The Lose for Good Campaign is on!
Did you find, or solidify, your goal for the remaining weeks of the campaign? What did you do this week to make sure you would show a loss at the scale?
This week we are discussing the importance of apprec
iating all losses, big ones surely, but also small ones. Every step, big or small, will take you toward your goal. It’s important to keep your eyes on the ball because those small losses really do add up!
Think about it, if you lose 0.3 lb, you have lost abo
ut a bar of soap! Who wants a bar of soap hanging off their body? Lost a lb in the last few weeks? Doesn’t seem like much huh? Well you have lost a whole can of Fat free refried beans!
Ain’t that something?
Tool of the Week
This week our tool of the week is a favorite of mine. AGAIN! The member kit is all that you really need to follow the program in one neat package!
The Complete Food companion and the Dinning Out Companion have the point value for pretty much anything you can think of. It’s all in there!
The 3 month journal is a great tool to track your food intake in a format that you can take anywhere, and work your own way! No need to wait for a page to load, you just turn it! How ingenious is that?
There are all sorts of other nifty tools and information (and savings!) in the kit. Ask us about it at the meeting, we’ll show it all to you!
What’s going on?
Oh my, so much!!
Success Stories Live!
Sunday September 19th at 5 pm at the Stonestown center:
Jump start your motivation with a night of inspiration!
Learn from members who have successfully lost weight.
Free Registration, Give-aways, and Door Prizes.
Vendors of WW-friendly food and samples!
Bring a friend and you get a free box of 2 point snack bars plus your name will be entered into a raffle to win $100 worth of Weight Watcher products.
Lose for Good:
The campaign is still on!!!
For each lb we lose Weight Watchers is giving $1 to Share Our Strength!
There are Food Drives at the Weight Watchers centers, share what you can. Somebody somewhere needs your help!!
The campaign will go on until October 23rd.
San Bruno
I’m sure that by now everybody has heard of the disaster in San Bruno. We have both staff and members who live in the neighborhood affected by the explosion. Friday I spend the afternoon in the San Bruno center and the stories I heard were heartbreaking. Yet the strength and resilience of the people of San Bruno is humbling.
I know that many of us want to help out. The Red Cross was saying Friday that they could not accept food and clothing anymore because they didn’t have the resources to deal with the overload of donations. Please keep an eye on the news and the Red Cross website for update on that front.
Here’s what you CAN DO: Donate blood. The word we got Friday was that the best way to help was to donate blood. As I learn more about what can be done, I will share with you in the meeting room.
More than anything though send strength, positive thoughts, anything to the people of San Bruno. It’s a very close knit community; everybody is touched by this tragedy.
In the Kitchen
Ooohhh I was looking for a quick and easy bean-ish salad for lunches and here’s what I found. It’s super simple, but it has the great advantage to being totally adaptable.
You can make it as is, or you can doctor it in thousands of ways! It’s a Rachel Ray recipe. I know not everybody likes her, but I’m not the one who’s going to snob somebody ‘cause she’s a little hyper right? ;op
I found the recipe in a cool little blog I’ve found:
http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com
Rachael Ray’s Chickpea Salad
Makes 6 enormous side servings
(I make 8 servings, 3 pts serving (2 pts/serving if you cut the oil down to 2 TBSP))
2 (15-ounce) cans chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1 small red onion finely chopped
1 small red bell pepper, finely chopped
A few ribs celery and leafy tops, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced or grated then grinded into a paste with salt
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
2 tablespoons rosemary, finely chopped, a few sprigs
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
In a medium bowl, mix vinegar and olive oil. Whisk to combine. Add all other ingredients. Stir to coat. Salt and pepper to taste.
Approximate Calories, Fat, and Price Per Serving *
TOTAL: 1443 calories, 50.5 g fat, $4.27
PER SERVING (TOTAL/6): 240.5 calories, 8.4 g fat, $0.71
* http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com
At Work Corner
If you need anything, let me know! The best way to get to me is always to drop me an email at willow@seamountains.net I will read everything and answer as soon as I can.
If for any reason you can't make your meeting at work, you are more than welcome to attend a meeting at any center - traveler. You have paid for it already!
You can find meetings close to home or to your vacation site at:
Here are my meetings:
http://seamountains.net/mtg.html
Onward and Downward!
Have a good week! If you need anything please drop me an email. I’ll be more than happy to help you any way I can!
See you in the meeting room!
Melanie
“Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.”
Steve Droke
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