Now that the holidays are over we have set our Winning Outcome and we have found the steps needed to achieve it. It’s time to get to the “doing it” part!
Following the PointsPlus program starts with tracking. Not only it’s a tremendous learning tool for success, but it’s also a perfect way to ground ourselves into the still unfamiliar PointsPlus program.
This week we’ll discuss the whys and hows of tracking and share out tricks and tips on making it easier to do on a daily basis. Be there!
Tool of the week
If you want your tracking to be accurate, you have to have the right tools! You can get most of them all in one neat package!
The Member kits have everything you need: Complete Food Companion, Dining Out Companion, 3 Month Journal, the Deluxe kit even has a cookbook!
What’s going on?
It’s January at Weight Watchers! A lot of people are returning to our meetings after taking a little break during the holidays, others have seen our commercials, hear about how absolutely wonderful the new PointsPlus program is and decided to give Weight Watchers a try.
For all those reasons, the meeting rooms will be crowded but have no fear, we are staffing up and making sure that everybody who walks in the meeting rooms have all the attention, help and support they need! Come in early and avoid the long lines!
In the kitchen
For the fun of it, we’ve decided to do themed weeks for January. This week we are eating Vegetarian. This soup is something I came across a few years ago and fell in love with.
I haven’t done it in a while but it’s on my list for “vegetarian week”. We eat it as an appetizer, so it lasts us for a few days. It is a little labor intensive, but it’s Delicious!
Curried Apple Soup
4 servings 4 P+/serving (counting the apples)
2 tablespoons Canola oil
2 cups onion -- chopped
3 large garlic clove -- minced
2 tablespoons ginger -- minced
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons dry mustard
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon ground cumin
½ teaspoon ground cardamom
½ teaspoon allspice
¼ teaspoon cayenne
5 cups tart apple -- peeled and chopped
4 cups water
2 sticks cinnamon
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3 tablespoons honey or brown sugar (optional not included in P+)
Heat oil in a soup pot or Dutch oven. Add onion, garlic, ginger, and salt, and sauté over medium heat for about 5 minutes, or until the onion begin to soften.
Add the spices, and sauté another 5 minutes over medium heat.
Add apples, water, cinnamon sticks, and lemon juice, and bring to a boil. Turn the heat down, mostly cover, and simmer for about 10 minutes, or until the apples are very tender. Remove from heat.
Take out the cinnamon sticks, and puree in a blender or food processor-bit by bit, so as not to splash yourself. Return the puree to the pot.
Add optional sweetening, and taste to adjust salt. Serve hot or cold, with or without some or all of the toppings. (Even though the toppings are fun and delicious, this soup is also wonderful just plan.)
Optional toppings (not included in P+): Lightly toasted shredded coconut; lightly toasted slivered almonds; a drizzle of yogurt; a few dried currants.
From: "Mollie Katzen's Recipes, Soups" Ten Speed Press.
Activity
Now that the parties are over, it’s time to set our routine back on its wheels. It’s the perfect time to take a good look at your activity routine and see where you want it to go.
How is your routine working for you? Are you working out enough? Does it work with your schedule? Is it still fun? Do you need to add duration? Intensity?
Think in term of building a routine that will work long term. It has to be realistic, motivating, effective, but most of all it has to be fun!
If you are just getting started, look here for all sorts of articles, tips and tricks to get started:
http://www.weightwatchers.com/fitbegin/
If you are looking into trying weight lifting, here’s what is still the best weight lifting website for women (there are plenty all over the net for guys, but very few for women!)
http://www.stumptuous.com/
Note: Miss Krista is very irreverent, if you are easily offended you might want to close your eyes to read her website (HA!) but her advices, ideas, demos are fabulous!
It doesn’t matter if you are just getting started, or if you are training for your 15th race. Take a step back, think about what you are doing already, think of how you can improve, make a plan, and GO!
Finish this sentence with your own Activity Winning Outcome:
This week, to get my activity routine on track I will ______________________________________
Have a good week!
I will be back to all my meetings this week. I have missed many of you and can’t wait to see how you did in the last 2 weeks. Make sure to come to your meeting. If you can’t make it, look me up at any of my traditional meetings in San Francisco at:
http://seamountains.net/mtg.html
As always I’m only an email away!!
Your leader,
Melanie
“The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.”
~David Weinbaum
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