Monday, August 27, 2007
Weighing In - Week Four
For “Weighing In”, you should post the following things: (1) your weight loss, maintenance or GAIN (yes, own up to it if it's true) for the past week (2) your personal goal for the rest of the week (try to restrict it to one) and (3) your anticipated non-food reward for achieving that goal. Since it seems we are all choosing to weigh-in on Tuesdays, I will create a post for every new week the day before we weigh-in (Monday). This would be a good post to add encouraging words for other individuals as well.
Tips and Tricks - Week Four
TIP: Even if you’re sick of hearing it, breakfast is still the most important meal of the day. Eating breakfast as soon as you get up kicks your metabolism into gear and allows it to burn more calories during the entire course of the day. It has been proven, those who eat lunch have more success with weight loss and more success in maintaining a healthy weight. Your breakfast should be using 20-25% of your entire daily points. It’s also a really good meal to help you fulfill part of your milk and fruit good health guideline obligations.
TRICK: Got a lotta candles? Well, lucky you! You can use aromatherapy to help train your brain for waist watching success. When I think about lemonade, I can’t help but drool. Literally. This same phenomenon also occurs around doughnuts, grilled cheese, fresh chocolate chip cookies… the list goes on. My brain is trained to know that when it smells those items that they will soon be in my mouth making me happy and satisfied. You can use this same idea to trick yourself into thinking that you’re fuller and more satisfied that you really are. If you burn a certain candle or spray a particular scent every time you’re full after dinner or generally content, your mind will begin to associate that smell with fullness. If you do it enough times, when you find yourself feeling hungry and desperate, just burn that candle or spray that scent and the desire to raid the pantry may fade peacefully away. Just don’t forget to continue to do it when you are full for real, or the scent may begin to remind you of painful hunger!
RECIPE: Dieting can be very expensive… fresh fruits, vegetables and meats cost more and spoil faster. One meal I have often is chicken tacos, and then I eat up the leftovers quickly with taco salad. For the tacos, cook strips of chicken breast in a pan with some seasoning; you do not have to add oil if you are attentive and flip/stir often enough. Lay 1-1½ ounces of chicken (1 ounce = 1 point) per taco shell. I use Don Marco’s Fat Free tortilla shells, which are 2 for 0 points. Then top each with 1/8c FF shredded cheddar cheese, chili powder, onion, lettuce, and tomato. I also top with 1/8c FF sour cream per taco. I usually eat two, wait a while, and then realize I’m full. The entire dinner is 4-5 points. Lunch the next day can be a salad of 1 ounce hot, shredded chicken, lettuce, tomato, onion, and a Tbs of FF sour cream as a dressing. Mix it all up so the seasoning of the chicken gets on everything, and the sour cream coats all of the veggies. Lunch for 1 point, and you really get in your veggies!
TRICK: Got a lotta candles? Well, lucky you! You can use aromatherapy to help train your brain for waist watching success. When I think about lemonade, I can’t help but drool. Literally. This same phenomenon also occurs around doughnuts, grilled cheese, fresh chocolate chip cookies… the list goes on. My brain is trained to know that when it smells those items that they will soon be in my mouth making me happy and satisfied. You can use this same idea to trick yourself into thinking that you’re fuller and more satisfied that you really are. If you burn a certain candle or spray a particular scent every time you’re full after dinner or generally content, your mind will begin to associate that smell with fullness. If you do it enough times, when you find yourself feeling hungry and desperate, just burn that candle or spray that scent and the desire to raid the pantry may fade peacefully away. Just don’t forget to continue to do it when you are full for real, or the scent may begin to remind you of painful hunger!
RECIPE: Dieting can be very expensive… fresh fruits, vegetables and meats cost more and spoil faster. One meal I have often is chicken tacos, and then I eat up the leftovers quickly with taco salad. For the tacos, cook strips of chicken breast in a pan with some seasoning; you do not have to add oil if you are attentive and flip/stir often enough. Lay 1-1½ ounces of chicken (1 ounce = 1 point) per taco shell. I use Don Marco’s Fat Free tortilla shells, which are 2 for 0 points. Then top each with 1/8c FF shredded cheddar cheese, chili powder, onion, lettuce, and tomato. I also top with 1/8c FF sour cream per taco. I usually eat two, wait a while, and then realize I’m full. The entire dinner is 4-5 points. Lunch the next day can be a salad of 1 ounce hot, shredded chicken, lettuce, tomato, onion, and a Tbs of FF sour cream as a dressing. Mix it all up so the seasoning of the chicken gets on everything, and the sour cream coats all of the veggies. Lunch for 1 point, and you really get in your veggies!
Questions - Week Four
Have a random question about the Weight Watchers program or anything else diet and exercise related? Post it here. Have an answer? Go ahead and enlighten us all!
Gripes - Week Four
Go right ahead and gripe! We all have the option to read them or not depending on how we feel. If gripes don't fill you with negative energy, sometimes it's nice to know how much the people around you are suffering, too. Yeah, it sounds bad, but you know it's true...... ;)
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