My Favorite Thing to Make for Dinner - Reservations!

Hello, Weight Watchers! Did you make it through Super Bowl Sunday on-plan? If you’re happy with your weekend, Bravo! If not, now is a great time for a fresh start. Pull out a clean QuickTrak and start your week anew!

NEW CHALLENGE!

There are two attachments included with this e-mail. The first one is a Flexible Spending Account receipt. If you need a receipt to use your FSA for Weight Watchers, simply print this receipt, fill it out, and bring it to me to sign.

The second attachment is needed for the new Eight Healthy Guideline Challenge. Print out a copy of the chart and cut it in half. Each section records how many of the Eight Healthy Guidelines you have accomplished for one week. Start on your meeting day, and record your progress. Next week, everyone who has 45 or more points will be entered in a drawing for a prize. At the end of February, all entries with 45 or more points will be entered to win the product of the member’s choice for $25 or less!

TFL OF THE WEEK

Motivating Strategy: When you use the Motivating Strategy, you experience in your imagination all the benefits you’ll enjoy once you’ve achieved your Winning Outcome. Use this Tool for Living when you need to inspire yourself to do what it takes to reach your goal.

Follow these steps:

  • Imagine yourself having already achieved your Winning Outcome and enjoying some of the benefits. Use “juicy” words and images to describe what you are seeing, hearing, feeling, doing, and wearing.
  • Get in touch with the good feelings that come from having achieved your Winning Outcome.
  • Keep in touch with these good feelings as you practice the behaviors that you know will help you move closer to your weight goal (such as Taking Care of Yourself, Managing Your Environment, Preparing Yourself, etc.).

KICKSTART CORE RECIPE POINTS VALUES

Thanks to another helpful staff member and the eTools Recipe Builder, here are the POINTS values for the Core Recipes included on page 12 in your KickStart booklet:

Pasta with Meat Sauce, 6
Chicken with Broccoli and Garlic Sauce, 8 (4 without rice)
Mustard Dill Chicken, 3
Shepherd’s Pie, 10
Chicken Cacciatore, 7

COMING SOON TO YOUR MEETING ROOM!

Start Living, Start Losing, Weight Watchers’ popular retail hardcover book of inspirational success stories, is in stores now and WW has arranged to offer a very special limited quantity of the soft cover edition to Meetings members. You can read more than 60 humorous and motivational accounts of how everyday people and celebrities overcame the hurdles they encountered along their weight-loss journey with Weight Watchers. Each story also includes practical tips and advice to help readers achieve and maintain their weight-loss goals.

This special edition costs $13, nearly 50% off the hardcover price, and will be available while supplies last. Due to the limited quantities available, I’m asking that you let me know ahead of time if you are interested in this book in the next few weeks. As always, feel free to flip through it at your meeting!

ARTICLES OF NOTE

Eating out is one of the biggest challenges to weight loss, due to gigantic portions and limitless varieties of food. We need to know how to manage all types of eating establishments. In this meeting, we will learn about the strategies and support resources available at Weight Watchers to conquer this challenge.

Have a great week!

Cyndi

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

--Joshua J. Marine

Chicken Fingers with Ranch Dip and Seasoned Fries (CORE)
POINTS® Value: 6
Servings: 4

Dip our oat-crusted chicken fingers in ranch dressing and dig into a side of seasoned, baked fries. Perfect for grown-ups and kids, too.

3 sprays cooking spray
1 pound uncooked boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into strips
1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
2 1/2 packet uncooked instant oatmeal, 1 oz each (about 1 cup total)
2 tsp garlic herb seasoning, preferably salt-free
1/2 tsp table salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 large Russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch-thick fries
1 Tbsp Creole seasoning
1/2 cup fat-free ranch salad dressing

Preheat oven to 400ºF. Coat a large baking sheet with cooking spray. Coat chicken strips with mustard. Combine oats, garlic herb seasoning, salt and pepper in a shallow dish. Dip chicken strips in oat mixture and turn to coat; place chicken strips on prepared pan.

Arrange potatoes around chicken on pan; lightly coat both with cooking spray. Sprinkle potatoes with Creole seasoning. Bake, flipping once, until chicken is cooked through and both chicken and potatoes are tender and golden brown, about 30 minutes. Serve chicken and potatoes with dressing on the side. Yields about 3 ounces of chicken, 1/2 a potato and 2 tablespoons of dressing per serving.

Crispy Chipotle Potato Skins (CORE)
POINTS® Value: 4
Servings: 8

Potato skins are always a crowd-pleaser. Ours are topped with bacon, cheddar and sour cream for wonderful Tex-Mex flavor.

4 large potatoes, baking-variety, cooked, cooled and quartered lengthwise
1 1/2 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp chili powder, or chipotle chili powder
1/4 tsp hot pepper sauce
6 slice cooked Canadian-style bacon, finely chopped
3/4 cup shredded fat-free cheddar cheese
2 medium tomatoes, diced
3 medium scallions, finely chopped
3/4 cup fat-free sour cream

Preheat oven to 425°F. Scoop out flesh of potatoes, leaving about 1/8th of potato flesh in potato. (Reserve remaining potato flesh for another use such as mashed potatoes, if desired.) In a small bowl, combine oil, chili powder and hot pepper sauce. Using a pastry brush, brush insides of potato wedges with oil mixture. Place potato wedges in a single layer on a large nonstick baking sheet; sprinkle with bacon and cheese.

Bake until cheese melts and potatoes are heated through, about 15 minutes. Sprinkle with tomatoes and scallions; serve with sour cream on the side. Yields 2 potato skins and about 1 1/2 tablespoons of sour cream per serving.

Notes
We used fat-free cheese and sour cream to make this a Core Plan recipe but you can use reduced-fat versions of these products if you prefer (could affect POINTS values).

Make this recipe milder and sweeter by using fat-free mozzarella cheese instead of cheddar and pineapple tidbits instead of tomato.

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