Snickers Pie-3 points

Weight Watcher’s Snickers Pie
Thank you Faith,Ellicott City.

1 pint vanilla frozen non fat yogurt
2 Tablespoons chunky peanut butter
½ package sugar free chocolate pudding
½ cup fat free cool whip

Mix well and pour into an 8 inch pie plate. Freeze until set.
Serves 8 – 3 points per slice

I am worthy

Don't miss this article.

I Am Worthy of Weight Loss
Article By: Diana Kelly

I Am Not My Weight
Are you appreciating your changing shape as you drop pounds, or are you comparing your body to everyone around you, including celebrities and models?Our culture seems to celebrate skinny women so it's easy to get caught up in impossible ideals and undermine your own self-worth. Instead of comparing yourself to others, focus on your body and how it has improved since you started a weight-loss plan.
By reversing your negative thoughts about your body image and setting realistic goals, you'll reap benefits on the scale. Use the Positive Self-Talking tool from Tools for Living and learn to be your No. 1 cheerleader.
Here are three pessimistic statements and the positive talk to counteract them.
Negative thoughts
Positive self-talk
"My weight loss is slow. I'll never be able to reach my goal weight."
"I'm looking and feeling better each week. I can stick with it until I reach my weight goal."
"I've been so bad this week."
"I am not my weight. My feelings of self-worth will not be affected by whether I lose or gain weight."
"I don't deserve to lose weight."
"I do deserve to lose weight. I'm worth it."
Changing your thinking will improve with practice. Designate a time every day — perhaps when you first wake up or while brushing your teeth — to practice this "positive" skill. Be aware of when you are comparing yourself to others. By focusing on your uniqueness, you'll build a more realistic view of weight loss and how you want to look and feel at goal.

Recipe Tuscan Potato and Pepper Packets

Recipes –


May ‘09Tuscan Potato and Pepper Packets


Makes 4 servings (1 packet)


POINTS value per serving: 3


◊1 pound uncooked red potatoes, scrubbed and thinly sliced (about 3 cups)


◊1 medium yellow pepper, cut into thin strips (about 2 cups)◊1 medium red onion, thinly sliced (about 1 cup)


1 tbsp olive oil


2 medium garlic cloves, minced


1 tbsp rosemary, fresh, chopped, or less to taste*


1/2 tsp table salt


1/2 tsp black pepper, freshly ground





1.Heat outdoor grill to medium high. Tear off four 12-inch long pieces of aluminum foil.





2.In a large bowl, combine all ingredients until mixed and coated. Spread about 1 1/2 cups of vegetable mixture in a fairly even layer near 1 end of each piece of foil. Fold foil over to form packets; fold edges in to form a tight seal.3.Grill packets, turning a few times, until potatoes are tender, about 20 to 25 minutes.Recipe adapted from WeightWatchers.com

Movie theater popcorn

Do you want to lose your cravings for movie theater popcorn, just listen to this. I was searching for nutritional values online and I found on Hungry Girl that a medium movie theater popcorn WITHOUT BUTTER! is 900 calories and has 60 grams of fat. Isn't that enough to make us think about sneeking in a 94% fat free popcorn from home in your purse or in a bag?

Getting back on the right track

And I don't know for you but this last week has been a tough one for me. I had a lot of personal things I had to deal with and when I get emotional I kind of think in "food" meaning "whatever food", just literally anything because everything will do it at that moment, I am just "looking for food" like if it is going to fix all my problems and worries and you would think that when you've done this for so many years this doesn't happen any longer, well you are wrong, it does!!! but different than in the past now I just don't beat up myself and move on and this avoids my old behaviours of "I blew it already so I might us well keep eating", do you agree with me?

Quote of the week

"A goal without a plan is just a wish"

3 points Key Lime Pie

This recipe was in a recipe card they gave me while trying to lose my weight and I do really like it.
KEY LIME PIE servings, 3 POINTS per serving

1 box sugar-free lime flavor gelatin
1/4 cup boiling water
2 containers (8 oz each) Key Lime Pie flavor light yogurt
1 container (8 oz) frozen fat-free whipped topping, thawed
One 9-inch reduced fat graham cracker pie crust
In a large heat-resistant bowl, dissolve gelatin in boiling water. With wire whisk, stir in yogurt. With a wooden spoon, fold in whipped topping. Transfer mixture to crust, refrigerate at least 2 hours.

E-tools new look

Did you log into your etools home page this week? It has a new great look.

Remember, you can get etools FREE when you have a MONTHLY PASS!!!

If you don't have it yet please give it a try, you won't regret it. When I started Weight Watchers I started only with E-tools because I wasn't ready to show up in public at that moment (we all do silly things) but when I joined in a Center and they told me E-tools wasn't included I stayed paying for it on the side because I found it like having my leader at home. Now you can have it with your Monthly Pass, so don't miss all the fun.

2 and 5 points Margaritas

Well, and we don't stop enjoying the same things, we do them less often or we make those points go down.



Portia gave me this wonderful 5 points Margarita (the points came from putting the recipe in Weight Watchers recipe builder) a serving and makes 4 servings.



1 tablespoon Splenda
1/4 cup Grand Marnier
1/4 cup Triple Sec
1 cup Gold tequila
Ice

1 lime
coarse salt

To salt the glasses, rub the rim of the glasses with a cut lime and then lightly press them into a plate of kosher salt to coat.

Combine the lime juice and Splenda. Pour into a blender. Add Grand Manier, Triple Sec, tequila and a big handful of ice. Pulse the mixture in the blender to the consistence you want. Some like the ice finer, while others like the ice a little "lumpier". Pour into glasses and serve.
Makes four servings.
Add more ice to make a less intense drink. I haven't tried this but a friend did--add low calorie soda water to make a "spritzer."



And for a 2 points Margarita you have 2 options:

1)

Mix 6oz of Sierra Mist or 7up cero

1 shot of tequila

1 serving of a lemonade powder (Crystal light or similar)

2 tbsp lime juice

1 cup of ice

enjoy



Another 2 points alternative is to buy the

Sugar free Baja Bob mix for Margarita (0 points)

1 shot of tequila

ice

enjoy

See those BBQ points sizzle

Hi Winners!

What a beautiful week we are having. Let’s hope Memorial Day will be fantastic too.

Are you ready? Did you prepare yourself? Have you organized some activities too?

As I promised here is the link for the “Grill Cheat Sheet” in our Weight Watchers site. Copy and paste the link in your browser and hear those points “sizzling”

http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=54331

Let's walk, the good weather is here.

And I now this is a time of the year that for me translates to BBQ , proms, weddings, picnics, graduation and I could keep naming more and with it all the food that we associate with this events. On the flip side it also means the dreading bathing suit season is here!!! How can we manage both when they are so dramatically opposed to each other? Well, here are some tips I use and have helped me:

1) Make a large green salad for the BBQ or picnic. We made this last weekend 3 different from the "Hit the Spot" and "Now & Later" cookbooks that were delicious. Try new recipes.

2) Have grilled chicken instead.

3) Use low or fat free ingredients to make your favorite salads.

4) Since you are already outside take a walk, play a game and burn some of those extra calories that you treated yourself to.

5) Remember always to have fun!

Follow your weight loss goals all the way!

Don't get too busy!
You know this is a busy time of year - graduation, open houses, weddings, Father’s Day, ...the list goes on & on. Don't allow other things to get in the way of your success - commit to attend your meetings no matter what. You'll be SO glad you did as the next busy season comes around. When you stop & think about it, every time of the year is busy so it's important to keep your focus - NO MATTER WHAT!! See you there...

To laugh a little

Can't eat pork,
Swine flu...
Can't eat chicken,
Bird flu.

Can't eat Beef,
Mad cow....


Can't eat eggs,
Salmonella.


Can't eat fish,
heavy metal poisons in their waters.


Can't eat fruits and veggies,
insecticides and herbicides.


Hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I believe that leaves Chocolate and ice cream!!!!!!!!
Remember - - - 'STRESSED'
spelled backwards! is
'DESSERTS'

Does our body shut down when we don't eat enough?

The Starvation Myth

Article By: The Weight Watchers Research Department




JULY, 2007 — The idea that "not eating enough" causes the body to stop losing weight because it goes into "starvation mode" is a popular myth among dieters.
Restricting calories during weight loss lowers metabolism1 because the body becomes more efficient, requiring fewer calories to perform the necessary daily functions for survival. Consequently, this can slow (but not stop) the anticipated rate of weight loss.For example, if an individual needs 2,000 calories per day to maintain weight, reducing intake to 1,500 calories, assuming exercise stays the same, should provide a 1 pound per week weight loss (Note: 1 pound of weight is equivalent to about 3,500 calories). Furthermore, reducing to 1,000 calories should result in a weight loss of 2 pounds per week and going down to 500 calories a day should result in a weight loss of 3 pounds per week. However, if an individual actually reduces their intake to 500 calories, the weight loss would not likely be a steady 3 pounds per week because of the reduced metabolic rate. It would likely be around 2¼ to 2½ pounds. This "lower than expected" rate of weight loss is a lot different than "no" weight loss as the "starvation mode" notion proposes.
It is unclear as to whether the relationship between reduced caloric intake and a lower metabolism follows a straight path or becomes more pronounced the greater the caloric reduction. Some studies have found no significant reduction in metabolism until the caloric restriction is quite large (e.g. 800 calories or less per day).2 Others suggest a linear relationship with small reductions in metabolism accompanying small reductions in caloric restriction, with the gap increasing as the caloric deficit is enlarged.
While there is no biologic evidence to support the "starvation mode" myth, there may be behavioral reasons why weight loss stops when calories are severely reduced. Over-restriction of calorie intake, known as high dietary restraint is linked to periods of overeating, hindering successful weight loss.3 (For more information on dietary restraint, read the Science Center article, The Skill of Flexible Restraint).
Metabolism after Weight LossThe good news is that after the weight-loss goal is achieved and weight has stabilized, it does not appear that the dip in metabolism is permanent. Several rigorous studies done at the University of Alabama in Birmingham showed that metabolism goes back to expected levels with sustained weight loss,4 discounting the theory that a lowered metabolism helps to explain the common phenomenon of weight regain following weight loss.
Weight Watchers Approach The POINTS® Weight-Loss System is designed to provide a caloric intake that supports a healthy rate of weight loss, produces a minimal reduction in metabolism and avoids inducing too-high levels of dietary restraint.

Great ideas give a boost to your weight loss for Memorial Day

10 Small Things to Do Today to Look Great in a Bathing Suit
By Mike Bruno


Memorial Day's just around the corner, and you know what that means: bathing-suit season is hot on its heels. Does the thought of wearing the smallest, tightest article of clothing you own in public make you cringe? It's going to take a little work if you want to look and feel your best when that first day on the beach rolls around.
The good news is that by making some small, manageable changes to your routine today, you can avoid mirror-shock tomorrow. Here are 10 ways to slim down in time for a great bathing-suit bod.
Eat in the A.M.: Every morning, as soon as you get out of bed, have something to eat or drink. Lisa Dorfman, Sports Nutritionist in the University of Miami Athletic Department, says that even a piece of fruit or coffee with an ounce of milk will help kick-start your metabolism. "Research shows that any food [you eat] in the a.m. breaks the physiological fast, the state your body has been in while you sleep — hence the word 'breakfast,'" says Lisa.
Reduce Stress: Keep stress in check by adding exercise, prayer or meditation to your daily routine. Stress can actually set off a chain of hormonal events that can result in excess fat deposits.
Sofa Aerobics: While you're watching television, stand up and sit down repeatedly during each commercial break until you're tired or the break is over. This is basically a modified squat thrust. "Start with a minimum of two sets of 8 to 12 reps," said Karen Merrill, ACE 2004 personal trainer of the year. "Make sure you focus on good form to keep your core engaged and work the abs along with the legs."
Spice it Up: Carry a bottle of red pepper flakes in your work bag or keep a jar of hot chili peppers in the refrigerator at work, advises Dorfman. There's evidence that adding them to your lunches may help boost your metabolism.
Extreme Eating: Make a conscious effort to eat very cold snacks, like a popsicle, or very hot ones, like a cup of hot consommé. The extreme temperatures will make you eat slower, which gives your body time to signal your brain once you've had enough to eat.
Gab on the Go: Make your weekly phone calls to loved ones on your cell phone while taking a brisk walk. You'll burn a few calories and make your mother happy.
Stair Master: At the top of every hour at work, head into the stairwell and walk up and down a few flights to get your heart pumping. Once you start to feel fatigued, take a brief rest: Brace yourself on the hand rail and work your calves by doing toe raises on the top step.
Eliminate One Fat: Each day, make one non-fat substitution. Swap out half and half with fat-free creamer in your coffee, for example. You can save hundreds of fat calories each day that would otherwise go straight to your hips and thighs.
Tell the World: Put together a support team. Whether they're family or friends, tell them about your goals so they can help you stay on course and encourage your progress. "Get as many people on your side as you can — at work, at home — who know what you want to do and are there to support you," says Merrill. "With a solid support team, there's no reason you can't accomplish what you set out to do."
Bribe Yourself: Buy a bathing suit you absolutely adore, even if it's a bit out of your price range, and use it as a reward for when you're done shaping up. Not only will the promise of a splurge help motivate you, it's also guaranteed to make you happier about how you look when you finally slip it on.

A salad I enjoy

Community Recipe Swap: Side Dishes
3 Bean Salad From the kitchen of AKRENEE
4 Servings
Estimated POINTS® value per serving 3Course Side Dishes

Ingredients
1 15 1/2 oz can of Garbanzo beans
1 15 1/2 oz can of kidney beans
1 15 1/z oz can of green beanscelery (chopped)
onion (chopped)
rice vinegar
Instructions
Mix all ingredients together and refrigerate overnight.

Quote of the week

Your Life is your Garden,
Your Thoughts are the Seeds,
If your life isn't awesome,
you've been watering the weeds.

Terry Prine

How to adopt healthy habits.

I found this great article in the Weight Watchers website on how to Manage Your Thoughts and the benefit of my favorite E-tools.

Article By: WeightWatchers.com

Learn how to adopt healthy habits.
Positive thinking, positive results. Your mind can make a big difference, it helps your efforts when you trade in negative thoughts for positive ones.
Managing your thoughts means...
Recognizing negative thoughts when they run through your mind, and understanding what that kind of thinking can do to your efforts.
Replacing those negative thoughts with positive thoughts. Rather than telling yourself you should have lost more weight, or turned down that glass of wine, notice all the things that you've done that do help and accept that it takes time to change the habits of a lifetime.
Reflecting on what you can do, instead of what you can't do.
Your Thoughts Matter"With our thoughts we make the world." -Buddha.
Negative thoughts creep into most people's minds. But for some of us, they kind of take over—and we don't even realize it's happening. Negative thoughts come in the form of all-or-nothing thinking, ("I'm never eating chocolate again!"), absolute thinking ("I should" or "I ought"), and self-fulfilling prophecies ("I can't").
We believe what we tell ourselves. And what we tell ourselves shows up in what we do. That's why these kinds of negative thoughts are dangerous: if you expect to fail, you probably will; if you set unrealistic expectations, you probably won't meet them, you'll be disappointed...and then your mind will flood with more negative thoughts.
Managing the thoughts that guide our behaviors can be a big step toward changing those behaviors. To get started and encourage new positive thinking - try taking it a thought a time.
Managing Your Thoughts is a helpful habit because:
Research shows that people who succeed on weight-loss plans believe they'll succeed.*
When you're more aware of your negative thoughts, you'll challenge them the instant they appear and replace them with positive thoughts.
When you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll be confident in your ability to lose weight...and that confidence will show up in your results.
When you reflect regularly on your ability to succeed, you'll see a difference in your success.
Steve, from Midland, TX, lost 41 pounds and says, "Weight loss is a long process. In order to keep doing it, I had to continue to look at the positive side: Ihave lost and I'm still losing."
If you realize you need to Manage Your Thoughts... The Message Boards are, of course, a great place to get tips and encouragement. Other WeightWatchers.com users are also trying to manage their thoughts...and they're always happy to share what works for them.

Crave Man

Did you read last week at the Washington Post this Article. I really enjoyed it.
C1From the Washington Post, April 27/2009

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David Kessler Knew That Some Foods Are Hard to Resist; Now He Knows Why
He went in the middle of the night, long after the last employee had locked up the Chili’s Grill and Bar. He’d steer his car around the back, check to make sure no one was around and then quietly approach the dumpster.
If anyone noticed the man foraging through the trash, they would have assumed he was a vagrant. Except he was wearing black dress slacks and padded gardening gloves. “I’m surprised he didn’t wear a tie,” his wife said dryly.
The high-octane career path of David A. Kessler, the Harvard-trained doctor, lawyer, medical school dean and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration had come to this: nocturnal dumpster diving. Sometimes, he would just reach in. Other times, he would climb in.
It took many of these forays until Kessler emerged with his prize: ingredient labels affixed to empty cardboard boxes that spelled out the fats, salt and sugar used to make the Southwestern Eggrolls, Boneless Shanghai Wings and other dishes served by the nation’s second-largest restaurant chain.
Kessler was on a mission to understand a problem that has vexed him since childhood: why he can’t resist certain foods.
His resulting theory, described in his new book, “The End of Overeating,” is startling. Foods high in fat, salt and sugar alter the brain’s chemistry in ways that compel people to overeat. “Much of the scientific research around overeating has been physiology — what’s going on in our body,” he said. “The real question is what’s going on in our brain.”
The ingredient labels gave Kessler information the restaurant chain declined to provide when he asked for it. At the FDA, Kessler pushed through nutritional labels on foods sold through retail outlets but stopped short of requiring the same for restaurants. Yet if suppliers ship across state lines, as suppliers for Chili’s do, the ingredients must be printed on the box. That is what led Kessler, one of the nation’s leading public health figures, to hang around dumpsters across California.

The labels showed the foods were bathed in salt, fat and sugars, beyond what a diner might expect by reading the menu, Kessler said. The ingredient list for Southwestern Eggrolls mentioned salt eight different times; sugars showed up five times. The “egg rolls,” which are deepfried in fat, contain chicken that has been chopped up like meatloaf to give it a “melt in the mouth” quality that also makes it faster to eat. By the time a diner has finished this appetizer, she has consumed 910 calories, 57 grams of fat and 1,960 milligrams of sodium.
BY ERIC RISBERG — ASSOCIATED PRESS
David Kessler researched part of “The End of Overeating” by climbing into restaurant dumpsters to look for the nutritional labels of menu items high in fat, salt and sugar.
Instead of satisfying hunger, the salt- fat-sugar combination will stimulate that diner’s brain to crave more, Kessler said. For many, the come-on offered by Lay’s Potato Chips — “Betcha can’t eat just one” — is scientifically accurate. And the food industry manipulates this neurological response, designing foods to induce people to eat more than they should or even want, Kessler found.
His theory, born out in a growing body of scientific research, has implications not just for the increasing number of Americans struggling with obesity but for health providers and policymakers.
“The challenge is how do we explain to America what’s going on — how do we break through and help people understand how their brains have been captured?” he said.
Kessler is best remembered for his investigation of the tobacco industry and attempts to place it under federal regulation while he was FDA commissioner from 1990 to 1997. Although he was appointed by George H.W. Bush, Kessler became popular among Democrats for his tough regulatory stance. He got the nickname “Eliot Knessler” after he authorized the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota to seize a large quantity of Citrus Hill Fresh Choice orange juice in 1991 because it was labeled “fresh” when it was, in fact, partially processed. After he was elected in 1992, President Bill Clinton asked Kessler to continue to run the FDA.
Kessler’s aggressive approach toward the tobacco industry led to billion-dollar settlements between Big Tobacco and 46 states and laid the groundwork for legislation now pending in Congress that would place tobacco under FDA regulation.
Kessler, 57, sees parallels between the tobacco and food industries. Both are manipulating consumer behavior to sell products that can harm health, he said.
Whether government ought to exercise tougher controls over the food industry is going to be the next great debate, especially since much of the advertising is aimed at children, Kessler said.
“The food the industry is selling is much more powerful than we realized,” he said. “I used to think I ate to feel full. Now I know, we have the science that shows, we’re eating to stimulate ourselves. And so the question is what are we going to do about it?”
The idea for the book came seven years ago as Kessler was channel-surfing and came across an overweight woman named Sarah on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” While Sarah was successful in nearly every aspect of her life, she tearfully told Winfrey, she could not control her eating.
Kessler was mesmerized by Sarah — she was describing his own private struggle. “I needed to not only figure out Sarah — I needed to figure out myself,” he said. “Little did I know it would lead me into real fundamental issues of what makes us human and how our brains are wired.”
At 5-foot-11, Kessler’s weight has swung from 160 pounds to 230 pounds and back, many times over. He owns pants in sizes ranging from 34 to 42.
“I was a fat kid,” he said. “I grew up in the world of Entenmann’s cakes. I was pretty much of a science nerd. If you looked in my refrigerator in college, it was Entenmann’s.”
Every few years, Kessler would go on a diet and apply the kind of discipline that enabled him to earn a law degree from the University of Chicago while attending Harvard Medical School. “I’d lose weight and over time gain it back,” said Kessler, who also completed a medical residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at the same time he worked as a staffer to Sen. Orrin Hatch. “I couldn’t control it.”
The man who took on Big Tobacco was helpless when confronted with a plate of chocolate chip cookies. He couldn’t focus on anything else until he had eaten them all.
“My weight was yo-yoing all the time,” said Kessler, who estimates that 70 million Americans struggle with conditioned hyper-eating. “And I never understood why.”
He embarked on a mission to figure it out while serving as dean of the medical school at Yale University and later the University of California at San Francisco. UCSF fired Kessler from his position as dean in December after he alleged financial malfeasance at the institution. The university maintains there were no financial misdeeds; Kessler says he was forced out because he blew the whistle. He remains on the faculty at the medical school and lives in San Francisco with his wife, Paulette, a lawyer. They have two grown children, both of whom live in Washington.
Paulette says that she was not taken aback when her husband of 34 years would disappear in the middle of the night on his dumpster tour. “Nothing surprises me anymore,” she said. “When he wants to find something out, there’s really no stopping him.”
Through interviews with scientists, psychologists and food industry insiders, and his own scientific studies and hours spent surreptitiously watching other diners at food courts and restaurants around the country, Kessler said, he finally began to understand why he couldn’t control his eating.
“Highly palatable” foods — those containing fat, sugar and salt — stimulate the brain to release dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with the pleasure center, he found. In time, the brain gets wired so that dopamine pathways light up at the mere suggestion of the food, such as driving past a fast-food restaurant, and the urge to eat the food grows insistent. Once the food is eaten, the brain releases opioids, which bring emotional relief. Together, dopamine and opioids create a pathway that can activate every time a person is reminded about the particular food. This happens regardless of whether the person is hungry.
Not everyone is vulnerable to “conditioned overeating” — Kessler estimates that about 15 percent of the population is not affected and says more research is needed to understand what makes them immune.
But for those like Kessler, the key to stopping the cycle is to rewire the brain’s response to food — not easy in a culture where unhealthy food and snacks are cheap and plentiful, portions are huge and consumers are bombarded by advertising that links these foods to fun and good times, he said.
Deprivation only heightens the way the brain values the food, which is why dieting doesn’t work, he said.
What’s needed is a perceptual shift, Kessler said. “We did this with cigarettes,” he said. “It used to be sexy and glamorous but now people look at it and say, ‘That’s not my friend, that’s not something I want.’ We need to make a cognitive shift as a country and change the way we look at food. Instead of viewing that huge plate of nachos and fries as a guilty pleasure, we have to . . . look at it and say, ‘That’s not going to make me feel good. In fact, that’s disgusting.’ ”
Kessler said he’s made that shift in his own life, eating small portions of foods that contain fat, salt and sugar, part of a “food rehab” plan he suggests in the book. He has certain rules — no french fries, ever — that help him navigate through vulnerable moments.
He has embraced spinning — the first time he has regularly exercised. “I hated physical activity, all of my life, mostly because I was fat and it was hard to do,” he said. “But I just wanted to do something. I picked spinning because you can’t fall off the bike.” He worked with a private trainer for weeks just to be ready to take a class. “I was embarrassed to go into the class,” he said.
Now Kessler tries to spin every day and belongs to multiple health clubs so that he has more options for class times.
He avoids the cues that focus his brain on “highly palatable” foods, going so far as to chart a different route through San Francisco International Airport so that he doesn’t walk past the fried dumpling stand.
Kessler’s weight is relatively stable at 162 pounds. But there’s something else that’s changed. As he has come to better understand himself, the food cravings and the resulting anguish he felt have subsided.
“So I’m at peace,” he said. “After 30 years, I’m at peace.”

Let's talk thin

Hi my friends,


Today I am trying to break in into this new world of the blogs and I know absolutely nothing about them but I have a lot of friends that I believe they will enjoy it (if this happen to work). I've been a "yo-yo" dieter since I was 13 years old. I probably own all diet books that were in the market since probably the time when my parents gave me my first weekly allowance (and that's a long time!). My goal every time I went on a diet was to lose the regular 10 to 15 pounds I gained probably in the previous 2-3 weeks to be able to eat and regain them after. Oh my goodness, I was the queen of yo-yo diets and to be honest didn't bother me that much to diet until over the course of the years the 10-15 lbs became more and more and they came faster and faster and I guess I woke up one day and I realize the 15 become more than 30! Immediately I went to all my old books, I tried miracle pills and anything that sounded easy and fast but didn't work. I decided I needed to do something different so I joined Weight Watchers and I lost and maintain my weight until today. Since then, all what I want to do is to help everybody to achieve and maintain their weight loss goals so I will try in this blog to pass if possible some positive energy and some of my favorite recipes. I do hope you have fun with this.