tacos love Taco salads anything tacos and here
Is how I ended my day on Wednesday again my protein my points my calories so like I said I always try to I wish I could usually get around 13 to, 1500 calories but it doesn’t always happen but I’ve been doing really good with my points
Really good with my proteins so I am really happy with this day okay guys that does it for this week’s what I ate this week video I think I got 3 days in I haven’t gone and edited all of them so yeah I think we have Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday in this video um hopefully I have complete days I never know y’all you all know I just pick up the camera when I can so hopefully I got all three days in there full meals um I’m not sure what next week is going to look like we
Have um a pretty busy week at work um I know Monday Tuesday we have but it’s it’s virtual so I’m not sure how much of it I have to attend but we have like our a conf confence um for two days but I’m not sure if I have to do either one of
The days or just one of the days while one of one of our people have to be in a meeting I’m not sure so I am going to make sure I load up and take my lunch with me just in case I cannot leave for lunch and that type of thing so you’ll
Pro so if I can film I will you’ll probably see a lot me taking a lot of stuff with me to work breakfast lunch snacks for the full day just in case I cannot get home for lunch that’ll be Monday and Tuesday Wednesday I know for
Sure I will not be home for lunch because I do have a meeting from I believe 9 to 3 and they are serving lunch at that meeting I can’t leave so I will be in there all day long so I know Wednesday I will not be filming probably
Anything I will be taking snacks with me because I don’t know what the lunch will be so just in case it’s something that I just don’t like or I just really don’t want to fit it in my day that kind of thing um I will be bringing enough stuff
With me where I could eat them instead of lunch um Thursday I will not be working from home per usual I usually work from home Thursdays and Fridays but Thursday will not because we are having a going away thing for our cooworker whose last day is
Friday so again not sure what’s going on Thursday I’m sure we’re probably going out to lunch unless we’re bringing something in I I don’t know we have not worked out the details on that yet so so hopefully I have a video for you next week I am thinking about filming
Tomorrow doing another chatty Vlog um just so I have a video to go up next week in case I cannot film at all but we’ll see I’ll do the best I can um and go from there may I mean I have to have dinner every day so maybe next week I’ll
Just do what ate for dinner every day next week and then that video can go up so instead of a you know what I ate this week I could just say what I ate this week for dinner actually now I’m kind of talking myself into that so I just may
Do that so I may film like Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday so I usually have leftovers but I may just do you know four three or four days of what I ate for dinner and just go from there so um I just want to let you guys know it’s
Just going to look a little bit different next week but we’ll have the same usual through the weekend we’re still going to have um our weekly update we’re going to have grocery haul meal prep all of those things so I may not meal prep a whole lot um just because I
May do more meal prepping for like dinner components versus lunch components that’s like okay I have no idea what’s going on next week so hope you guys enjoyed this video um I if I forgot to link anything or if there’s anything that you have questions about
Just send me a comment and I will make sure I give you that information so I will talk to you guys soon bye guys