Honor your Hunger

The overall theme for the June meetings is “Increase your awareness”. This week, we are learning to recognize and listen to the hunger cues our body gives us.

If we ate only when hungry, and stopped the moment we are satisfied, very few of us would have problem managing our weight. The problem is that we eat for all sorts of other reasons and lose the ability to recognize the legitimate hunger signals that our body gives us throughout the day.

It’s more than not eating when not hungry, it’s eating enough to avoid getting overly hungry later, it’s being able to stop eating when we’ve had enough.

It’s finding that balance of being satisfied all through the day, so that we don’t go the extremes of being overly full, or overly hungry, both of which generally leads us astray.

Together we will figure this out!

Tool of the Week

Smoothies! These little proteins marvels are great for a quick snack. Have them in milk with ice cubes, add a few fruits and it’s even better!

I have the chocolate one in 1 ½ cup of hot coffee for a rich Mocha! The possibilities are endless.

Check the message boards for recipes done with the Weight Watchers smoothies!

Events!

We have events coming! Check out the details on the Event Blog.

Some of you have been asking about Etools, how to use it, how to get more information about it.

Saturday June 25th at 11:15 at the Bayhill Center in San Bruno, there's a whole training about it. The essentials, the fun and the useful stuff you can do with Etools! Don't miss it!

Go climb the stairs on Russion Hill with Michael on July 10th at 1pm!

Those events are for you our members because we appreciate you so much. Enjoy them!

In the Kitchen

The funny story about this recipe is that it was in a Weight Watchers magazine years ago (2006) and since, every summer, my friend and I have the same email conversation: “Do you still have that watermelon salad? You know the one with the cucumber?” and it goes on, one of us find it and we happily make it all over again.

You can’t get simpler than this, it’s delicious too!

Watermelon and Cucumber Salad
4 servings, 0 pts/serving

Ingredients
2 pounds seedless watermelon, rind removed, cut into ¾ inch chunks (about 3 cups)
2 Kirby cucumber, thinly sliced
1 Jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced
2 TBSP Red-wine vinegar
¼ tsp salt

Directions
Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl. Let stand until the flavors are blended about 15 minutes.

Source: Weight Watchers Magazine July/August 2006 p. 131

Activity

Laura, a member at the Jewish Community Center on Tuesday night has been talking about this for quite a while now. I haven’t done it yet, but keep meaning to.

If you want to give Lindy dancing a try, there are free lessons every Sunday (unless it’s raining) in Golden Gate park at 12:00!

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
(South sidewalk of John F. Kennedy Drive, between the de Young Museum and the north entrance to the Music Concourse)

You can find more information and contact info at this website:
http://www.lindyinthepark.com/about/free-lesson/

Doesn’t that sound like fun? I have to give it a try!

Have a good week!

Get out there and have fun! Summer is almost there, so let’s get out and enjoy the outside before we freeze solid in July! HA! Sorry, I couldn’t resist!!

Email me if you need anything! See you in the meeting room!

Melanie

“He who goes to bed hungry dreams of pancakes.”