How many days this week were you "on program" 100%? What does that even mean to be on program 100%?
Recipe Club
The Recipe Club is finally starting! Tired of cooking the same old, same old week after week? Out of inspiration? Come with us on Wednesday September 21st, 7 pm a the Stonestown Center to share your favorite soup/stew recipe and see what the others have to share.
Here's how it works:
September Theme: Soups & Stews
Where: Weight Watchers Center Stonestown (577 Buckingham Way)
When: Wednesday September 21st at 7pm
You need:
We want everybody to have a chance to share their recipes, so we need to keep it short. We will make sure to have time for mingling after everybody presented their recipes, so you'll be able to ask any questions you might have about a given recipe!
Don't be afraid to email me if you have questions. This will be so fun! I can't wait to hear what everybody brings in!
Everybody have their strength and their weakness when it comes to following the PointsPlus program. Be it food choices, portion control, activity or stick-to-it-iveness. Am I somebody who follows the plan a little all the time? Or someone who's perfect 3 days out of the week?
Do I work out 2 hours a week, all on Monday morning? Or do I have a routine that spreads through the week? Are my Friday evening portions twice as big as my Monday night portions?
What if I told you that you can do anything for a week. That you can, for an entire week, follow the PointsPlus program successfully?
Lets get together to figure out how to make that magical week happen. Here's a hint, magic has very little to do with it!
Recipe Club
The Recipe Club is finally starting! Tired of cooking the same old, same old week after week? Out of inspiration? Come with us on Wednesday September 21st, 7 pm a the Stonestown Center to share your favorite soup/stew recipe and see what the others have to share.
Here's how it works:
September Theme: Soups & Stews
Where: Weight Watchers Center Stonestown (577 Buckingham Way)
When: Wednesday September 21st at 7pm
You need:
- A recipe relating to the theme (keep it simple, ideally a favorite that you know well)
- The source (where you got it from)
- The PointsPlus value and serving size
- Any comments (difficulty level, tools needed, shortcut you've found, substitutions, etc)
We want everybody to have a chance to share their recipes, so we need to keep it short. We will make sure to have time for mingling after everybody presented their recipes, so you'll be able to ask any questions you might have about a given recipe!
Don't be afraid to email me if you have questions. This will be so fun! I can't wait to hear what everybody brings in!
Lose for Good
It's week 3 of the Lose for Good Campaign! What are you doing to help other by helping yourself?
We are doing great, but we can always do better!! Keep it up!! Here's the many ways to get involved:
Losing weight
How cool is that? Weight Watchers will donate 1 dollar for each pound lost up to a million. We want to pass last year's total of 4 million pounds lost. We can so do it!!
Plug in for Lose-A-Palooza
It's happening September 19th. Find information here: http://loseapalooza,com
Connect with the Lose for Good Community
Look them up for support, inspiration and motivation: http://weightwatchers.com/loseforgood
There are also be food drives at the centers! It's time to help others by helping ourselves!
Sale - Sale - Sale
From September 4th through the 24th all Mini Bar, Oatmeal, and Smoothies will be on sale for only $4.95!
It's time to stock up on those goodies!
How cool is that? Weight Watchers will donate 1 dollar for each pound lost up to a million. We want to pass last year's total of 4 million pounds lost. We can so do it!!
Plug in for Lose-A-Palooza
It's happening September 19th. Find information here: http://loseapalooza,com
Connect with the Lose for Good Community
Look them up for support, inspiration and motivation: http://weightwatchers.com/loseforgood
There are also be food drives at the centers! It's time to help others by helping ourselves!
Sale - Sale - Sale
From September 4th through the 24th all Mini Bar, Oatmeal, and Smoothies will be on sale for only $4.95!
It's time to stock up on those goodies!
Tool of the Week
This little tool is great for crazy times! Yeah ideally you want to write it all down in details, break it down, make an analysis... Sometimes you just don't have time for that, or you plain don't feel like it! Enters the Weight Watchers Clicker!
It's a tiny tool that fits anywhere.It's the simplest thing to use, you set it to your Daily PointsPlus Target and click down the PoinstPlus as you use them. That's it! How much simpler can anything get?
In the Kitchen
I have so many cookbooks that it takes me some time to work my way through new ones. Last spring we got the Fresh Fabulous, Fast cookbook here at Weight watchers, and I am now working my way through it. Here's my favorite so far:
Chicken and Broccoli with Black bean sauce
4 servings, 6 P+/serving
Ingredients
3/4 pound chicken tenders, cut lengthwise into 1/4 inch slices
4 cup small broccoli florets
1 red bell pepper, thinly sliced
1/2 cup plus 2 TBSP water
2 TBSP black bean sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 (8.8 ounce) package cooked brown rice (about 1 3/4 cups)
1- Spray a large wok or skillet with nonstick spray and set over medium-high heat. Add chicken and stir-fry until browned and just cooked through, 2-3 minutes. Transfer to plate.
2- Add broccoli, bell pepper*, and 1/4 cup of the water to wok; stir-fry until vegetables are crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Add chicken, black bean sauce, sugar, and remaining 2 TBSP water; stir-fry 1 minute.
3- Heat rice according to package directions for microwave. Serve chicken and vegetables over rice.
* You can add more vegetables to this and bump the volume and the taste!
Source: Fast, Fresh, Fabulous Weight Watchers p. 129.
Move it
Since we are trying to lose weight, or maintain our weight after a weight loss, we often put a lot of focus on cardio when it comes to our choices of activity. It makes sense after all, cardio burns more calories, earns more Activity PointsPlus, so evidently we tend to deduce that it's a better choice to make it to our goal weight in a hurry and stay there. Cardio absolutely has its place in a healthy lifestyle, but so does resistance training!
Resistance training by itself burns less calories since it is less taxing on the cardiovascular system, but it certainly has definite advantage when it comes to reaching our goals. Studies show that building more muscle mass speeds up your metabolism (at rest even, the more muscles you have, the faster your metabolism) so that your body will burn more calories while you are doing nothing! Resistance training also makes you look better, at any weight, by helping you maintain a better posture, and help us fight off the effects of time and gravity on the body.
You can do all sort of resistance training: Yoga, pilates, core training, anything really that makes you work your muscles until they are too tired to go on. My first choice when it comes to resistance training is, by far, lifting weights. I've talked about it before, but I still see members, generally women, who are intimidated by the idea of pumping iron. There are so many myths and misinformation about weight training, here are the main ones debunked:
http://bodybuilding.about.com/od/womensfitnesstopics/a/womenmyths.htm
The Weight Watchers website has some good articles about weight training:
http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=32301&sc=3046
Free weights or machines?
http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=11501&sc=128
Here's a few article from my go to website about weight training (www.stumptuous.com) that might help you get started. Those are from Krista's website and her language/humor is particular, still the information she gives is very helpful and interesting! I have learned a lot from her, even if her site really is geared toward women, I think anybody can learn a lot from her.
Still have weight to lose? Look up this article:
http://www.stumptuous.com/no-fat-chicks
Think you're too old to lift weight? You are NOT!
http://www.stumptuous.com/old-broads-the-golden-years-of-pumping-iron
Here you can find other articles she has written over the years for people who are just getting started:
http://www.stumptuous.com/category/starting
Yes weight training burns less calories while you are doing it than a cardio work out would, but it increase the calories you burn at rest, it helps fight off bone mass loss over the year, and it makes life easier (I can open my own jars thank you!). This is all very good and pretty, but honestly to me the biggest advantage of resistance training is that it significally slows down the effect of gravity on the body.
I do want to be healthy, of course, but here's what I'm really pumping iron for: To keep my weight down... and my behind up where it belongs!
Have a great week!
There is so much going on! Lose for good, Bike-o-rama, the Recipe Club starting, sales, Success Stories Live on the 18th, Wow! It IS a great time to be a member! Make sure to look up the Event Blog to keep up with everything that is going on.
We are working our way back on the way to our goals, as always I'm only an email away!
Have a skinny, healthy week everybody!
Melanie
Move it
Since we are trying to lose weight, or maintain our weight after a weight loss, we often put a lot of focus on cardio when it comes to our choices of activity. It makes sense after all, cardio burns more calories, earns more Activity PointsPlus, so evidently we tend to deduce that it's a better choice to make it to our goal weight in a hurry and stay there. Cardio absolutely has its place in a healthy lifestyle, but so does resistance training!
Resistance training by itself burns less calories since it is less taxing on the cardiovascular system, but it certainly has definite advantage when it comes to reaching our goals. Studies show that building more muscle mass speeds up your metabolism (at rest even, the more muscles you have, the faster your metabolism) so that your body will burn more calories while you are doing nothing! Resistance training also makes you look better, at any weight, by helping you maintain a better posture, and help us fight off the effects of time and gravity on the body.
You can do all sort of resistance training: Yoga, pilates, core training, anything really that makes you work your muscles until they are too tired to go on. My first choice when it comes to resistance training is, by far, lifting weights. I've talked about it before, but I still see members, generally women, who are intimidated by the idea of pumping iron. There are so many myths and misinformation about weight training, here are the main ones debunked:
http://bodybuilding.about.com/od/womensfitnesstopics/a/womenmyths.htm
The Weight Watchers website has some good articles about weight training:
http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=32301&sc=3046
Free weights or machines?
http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=11501&sc=128
Here's a few article from my go to website about weight training (www.stumptuous.com) that might help you get started. Those are from Krista's website and her language/humor is particular, still the information she gives is very helpful and interesting! I have learned a lot from her, even if her site really is geared toward women, I think anybody can learn a lot from her.
Still have weight to lose? Look up this article:
http://www.stumptuous.com/no-fat-chicks
Think you're too old to lift weight? You are NOT!
http://www.stumptuous.com/old-broads-the-golden-years-of-pumping-iron
Here you can find other articles she has written over the years for people who are just getting started:
http://www.stumptuous.com/category/starting
Yes weight training burns less calories while you are doing it than a cardio work out would, but it increase the calories you burn at rest, it helps fight off bone mass loss over the year, and it makes life easier (I can open my own jars thank you!). This is all very good and pretty, but honestly to me the biggest advantage of resistance training is that it significally slows down the effect of gravity on the body.
I do want to be healthy, of course, but here's what I'm really pumping iron for: To keep my weight down... and my behind up where it belongs!
Have a great week!
There is so much going on! Lose for good, Bike-o-rama, the Recipe Club starting, sales, Success Stories Live on the 18th, Wow! It IS a great time to be a member! Make sure to look up the Event Blog to keep up with everything that is going on.
We are working our way back on the way to our goals, as always I'm only an email away!
Have a skinny, healthy week everybody!
Melanie
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