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FREE SAMPLES THIS WEEK!
This week, you will all receive a free sample of the new one POINT bar, Peanut Butter Bliss. They will sell 12 to a box for $7.50 and are FANTASTIC! If any of you ever tried an inside-out Reese’s peanut butter cup, they’re very similar and only one POINT!
SHOT IN THE ARM
The new Deluxe member kit includes a book of “shots” of motivation written by our own Weight Watchers District Training Manager, Sharon Riguzzi. She wrote the Shots as part of her weekly e-mail to her members, and the collection has been made into this exclusive book. I’ll be including a Shot now and again in my e-mail to you.
Unsolicited Advice
“You know what you should do?” Doesn’t your back go up when you someone offers unsolicited advice?
In fact, often the back goes up and the mind shuts down when people start telling us what to do. Is it a leftover response from the teenage years? Or is it a reaction based on who is dispensing the advice? We don’t even realize that those of us who hate getting the advice sometimes are very free dishing it out. Of course, we might be so busy dishing out advice we aren’t aware that the receiver has shut us off.
There’s a song title that describes this whole dilemma: Don’t should on me and I won’t should on you! (Say this three times fast, and you might get into a bit of trouble!)
The downside is that we have become a generation that misses out on some good recommendations because advice has gotten a bad rap. In the old days, people would seek out a sage’s wise counsel. Nowadays, it’s hard to find a good sage when you need one.
There are people all around us with experience in whatever area we are muddling through who would be surprised and delighted to share their knowledge. Be it the elderly man next door whose tomatoes are better than anyone else’s in the neighborhood or the maintenance man at work who can get the black marks off the tiles in ten seconds flat, people are flattered when you ask them to share their expertise.
Maybe that’s the clue. We are only open to advice when we ask for it, yet most of us have stopped thinking with our noggin and asking for it when we need it.
Seeking out advice doesn’t mean you have to take it. Just keep in mind how good you feel when someone asks for your counsel and then ignores your wisdom and does his own thing. It’s so interesting that by taking another’s suggestion, we sometimes wind up saving time, or avoiding mistakes, or seeing things from a different dimension, and at the same time that someone else is flattered that another person thought their idea was worthwhile.
How fabulous is that? Instead of isolating ourselves with our own frustrating dilemma, we might be one piece of advice away from success. And often the person who can enlighten us is the person we least expect.
Look around. There are sages all over the place who are just waiting for us to ask.
Go ahead. Take my advice.
ARTICLES OF NOTE
- Social Networking’s Impact on Weight Loss
- Social Support and Lasting Weight Loss
- Cindy’s Lifetime Lessons
A flock of geese migrates together and the group is better off than any one individual bird. We know that people who attend Weight Watchers meetings lose three times more weight than those who try it alone because—not unlike the geese—the group provides the motivation, inspiration, and support we need to keep going. Together, we will discover more about eating wisely, moving more, thinking first, the Helpful Habits, and the Tools for Living in this valuable environment than we ever would alone.
Have a great week, everyone!
Cyndi
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
--Henry Ford
Apple and Oat Muffins
Servings 24 | POINTS 2
From www.weightwatchers.com
- 3 1/4 cup whole-grain wheat flour
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp ground allspice
- 1 1/2 cup Quaker Oats Old-Fashioned Oats, or other brand
- 1/2 cup unpacked brown sugar, dark
- 3 small apple(s), cored, peeled and diced
- 1 large egg(s)
- 1 1/2 Tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 cup low-fat plain yogurt
- 1/2 cup fat-free skim milk
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat two 12-hole muffin tins with cooking spray.
Sift flour, baking powder and allspice into a bowl and add any remaining flour from sifter into bowl. Set aside 2 tablespoons of oats. Stir remaining oats, brown sugar and apples into flour mixture. Mix egg, oil, yogurt and milk in a separate bowl; stir into flour mixture until combined.
Pour batter into prepared tins and sprinkle with reserved oats. Bake until cooked through, about 30 minutes. Remove to a rack to cool. Yields 1 muffin per serving.
Brown Rice Salad with Black Beans and Corn
Servings 4 | POINTS 4 (also Core)
- 1 cup instant brown rice
- 15 oz canned black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup frozen corn kernels, thawed
- 1/4 cup scallion(s), chopped
- 2 Tbsp cilantro, fresh, chopped
- 2 tsp jalapeno pepper(s), pickled, minced, or less to taste
- 1 Tbsp fresh lime juice
- 1 tsp lime zest, finely grated
- 1/4 tsp table salt, or to taste
- 1/4 tsp black pepper, freshly ground, or to taste
- 1 medium lime(s), quartered
Cook rice according to package directions.
While rice is still warm, stir in beans, corn, scallions, cilantro, jalapeno, lime juice and zest; season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with lime wedges. Yields about 1 heaping cup per serving.
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