Weight Watchers Egg Salad Recipe The Holy Mess (2024)

FAQs

Are eggs still zero points on Weight Watchers? ›

Are eggs really a ZeroPoint food? Yes, eggs—including the yolk! —are a ZeroPoint food. (As long as they're prepared with a 0 Points® value cooking spray or sauce.)

Eggs are a good source of high-quality protein and provide essential vitamins and minerals for a healthy diet. Per the American Heart Association's recommendation, up to seven eggs per week is OK.

Egg Salad Nutrition Facts

Mayonnaise, which is made mostly from oil and eggs, is a high-calorie condiment. One tablespoon of mayo (which counts as a serving) has 90 calories, 10 grams of fat, 1.5 grams of saturated fat and 90 milligrams of sodium. Most egg salad recipes have way more than 1 tablespoon of in them.

It doesn't matter what you cook your eggs with or in. Eggs are a ZeroPoint foods so they do not have any Points® values—even in a cake recipe.

“Foods higher in saturated fat are higher in Points. It is also why the most recent dietary guidelines for Americans had no limit on dietary cholesterol but did recommend limiting saturated fat.” In other words, you can continue to enjoy foods that contain dietary cholesterol—including eggs.

This system helps you choose more nutritious foods, but your body doesn't work off of points, it works off of calories. For example, if you've met your points budget for the day, but still feel hungry you're technically allowed to eat as many zero-point foods as you want.

You can still lose weight: ZeroPoint foods have been part of WeightWatchers for many years! We rigorously test our programs and have found that members can regularly incorporate all ZeroPoint foods into their everyday eating and still lose weight.

Full of fiber and protein, these foods also support overall health, keep you full, and bulk up and add flavor to your meals. And, of course, you can eat as much as you like.

Eggs are 0 points for me, so why...

A healthy diet is a variety of foods, mostly plants, not too much or too little. The risk of a decent sized serving of egg salad every day is that it could end up forming too large a part of your diet, cutting down on the variety.

Will I lose weight eating eggs and salad? ›

The simplest way to lose weight is to curb the intake of calories, and adding eggs to the diet may help. For example, a lunch or dinner of two hard-boiled eggs and a cup of mixed vegetables contains just 274 calories.

A fruit is a ZeroPoint food if it's: Fresh or frozen without added sugars or fat.

Foods that contain high amount of refined carbs and fat combined will have the highest points in Weight Watchers. Such food items can be Doughnut, Ice cream, Cakes, Burgers, Pizza, Cheese dipped french fries and pies. Refined carbs convert into fat in liver resulting in weight gain.

When the moisture is removed, the poultry has more calories per ounce, so it's no longer considered a ZeroPoint food and you'll need to track it.

Whole eggs, egg whites, and egg yolks in any form are ZeroPoint foods, including: Eggs. Eggs, hard-boiled or soft-boiled. Eggs, scrambled or fried, made without fat.

Whole fruit is a ZeroPoint food, but once it becomes part of a smoothie, the experience of “eating” it changes. Research shows that liquids don't promote the same feeling of fullness and satisfaction that solid foods do.

When the moisture is removed, the poultry has more calories per ounce, so it's no longer considered a ZeroPoint food and you'll need to track it.

You can still lose weight: ZeroPoint foods have been part of WeightWatchers for many years! We rigorously test our programs and have found that members can regularly incorporate all ZeroPoint foods into their everyday eating and still lose weight.