 Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here today. I have a very fun video for you I'm going to be sharing with you my top 15 most popular WW items that I no longer eat and what I've replaced those with now I want to preface this with I follow a clean approach to WW Which means that I try to eat as clean whole food as humanly possible now I don't say that I'm a hundred percent clean eating I just try to do my absolute best. I like to follow the 90-10 rule where 90% of what I eat is extra clean And then that 10% gives me a little bit of leeway to bring in some of my favorite foods But there are some really popular foods in the WW community things that I see on YouTube Instagram Facebook Just all over even at my WW studio that I have found cleaner healthier whole food replacements for So I wanted to share those 15 items with you today now I am not a doctor or a nutritionist and I do not work for WW And this is my personal opinion and the swaps that I have made personally now You feel free to eat whatever you'd like on WW. That's the beauty of the program But for me, these are just some healthier alternatives that I've chosen So I wanted to share them with you to give you some ideas and maybe some brand new food finds that you never thought were WW friendly, so let's jump in to today's video Number one is popcorn I see all over the WW community about skinny pop boom chicka pop all of those low fat low calorie popcorn options Now I know the best alternative for popcorn is popping it at home yourself where you can control the ingredients But sometimes we just need an on-the-go snack So I have substituted the boom chicka pops and the skinny pops of the world with this olive oil popcorn from Trader Joe's Now this popcorn is Delicious all that is in here is popcorn olive oil and salt it tastes really good It's crunchy like popcorn should be just the right amount of salt and popped in olive oil Which is best in class oil great price about two dollars a bag at Trader Joe's So whenever I'm in the mood for popcorn, I now reach for the Trader Joe's olive oil popcorn Next is diet pop diet soda That's another thing that I have eliminated from my diet for several reasons one because drinking any type of diet Soda or pop can make your body crave sugar Also, even more important than that of why I've moved away from diet soda is because it contains caramel coloring Which I try not to have any caramel coloring in my diet at all If you're not sure what some of these ingredients are and why I've chosen not to eat them I will link my ingredients to avoid and why video down in the description box for you How do you recommend you watch that I go in-depth to all of the ingredients to avoid and the reasons why? Also in diet soda and diet pop is Aspartame and aspartame is a sweetener that I do not want to consume for several several reasons It is not good for your body your body doesn't know how to digest aspartame And we've heard all about this over the years in the media about how it's just not a good sweetener alternative So between the caramel coloring that in the fact that it wants me to eat more sugar I just have eliminated diet soda and I've replaced it with Zevia Zevia. Zevia I'm not sure exactly how you pronounce it But basically this is a soda alternative It is sweetened with stevia and it is made to be colorless So when you pour this cola or root beer into a glass it is clear because they remove the caramel coloring Which is huge for me now this does have natural flavors, which I don't love But this is a great alternative if you're looking to cut out diet soda diet pop out of your diet for all of the reasons Mentioned before the next one is a very popular WW staple for so many of us and that is the premiere protein Now I have never been a big fan of premiere if you follow my channel You know that you don't see it very often here on my channel because I've never been a fan one of the taste and two of the Ingredients so I wanted to find a protein shake in the event that I needed one and again This is not something that I eat drink very often I generally try to eat a more whole food But sometimes if I'm traveling and I want something for my coffee You know the famous protein coffee or I just want to add a little bit too Maybe a protein shake or a smoothie or maybe I just want a protein shake after a good workout I no longer drink the premiere and again the laundry list of ingredients is the primary reason I could go on and on as to what ingredients in premiere I don't want to consume but I just went ahead and found an alternative for protein shakes and that is iconic now Iconic makes a grass-fed plant-based protein shake with excellent excellent ingredients They even use high low eggs high low egg sunflower oil as the oil just full of a really really good ingredient So I have just transitioned over to iconic. They have several flavors. You can order these on Amazon You can order these online. I will put a link down in the description box for you This is the cafe latte. It actually has caffeine in it So this is great as just a protein shake if you want that little boost of caffeine and it tastes really good in coffee as well They have vanilla, matcha, chocolate, caramel, all the things and just far for better ingredients than the premiere protein So sorry in advance for those of you that love your premiere. You can continue to drink that of course I just have found a little bit healthier alternative. Next up is fat-free or low fat yogurt or dairy in general I have completely eliminated low fat and fat-free Yogurt from my diet and the reason for that is because when you take a full fat Yogurt and you make it low fat or fat-free you remove all of its nutritional benefits So basically you're removing all of the benefits that you get from yogurt to make it low fat and fat-free So I just have eliminated that from my diet and I'm now eating a whole milk or grass-fed full fat yogurt I use this in smoothies. I put this on my quinoa bowls I use this in place of non-fat or low fat yogurt or Greek yogurt This particular one is not Greek, but they have several fantastic options for a full fat Greek yogurt as well I really like this brand. This is a fabulous brand of yogurt this maple Hill. It's a hundred percent grass fed So I'm getting all the nutritional benefits and to be honest with you guys if you lower the serving size It's not a lot of smart points. You can have a quarter cup of full fat yogurt for about two smart points So I would gladly take the points for it to get all of the nutritional benefits And we haven't even talked about the taste the taste of this is incredible So I now just go with a full fat regular or Greek yogurt another extremely popular item in the WW community is I can't believe it's not butter light the spray the tub all the things I no longer eat light butter because of the oils that are used in light. In fact as a general rule I don't consume anything that's low fat fat free or sugar free So you're gonna see that kind of theme throughout these items But I've eliminated a lot of the tubbed butter the spray butter all of those out of my diet Now I didn't want to transition entirely over to real butter because of the smart points I was hoping to find an alternative for light butter that tastes really good And isn't really high in smart points and I found just that and that is melt plant-based butter This is so good. It's in a tub just like the I can't believe it's not butter the country crock Whatever tubbed butters you're using but the ingredients in this are so incredibly good They use an expeller pressed oil, which is best in class. No artificial flavors No natural flavors no artificial colors and it tastes really really delicious now I know that I can't believe it's not butter or a light butter spread You can generally have a tablespoon for about one smart point a tablespoon of the melt butter is three smart points But I find this better to be very rich and flavorful that I can get away with a half of a tablespoon For one smart point and get as much if not more flavor than I did with a light butter And I'm eating really good ingredients I find this just in my regular butter section at my local grocery store And I've also seen it at pretty much every natural food store as well while we're talking dairy. Let's talk cheese I do not eat any fat-free cheese any longer. In fact, I don't really eat any light cheese either I try to go with just a traditional cheese I try to go with one that's organic when it ever possible and grass-fed is even better It's just really really hard to find so I've subbed out my fat-free craft or great-value cheese both in cheddar and mozzarella For full fat cheese like this. So this is from my local health food store natural grocers This is a full fat Italian blend cheese. It's organic and it is only three smart points for a quarter of a cup So it's really not that much more in smart points from a light cheese But you don't have any of the filler that you have in light cheese. It's literally the cheese I also love the traitor Joe's organic mozzarella You can have an entire quarter cup of that for two smart points and it's mozzarella cheese and it's organic So I've just chosen to take the fat free out of my diet number one I don't like the ingredients but number two and most importantly the cheese is very Plasticy it doesn't melt it's flavorless and to be honest I'd rather take points and enjoy the food that I'm eating That's what my points are for is to really like and enjoy and feel satiated with the foods that I'm eating So I just go with my traditional cheeses another popular item is diet or low-calorie bread the serri-lea breads The nature's own butter breads. I don't eat those any longer either primarily you guys know I've talked about before I do not like the serri-lea bread. I find it very cardboardy and airy. There's holes in it I don't really feel like it's bread. It doesn't taste like bread. It doesn't satisfy me It doesn't cure my craving for bread now the butter bread is better in that respect But the issue is the ingredients in those breads. It's enriched flour Generally using a canola or a soybean oil and just things that I try to avoid So I just looked around and I found a bread that was way way better ingredient wise Nutritional wise and really not much more when it comes to smart points and that's going to be a sprouted bread So this is the Trader Joe's sprouted bread There is also Ezekiel, which makes a fantastic sprouted bread. I've talked about this a hundred times in my videos I also use the Ezekiel English muffins in replacement of any other type of English muffin whether it be sourdough Thomas like again ingredients and just not feeling satiated and like I'm having real nutritious bread Sprouted bread is always your best option Generally, it is found in the freezer section because it does not contain preservatives So they have to freeze it in order for it to last this Trader Joe's bread you guys is two smart points of slice The slices are pretty similar to your Sara Lee's or your butter breads of the world But they're heartier and more flavorful and so good and full of fabulous ingredients Not a single ingredient that's questionable in sprouted bread and it's affordable if you buy the Trader Joe's bread I think it's about three dollars a loaf I know that the Ezekiel can be a little bit more But again, I will gladly take an extra smart point to have a better quality bread next is sugar-free syrup I no longer have any type of sugar-free syrup. This includes syrup in my coffee I do not use Jordan's skinny syrup those contain sucralose, which is something that I avoid as well Spikes your blood sugar makes your body crave sugar and it's just an artificial chemically processed sweetener Same with sugar-free syrup that you put on pancakes. So all those delicious sugar-free syrups out there Flip them over and check out the ingredient label. It's not even syrup. Generally. It's rice syrup over from China That isn't even actual maple syrup. So I too have switched over to an organic maple syrup I'm gonna insert a picture because I'm out unfortunately. I really like this Vermont maple syrup from Trader Joe's You can really just get any organic pure maple syrup now Of course the smart points are going to be higher But I will generally just put a tablespoon or two on my pancakes my waffles Keen wobbles and take the smart points for it because I know what I'm giving my body is a real whole food that my body knows How to process so I've just chosen to take out really any chemically processed syrups and put in a real syrup So I'm gonna talk a little bit about what I put in my coffee mix So I mentioned that I no longer drink sugar-free syrups Jordan's skinny syrups Turani da Vinci whatever you can find I also Sad to say and I was very sad you guys in the beginning that I no longer drink sugar-free creamer I was honestly Disgusted when I flipped over the sugar-free creamer and read the ingredients now This is just me you may be like me and love your sugar-free creamer And I say if you like it you continue to drink it But for me it was just ingredient-wise not what I wanted to put into my body. Does it taste good? Yes Is it low point? Yes, but just for me the ingredients were just not something I wanted to eat any longer So let me just tell you I was on the hunt for a flavored Creamer that had good ingredients and that task was very challenging I was just for a while having just half-and-half or heavy whipping cream or Milk in my coffee and putting in like a whole earth or a monk fruit sweetener packet until I discovered this This is a coffee creamer. It's a superfood creamer from Layard lard. I don't know how to pronounce it. It's a surfer You one of you guys let me know in one of my videos that this is a surfer that has designed this superfood creamer You guys this stuff is so good. It comes in several flavors including Unflavored luckily the flavored ones are not natural flavors That's what you're going to find in a lot of flavored really anything But in this creamer he uses extracts like vanilla extract or mint extract My favorite flavors are the vanilla the chocolate mint the cacao and the pumpkin spice I have never tried the original or the turmeric, but they make those as well You can have one big tablespoon of this creamer for two smart points and it is so good I literally do this my collagen and some half-and-half and it's absolutely delicious The flavor is there the sweetness is there. It's made from coconut sugar, which is best in class for sweeteners Love this creamer so much. They do sell the big bag of unsweetened at Costco or at least at my Costco But I buy these flavored ones online. They're not very expensive. I think they're 1495 and they last forever I mean there's a ton in this little bag. They reseal and I just throw them in my coffee cup I'll link these down below for you guys, but if you're like me and you loved your sugar-free Coffee-make creamer. This is a great alternative. It's equally as delicious and the ingredients are on point Another thing I was very sad about was my fat-free ready whip. You guys know I eat that every day Sometimes several times a day. I loved my fat-free ready whip now Not only am I not a fan of the oil in there But what I'm most not a fan of when it comes to any whipped topping and I'm not just saying fat-free or light I'm talking whipped topping in a can in general is carrageenan and that is an inflammatory And I have eliminated that a hundred percent from my diet So I even looked at these expensive organic whipped creams that are five or six dollars a can and they still Contained carrageenan. So I thought my days of whipped creamer over Over until I found this and this is the so delicious cocoa whip Now I found this at my local health food store in the freezer section So basically the same place you're going to find cool with this No, carrageenan and the only questionable ingredient in this is natural flavors Not something I like to see but I would rather have natural flavors any day of the week over carrageenan So I love this. It's delicious. I've gotten a lot of questions on whether or not it tastes like coconut Nope, it does not and you can have Depending on how much you have it's one to two smart points So instead of zero points of fat-free ready whip You're going to have to take a one to two smart point hit But you know that you're eating good ingredients and I'm telling you guys, it's rich and creamy. Ha. I love it I no longer miss that free ready whip Next item is another extremely popular w w food and that is your Dan and light and fit yogurts your oikos yogurts all of those light yogurts on the market Now I mentioned earlier when we talked about full fat plain yogurt That I don't eat any light or low fat yogurt because it The process strips the nutrients out of the yogurt But that's not the only reason that I stay away from flavored yogurts like Dan and light and fit Number one, they all have natural flavors. So anytime you buy a flavored yogurt It generally has natural flavors There are a few like the one I'm going to show you on the market that does not and is still flavored But most of them are going to have natural flavors a lot of them have sweeteners I don't eat and some of them even have oils that I don't prefer to eat So I found this and this you guys is delicious. This is the siggy. So this is actually the 2% This is the strawberry and lingonberry Now I actually prefer the full fat siggy so the 4% But it's very very hard to find in my area. So I picked up some of these 2% ones These are really good and literally the ingredients in here. There's four Let's talk about it because I want to show you that there are yogurts on the market That are flavored that do not have natural flavors. So this has pasteurized skim milk pasteurized cream berries Cane sugar. Oh, I'm sorry. There's more than four. There's six live active cultures and fruit pectin So it's flavored with actual fruit not with natural flavoring. So love this yogurt. It's really good This container is going to cost you about five smart points. Now. I know that that's a lot of points for some of you So I want to talk a little bit about siggies and bringing siggies into your life Even if you don't want to spend five points. So siggies does make a zero percent yogurt now again You're missing a lot of the nutritional benefits of a full fat yogurt But the ingredients are just as great as the full fat yogurt and they are only three smart points So well worth the extra point compared to light and fit for the better ingredients Your body knows how to process everything in siggies. It's thick. It's creamy. It's delicious So if you don't want to take a five smart point hit pick up the zero percent siggies And it's only going to cost you three smart points. Next is ice cream. Now. Let me just tell you What a feat this has been I've yet to find an ice cream like an actual ice cream bar Other than if I have a full fruit bar. I'm talking ice cream Like creamy ice cream with chocolate and all those delicious flavors That is something that I will eat. They all contain some sort of ingredient that I don't want all of the light Yogurts like your halo tops those Enlightened those are all have a lot of sugar alcohols and I try not to eat sugar alcohol at all And if I do it's in a very very small amount So those ice creams are out the full fat ice creams contain a lot of oils that I don't want So I'm still my friends on the hunt for a good clean ice cream And when I find it I promise to share it with you But if I am craving ice cream something that resembles like a chocolate coated ice cream bar I choose clio bars and I'm going to insert a picture because I am completely out My walmart has not had them the last couple of times But clio bars are excellent now. They are kind of high in smart points They're about six smart points per bar and they're small. I would say that they're about I don't know two and a half inches, but they have really really good ingredients their whole food You still get that feel of ice cream You can even pop them in the freezer and you get a little more ice cream feel and they're coated in the most delicious chocolate So if you want to have an ice cream dupe that's cleaner and you're okay spending the points Clio bars are definitely the way to go and again, you can find these at walmart and on the clio bar website I'll link that down below for you guys and generally they're about a dollar a piece at walmart So really really affordable and I'm telling you they are delicious. It tastes like chocolate covered cheesecake. Next up are w w snacks Sorry, w w But all those snacks that you buy at your local workshop their chips their cookies their two point bars All the w w snacks. I know that they reformulated their ingredients about a year ago but I flipped over quite a few boxes at my local workshop of Pretty much all of the different snack options that they have and there is not a single one that has ingredients in it that I wanted to eat unfortunately The mini bars have a lot of artificial sweeteners They even have like malatol and some of the really not good for you artificial sweeteners The chips and things are just made with processed ingredients So I wanted to have lots of snack options So you may have already seen my favorite w w snacks where I bring you all the delicious clean eating snacks Or it may get posted later. So stay tuned regardless for that video But I just found a few of my favorite snack alternatives I found sweet and I found savory. So first let's talk savory Let's talk about alternatives in dupes for the w w chip snacks like the little nacho chips The I don't even know what all they have the barbecued chips and that's these these are the siete grain free tortilla chips These are incredible the ingredients in these are absolutely 100 percent perfect. They taste really good These are the lime. I love these the nacho is really good. They even have just your traditional tortilla chip This is a great alternative to a chip and these are about five smart points per serving But you just cut down the amount of chips that you have make sure you weigh them out You get more and you can lower the smart points, but if you want a good chip, this is a fantastic option Also, what if you really really really like the little two-point bars and you just want something sweet from w w So I found a few options. So first there are these these are the chalk zero milk chocolate squares Now these have pretty darn good ingredients. They taste really really delicious And they are a little square for two smart points. I'll show you the size of the square So this is what it looks like So that's the size of the square and it's only two smart points and it's much better ingredients It's the same smart points as the mini bars But really good and much better ingredients like I mentioned You can pick these up off of the netrition website. I'll link that down below And also for the sweet tooth. These are amazing. These are the lily bees brownie fins in chocolate mint You guys these are like little crusty corners of the brownie pan I'm obsessed. They have chocolate mint chocolate and salted caramel. I buy these off of the thrive market I'll link the thrive down below as well. There is 20 dollars worth of free product from the thrive market right now So if you're looking at joining, this is a great time It's a fantastic place But I buy these off of there and I am going to literally buy like 10 packages the next time I place an order It's five smart points per serving But if you have half of a serving which is about six to eight brownie bites It's two points. So that's what I like to do for a snack and I'm telling you these are so good and the ingredients Absolutely fantastic. So there are some good replacements for those ww snacks And also another thing I want to point out is those snacks are pricey at the ww workshop These are much more affordable options as well. So it's kind of a win-win And last but certainly not least is probably the one a lot of you are going to come at me for And that's okay. You guys continue to eat what you want to eat I'm just simply sharing some alternatives that I've come up with and that is an alternative for the Olay wrap or any of those low smart point wraps I know the tomorrows the mission carb counter If you look at the back of those wraps, they generally contain a lot of unhealthy oils For one, that's the main thing and a lot of them are made from process flowers Like enriched wheat flour wheat flour just flowers that generally contain a lot of pesticides like glycosate The active ingredient in roundup. So I went on the hunt and I found a couple of options First I'm going to insert a picture of the first one. These are the siete tortillas now Let me preface this with these are very expensive. I've yet to purchase them because of the price point They are about $9 per package now if you get The tortillas with the almond flour, I believe that there are three smart points But I'll put that here on the screen if I'm wrong But this is a great alternative In fact, these actually have the cleanest ingredients of all the tortillas I've ever been able to find But again, they're pricey, but I did find a fantastic option Law tortilla factory low carb tortillas you guys these are just as big if not bigger than the olay wraps These have excellent excellent ingredients two smart points. So one extra point and you are getting really really good ingredients They also have smaller tortillas that are perfect for things like fajitas or soft tacos And those are one point apiece So again, you guys there's alternatives out there for some of your favorite things if you're just looking for a little bit Better ingredients. I'm obsessed with these. All right, so that is it on my top 15 Favorite w w food items and some healthy alternatives I hope that I gave you some great ideas of maybe some things that you can look for The next time that you're doing your grocery shopping and you're adding some of these w w favorites to your grocery list Again, if you choose to eat the items that I mentioned more power to you That's the beauty again of w w is we can eat whatever we want I'm just here to share with you some of my new favorites that follow a little bit better with my clean approach to the W w program. So thank you guys so much for watching I'm going to link everything down below that I can find for you guys And I'll even list out these 15 items and what I substituted them with So it makes a little bit easier for you to add to your grocery list. 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